Politics A.M.: Jan. 6 committee has spoken with former Trump attorney general Barr, chairman says
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| | | |  |  | | The most important politics stories today. | | Presented by ExxonMobil | | | | | |  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The House committee's conversations with Barr are further indication that several former Trump administration officials are cooperating with the panel even as others are fighting efforts to compel their testimony. By Amy B Wang and Tom Hamburger ● Read more » | | | | Strategic Russian industries, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to civilian aerospace, could be hurt if the United States imposes export controls on any product containing semiconductors made with American tools or designed with American software, even if the product is made outside the United States. By Ellen Nakashima and Jeanne Whalen ● Read more » | | | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Black Americans "are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans," sparking outrage online. His office said he misspoke and meant to say "all Americans." By Mariana Alfaro ● Read more » | | | | Dara Lindenbaum served as general counsel to Stacey Abrams's 2018 gubernatorial campaign. By Isaac Stanley-Becker ● Read more » | | | | Oath Keepers and QAnon followers hoped the president would use the law to keep power after his election defeat. By Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu ● Read more » | | | Congressional lawmakers and White House officials had envisioned a $350 billion program to aid cities and states as a key first line of defense if the pandemic worsened — a prospect that now seems in question amid the new omicron wave. By Tony Romm ● Read more » | | | The U.S. also told nonessential staff they can leave the country — a decision that underscores the growing fears in Washington of an imminent military invasion of Ukraine by Moscow. By John Hudson and Paul Sonne ● Read more » | | | | Even before a federal judge blocked the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for federal workers, most workers had no idea when they will return to their offices. By Lisa Rein, Ian Duncan and Alex Horton ● Read more » | | | The decision reflected the growing estrangement between the first-term senator and her party. By Griff Witte ● Read more » | | | | The justices said Friday that they would consider whether to limit the court's previous decision that expanded the Indian land in the state, a ruling that has upended criminal prosecutions there. By Robert Barnes ● Read more » | | | | Current and former Black employees say one of the country's oldest federal law enforcement agencies has failed to confront decades of discrimination. By Hannah Knowles ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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