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Pence testifies before federal grand jury investigating Trump's role in Jan. 6 NBC News Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared Thursday before the federal grand jury convened as part of the special counsel investigation into … Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and remain in power, according to a source familiar with the matter. The testimony is a significant development in the special counsel’s probe, as Pence could provide critical insights into Trump’s thinking in the days leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The former vice president published a memoir and Wall Street Journal opinion article detailing several of his interactions with Trump, but some details were left vague. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is particularly interested in Trump’s efforts to try to block the certification of the election, NBC News previously reported. Loose gun laws. Multiple defendants. Possible Trump indictment brings security challenge The Atlanta Journal-Constitution […] Criminal charges against Trump could mean a security challenge the likes of which Atlanta hasn’t seen since the Super Bowl in 2019. Officials said they have been tested in recent years by heated protests, blockbuster events and high-profile court activity. And while Fulton County officials learned from their counterparts in Manhattan the situation in metro Atlanta is different. Here there are fewer police – New York City has roughly 18 times as many officers as the city of Atlanta. In Fulton County there are also likely to be multiple defendants. And Georgia has looser gun laws, raising the prospect of pistol-packing protesters outside the courthouse. Ted Cruz Fox News tapes are being handed over to the Justice Department for its Jan. 6 inquiry Houston Chronicle Recordings of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz telling Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about his plan to delay the certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory will reportedly be handed over to federal prosecutors investigating efforts by … Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election. The recordings, part of a legal battle between Fox News and a former producer for the network, drew the attention of Special Counsel Jack Smith after they were aired on MSNBC earlier this week, an attorney for the producer told CNN. “They reached out to us after we publicized some of the tapes,” said Gerry Filippatos, who is representing the producer, Abby Grossberg. “We’re in the process of negotiating a targeted subpoena for Abby’s electronic data, so they can have what they want.” E. Jean Carroll fights back during cross-examination in Trump civil rape trial: ‘He raped me whether I screamed or not’ New York Daily News Donald Trump’s lawyer aggressively questioned writer E. Jean Caroll as she took the witness stand Thursday to describe her allegations of rape against the former president. […] When asked by defense attorney Joe Tacopina why she didn’t yell when Trump raped her inside a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s, a steadfast Carroll said she didn’t need an excuse. In this “supposed battle, you never screamed,” Tacopina said in court. “I’m not a screamer,” Carroll testified, explaining how she panicked and worried about making a scene. “So when you’re fighting and being sexually assaulted and raped because you’re not a screamer, as you described it, you wouldn’t scream,” Tacopina said. “You can’t beat me up on me for not screaming,” she retorted. “I’m not beating up on you. I’m asking you questions, Ms. Carroll,” Tacopina continued. “Women who don’t come forward — one of the reasons they don’t come forward, is because they’re always asked, ‘Why didn’t you scream?’ Some women scream, some women don’t,” Carroll said. “It keeps women silent.” Raising her voice as she fought back tears, Carroll told Trump’s lawyer a few minutes later: “I’m telling you, he raped me whether I screamed or not!” Zelenskyy sees "opportunity" in China's offer to mediate with Russia, but stresses "territorial integrity" CBS News Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described his Wednesday telephone conversation with China's leader Xi Jinping as "long and mostly reasonable." Their chat, and Xi's promise to send an envoy to Kyiv to discuss a "political solution," has raised the prospect of China acting as a potential peacemaker in Russia's war on Ukraine. Alluding to China's unique leverage over Vladimir Putin's isolated regime, as the Russians' most valuable trading partner and the only global military superpower yet to condemn the Ukraine invasion, Zelenskyy said there was "an opportunity to use China's political power to reinforce the principles and rules that peace should be built upon." Ukraine and China are "equally interested in the strength of the sovereignty of nations and territorial integrity, and in observing key security rules, particularly in terms of the inadmissibility of threats of the use of nuclear weapons," Zelenskyy said. Bakhmut defenders worry about losing support BBC News A year ago Volodymyr and his men were firing all 40 barrels of their BM-21 Grad rocket launcher in one go. Now they can only afford to fire a few at a time at Russian targets. "We haven't got enough ammunition for our weapon," he explains. His unit, the 17th Tank Battalion, is still being called on to provide fire support to Ukrainian forces desperately clinging on to the edges of Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city which Russia has spent months trying to capture. Russian forces are getting ever closer to their goal of taking the city, but at enormous cost. Why is Russia's Wagner Group in Sudan, and what does it have to do with the war in Ukraine? Euro News Russia's Wagner Group has been present in Sudan since 2017. And amid the unfolding power struggle in the country, some have expressed fears that the mercenary group is fuelling the conflict and possibly acting on behalf of the Kremlin. "It's so striking that anywhere there is instability or an attack on democracy in Africa, that Wagner group is involved and more often than not they are on the side of the militia," said Emmanuel Kotin, a security expert and executive director of the Africa Centre for Security and Counterterrorism think tank. […] According to a number of international investigations, the Wagner Group's goal in Sudan is to provide Moscow access to resources, which, Russia then uses to finance the war in Ukraine. One of its main objectives is acquiring gold, as Sudan is the third largest producer of the mineral in Africa. Sudan's factions say they agree to extend truce but fighting goes on Reuters Sudan's two warring factions said on Thursday they would prolong a ceasefire agreement by 72 hours, but violence again rocked the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur as the U.S. said ceasefire violations were worrying. […] The army on Wednesday said it agreed to a new three-day ceasefire through Sunday following one due to expire on Thursday night. On Thursday, the military reiterated it would extend the truce and said it would honour it unilaterally. Responding for the first time, the RSF said on Thursday it too approved another 72-hour truce starting Friday. It said the proposal was from two diplomatic groupings that include the U.S., U.K., Saudi Arabia, UAE and Norway. Study: Human-caused climate change worsened Horn of Africa drought UPI A multi-national collaborative effort by scientists has found that human-induced climate change worsened drought severity in the Horn of Africa. That drought has left 4.35 million people in need of humanitarian aid. The scientists said the effects of the extraordinary drought are severe, causing widespread crop failure and hunger. They said more than 8.4 million Somalis are expected to face crisis levels of acute food insecurity by June. "Climate change has made events like the current drought much stronger and more likely; a conservative estimate is that such droughts have become about 100 times more likely," the scientists wrote in their report. "While more and better designed social protection systems and humanitarian funding may help decrease poverty and increase resilience to shocks when they occur, certain crops, animals, and by extension livelihoods may become increasingly difficult to sustain in the changing climate." If human-caused global warming had not happened, the scientists found, the conditions in the Horn of Africa would not have caused a drought. Worries over sudden ocean warming spike AP News The world’s oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming. Some researchers think the jump in sea surface temperatures stems from a brewing and possibly strong natural El Nino warming weather condition plus a rebound from three years of a cooling La Nina, all on top of steady global warming that is heating deeper water below. If that’s the case, they said, record-breaking ocean temperatures this month could be the first in many heat records to shatter. […] It’s been about seven years since the last El Nino, and it was a whopper. The world has warmed in that seven years, especially the deeper ocean, which absorbs by far most of the heat energy from greenhouse gases, said Sarah Purkey, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution for Oceanography. The ocean heat content, which measures the energy stored by the deep ocean, each year sets new record highs regardless of what’s happening on the surface. US Supreme Court ruling could turbocharge climate lawsuits France24 A US Supreme Court ruling this week is set to open the floodgates for climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies that have been blocked for years by jurisdictional disputes. The decision comes on the heels of a bumper year for global climate litigation in 2022 and ahead of major climate rulings expected from international courts in coming months. As environmental disruption intensifies globally, is legal action an effective way to counter the climate crisis? Justices at the US Supreme Court on Monday turned down appeals from five major oil companies, enabling municipalities to file lawsuits to hold energy companies accountable for climate change. The lawsuits must now be heard in state courts, a venue often seen as more favourable to plaintiffs than federal court. Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment Gizmodo Just how vulnerable are the thousands of government-operated satellites speeding along their orbits above our heads? A team of researchers proved they could hack into a European Space Agency-owned satellite, allowing them to take full control of its communication, imaging—and even its maneuverability systems. The intrusion was a controlled hack as part of ESA’s ongoing CYSAT conference. According to a Tuesday release, a cybersecurity team from the multinational tech company Thales took up ESA’s Hack CYSAT challenge and found a way to seize control of an OPS-SAT nanosatellite originally sent up into low Earth orbit back in 2019. The intrusion allowed the hackers access to the satellite’s global positioning system, attitude control system, and even its onboard camera. ESA claimed it still maintained control of the satellite during the test and that the researchers didn’t force the satellite to do any crazy tricks as it circled the globe. However, the cybersecurity team said they accessed satellite controls through its onboard system and then used standard access rights to enter its control interface. The researchers then proved they could also introduce new, malicious code into the system. Jair Bolsonaro questioned by police investigating Brazil coup attempt The Guardian Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ridiculed by his political opponents after he was questioned by federal police as part of a criminal investigation into January’s alleged coup attempt and claimed he had shared a video questioning last year’s election result “by mistake”. Bolsonaro spent more than two hours in the company of police investigators on Wednesday morning, nearly four months after thousands of hardcore supporters ran riot in the capital, Brasília, in what the new administration called a botched coup intended to reinstall the far-right former army captain as president. […] Brazilian media reports claimed Bolsonaro told investigators he had republished the video by mistake and while under the effect of morphine he had received after being taken to hospital in the US. Texas ‘Trump Train’ members who intimidated Biden campaign bus apologize, settle lawsuit Dallas Morning News Two members of the “Trump Train” convoy who harassed a bus belonging to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign as it traveled through Texas in 2020 apologized for their actions Thursday, saying they regretted their efforts to intimidate campaign workers. The apologies from the convoy members, Hannah Ceh and Kyle Kruger, were part of a settlement for a lawsuit brought by four people who were on the bus as it traveled Interstate 35 between Austin and San Antonio on Oct. 30, 2020, to rally people for the last day of early voting. […] Kruger acknowledged he “drove in ways that posed some risk to the Biden campaign bus, its passengers and others on the road.” “I knew that my driving was risky, but I wanted to express my opposition to their campaign and send them a message to leave my community,” he said. “While I regret now participating in such risky activity, and apologize to the occupants of the bus for my part in the actions that day, at the time I and other Trump Train participants were happy that, after our actions, the Biden campaign canceled the rest of the bus tour.” Prosecutors tell judge information Teixeira took ‘far exceeds’ what has been reported CNN Federal prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to continue the detention of the Air National Guardsman accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media, saying that he posed a flight risk and that the government was still grappling with the amount of stolen classified information. In a court filing Wednesday evening, prosecutors said that the information Jack Teixeira allegedly took “far exceeds” what has been reported, and that releasing him from jail could pose a grave threat to national security. Teixeira, prosecutors alleged, viewed hundreds of classified documents – which the government said he may still have access to – and conducted hundreds more keyword searches “in what appears to be a deliberate effort to disseminate this country’s secrets.” Airman Accused of Leak Has History of Racist and Violent Remarks, Filing Says The New York Times Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of posting classified documents online, repeatedly tried to obstruct federal investigators and has a “troubling” history of making racist and violent remarks, Justice Department lawyers said in a court filing late Wednesday. In an 18-page memo, released before a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday in a Massachusetts federal court, the department’s lawyers argued that Airman Teixeira needed to be detained indefinitely because he posed a “serious flight risk” and might still have information that would be of “tremendous value to hostile nation states.” Airman Teixeira tapped into vast reservoirs of sensitive information, an amount that “far exceeds what has been publicly disclosed” so far, they wrote. Focus of 9/11 Families’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia Turns to a Saudi Student Who May Have Been a Spy ProPublica From the first weeks after the 9/11 attacks, suspicions about a possible Saudi government role in the plot have focused on a mysterious, 42-year-old graduate student who welcomed the first two Qaida hijackers after they landed in Los Angeles in January 2000. The Saudi student, Omar al-Bayoumi, claimed to have met the two terrorists entirely by chance; he said he was just being hospitable when he helped them settle in San Diego. Both the FBI and the 9/11 Commission supported Bayoumi’s account, dismissing the suspicions of agents who thought he might be a Saudi spy. After nearly 20 years, however, the FBI has changed its story. In documents declassified last year, the bureau affirmed that Bayoumi was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence service who worked with Saudi religious officials and reported to the kingdom’s powerful ambassador in Washington. Welcome to wader’s ‘hump point’ of tonight’s OND. News can be sobering and engrossing - at this point in the digest, an offering of brief escapism. An Army fort named after Robert E. Lee now honors 2 pioneering Black officers NPR News Fort Lee, the U.S. Army's Virginia garrison named after the slave-holding leader of Confederate forces during the Civil War, became Fort Gregg-Adams on Thursday in a ceremony that renamed the base after two Black officers whose struggles paved the way for a more inclusive military. The post is one of nine that the Pentagon has said will be redesignated to remove names, symbols or other displays that commemorate the Confederacy. Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, the first African American to achieve such a high rank, retired in 1981 after serving as the Army's deputy chief of staff, logistics. He becomes the only living soldier in modern history to have an installation named in his honor. Lt. Col. Charity Adams joined the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942 and was the highest-ranking Black woman of World War II. Conservative dissenters block abortion limits in Nebraska, South Carolina The Washington Post Strict new abortion restrictions failed to advance in two conservative-dominated legislatures on Thursday, signaling a mounting fear among some Republicans that abortion bans could lead to political backlash. A near-total ban on abortion failed in South Carolina, just hours before a six-week ban fizzled in Nebraska. Abortion remains legal in both states until 22 weeks of pregnancy. In lengthy and often impassioned speeches on the South Carolina Senate floor, the state’s five female senators — three Republicans and two Democrats — decried what would have been a near-total ban on abortion. One, Sen. Sandy Senn (R), likened the implications to the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are treated as property of the state. Abortion laws, Senn said, “have always been, each and every one of them, about control — plain and simple. And in the Senate, the males have all the control.” Gianforte’s son one of many lobbying governor against trans bills Montana Free Press In late March, David Gianforte made an appointment to talk about three bills with Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, who happens to be his father. David, 32, sat down in the governor’s office on March 27 with a prepared statement about legislation affecting transgender Montanans and the LGBTQ+ community generally, to which David says he belongs. He wanted to talk about Senate Bill 99, a ban on gender-affirming health care for minors; Senate Bill 458, a bill to define sex as strictly binary in Montana code; and House Bill 359, a ban on drag performances in many public spaces. Sitting across from his father in the governor’s office, with Gianforte’s top health adviser present, David said, he read his printed statement out loud. “Hey Dad. Thanks for setting aside time to meet with me, it means a lot to me,” David said. “There are a lot of important issues passing through the legislature right now. For my own sake I’ve chosen to focus primarily on transgender rights, as that would significantly directly affect a number of my friends … I would like to make the argument that these bills are immoral, unjust, and frankly a violation of human rights.” 'Cowardice, 'hypocrisy': Missoula officials call out GOP actions on Zephyr The Missoulian Two of Missoula's top elected officials have sided with a Missoula state lawmaker in her clash with the Republican majority in the Montana House of Representatives as the issue continues to make national headlines. Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, is a transgender progressive who has been silenced by the GOP majority in the House after she made comments in opposition to a bill that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors. Missoula Mayor Jordan Hess and Missoula County Commissioner Josh Slotnick, both Democrats, responded to news on Wednesday that the House might censure or expel Zephyr. (Shortly after they spoke on the subject, the Montana House voted to ban Zephyr from the chamber.) Trans Kansans to be barred from single-sex spaces, blocked from changing gender on ID The Wichita Eagle Transgender Kansans will be barred from single-sex spaces inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth after Kansas became the first state in the nation to pass a sweeping new law over Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto. The Republican-controlled Kansas House, mostly along party lines, voted Thursday to override the Democratic governor by a vote of 84 to 41 to enact the “women’s bill of rights.” The Senate, also under GOP control, voted to override Kelly 28-12 the previous day. The new law, which takes effect in July, will impact a wide array of services for transgender and nonbinary Kansans. For example, people will no longer be able to change their driver’s license to align with their gender identity. Some opponents of the law emphasized that transgender residents can still seek new documents for the next two months, but suggested the new restrictions will face a legal challenge. New laws make Minnesota a 'refuge' for abortion, gender-affirming care Minneapolis Star Tribune People traveling to Minnesota for abortion or gender-affirming care will now be shielded from legal consequences in other states under new laws signed by Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday. The proposals advanced by Minnesota Democrats come as GOP-led states are debating and passing restrictions on