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The month after the presidential election in 2020, Democratic and Republican electors representing the candidate who won the popular vote in their states gathered across the country to formally cast electoral votes for president. But in seven states that Joe Biden won, Republican electors got together anyway and cast phony votes for Donald Trump. They’ve become known as fake electors. …

By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Snow and ice kept me trapped inside for weeks last month, but I didn’t mind, because I had great new books to read, like these: Forty years ago, a demonstration took place outside the Libyan Embassy in London. As students shouted protests against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, suddenly, from the embassy’s windows, shots …

BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Two police officers and a paramedic were shot and killed in a Twin Cities suburb Sunday morning, authorities said, and the man who shot them is also dead. Superintendent Drew Evans with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Burnsville police officers were called to a home at about 1:50 a.m. on 33rd Avenue South and East …

Inside his home studio in New Orleans, artist Michael Deas can spend months working on a single oil painting. But collectors need only spend a few cents to own a print of his most popular works. His portraits sell for pennies. Deas has created 25 stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. “I have a friend who likes to call me …

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, is warning that it would be unwise to think of the Houthis as a ragtag group. Though Yemen, where the Houthi militia is based, is the poorest country in the Middle East, the terrorist group has been backed, supplied and trained by Iran for years, Cooper said. It’s enabled the …

The Rusty Nail is one of those Nashville bars where songwriters come to celebrate songwriters. Country music is, after all, about stories, and Ashley McBryde had notebooks full of hopefuls. “When you’re playing in places like this, you’re trying to find out where you are in the pack,” she said. She was good! Unafraid to write lyrics that both struck …

Former Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt was nominated to be an elector if former President Donald Trump won the state in 2020, but after Trump lost, Hitt and nine other Republican electors met at the state capitol and signed documents falsely claiming Trump won. Hitt said lawyers told him the documents they were signing were meaningless unless Trump’s legal …

On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, moderated by Robert Costa: GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South CarolinaGOP Sen. Tim Scott of South CarolinaCBS News legal analyst Rikki KliemanDemocratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South CarolinaHistorian Douglas Brinkley and reporter and author Amie Parnes Clickhere to browse full transcripts of “Face the Nation.” ROBERT COSTA: I’m Robert Costa in Washington. And this …

The Mexican government recently set up a checkpoint near a U.S. border gap after migrants used the opening, known locally as the San Judas Break, to illegally cross the border into the United States, 60 Minutes confirmed. Migrants have moved on and are now crossing the border at another spot four miles east of the San Judas Break, area residents …

Washington — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he feels “very optimistic” about a path forward in Congress for passing Ukraine aid and enhanced border security, throwing his conditional support behind a bipartisan funding bill released by House moderates in recent days. “I don’t want to wait — I want to act now on the border,” Graham said …