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| Those behind the rally before the riot Jan. 6, 2021, knew President Donald Trump would call for a march to the Capitol, according to text messages revealed by the committee investigating the attack. Video showing officers' delayed response in Uvalde, Texas, was released. And the United States provided $1.7 billion to help ensure the Ukrainian government can operate. |
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Jan. 6 hearing hones in on Trump, rioters |
| The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack focused its hearing Tuesday on how Trump summoned protesters to Washington and directed a mob he allegedly knew was armed to the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., outlined "three rings of interwoven attack" that were a part of Trump's efforts to overturn the election. Those resulted in the Capitol attack, he said. |
| • | Former White House lawyer Pat Cipollone said he thought Trump should concede: Cipollone said the process for deciding the 2020 election had ended by mid-December after the Electoral College met to cast formal votes for president. "Did I believe he should concede the election at a point in time?" Cipollone told the committee in a videotaped interview. "Yes, I did." | | • | Trump's tweet organized extremists around a single day: Before Trump's tweet Dec. 19 calling his supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6, there was no plan or single day that his supporters planned to come. "People talked about going to D.C. when the election was over … after it was announced he was going to be there on the 6th, then anything else was shut out and it was just going to be on the 6th," Jody Williams, former owner of far-right website TheDonald.win, said in video testimony. Rep. Raskin said Trump's tweet created a "laserlike focus" on Jan. 6. | | • | Rally organizer knew Trump would order march to Capitol : The committee revealed text messages showing those who were behind the rally knew Trump would call for a march to the Capitol. In messages obtained by the panel, Kylie Kremer, the organizer of the "Stop the Steal" rally, spoke to Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and a Trump confidant. Two days before the riot, Kremer said in the text messages that Trump was "going to have us march" to the Capitol. She told Lindell to keep that information to himself because the president, during his rally speech, would "unexpectedly" instruct his supporters to go to the Capitol. | |
Exclusive video from Uvalde shows officers' delayed response |
| A 77-minute video recording captured by a school surveillance camera, along with body camera footage from one of the responding officers, shows in excruciating detail how dozens of sworn officers waited to enter the classrooms at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. The video tells in real time the story of how heavily armed officers failed to immediately launch a cohesive and aggressive response to stop the shooter and save more children if possible. Nineteen children and two teachers died in the mass shooting. |
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The 'deepest' glimpse of the distant universe 🌌 |
| NASA released "the deepest and sharpest" images of the distant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope. The first full-color image released Monday marked the official beginning of Webb's general science operations. Using infrared wavelengths, the Webb Telescope shows thousands of the first stars and galaxies that formed about 13 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Webb chronicled the Cosmic Cliffs, a region roughly 7,600 light-years away. This period of very early star formation is rare and difficult to capture, according to NASA. |
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 | | Called the Cosmic Cliffs, this region is the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity roughly 7,600 light-years away. The "steam" that appears to rise from the celestial "mountains" is hot, ionized gas and dust streaming away from the nebula because of intense, ultraviolet radiation. | | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team | |
US provides $1.7 billion for Ukraine's government |
| The United States provided an additional $1.7 billion to ensure the Ukrainian government can operate and provide essential services such as health care by paying the salaries of workers. The contribution was made possible by "generous bipartisan support" from Congress, the U.S. Agency for International Development said. USAID has provided $4 billion in direct budgetary support to the Ukraine government for core functions such as keeping electricity on at hospitals, schools and other critical infrastructure and paying for humanitarian supplies and the salaries of civil servants and teachers. |
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Emmy nominations arrive 📺 |
| The nominees for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday, and HBO's "Succession" led the way. The show, which follows the dysfunctional Roy family's fight for corporate power, leads all contenders with 25 nominations. In addition to being nominated again for outstanding lead actress in a drama series, Zendaya made history as the youngest producing Emmy nominee for "Euphoria." The creator and star of beloved comedy "Abbott Elementary," Quinta Brunson, earned a pair of nominations: The show is up for outstanding comedy series, and she is nominated for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards are set to air Sept. 12 on NBC. |
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 | | HBO's "Succession" received 25 nominations for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards. | | Macall Polay, HBO | |
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