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Ye attending the Balenciaga Womenswear show in October as part of Paris Fashion Week. Since then, he's made a string of increasingly brazen extremist comments.

Ye says 'I see good things about Hitler' on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' show

6:17am December 02, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

The rapper previously known as Kanye West made a series of antisemitic comments, declaring "I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis." Ye was on the show alongside white-nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., preside over a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack hearing in October.

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Jan. 6 panel meets to mull potential criminal referrals for Trump, others

6:01am December 02, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

The House Select Jan. 6 panel will wrap up its investigation on Dec. 31. It's now in a race to issue its final recommendations and findings in the coming weeks.

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The pageantry of Biden's first state dinner with French President Macron

5:05am December 02, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

A recap of the glamor, entertainment, toasts and celebrity sightings — and a bit of the diplomacy, too — of President Biden's first state dinner honoring French President Emmanuel Macron.

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The stalemate between railroads and their unions could be coming to an end

5:05am December 02, 2022

President Biden is expected to sign a bill forcing the railroad unions to accept an agreement negotiated months ago — putting an end to a years-long bargaining process.

The Supreme Court puts Biden's student loan relief program on ice for now

5:05am December 02, 2022

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in President Biden's student loan relief program in February. The court's action means the rollout of debt cancellation will remain blocked until then.

President Biden speaks during a White House news conference Thursday.

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President Biden calls for a big shakeup in Democrats' presidential nominating calendar

10:05pm December 01, 2022

by Barbara Sprunt

Biden has proposed elevating South Carolina to the first spot, moving the swing states of Georgia and Michigan up to the early slate, and putting Iowa back in the pack.

A man walks out after casting his vote on Election Day 2020 in Tombstone, Ariz., in Cochise County.

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Arizona's Cochise County finally certifies its election results after a court order

7:02pm December 01, 2022

by Hansi Lo Wang

After a court order, officials in the GOP-controlled county certified midterm election results days after they missed the legal deadline and put more than 47,000 people's votes at risk.

Activists in support of unionized rail workers protest outside the House side of the Capitol on Tuesday.

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Senate passes railroad legislation to prevent a strike

5:23pm December 01, 2022

by Ximena Bustillo

The Senate has approved a measure meant to avert a railroad strike in eight days — without the paid sick days rail workers have been asking for.

Last month, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced that the pause on student loan repayments would be extended once again.

Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden's student debt-relief program

5:05pm December 01, 2022

The court's action means the rollout of debt cancellation will remain blocked until justices hear arguments about the program in February.

Jacob Wohl, pictured here surrounded by police officers at a 2020 protest in Washington D.C., is one of two right-wing activists who were behind a 2020 robocall scheme that targeted minority voters. Wohl will now face probation, fines and 500 hours of voter registration assistance for pleading guilty to telecommunications fraud.

They ran a voter suppression scheme. Now they're sentenced to register voters

4:57pm December 01, 2022

by Emily Olson

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman robocalled roughly 85,000 voters across five states, falsely telling them that voting by mail would risk "giving your private information to the man."