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Watch live coverage of the confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Merrick Garland. (Video: The Post; photo: Reuters)
President Biden’s nominee appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, hoping to navigate his way to confirmation through bitter partisanship that has consumed the Justice Department in recent years.
Even the three justices who would have granted the case said the number of ballots received after Election Day would not have been enough to threaten President Biden’s victory margin.
Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.3 billion in damages from Mike Lindell and his company after he repeatedly echoed former president Donald Trump’s baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud involving Dominion.
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The institution’s Arts and Industries Building will host an exhibition that asks visitors to dream about the future.
A vote by Iran’s parliament Monday condemning the agreement highlighted domestic resistance to the nuclear deal in Tehran and Washington.
Businesses with more than 20 employees will be shut out of the PPP pandemic relief loans for two weeks starting Wednesday.
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How the Oklahoma City bombing shaped Merrick Garland
Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland was a U.S. Attorney when domestic terrorists attacked the Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
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A billboard truck with an image of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) sits in a parking lot near his home in Houston on Friday. (Getty Images)
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) tweeted photos of himself passing out water bottles to Texans while he was supposed to be under quarantine after traveling from Mexico.
The report concluded that Democrats’ losses in 2020 were largely due to limited spending in the state, sub-par outreach to Latino voters, and the suspension of in-person voter contact.
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Demonstrators protest the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Monday. (Reuters)
The concept, which first proliferated among the French far right, lumps together Islamist extremists with left-leaning intellectuals and activists. The former’s radicalism, the implication goes, is enabled by the latter’s worldview.
For the hundreds of students at the primary school that Kevin chose as a home, he was the celebrity they searched for in the grounds each day.
The judge running the probe was fired after he brought charges of negligence against Beirut’s caretaker prime minister and three former ministers. A newly appointed judge will restart the investigation.
Marib province is the last government stronghold in the north with lucrative oil and gas reserves. It’s also a safe haven for nearly a million Yemenis fleeing war.
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Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. (Demetrius Freeman/The Post)
The conservative majority could expand the ability of states to restrict abortions.
This Black History Month, as history struggles to keep up with current events, we can remember how we got here as we keep our eyes on the future.
The study found that when women were asked the minimum amount they needed to be paid, they consistently responded with a lower number than men.
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The question facing the economy is whether a fast-paced rebound can be made to last, freeing the nation from the low-growth rut it has plowed for most of the past 20 years, or will instead ignite the sort of inflation that has not been seen since the 1970s.
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Geoff Edgers and Dave Grohl on Edgers’s weekly Instagram Live show on Feb 5. (The Post)
The house that actor John Travolta shared with his late wife, actor Kelly Preston, has been put up for sale for $5 million.
This Francisco Zurbarán masterpiece, at the Norton Simon Museum, is the only still life he signed and dated.
With each update, new operators and weaponry infuse a complicated game with even more complexity.