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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is Abortion Sacred?</strong> - Abortion is often talked about as a grave act. But bringing a new life into the world can feel like the decision that more clearly risks being a moral mistake. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/is-abortion-sacred">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Psychologists Treating Rape Victims in Ukraine</strong> - A grassroots effort is offering mental-health care to Ukrainians who’ve faced sexual violence at the hands of the Russian invasion force. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-psychologists-treating-rape-victims-in-ukraine">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Herschel Walker’s Deficits Are Not the Only Cause for Concern</strong> - His Senate candidacy is a clear example of the warping effect that Donald Trump has had on the Republican Party nationally. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/herschel-walkers-deficits-are-not-the-only-cause-for-concern">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Another Likely Effect of the Roe Reversal: Higher Health-Care Costs</strong> - Abortion bans could lead to more high-risk pregnancies, which could raise the price of providing health care to women. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/another-likely-effect-of-the-roe-reversal-higher-health-care-costs">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The True Costs of Inflation in Small-Town Texas</strong> - When R-BBQ had to cut its hours and reduce its portions, the effects rippled through the community. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-true-costs-of-inflation-in-small-town-texas">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The case for caring less</strong> -
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“Don’t sweat the small stuff” is actually great advice.
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To say that our plates are full would be an understatement. The reality of contemporary living requires our attention and efforts be divided between demanding jobs, essential familial caregiving, replenishing social gatherings, and fulfilling political and community engagements — not to mention any hobbies or creative endeavors. According to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/05/how-americans-feel-about-the-satisfactions-and-stresses-of-modern-life/">Pew Research Center surveys</a>, 60 percent of adults said they were sometimes too busy to enjoy life. Busy-ness, unsurprisingly, intensifies once you have kids: 74 percent of parents with children under the age of 18 reported being too busy to enjoy life.
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There are a number of reasons people pack their schedules. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html">Hustle culture</a> has normalized always-on, blind ambition; society still <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/03/10/women-still-bear-heavier-load-than-men-balancing-work-family/">expects women to balance the pressures</a> of work and home life; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913207918/how-to-say-no-for-the-people-pleaser-who-always-says-yes">people pleasers</a> have difficulty saying no. Existential fears of climate change, political turmoil, and economic strain perhaps weigh less heavily when you’re distracted by a never-ending to-do list.
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“We’re socialized,” says licensed marriage and family therapist <a href="https://www.monalmft.com/">Mona Eshaiker</a>, “to care and to provide and to help. If we do it without boundaries and without limits, we’re going to be burnt out and then we’re not doing anybody any favors.”
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The myth of perfectionism keeps many in a cycle of feeding into external pressures: the illusion of “having it all,” gleaning self-worth from the validation of others. Of course, it is worthy and noble to be passionate about people and causes you care about. It’s also easy to fall into the trap of attempting too much in the pursuit of trying to have it all.
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Instead of being everything to everyone and everything all the time, what would life look like if you cared a little less? “What if,” says <a href="https://academics.uscb.edu/humanities-social-sciences/sociology/faculty/deborah-cohan.html">Deborah J. Cohan</a>, professor of sociology at University of South Carolina Beaufort and author of <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/welcome-to-wherever-we-are/9781978808928"><em>Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption</em></a>, “we aim for good enough?”
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Manage your personal expectations
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Much of our desire to take on extra tasks and responsibilities comes from a sense of obligation to others, experts agree, but even that can be self-directed. “Seventy-five percent of the time, the guilt is coming from inside the house,” says <a href="https://sarahknight.com/">Sarah Knight,</a> author of a series of “No Fucks Given” guides, including <a href="https://sarahknight.com/lcm/"><em>The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck</em></a><em> </em>and <a href="https://sarahknight.com/gyst/"><em>Get Your Shit Together</em></a>. “You are making it up in your own head.”
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No one’s expectations of you are as high as your self-imposed expectations. If you feel guilty about bringing store-bought pasta salad to a barbecue instead of a homemade dish, the only person who is going to shame you for that is yourself. While turning down additional responsibilities at work because your plate is already full can feel like you’re dropping the ball, most likely the asker will quickly find a volunteer who is more than eager to take on the extra project. “Nobody’s mad,” Eshaiker says. “People don’t want us to feel pressured, either, or stressed.”
