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They assaulted cops and tried to overturn an election. What to know about Trump’s mass pardons for January 6 rioters

CNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was the largest criminal probe in American history, those who heeded Trump’s call

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Trump revokes security clearances of former officials who signed Hunter Biden laptop letter with executive action

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national

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Trump signs sweeping executive actions on immigration, launches fight to end birthright citizenship

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive actions Monday that included declaring a national emergency at the US southern border, immediately ending use of a border app called CBP One that had allowed migrants to legally enter the United States, and

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Former Georgia prosecutor faces trial for allegedly obstructing Ahmaud Arbery killing investigation. Here’s what we know

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The one-time Georgia prosecutor accused of impeding the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is set to stand trial more than four years after the Black 25-year-old’s death, which fueled nationwide protests over racial injustice. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of former Brunswick District Attorney

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I-Team: Knowing your rights ahead of proposed mass deportations

President Trump signed executive orders involving immigration after promising the “largest deportation program in American history.” Some of the Coachella Valley’s population of undocumented farm workers are worried about what comes next.   According to the New American Economy Research Fund, immigrants make up more than 80 percent of California’s agricultural workforce.  Here on the Coachella Valley’s

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