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Indiana man who fled to avoid prison sentence for storming Capitol is arrested in Canada
Read full article: Indiana man who fled to avoid prison sentence for storming Capitol is arrested in CanadaAn Indiana man who fled to avoid a nine-month prison sentence for storming the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in Canada this week on the fourth anniversary of the mob’s attack.
Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pennsylvania of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto Rico
Read full article: Harris campaign spends final hours reminding Pennsylvania of a Trump ally's joke about Puerto RicoKamala Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Democrats consider part of their “blue wall” in the Electoral College.
Prosecutors reveal planned Proud Boys witness was informant
Read full article: Prosecutors reveal planned Proud Boys witness was informantA lawyer for one of the former Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious conspiracy says federal prosecutors have revealed that a defense witness was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Flood of Capitol riot, tribal cases swamps US prosecutors
Read full article: Flood of Capitol riot, tribal cases swamps US prosecutors(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)OKLAHOMA CITY – The U.S. Justice Department’s to-do list was already daunting, especially with this year's flood of pandemic-delayed federal cases. Now, more than 300 people have been charged so far in the Capitol riot that resulted in the deaths of five people, and at least 100 more are expected to be charged. Meanwhile, Capitol riot investigators are wading through more than 15,000 hours of footage from surveillance cameras and officers’ body-worn cameras, information from about 1,600 electronic devices and more than 210,000 tips from the public. The Capitol riot cases will likely be lined up behind older ones waiting months to go to trial, Hernandez said, noting that she had one originally scheduled for last April that's now booked for September. “Right now, because of our resources, we’re triaging and taking the most serious of cases, the violent crime cases, the cases that have acts against children and things of that nature."