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Before making a decision about whether to care a little less or to turn down a favor that’s asked of you, Knight says to ask yourself whether saying no would have a negative effect or comes from a mean-spirited place. “RSVPing no to a party is not an objectively bad thing,” she says. “Saying yes and then canceling at the last minute — not because you legitimately got food poisoning but because you never really wanted to go … that’s something you can feel guilty about. Don’t do that.”
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Find your priorities
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Caring less doesn’t mean negligence. To care less about inconsequential matters, you need to zero in on what is worth caring for. Consider taking stock of to-do list items and obligations and asking if these responsibilities make your day feel more spacious or more confined, Cohan suggests. Does it nourish your sense of creativity? Is it the best use of your time and talent? Does it make you feel exhausted? Do you want to spend your time and energy on this?
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Eshaiker says to ask yourself, “Why do I care?” about various aspects of life. “Is this something that is aligned with my values?” she says. “Is this something that I believe is helpful for myself and for humanity?” If you feel compelled to care about something out of fear or wanting to be accepted by others, it may not be worth placing emphasis on it.
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Of course, there are nonnegotiable obligations — the basic functions of your job, caring for children, paying bills — which may not be life-affirming but require attention nonetheless. Once you define these true commitments, you can “divorce yourself from the concept of ‘I have to do it,’” Knight says, when it comes to other tasks you thought essential, like waking up at 5 am to do laundry when doing it after work will suffice.
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When Knight quit her job as a book editor in 2015, she realized what Marie Kondo advocated for in terms of physical organization, Knight was doing to her brain: eliminating the habits and people that no longer sparked joy. Think about the instances you really didn’t enjoy or that made your life more difficult — such as attending a casual friend’s bachelor party when you really wanted to catch up on reading instead. When similar opportunities arise, you can confidently turn down things you know won’t serve you, Cohan says.
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Just because you excel at something — be it creating detailed spreadsheets or making complicated desserts for dinner parties — doesn’t mean you have to agree to it every time you’re asked or volunteer to do it to impress others. “Even though I know I can make the really great, complicated cake — I’ve made them, I’m good at it,” Cohan says. “But it doesn’t mean I have to do it because maybe it’s not the best use of my Saturday.”
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In the thick of the daily grind, minute conflicts can often get blown out of proportion: Your kid didn’t do the dishes when you asked, you were 10 minutes late to a doctor’s appointment, a friend forgot she was supposed to bring snacks to game night. People are quick to ascribe meaning to these ordinary events — jumping to conclusions and thinking a friend is inconsiderate, say, by not answering your phone call in the middle of a workday. If you pause and take a step back, none of these things actually<em> </em>have a profound bearing on your life, Eshaiker says. Say you find yourself constantly wrapped up in drama — consider asking yourself why you’re stimulated by the excitement of conflict or which big life decisions you’re trying to distract from. “Sometimes not reacting is the best thing to do,” she says.
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The same thing goes for work. Many people’s value and self-worth is intrinsically tied to their jobs. But if you zoom out and consider who you are outside of your job, you may realize other areas of life where you might be lacking, like spending quality time with family or practicing art or music — parts of life you decided you want to prioritize.
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When you’re constantly stressed and in a fight-or-flight state of mind, finding this perspective is difficult, Eshaiker continues. Every minor issue feels like an urgent fire needing to be extinguished. Instead of making mountains out of molehills, Eshaiker suggests getting to the root of why you’re negatively fixated on the outfit your partner decided to wear to a wedding, for example. “Is it because I want my partner to present well in public because then I want to get approval from others?” she says. “But that has nothing to do with my ultimate values and my goals. Again, you’re just giving up your power to other people if it’s about external validation in some way.” Relinquishing the perceived influence onlookers have over your life frees up space for you to care about things that actually matter.
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In order to get to a place where you’re able to look at the bigger picture, Eshaiker says you need to prioritize rest and centering yourself, which looks different for everyone: meditation, taking a walk, no email before bed.
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Once you’ve defined what is and isn’t worth your time, you’ve got to set, and express, boundaries. Boundary-setting can seem like an amorphous buzzword, but it isn’t as simple as learning how to say no. According to Knight, boundary-setting is outlining what you need and what is important to you and protecting those desires. This can be as simple as writing a list of things that make you happy (reading, going to the gym, cooking, a life with minimal stress), allow you to earn a living (your job), and other areas of importance (friends, family, getting a good night’s sleep).
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Then ask yourself what you need to do to protect these things. Maybe you decline invites to weeknight social activities in order to prioritize good sleep. Perhaps you need to spend less time with a friend who invites conflict.
