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  House Jan. 6 committee focuses on threats to public servants amid Trump pressure campaign

  CBS News - By Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, Caitlin Yilek, Caroline Linton

  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Tuesday's hearing detailed the threats made to state …

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  The duplicity of Trump and his Jan. 6 enablers is stunning

  MSNBC - Michael A. Cohen

  When retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig said at Thursday’s blockbuster hearing of the Jan. 6 House committee that "Donald Trump, his allies and …

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  Heat wave breaks records as more than 70 million under warnings

  Axios - Andrew Freedman

  More than 70 million are under heat warnings and advisories this weekend through early next week as a potent heat dome sends temperatures soaring to …

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  The ah-ha moment when doctors realized first US patient in global outbreak had monkeypox: 'It wasn't initially on our radar screen'

  CNN - Jacqueline Howard

  CNN — When Dr. Nesli Basgoz met her patient for the first time in May, he had been admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital with symptoms that were quite common for many infectious diseases – fever, rash, fatigue, sweats. Basgoz and her colleagues at the hospital tested the patient for chickenpox. …

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  3 Missouri inmates cut through a ceiling and escaped. One was just captured more than 800 miles away

  CNN - By Raja Razek, Rebekah Riess and Christina Maxouris

  (CNN) — One of the three inmates who escaped from a Barry County, Missouri, jail last week has been captured -- more than 800 miles away, authorities announced. Christopher Allen Blevins, 37, was taken into custody near Casper, Wyoming, on Wednesday, the Barry County Sheriff's Office said in a …

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  Spain to send state of the art tanks to Ukrainian army

  brusselstimes.com - The Brussels Times

  Spain intends to equip the Ukrainian army with modern battle tanks of German design, providing Ukraine with the first high-tech Western tanks, …