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Colorado Officials Reject Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of a Convicted Election Denier

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Jack Healy
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

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Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court in Grand Junction, Colo., last year.

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

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David A. Fahrenthold， Shane Goldmacher， Tyler Pager and Theodore Schleifer
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has only just begun to raise money for a presidential library, starting with an event for potential donors on Monday in Washington.

North Korean Soldiers Return From Russia’s War With Ukraine

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Choe Sang-Hun
Kim Jong-un hugged the returning troops and awarded the country’s highest medal to nine soldiers killed in action.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, hugs a soldier in Pyongyang during a ceremony welcoming troops home from a deployment in Russia’s Kursk region, in a photograph released by state media.

Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey

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Alan Feuer
Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.

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A judge’s order suggested that sloppiness by the Justice Department had helped to sabotage President Trump’s demands to use the criminal justice system to go after James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

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Michael Crowley and Edward Wong
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.

In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss

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Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
Thursday demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.

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The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage-related charges for the second time in a week.

In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated

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Patricia Mazzei and Brendan Farrington
The hearing was the first concrete step toward repealing some of the state’s vaccine requirements. Rolling back others would require legislative action.

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Larry Downs Jr., of Pensacola, Fla., speaks against childhood vaccine mandates at a public hearing held by Florida’s Department of Health on Friday in Panama City Beach, Fla.

Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

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Jesse McKinley
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.

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Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the latest evidence of a deepening divide in Republican politics.

Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

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Jesse McKinley
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.

© Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the latest evidence of a deepening divide in Republican politics.
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