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“If they really sit down and think about it for five minutes, they’re gonna realize the biggest, unwanted drain on their time, energy, and money,” Knight says. “It could be a relationship in their life — it could be a parent, it could be a friend, someone they’re dating — and that the boundary that you need to set to preserve your time, energy, money, sanity, mental health, is to basically fence that person outside of all of that.”
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Another way to set boundaries, Knight says, is to ask yourself, “What’s wrong with my life?” and then to identify why. For example, you might feel depleted after hanging out with a certain friend. Why? Are you giving more than they’re willing to reciprocate? Do you no longer have much in common? “It all comes down to identifying what you want, the need, what’s important to you, and then what you have to do to protect those things,” Knight says.
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Time is finite and shouldn’t be dictated by others or how you believe others to perceive you. If caring a little less means not immediately volunteering to lead every new initiative at work or skipping a few PTA meetings, you’re saving time and energy for the things that matter.
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“It’s like trimming the fat,” Cohan says, “off of a day or a week.”
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/even-better"><em>Even Better</em></a><em> is here to offer deeply sourced, actionable advice for helping you live a better life. Do you have a question on money and work; friends, family, and community; or personal growth and health? Send us your question by filling out this </em><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiStGSlsWDBmglim7Dh1Y9Hy386rkeKGpfwF6BCjmgnZdqfQ/viewform"><em>form</em></a><em>. We might turn it into a story.</em>
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Former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during the fourth hearing of the January 6 investigation in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, on June 21. | Al Drago/Getty Images
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What is the point of the January 6 committee? Will Trump face any consequences based on what it finds?
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The House January 6 committee’s primetime hearing Thursday will represent the culmination of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/9/23161364/january-6-committee-capitol-congress-public-hearings">series of eight hearings</a> that stretched across the better part of the summer. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) <a href="https://www.vox.com/23205667/donald-trump-witness-tampering-january-6-hearing-takeaways">said last week</a> that this week’s hearing would “be a profound moment of reckoning for America.”
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It may not reach quite that level — it’s still just a congressional hearing — but it is expected to shed new light on former President Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, while the mob attacked the Capitol.
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Although the committee has been getting ample coverage on cable news since the public hearings began in early June, this is likely to be the most watched and talked about of its hearings.
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Here are answers to some of the biggest questions about the January 6 committee, so you can make sense of what is revealed Thursday and what all this is actually leading to.
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Although the events of January 6 were amply covered at the time and have since been the topic of books, documentaries, and a presidential impeachment trial, there have been countless questions about the attack on the US Capitol left unanswered. Was it planned or organized in any way? And, if so, by whom? What was Donald Trump doing while his supporters ransacked the Capitol? And how did it fit into Trump’s months-long effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and keep himself in office? These questions were left lingering even after <a href="https://www.vox.com/22223972/trump-impeached-house-senate-trial-former-president">Trump was impeached</a> for inciting the attack, and have never fully been answered.
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The January 6 committee was created by Congress to investigate the circumstances around the attack on the Capitol, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/503/text">to recommend</a> “changes in law, policy, procedures, rules, or regulations” to prevent future acts of violence, and “to strengthen the security and resilience of the United States and American democratic institutions.” It was created with <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021197">a near party-line vote</a> in June 2021, with only the two Republicans who ended up on the committee, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), voting for it.
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The final work product of the committee is not the televised hearings, or punishing anyone for wrongdoing it uncovers, but instead a formal report to Congress. That’s expected to be issued in the fall; it is anticipated to explain how the attack on the Capitol happened and outline future steps to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
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With its broad mandate, the committee has interviewed over 1,000 witnesses and focused intensively on the actions of Donald Trump in the weeks and months before the pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6.
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Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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The committee worked for months before it started making its case to the public, though much of what it found out behind closed doors was revealed in press reports. Those leaks of committee findings included reports about a <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017e-920d-d65f-a77e-fbad182f0000">draft executive order</a> prepared for Trump to have the military seize voting machines, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/mike-lee-chip-roy-text-messages-jan-6-mark-meadows-overturn-election/index.html">text messages</a> sent by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging members of Congress to act to overturn the election, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/15/ginni-thomas-john-eastman-emails/">correspondence</a> between Trump adviser John Eastman and Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Since June, the committee has <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/9/23161364/january-6-committee-capitol-congress-public-hearings">held seven public hearings</a> geared at assembling a cohesive, comprehensive story of the organized, multi-pronged effort to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, with Trump at its center. So far, the hearings have focused on aspects of that plan, like:
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Attempts by Trump to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/21/23177237/january-6-hearings-bowers-raffensperger">pressure Republican state officials</a> to try to reverse Joe Biden’s wins in several swing states.
