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The Jan. 6 committee returns today to present evidence linking Trump allies and right-wing extremist groups ― a union it says culminated in violence at the Capitol. Robb Elementary is among thousands of schools across the country lacking a basic safety feature that experts have recommended for decades. Plus, the first full-color photo from the James Webb Telescope offers a stunning new view of the universe. Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning. |
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Pro-Trump supporters on the steps of the Capitol in Washington after a rally with President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images file) The Jan. 6 committee will resume live hearings today, holding its seventh in this series and planning to demonstrate how right-wing militia groups that led the assault on the U.S. Capitol were connected to key allies of Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, who were at the center of the plot to overturn the 2020 election. The hearing will also reveal ties between some Trump associates and the QAnon movement, aides said.
In linking the domestic extremist groups and the Trump inner circle that was aggressively working to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, the committee is making the case that Trump and his allies’ actions culminated in the violence at the Capitol, which claimed the lives of both police officers and Trump supporters.
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More on Jan. 6: - Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone corroborated virtually all of the revelations from previous witnesses, including former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, a top committee member said.
- Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes tried to get the group’s general counsel, Kellye SoRelle, to put him in touch with the White House in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack, she told NBC News.
- Trump supporter Stephen Ayres, who posted the former president’s tweet encouraging supporters to go to Washington on Jan. 6 before he stormed the Capitol, is expected to testify today, a source said.
- Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress trial will go forward next week as planned, a judge said, despite the former White House chief strategist’s last-minute offer to cooperate with the Jan. 6 panel.
- A judge ordered Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury in Georgia investigating Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Security experts say being able to lock a classroom door from the inside is crucial to protecting students during a school shooting. (Matt Williams/ NBC News) Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, is among thousands of schools across the country lacking a basic safety feature that experts have recommended for decades: classroom doors that lock from the inside. Doors that can be quickly and easily locked can mean the difference between life and death if a shooter is on school grounds, security experts say. Even though billions of dollars have been poured into school security, about 1 in 4 public schools lack interior-locking classroom doors, according to a federal survey. One teacher said that in Uvalde on May 24, she had to go into the hallway to check that her classroom door was locked as a shooter walked through the building firing rounds. He went on to kill 19 children and two teachers.
Read the full story here.
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| The Department of Health and Human Services said a federal law from 1985 allows women who face medical emergencies to get abortions, regardless of new state bans. The move could set up legal clashes where abortion was banned after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. |
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| Pneumonia is among the most common infections in health care facilities, but it could be avoided if hospital staffers more dutifully brushed the teeth of bedridden patients, according to a growing body of research. Instead, many hospitals often skip teeth-brushing to prioritize other tasks and provide only cheap, ineffective toothbrushes, often unaware of the consequences. |
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| After the toppling of Roe v. Wade, major organizations and some politicians leading the abortions rights movement have shifted their messaging to be more inclusive of LGBTQ people. But a heated debate has formed among some abortion rights supporters over whether gender-neutral language — like “pregnant people” instead of “pregnant women” — should be used in advocating for abortion rights. |
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| Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his entire Cabinet are set to resign this week, with outrage over the country’s economic crisis boiling over and protesters at their doorstep — literally. Occupiers can be seen lounging in their leaders' opulent residences, a standard of luxury diametrically opposed to most Sri Lankans’ living conditions. |
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| Ten current or former Michigan foster youths said the classes they took in state-funded, state-licensed facilities didn’t count toward graduation. Some dropped out. Others were forced to repeat grades and delay graduation. In Michigan, the child welfare system and education officials pay little attention to the instruction facilities provide and have failed to ensure that facilities comply with laws requiring the timely transfer of academic records, according to educators and advocates. "I felt like everything I did was for nothing,” one 17-year-old said. |
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Select: Online shopping, simplified |
Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event begins today: For 48 hours, Prime members will get access to substantial deals on tech, home appliances, toys and more. Select has you covered on the best deals and is running a live blog today and Wednesday covering all the latest. |
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The first image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope offers humanity a stunning new view of the universe — a first-of-its-kind infrared image so distant in the cosmos that it shows stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago. The image, reminiscent of those from the Hubble Deep Fields that first stunned scientists with photos of ancient and seemingly infinite galaxies, shows a galaxy cluster as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, according to NASA. What were once blips to Hubble are now galaxies to Webb. "It's not an image. It's a new worldview," a NASA administrator said. Read the full story here.
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