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Ukraine’s first lady pleads with US Congress: ‘Give us weapons to stop Russian missiles’

‘We want no more airstrikes, no more missile strikes,’ Olena Zelenska told Republican and Democratic congressional members

Evening Standard

Southern Illinois couple admits entering the U.S. Capitol during Jan. 6 attack, bragging on video

The day after the attack, Tina Logsdon wrote on Facebook, “It was Trump supporters who stormed the Capital I was one of them. Enough is enough it is time we as Americans take a stand, and what better way then to clean house.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Secret Service tells House it’s still seeking lost Jan. 6 texts

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service has failed so far to provide Congress with any substantial new agency text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, but assures the House committee investigating last year’s Capitol attack it will continue searching for the lost material.

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Showing war's toll, Ukraine first lady appeals for more arms

Ukraine's first lady has appealed face to face to U.S. lawmakers for more air defense systems to help guard her country’s skies

The Independent UK

Maryland GOP nominates "QAnon whackjob"

Maryland GOP picks election conspiracist Dan Cox and neo-Confederate activist Michael Peroutka for top jobs

Salon

Lost Jan. 6 texts: We need answers

Secret Service denies it "maliciously" deleted Jan. 6 texts. But they're gone, and our republic needs them

Salon

Secret Service turned over just one text message to January 6 panel, sources say

House committee wants all communications from day before and day of Capitol attack but agency indicates such messages are lost

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Ohio Senate candidate Vance asking donors to help pay debts

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17 House Democrats arrested at abortion rights rally

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney were among those detained.

Axios

Modernization panel: Congress needs to take disaster planning seriously

When a mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it renewed fears about how quickly Congress could recover from an attack.

Roll Call

The National Archives is looking into reports that the Secret Service deleted texts

Reports that the Secret Service deleted text messages related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection have caught the attention of the chief records officer at the National Archives.

WEKU

Commentary: Why are lawmakers luring tech lobbyists to wine country before social media, crypto votes?

California lawmakers will soon end their summer recess and return to Sacramento for the final, most consequential month of the legislative year. August is when the Legislature determines the fate of hundreds of bills that have been snaking through the Capitol all year, making decisions that may affect millions of…

Los Angeles Times

Bannon contempt-of-Congress trial to begin in earnest

Lawyers for Steve Bannon, the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, have unsuccessfully requested a one-month delay on the second day of his trial for contempt of Congress

The Independent UK

House Jan. 6 panel chair tests positive for COVID-19

The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for COVID-19, but the panel will still hold its prime-time hearing on Thursday

The Independent UK

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Julianna Goldman: Good news for Democrats: Even Republicans are tiring of Trump

Democrats are worried that President Joe Biden is old, but the Jan. 6 hearings are showing that former president Donald Trump is stale.

The Independent UK

Trespassing charges against Colbert team dropped following Capitol incident

Show’s production team included Robert Smigel, the voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Axios

Former Trump national security official to testify at Jan. 6 hearing

Matthew Pottinger will testify in-person during Thursday's primetime Jan. 6 hearing.

The Independent UK

Former White House aides to testify at next Jan. 6 hearing

Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearing Thursday as the panel examines what Donald Trump was doing as his supporters broke into the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the plans

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Chicago Sun-Times

No charges for ‘Late Show’ crew arrested on Capitol Hill

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said it was not probable a conviction could be obtained and sustained given that the nine arrested had been invited and that their escorts had never asked them to leave the building.

The Independent UK

No charges for 'Late Show' crew arrested on Capitol Hill

Federal prosecutors have declined to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert" who were arrested in a U.S. Capitol complex building last month

The Independent UK

‘Relishing prospect of martyrdom’: Steve Bannon accused of treating trial as theatre arriving for court in three shirts

One Twitter user suggested the shirts are part of Bannon’s ‘summer look’

The Independent UK

AOC, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush’s offices among the first to unionise on Capitol Hill

Notably, Congress voted to allow unionisation in May.

Tribune News Service

Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon’s trial on contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 panel got underway in federal court with jury selection, and a new defense effort to bar evidence unless committee Chair Bennie Thompson testifies.

Tribune News Service

Steve Bannon’s ‘misdemeanor from hell’ on Jan. 6 charges goes to trial

Steve Bannon stood outside of a Washington courthouse eight months ago and declared that charging him for failing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 committee would be “the misdemeanor from hell” for top Democrats.

Axios

Jan. 6 committee to make case for Trump crimes

The committee is focusing on Trump and anything he may have done to encourage or prolong the attack on the Capitol.

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