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The effort to push Vice President Mike Pence into unilaterally and unconstitutionally <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/16/23171707/january-6-committee-hearing-pence-trump-day-three">throwing out electoral votes</a> in his role presiding over the formal certification of the 2020 election.
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The effort to force <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/23/23180854/january-6-hearings-justice-department-trump-coup">Justice Department officials</a> to take legal actions seeking a different election result in court.
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What happened when <a href="https://www.vox.com/23205667/donald-trump-witness-tampering-january-6-hearing-takeaways">all of those failed</a>, and Trump then focused on his rally on January 6 to try to bring his supporters to Washington, DC, in a last-ditch effort to hold on to power.
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Unlike other congressional hearings that feature lengthy opening statements and ample speechifying, these have run more like scripted television programs. The committee has even used a former television news executive as a consultant, and that shows in the polished production: It weaves together clips of videotaped depositions and occasionally alternates those with live questioning of the witnesses before the committee.
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The committee doesn’t have the authority to punish anyone. Much has been made about whether it might issue criminal referrals to ask the Justice Department to indict Trump or others involved in efforts to overturn the election. These, however, don’t carry any real legal weight. One could tag Attorney General Merrick Garland on a tweet asking him to indict Trump and it would have much the same independent effect.
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But the resources the committee has put toward investigating January 6 have produced evidence that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-committee-evidence-justice-department.html">could eventually be shared</a> with the Justice Department to buttress its investigation.
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Former Trump attorney John Eastman speaks at a news conference in Boulder, Colorado, on April 29, 2021, about his plans to sue University of Colorado Boulder. Eastman, a visiting professor of conservative thought and policy, was relieved of his duties at the university for speaking at Trump’s January 6 rally.
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Perhaps the most meaningful legal impact of the committee’s investigation so far came in <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.260.0.pdf">a 44-page ruling</a> from David Carter, a federal judge in California. In the ruling, Carter held that documents the committee subpoenaed from John Eastman, an outside Trump lawyer, were not protected by attorney-client privilege. This was because, he wrote, Eastman and Trump were acting as criminal co-conspirators trying to mount “a coup in search of a legal theory.” In stark language, Carter wrote, “the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021” and “that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
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This doesn’t mean Trump will get prosecuted. After all, the decision whether to charge Trump, Eastman, or anyone else with a crime doesn’t rest with a federal judge but with prosecutors. But it does come freighted with significance that a nonpartisan actor issued a formal legal ruling saying it is more likely than not that a sitting president committed a crime.
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You could view the committee’s investigation of January 6 and the DOJ’s investigations as two trains running on parallel tracks, investigating the same thing in different ways. The committee has moved from closed-door interviews to televised hearings while the Justice Department has been steadily prosecuting those who entered the Capitol grounds on January 6. <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/18-months-jan-6-attack-capitol">As of early July</a>, 855 people had been arrested across the country. About 330 have pleaded guilty to various charges, while 10 have gone to trial and been found guilty.
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Recently, however, the DOJ has stepped up its efforts, raiding and seizing electronic devices of figures like Eastman as well as of those who were involved in schemes around the electoral vote-counting process. It is unclear exactly what connection this new push by the DOJ has to the committee’s work.
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Eventually, the two tracks will converge once the committee issues its report and turns over its investigative material to the Department of Justice. The question then is simply what Garland will do with the evidence the committee has gathered as well as that gathered by his own prosecutors.
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The final decision to prosecute Trump and his associates will fall into Garland’s lap. The attorney general <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-07-10/prosecute-trump-merrick-garland-is-investigating-aggressively-but-prosecuting-cautiously">will have to weigh</a> not only the strength of evidence and the likelihood that a jury would convict, but also whether to set the precedent of indicting a former president, which would be a first in American history.
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The two bold-faced names running the committee are its chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and its vice chair, Liz Cheney. These are the only two members of the committee who speak at every hearing. Cheney has often played an active role in hearings; her opening and closing statements provide a road map for what the committee intends to do and hints of new revelations to come.
