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Leading Dem on midterms aftermath: "We're still in the fight of our lives"

Last Tuesday’s midterm elections marked one of the biggest rebukes of the Republican Party since Watergate, with Democrats winning control of both houses of Congress. “Sunday Morning” national correspondent Robert Costa talks with Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin and former Republican Governor Larry Hogan about the fallout from this year’s elections, and how Democrats are going…

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Leading Dem on midterms aftermath: “We’re still in the fight of our lives”

There were echoes of history in this year’s midterm election, one of the biggest rebukes of Republicans since 1974, when Watergate, inflation and unemployment dominated the campaign. That year, Democrats won 291 seats in the House of Representatives (flipping 49 GOP-held seats), and picked up four Senate seats. Following last Tuesday’s elections, Democrats now have…

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Why did Republicans lose the midterm elections? GOP soul-searching begins after blowout.

Washington — Widespread Republican losses in the midterm elections are roiling the GOP, prompting soul-searching over what went wrong and a brewing blame game that’s expected to heat up as the party looks toward the next election. From House and Senate races to governors’ mansions, Republicans saw striking losses, both in battlegrounds and in places…

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DOJ veterans say politically charged moves close to election run afoul of historical norms

Washington — The raid of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The indictment of a prominent Virginia state senator for drug and bribery offenses. The charging of two ex-FBI officials with lying about their roles in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The overt investigative steps that the Justice Department took on these three criminal cases just…

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DOJ’s inspector general declines to investigate prosecutors who falsely charged Olympian David Hearn in Reflecting Pool case

The Justice Department’s inspector general has declined to investigate allegations of misconduct against the prosecutors who brought an indictment against Olympian David Hearn that falsely accused him of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. In an Oct. 21 letter seen by CBS News, lawyers for Hearn revealed that DOJ’s Inspector General Don Berthiaume determined the allegations fell…

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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say

White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller spoke at a training conference for counterterrorism agents at FBI headquarters just over a week ago, days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, Katie, multiple sources told CBS News. Former Justice Department officials called the visit unusual, given the…

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Weeks before Election Day, the nation’s campaign finance regulator can’t enforce the law

In July, Reps. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, had a request for the Federal Election Commission: help make sure artificial intelligence chatbots do not feed voters false information about the 2026 midterm elections.  The lawmakers, writing to the FEC as well as the Justice and Homeland Security…

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DOJ legal office says Trump’s outside advisers can be shielded by executive privilege

President Trump’s outside advisers — individuals who are not employed by the federal government — may now be protected from future congressional and legal investigations, according to a new opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.  In a 21-page opinion published Monday evening, the Office of Legal Counsel told the White House that…

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