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The federal government is investigating former President Trump for potential violation of three criminal statutes, including the Espionage Act, according to the unsealed search warrant that was executed at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence Monday and reviewed by CBS News. The FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents, including four sets that were classified "top secret," according to the warrant.According to the unsealed warrant, the FBI collected boxes marked top secret, secret and confidential, as well as documents marked "top secret/sensitive compartmented information," photos, and information about the president of France, among other things. The ex-president's defense team on Friday did not object to the warrant's release. Trump himself said late Thursday in a statement that he e...

Syndicated columnist, humorist, author and political commentator and Texan Molly Ivins passed away 15 years ago. Mimi Swartz, the executive editor of Texas Monthly, recently wrote an article that looked back at Ivins, her career and her legacy.Swartz recently spoke with TPR's Jerry Clayton about the article. This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Clayton: How was Molly was on the forefront of issues 50 years ago that we're looking at today?Swartz: Absolutely. I've sort of taken that for granted. Someone in California pointed it out to me — she was particularly on the forefront of reproductive rights and gun control, or, as we now call it, gun safety and corporate money and politics. She was way on top of it, way ahead of everyon...

Trump, Mar-a-Lago, Inflation Reduction Act: politics news this weekNews Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel OpinionThe search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate topped a busy week in politics, which included passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and primaries.The House passed the Inflation Reduction Act, sending it to President Joe Biden.National gas prices fell below $4 per gallon. Biden signed the PACT Act and toured Kentucky floods.Rep. Ilhan Omar barely won her primary. Trump pleaded the Fifth in a deposition."This week has been monumental." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement – given to reporters ahead of voting to pass the Inflation Reduction Act – feels like an understatement. Between the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, passage and signa...

Washington — An off-duty Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan, 6, 2021, with a fellow officer was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison, matching the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.Former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced him to seven years and three months in prison. Cooper also sentenced Robertson to three years of supervised release after his prison term. Federal prosecutors had recommended an eight-year prison sentence for Robertson. His sentence equals that of Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who attacked the Capitol while armed with a holstered handgun. Robertson gets credit for th...

At the ReAwaken America Tour’s stop in Virginia Beach last month, emcee Clay Clark opened the event by asking a raucous crowd two questions.“Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you out there agree that Jesus is King? How many of you believe that President Donald J. Trump is the president?” he said amid chants of “U.S.A.” from the audience.That mix of religion, politics and conspiracy theories is what Western New Yorkers can likely expect during the tour’s stop at Cornerstone Church in Batavia Friday and Saturday.Originally scheduled to be held in Rochester, the controversial, far-right roadshow has been denounced by area activists, faith leaders and even New York’s top law enforcement official.Critics argue the event, which spreads misinformation on C...