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The other person who has come to national prominence through the hearings is <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/28/23186748/cassidy-hutchinson-january-6-hearing-committee">Cassidy Hutchinson</a>, a now-26-year-old former White House aide. The committee devoted a hearing in late June solely to Hutchinson, a previously obscure figure, which featured testimony about Trump’s desire to go to the Capitol on January 6 and about members of Congress who allegedly sought presidential pardons for their own efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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So far, Hutchinson has been the only White House aide to testify in person before the committee and willingly provide revelatory testimony. There have been plenty of other Trump White House aides who have appeared via their videotaped depositions and made memorable contributions, including White House lawyer Eric Herschmann and former Attorney General Bill Barr. Most recently, White House counsel <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/8/23200686/who-is-pat-cipollone-trump-lawyer-testifying">Pat Cipollone</a> finally testified before the committee, and clips of his deposition are expected to feature prominently during Thursday’s hearing. Others in Trump’s orbit have appeared in person for hearings, including former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Greg Jacob, the counsel for Vice President Mike Pence.
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While many big names in Trumpworld have cooperated and the committee has played clips of depositions from top Trump allies including his daughter Ivanka Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his former campaign manager Bill Stepien, several well-known figures in Trump’s orbit have refused to do so.
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The most well-known is <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/7/17/23217452/steve-bannon-january-6-trump-propaganda-election">Steve Bannon</a>, the former top White House strategist who has since been an outside adviser to Trump. Bannon initially refused to cooperate with the committee at all. It then cited him for contempt of Congress, and the House voted to recommend that the Justice Department prosecute him for his refusal to cooperate. Bannon turned himself in last November, and, after months of legal wrangling, his <a href="https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-trial-jury-selection-0cde38cf0cd8141441968b470be2acbd">trial is set to begin</a> on Monday. The former Trump adviser captured attention in the past week with a last-minute offer to testify before the committee that was <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438.105.0_1.pdf">dismissed by the Justice Department</a> as “not a genuine effort to meet his obligations but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability.”
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The committee has referred three others for contempt of Congress after votes in the House. The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/03/doj-declines-to-charge-meadows-scavino-with-contempt-of-congress-for-defying-jan-6-committee-00037230">declined to move forward</a> with prosecutions of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump adviser Dan Scavino but has charged Trump trade adviser <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/17/peter-navarro-not-guilty-contempt/">Peter Navarro</a> with contempt.
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Others appeared before the committee but repeatedly invoked their constitutional right against self-incrimination, including former national security adviser Mike Flynn and former DOJ official <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/23/23179173/jeffrey-clark-doj-january-6">Jeffrey Clark</a>.
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The committee is piling up plenty of evidence that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and then actively conspired to overturn it. Of course, there have been plenty of instances of his misdeeds in the past — dozens of scandals, two impeachments, and an almost infinite number of problematic tweets — yet he’s <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/this-will-not-pass-shows-how-trump-was-resurrected.html">weathered those</a> and managed to stay the leader of the Republican Party. It’s hard to imagine that anything will ever shatter Trump’s grip over his MAGA base, and this probably won’t do it.
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But there is some evidence that the hearings are <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/29/23188683/hutchinson-trump-republicans-january-6">eroding his general standing</a> within the GOP; reaching some Republicans who were never part of the MAGA wing of the party and reminding them of their horror over the attack on the Capitol.
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According to a late June <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YUL45oZU545gh-hka2DLI9LdjJ-7pEdC/view">poll from CBS/YouGov,</a> a quarter of Trump voters say they are paying some or a lot of attention to the hearings, while over 40 percent of Trump voters think it is very important or somewhat important to find out what happened that day. Further, Trump’s unfavorability <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/">has steadily increased</a> in polling over the past month, while the former president <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/">has started to slip</a> under 50 percent in polls for the 2024 Republican nomination.
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This is happening while Trump is sounding like a presidential candidate in all but name. Just last week, in <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-2024-decision.html">an interview with New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi</a>, he implied the only open question is whether he would announce his candidacy before or after the November midterms. While Trump still has a strong core of support within the GOP in a potential primary, he has already lost one presidential election to Biden, and lagged the incumbent in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/biden-approval-polling-2024.html">recent New York Times/Siena College poll</a> even though only a third of voters in the same poll approved of Biden’s performance in office. Anything that further dings Trump’s support — even outside the base — is a political liability.
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While the January 6 committee has often been compared to Watergate, it has very little in common with the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103098399/watergate-committee-hearings-may-be-both-an-inspiration-and-a-hard-act-to-follow">carefully crafted Senate committee</a> that investigated the Watergate break-in, led by conservative Democrat Sam Ervin in 1973, an era when politics was more genteel and most Americans received their news through traditional media outlets.
