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A GOP lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results is now playing a central role coordinating the Republican effort to tighten voting laws around the country

Manhattan’s district attorney has obtained former president Donald Trump’s tax returns after a years-long legal battle. A spokesman for DA Cy Vance told NBC News Thursday morning that the long-fought subpoena for his records from Mazars USA was enforced Monday. Vance’s office was able to enforce the subpoena after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an...

Sen. John McCain will lie in state at the Arizona State Capitol Wednesday as part of a series of funeral events over the next four days. A memorial service will be held in Phoenix on Thursday and then McCain’s body will be flown to Washington, D.C. for a procession past the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. A funeral service will follow at...

Michael van der Veen, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, placed blame on the rioters for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “There were no words of incitement,” van der Veen said. “You can allow America’s healing to begin. I urge the Senate to acquit and vindicate the Constitution of this great republic.”

The former president’s lawyers will argue his comments leading up to the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are protected free speech and that the Senate has no jurisdiction to hold a trial now that he’s out of office.

“Unity is possible if there is mutual respect.” News4’s Pat Lawson Muse speaks with Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University’s School of Divinity on how the nation can move forward collectively in a post-Trump America.

A former WWE wrestler said he is offering a $20,000 reward to find the suspects who defaced a Florida manatee by scrawling “Trump” onto its back.  Dave Bautista, 51, took to Twitter to condemn the act of harassment on the marine mammal. “If there’s not already a reward for the arrest and conviction of the low life scummy MAGATs that…

House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., acknowledged Wednesday that President-elect Joe Biden won the election. “Joe Biden will be sworn in as president in one week because he won the election,” McCarthy said.

The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades

Trump was charged with “incitement of insurrection” in a new article of impeachment for his actions leading up to last week’s assault on Capitol Hill; vote could come within days.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on peaceful President Donald Trump supporters who fear backlash because of the riots sparked by others.

While sheltering in place Wednesday, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin called on President Donald Trump to put an end to the chaos that ensued after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. “Mr. President, you have got to stop this,” he said. “You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over. Call...

Images few Americans imagined they might ever see flooded the airwaves Wednesday, as what was being described by some as nothing short of a coup attempt on behalf of the sitting president of the United States of America led to a lockdown and evacuation at Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump vetoed a bill Friday that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gillnets deployed exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California, saying such legislation would increase reliance on imported seafood and worsen a multibillion-dollar seafood trade deficit.

In an 81-13 vote, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act. This marks the first Congressional veto override for Trump.

The rare Christmas Eve session of the House lasted just minutes, with help for millions of Americans awaiting Trump’s signature on the bill. Unemployment benefits, eviction protections and other emergency aid, including smaller $600 checks, are at risk. Trump’s refusal of the $900 billion package, which is linked to $1.4 trillion government funds bill, could spark a federal shutdown at...

As president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people, barring federal contractors from anti-LGBTQ job discrimination, and creating high-level LGBTQ-rights positions at the State Department, the National Security Council and other federal...