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Iranian Speaker holds Trump legally accountable for killing Soleimani

Speaker of Iran's Parliament says former US President Donald Trump and all his "accomplices" must be held legally accountable for the assassination of late military commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020

Brazil, Jan 6 in US: Parallel attacks but not identical, says diplomat

Enraged protesters broke into government buildings that are the very symbol of their country's democracy. Driven by conspiracy theories about their candidate's loss in the last election, they smashed windows, sifted through the desks of lawmakers and trashed the highest offices in the land in a rampage that lasted hours before order could be restored. Sunday's attack by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's capital drew immediate parallels with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by former President Donald Trump's backers two years and two days earlier. The two populist former presidents shared a close political alliance with an overlapping cast of supporters some of whom helped spread Trump's lies about losing his re-election due to voter fraud and later parroted Bolsonaro's similar claims after his own re-election loss last fall. Bolsonaro was among the last world leaders to recognize Joe Biden's victory in 2020. The U.S. example of election denying a

Georgia election case just one of many legal woes for Donald Trump

A special grand jury investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia has finished its report, a major development in a case that's on a long list of legal problems for the former president. A hearing will be held Jan. 24 to decide whether to release all or part of the report, which could include recommendations of charges against Trump and his associates. The Fulton County district attorney would determine whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. As he campaigns for the White House in 2024, Trump faces myriad inquiries, including a criminal investigation over top secret documents found at his Florida estate, a probe in Washington into his efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, and more probes in New York. Trump, a Republican, has denied any wrongdoing and says he is being targeted by Democrats trying to keep him from reclaiming the White House. Here's a look at the probes underway in differen

Trump, his company and three of his children ordered to face NY fraud suit

The Trumps' motion to dismiss the civil fraud suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James was denied Friday by state court Justice Arthur Engoron

Twitter to ease 3-yr ban on political advertising in continued policy shift

Dorsey justified the ban, which attracted the ire of then-President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, by saying that "political message reach should be earned, not bought"

Meta to announce decision on Trump's return to Facebook, Instagram: Report

Meta is reportedly preparing to announce whether it will allow former US President Donald Trump to return to Facebook and Instagram

Trump's returns show how he used write-offs to pay little or no tax

The returns, which include his personal and business filings from 2015 to 2020, are the first complete look into Trump's tax records for the years he was running for office and in the White House

Trump's team takes victory lap over dying subpoena of Jan 6 Committee

With Republicans poised to retake control of the House as the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2023, any outstanding subpoenas issued by the committee are set to expire

US House committee to release Trump's personal tax returns for 6 yrs

A House committee is set to release six years of Donald Trump's tax returns on Friday, pulling back the curtain on financial records that the former president fought for years to keep secret. The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted last week to release the returns, with some redactions of sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers and contact information. Their dissemination comes in the waning days of Democrats' control of the House and as Trump's fellow Republicans prepare to retake power in the chamber. The committee obtained six years of Trump's personal and business tax records, from 2015 to 2020, while investigating what it said in a December 20 report was the Internal Revenue Service's failure to pursue mandatory audits of Trump on a timely basis during his presidency, as required under the tax agency's protocol. The release raises the potential of new revelations about Trump's finances, which have been shrouded in mystery and intrigue since

Georgia special grand jury wraps up probe of Donald Trump, allies

A special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia appears to be wrapping up its work, but many questions remain. The investigation is one of several that could result in criminal charges against the former president as he asks voters to return him to the White House in 2024. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who began investigating nearly two years ago, has said she will go where the facts lead. It would be an extraordinary step if she chooses to bring charges against Trump himself. Even if he's acquitted by a jury, for him to face trial and to have a public trial with evidence on the record would be an epic thing for American history, Georgia State University law professor Clark Cunningham said. Here's what we know as the special grand jury appears to be winding down: WHAT'S THE LATEST? Over about six months, the grand jurors have considered evidence and heard ..

Trump should never hold public office again: Jan 6 Capitol attack panel

Among the recommendations listed, the reform of the Electoral Count Act to clarify that a vice president has no authority to reject electoral slates submitted by the states

US Congress approves new election rules in response to Jan 6 Capitol attack

Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump's violence-inflaming push to reverse his loss in the 2020 election. The House passed an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act as part of its massive, end-of-the-year spending bill, after the Senate approved identical wording Thursday. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. Biden hailed the provisions' inclusion in the spending bill in a statement Friday, calling it critical bipartisan action that will help ensure that the will of the people is preserved. It's the most significant legislative response Congress has made yet to Trump's aggressive efforts to upend the popular vote, and a step that been urged by the House select committee that conducted the most thorough investigation into the violent siege of the Capitol. The provisions amending the 1887 law which has

House Jan 6 panel urges Congress to weigh barring Donald Trump from office

In its final report issued, the committee called for assessing whether anyone, possibly including Trump, who took an oath of public office and later stoked the insurrection should be disqualified

US House Jan 6 panel recommends steps to safeguard electoral integrity

In its final report issued Thursday, the committee called for closing loopholes and boosting security for the congressional count of presidential electors, while also strengthening the Capitol Police

House Jan 6 comittee releases report blasting Trump for Capitol assault

The House Jan. 6 committee's final report asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurrection two years ago. The 814-page report released Thursday comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents. The witnesses ranging from many of Trump's closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves detailed Trump's actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat directly influenced those who brutally pushed past the police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many

IRS didn't audit Trump for two years in office, reveals Jan 6 committee

Paid $1.1 million in tax during his presidency, but $0 in 2020

US House committee votes to release Trump's tax information to public

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal released a report about the Internal Revenue Service's audits of Trump's taxes late Tuesday, but the actual tax returns will be made public in a few days

Dimon more crucial than ever to JPMorgan, the bank he's run for 17 years

Once Dimon is done being CEO, the board has said, the company may keep him on as chairman

Elon Musk and Donald Trump, 2 disrupters face reckoning: Analysis

Elon Musk and Donald Trump share bestride-the-colossus egos, an incessant desire to be the centre of attention and a platform to showcase their eccentricities and erraticism. Both the Tesla CEO and the former president have used that platform, Twitter, as a sword and a shield a soapbox to rouse the passions (and tap the pocketbooks) of tens of millions of followers and repulse the other side. Trump weaponized Twitter before he was banned after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Musk was a persistent Twitter poster, taunting stock market regulators and railing against his version of conformity in numerous tweets. Then he decided to buy the platform. Now both face a reckoning this week brought on at least in part by their use of Twitter to advance their agendas and feed their outsize id. Trump is confronted with a select congressional committee's unanimous recommendation to the Justice Department on Monday that he be criminally prosecuted for his part in the Jan. 6 assault

US House Jan 6 panel seeks Trump's prosecution with criminal referral

The House Jan. 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection, calling for accountability for the former president and a time of reflection and reckoning. After one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory, the panel's seven Democrats and two Republicans are recommending criminal charges against Trump and associates who helped him launch a wide-ranging pressure campaign to try to overturn his 2020 election loss. The panel also released a lengthy summary of its final report, with findings that Trump engaged in a multi-part conspiracy to thwart the will of voters. At a final meeting Monday, the committee alleged violations of four criminal statutes by Trump, in both the run-up to the riot and during the insurrection itself, as it recommended the former president for prosecution to the Justice Department. Among the charges they recommend for prosecution is aiding an .