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Justice Department asks federal judge to start former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s prison sentence

By Casey Gannon and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon should begin serving a four-month prison sentence now that a federal appeals court has upheld his contempt-of-Congress conviction, the Justice Department told a federal judge Tuesday. US District Judge Carl Nichols, who presided over Bannon’s trial, had paused Bannon’s sentence while

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What is the newly passed ‘Russia law’ that has divided people in Georgia for months?

The Associated Press Georgia’s parliament has passed a law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. Neighboring Russia uses similar legislation to stigmatize independent news media and organizations critical of the Kremlin. Lawmakers in Georgia defied weeks of large demonstrations in the capital that

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Georgian lawmakers approve a divisive foreign influence bill that has sparked weeks of protests

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a “foreign influence” bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. After the 84-30 vote, a crowd of protesters in front of

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As House Speaker sits in court with Trump, hush money witness Cohen faces bruising cross-examination

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen awaits a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers on Tuesday after testimony linked their celebrity client to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed

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