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Former President Barack Obama will host a last-minute rally with Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman on Saturday in an effort to boost the candidate in his U.S. Senate race against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. The rally will take place in Pittsburgh, though the time and place are not yet determined. Former President Donald Trump has a competing event schedule with Oz and Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tore into Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday after the Texas senator asked a Justice Department official if the FBI played a role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cruz asked during a Senate hearing on domestic terrorism, “How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?” Jill Sanborn, the executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch, responded that she could not comment. Cruz pressed Sanborn repeatedly on the issue and later asked:

LAS VEGAS — In a court ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases, a federal judge in Nevada found that a criminal law that dates to 1929 and makes it a felony for a person who has been deported to return to the United States is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno, in an order issued Wednesday, found the law widely known as Section 1326 is based on “racist, nativist roots” and discriminates against Mexican and Latinx people in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment. Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality...