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Holmes Lybrand, CNN

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Woman charged in alleged scheme to steal Elvis Presley’s Graceland

The Justice Department announced charges Friday against a Missouri woman who allegedly tried to steal ownership of Graceland and millions of dollars from Elvis Presley’s family.

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Secret Service beefs up security for Trump, including with bulletproof glass

The Secret Service has begun bolstering Donald Trump’s security detail and plans to surround the former president with bulletproof glass at campaign rallies.

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New bodycam video shows moment police officer saw Trump shooter just before assassination attempt

Dramatic video obtained by CNN shows, for the first time, the moment a police officer climbed up to the roof of a building overlooking the Donald Trump rally on July 13 and saw the former president’s would-be assassin just before the shooting began.

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Virginia man charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris

A Virginia man has been charged with making death threats against Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared in federal court on Monday.

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El Chapo’s son pleads not guilty to narcotics, money laundering and firearms charges

Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded not guilty in federal court to narcotics, money laundering and firearms charges in Chicago Tuesday, just days after he was taken into American custody in a stunning arrest full of international betrayal and intrigue.

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Takeaways from the House hearing with Secret Service Director Cheatle on the Trump assassination attempt

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced off Monday with angry lawmakers from both parties, who grilled her over the stunning security failures that led to the recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

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Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial

A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms.

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What to know about New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial

A sitting US senator faces a weekslong trial over charges of taking bribes including gold bars, cash and a luxury car to, among other things, help push US aid and weapons to a foreign government and stop a federal case against one of his co-defendants.

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Hunter Biden demands that Fox News remove ‘intimate’ images from its platforms

Hunter Biden is demanding that Fox News remove from its platforms sexually explicit images that President Joe Biden’s son says are private, according to a letter obtained by CNN, as part of his strategy to publicly fight back against conservative media.

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Hunter Biden says special counsel used Alexander Smirnov’s discredited bribery claims to derail his plea deal

Hunter Biden’s lawyers accused special counsel David Weiss on Tuesday of using a since-discredited bribery allegation from an FBI informant to blow up his plea deal last year.

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DC: 3 police officers wounded in shooting; making animal cruelty arrest

Three officers with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, were wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning while attempting to serve an arrest warrant for animal cruelty, Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said.

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Fulton County DA could be disqualified from Trump case

The judge presiding over the Georgia election subversion case against Donald Trump and several co-defendants said Monday that the district attorney who brought the case could be disqualified if she financially benefitted from a personal relationship with her lead prosecutor on the case.

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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to report to prison

Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro’s effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction.

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Fulton County DA acknowledges personal relationship with lead prosecutor on Trump case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, her lead prosecutor on the 2020 election case, both acknowledge in court papers that they have a “personal” relationship but strongly pushed back on claims that she financially benefitted from hiring him.

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Federal report finds steady rise in hate crimes at schools

In a first-of-its-kind report released Monday, the Department of Justice found hate crimes at schools have steadily risen since 2020 and schools were the third most common location for reported hate crimes to occur in the US.