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Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians. Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies. One post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who...

In late December 2020, President Trump made a call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to look at some of the items that were uncovered by his auditor. There was plenty of evidence for a competent auditor or any man of integrity to know that the election was uncertifiable. Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger’s office secretly recorded the phone call with President Trump, then lied about its contents later when they leaked it to the far-left Washington Post. Raffensperger’s office ran to the Washington Post and leaked a fraudulent transcript of the call. After they were caught...

President Trump said in an interview broadcast early Thursday that bipartisan gun reform legislation is moving "very slowly," partly due to Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's comments supporting mandatory buybacks for assault-style weapons. The president told "Fox & Friends" that his administration is doing "a very careful job" when considering legislation and compromises between both parties. "We're not moving on anything," he said. "We're moving very slowly in one way because we want to make sure it's right." Trump added that O'Rourke's comments at last week's Democratic presidential debate are "part of the problem," adding they are making other lawmakers...

<p>Alpert, who is also seeking the Democratic Senate nomination, said the Times revelations are "pretty striking" and fly in the face of Blumenthal's public image.</p>

There was uproar in Republican circles last week when California Governor Arnold Scharzenegger (search) was quoted in a German newspaper saying that the Republican Party should "move a little further left." But the reporter who conducted the interview now says Schwarzenegger never actually said that. Marc Hujer translated Schwarzenegger's English remarks into German and says he changed the phrasing to make the interview more understandable to a German audience. Schwarzenegger actually said he'd like to "Keep [the Republican Party] to the right where it is, but ... cross over that centerline a little bit, because that would immediately take away...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani provincial official who said last week he had reports that two sons of Osama bin Laden had been wounded and possibly arrested in Afghanistan said on Sunday he had been misquoted in media reports. "Some newspapers and news agencies misquoted my comments to the international media," Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, the home minister of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, said in a statement. "In my interview, I said quite categorically that the said operation was not being conducted on Pakistani soil and that Pakistani forces were not involved. In my statement, I said only that the reports about the arrest...