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Senate Watergate committee Chair Sen. Sam Ervin, center, questions John Ehrlichman (back to camera), former presidential aide to Richard Nixon, during the panel’s hearing on July 26, 1973.
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Cheney and Kinzinger, the two Republicans on the committee, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/13/22228964/house-republicans-trump">both voted to impeach Trump</a>, and that has led to the members working together in a nonpartisan way. The resulting unity of purpose has enabled the hearings to become slick televised productions without any objections, obstruction, or grandstanding. While the decision to refuse to participate was initially made in an effort to delegitimize the committee and make it look like a partisan vehicle after <a href="https://www.vox.com/22588475/kevin-mccarthy-january-6-committee-banks-jordan">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked two of McCarthy’s original nominees from joining the committee</a>, Republicans have since been left regretting the decision. Even Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-fumes-republicans-ignore-jan-6-panel-rcna34843">has criticized it</a> after the hearings began when he was left without any allies in the room.
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The question is what outcomes will result from the committee. The Watergate scandal led to the passage of comprehensive campaign finance laws for the first time in American history (although much of the regime was promptly ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and has been steadily eroded by court decisions since then). While reform of the Electoral Count Act, the arcane 19th-century law that governs the certification of presidential elections, has <a href="https://gen.medium.com/all-your-paranoid-questions-about-the-electoral-college-certification-answered-7b636f6af314">had bipartisan support</a> in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, it’s unlikely that there will be more significant legislative proposals. There may still be prosecutions of those involved in the effort to overturn the election, but the question is whether it will reach the scale of Watergate, which led to nearly 50 guilty verdicts.
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There also is the specter of Trump or another MAGA candidate winning the White House in 2024 and potentially pardoning anyone prosecuted (including the hundreds already found guilty of breaching the Capitol). Trump has already <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-would-pardon-jan-6-rioters-if-he-runs-wins-2022-01-30/">expressed at rallies his willingness</a> to do this. There is precedent for this — most of the top government officials wrapped up in the Iran-Contra scandal were pardoned by George H.W. Bush before he left office in 1993.
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After the primetime hearing on Thursday, there are no immediate plans for more hearings, though the committee <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-wont-rule-hearings-summer-rcna38105">left open the possibility</a> there could be more scheduled if they are warranted. Instead, the committee will continue its investigative process and start to focus more on drafting and writing its report, which is expected to be complete in the early fall. At that point, it will make public whatever recommendations it has and perhaps hold another hearing to present them.
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The hard deadline for action, though, is <a href="https://www.vox.com/midterm-elections-2022">the midterms</a>. Not only are Democrats expected to lose control of the House, but two of the committee’s members, Kinzinger and Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), are not running for reelection, while two others face tough races. Cheney is the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/22/23177243/liz-cheney-wyoming">underdog in her August primary</a> while Rep. <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/elaine-luria-on-the-january-6-committees-plans.html">Elaine Luria</a> (D-VA) represents a swing district. The result is that the committee has to accomplish all of its goals by the end of the year.
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As for Trump and his allies, the Department of Justice eventually has to decide whether to take the unprecedented step of indicting a former president. And if it doesn’t do so soon, the decision may be about indicting not just a former president but a <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-2024-decision.html">current presidential candidate</a> as well.
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An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23140441/uvalde-shooting-robb-elementary-school-texas">Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas</a> on May 24, 2022.
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It’s the deadliest US school shooting since 2018, when 17 were killed at <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/14/17013596/parkland-florida-high-school-shooting">Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida</a>, and the second-deadliest to occur at an elementary school since the 2012 shooting at <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/10124474/sandy-hook-shooting-victims">Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut</a>.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/23142734/uvalde-mass-shooting-gun-violence-control">If history is any evidence</a>, it’s unlikely that Texas Republican lawmakers, who control the state legislature and have pushed to loosen state gun laws in the lead-up to <a href="https://www.vox.com/midterm-elections-2022">the midterms,</a> will change course as a result of the Uvalde shooting.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ahead Of My Time and Arabian Phoenix excel</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Harshada clinches gold at Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championship</strong> - In the men's 49 kg youth event, L. Dhanush won the bronze in the snatch section with an 85 kg effort</p></li>
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The Priest responds, " If it wasn’t for my Rosary and my whiskey, I couldn’t make it. Would you like a shot of whiskey?"
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The Priest yells out, “Hey Rosary, bring us two shots of whisky”
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He walked up to my car and said, “Papers?” to which I replied “Scissors, I win!” and drove off.
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