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Former White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, the architect of ex-president Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant separation policies, is once again testifying before a federal grand jury as DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith continues his investigation into the January 6 insurrection.

Miller’s appearance Tuesday comes “after the courts ordered that he and other top advisers must share their recollections of direct conversations with the then-president related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot,” CNN reports. “Miller is likely to be asked in the grand jury about his phone call with Trump minutes before the Ellipse rally that day, and other conversations they had about the election. The grand jury is hearing evidence as part of a special counsel’s criminal investigation.”

A US judge's move to ban a leading abortion pill has been met with near total silence from Republican leadership, as some conservatives warn the party is already paying an electoral price for a push to curb the procedure that is out of step with the American public.

The Republican Party has suffered blow after high-profile blow at the hands of voters in the nearly 10 months since the US Supreme Court first struck down the constitutional right to abortion, returning the decision to the states.

One of the organizers of a Boston anti-LGBTQ "Straight Pride" event has been indicted by a federal grand jury for his alleged role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

Mark Sahady, 48, of Malden, Massachusetts, is facing a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

With the disastrous consequences of the far-right's takeover of the federal court system becoming clearer by the day, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is facing intense criticism for preserving a tradition that is allowing Republicans to veto judges nominated by President Joe Biden.

The so-called "blue slip courtesy" is a nonbinding Senate norm that allows lawmakers to reject nominees for court seats in their home states.

Cuba's government on Monday announced a surprise lifting of its ban on US dollar deposits in banks, reversing a policy which had been in place across the communist island nation since June 2021.

"From this moment on, financial and banking institutions will accept cash deposits of US dollars in bank accounts," said a Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) resolution published Monday in the country's Official Gazette.

Former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is finally taking the gloves off and attacking former President Donald Trump directly — at least in conversation with donors, reported Axios.

"Nikki Haley's 2024 campaign is telling donors that former President Trump is 'consumed by the grievances of the past and the promise of more drama in the future,' according to a memo obtained by Axios," reported Alexi McCammond. "'Donald Trump had a pretty good Q1, if you count being indicted as 'good,'' Haley's campaign manager Betsy Ankney wrote in the memo. 'Still, it’s increasingly clear that Trump’s candidacy is more consumed by the grievances of the past and the promise of more drama in the future, rather than a forward-looking vision for the American people,' the memo went on."

The Pentagon Papers revealed secrets and lies about the Vietnam War that infuriated a public that was already turning against the war at the time. The man who copied the papers, Daniel Ellsberg, spoke to The New York Times just as a fresh leak from the Pentagon was being posted online.

A slate of documents was released on the social platform Discord before the press ultimately picked it up. They reveal the Pentagon's plans for Ukraine after the invasion by Russia. Some of the documents have been "heavily doctored," according to one defense official that spoke to Politico.

Dianne Feinstein’s prolonged absence due to illness has made it harder for Senate Democrats to advance their agenda, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The 89-year-old Democrat from California has missed 58 votes as of Monday since being hospitalized with shingles about six weeks ago, the report said. Feinstein in a statement obtained by The Chronicle confirmed that she was diagnosed with shingles in late February.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has issued a subpoena to the Director of the FBI over the Bureau’s alleged efforts to develop “sources” in local Catholic Churches, and a now-withdrawn memo from a local field office that reportedly discussed the possibility some right-wing Catholics might pose possible domestic terror threats.

Jordan, who also heads the House GOP’s new, specially-constituted Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, appears to be using the new committee as a bullhorn to amplify far-right wing conspiracy theories about alleged incidents of anti-conservative bias, while attacking government officials who he sees as enemies of the far-right. His committee has not investigated any instances of anti-liberal bias.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is one of the most prominent members of the anti-vaccination movement, has announced his plans to challenge Joe Biden for the presidency in 2024. But according to Kennedy family biographer Laurence Leamer, some in his family are "disgusted with his attitude," the New York Post reported.

“They still care about him, but he’s an embarrassment," family members said in reference to his anti-vaccination stance.

UnitedHealth Group, a dominant force in the lucrative Medicare Advantage market, has seen its stock jump over the past week as Wall Street analysts and investors embrace the Biden administration's decision to delay reforms aimed at tackling abuse in the privately run, government-funded health program.

STAT reported late last week that "Wall Street was overjoyed" by the announcement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which said it would phase in changes to the model that dictates how much government funding Medicare Advantage insurers receive to cover patient care.