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[ad_1] CNN  —  Josh Shapiro had a massive spending advantage and a weak Republican opponent, but the incoming Pennsylvania governor thinks Democrats should still take note of how he made voters see his fight-for-the-little-guy speeches as more than just talk – and racked up the party’s biggest margin in any …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Outgoing Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday he fears for the future of the country if former President Donald Trump isn’t charged with a crime related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, though he believes the Justice Department will “do the right thing.” …

[ad_1] CNN  —  As President Joe Biden scored several legislative wins this year, voters across the country headed to the polls in November to decide on local measures. The passage of several of those measures will lead to new state laws this year. And Americans in 2023 will also feel …

[ad_1] Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling for an “exponential increase” in his country’s nuclear weapons arsenal as threats from South Korea and the Untied States increase, Pyongyang’s state media reported Sunday. Kim’s comments come as North Korea twice over the weekend tested …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Chief Justice John Roberts urged continued vigilance for the safety of judges and justices in an annual report published Saturday, after a tumultuous year at the US Supreme Court. “A judicial system cannot and should not live in fear,” Roberts wrote. While drawing attention to judicial security, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  A statue of the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis will now keep watch over a site in his former Georgia congressional district which once held a monument to the Confederacy. Sculptor Basil Watson has been selected to design and create a monument to be placed …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Federal Election Commission has levied a $30,000 fine on incoming Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and a private border wall organization he was once affiliated with due to campaign finance violations committed during his unsuccessful 2020 Senate bid. In an agreement approved by the FEC last …

[ad_1] CNN  —  House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy still does not have enough vote commitments to be the next speaker following a nearly hour-long call with various factions of the Republican conference, and even as he has made a number of significant concessions in recent days. McCarthy is racing the …

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Edward J. McCaffery is Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and a professor of law, economics and political science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of “Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler” and founder of the …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The House Ways and Means Committee has released copies six-years worth of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a week after releasing an extensive report that said the Internal Revenue Service failed to properly audit Trump while he was in office. The public release of Trump’s tax …