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Lawsuit seeks to keep GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection

7:51am March 25, 2022

by Sam Gringlas

Some Georgia voters filed a legal challenge arguing that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is constitutionally disqualified from holding office because of her involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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News brief: Virginia Thomas' texts, life in Kyiv, Biden visits Poland

6:15am March 25, 2022

Texts reveal how conservative activist Ginni Thomas tried to influence the 2020 presidential election. Ukrainian troops push back Russian forces near Kyiv. After NATO's meeting, Biden heads to Poland.

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Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt last summer in Esztergom, Hungary.

How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the U.S. far right

5:23am March 25, 2022

The war over Ukraine's future is being fought on the ground, in the air — and through social media posts and viral videos that take advantage of America's deeply polarized politics.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Nebraska, center, speaks with the media outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles, on Thursday.

Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is found guilty in contributions probe

2:04am March 25, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Nebraska congressman was charged after denying to the FBI that he was aware he had received illicit funds from Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during the judge's confirmation hearing on March 22.

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Hawley's attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson fuel a surge in online conspiracy chatter

9:26pm March 24, 2022

The far-right internet began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson only after a series of tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists.

The CEOs of the major U.S. airlines have called on President Biden to end the federal mask mandate for public transportation. Here, a traveler works on a laptop computer at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Dec. 3.

U.S. airline CEOs call on President Biden to end the federal mask mandate on planes

8:24pm March 24, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The CEOs argue that the increase in vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions in other countries should make the Biden administration reconsider the policy for travelers.

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd on March 12, 2022 in Florence, S.C. On Thursday he filed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the DNC and others.

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Trump files lawsuit against Clinton, Democrats for Russia claims

6:55pm March 24, 2022

by NPR Washington Desk

It alleges that Trump, as a result of defendants' actions, has sustained losses of at least $24 million "and continuing to accrue, as well as the loss of existing and future business opportunities."

Peter Navarro speaks during a protest at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021.

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Ex-Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino to face Jan. 6 panel criminal referral

6:13pm March 24, 2022

by Claudia Grisales

Navarro was the former trade adviser, while Scavino was former deputy chief of staff. The two had been named in earlier committee subpoenas to testify.

Tamara Khlypa and her granddaughter, Yarislava Khlypa at the rally.

Ukrainian expats want the U.S. to do more for friends and relatives fighting Russia

6:03pm March 24, 2022

by Greg Allen

South Florida's Ukrainian expatriate community is collecting aid to help the fighters in their home country. And they're pressing the Biden administration for advanced weapons, including fighter jets.

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A man with his bicycle walks between debris outside the destroyed Retroville shopping mall in a residential district, after a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday.

A month into the Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 24)

5:28pm March 24, 2022

by NPR Staff

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.