abortion and health care for transgender and nonbinary people. That includes neighboring states such as North Dakota, which recently enacted a law creating felony penalties for health care providers who provide gender-affirming care to minors. […] "That march of bigotry and hate stops at Minnesota's borders," Walz said Thursday, surrounded by legislators and advocates of the proposals before signing them into law. "Freedom is on the march in Minnesota, decency is on the march in Minnesota, compassion is on the march in Minnesota." Dems ready to pounce on GOP debt bill Politico After House Republicans barely passed their debt bill, House Democrats are getting ready to pull out the playbook that worked for them in 2018 to win back the majority in 2024. In those midterm elections, Democrats hammered Republicans over tough votes that swing seat lawmakers made on repealing Obamacare and enacting tax cuts. This time, Democrats think they’ll be able to hitch vulnerable Republicans to Wednesday’s vote pairing a debt limit hike with spending cuts. “I think the American people are pretty upset with what’s happening, and they want to see governance work, and Republicans are going to be held accountable for not governing,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) said in an interview. Veterans sound alarm on McCarthy budget cuts The Hill Veterans are blasting the debt ceiling legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House this week, warning it will cut key programs and services for the nation’s retired service members. The House passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act largely along party lines in a 217-215 vote Wednesday night despite the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) warning of a drastic 22 percent cut to the department’s budget under the bill. The legislation, which is unlikely to pass a Democrat-controlled Senate and is opposed by President Biden, caps all new spending at fiscal 2022 levels, amounting to a $130 billion cut to non-defense spending across federal agencies, which would include the VA. California’s first large wildfire of the season burns 200 acres, 5% contained Los Angeles Times A wildfire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest grew quickly past 100 acres Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said. The Nob fire, the first large wildfire of the season in California, started shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday and had spread to 200 acres as of Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Forest Service. It was 5% contained. […] The blaze is the first major wildfire in California this year after an exceptionally wet winter that left state officials more concerned about flooding than fires — a reversal from recent years. The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them Mongabay Environmental groups doled out general praise, with caveats, for a new inventory by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that identified 112.8 million acres (46.6 million hectares) – bigger than the size of California. “[This is] a pathway to protecting mature and old-growth trees and forests … to improve the climate resilience of federally managed forests,” a coalition of environmental NGOs wrote in a press release. The Forest Service and BLM released the inventory on April 20 in connection with President Joe Biden’s 2022 Earth Day executive order as part of his multi-pronged climate strategy to halve U.S. carbon emissions by 2030. Many of the nation’s most productive, biodiverse and even some of its oldest forests remain a prime target for wood products and wood pellet industries across the country. Oregon bill to restrict insurance company use of wildfire risk maps heads to governor OPB / Jefferson Public Radio A bill aimed at consumer insurance protections and Oregon’s wildfire risk map passed the Oregon House of Representatives on Tuesday. It now heads to Gov. Kotek’s desk to be signed into law. Senate Bill 82 would restrict how insurance companies can use wildfire risk maps. It’s in part a response to last summer’s controversial map, which outlined wildfire risk at the property ownership level across the state. Oregon has seen $3 billion of property loss this decade due to wildfire, said Rep. Pam Marsh (D-Ashland). “What that means is that insurance companies are increasingly looking at their portfolios and evaluating risk. And consumers are increasingly getting notifications that their canceled policies won’t be renewed, or that the policy price has gone up, or that they’re not insurable,” she said. “So we want to protect consumers during this period, recognizing that insurance companies are going to make the decisions that they’re going to make based on their financial needs.” Huge cache of mammal genomes offers fresh insights on human evolution Nature When they were first published in the early 2000s, the complete genomes of the mouse, human, rat and chimpanzee opened the door for geneticists to compare their sequences and learn more about how mammals evolved. Now, about two decades later, researchers have amassed and compared the genomes of 240 mammals — showing how far the field has come. From this trove of data — the largest collection of mammalian genetic sequences yet — they have learnt more about why some mammals can smell particularly well, why others hibernate and why some species have developed larger brains. The effort, called the Zoonomia Project, reported these and other findings in a series of 11 papers in Science on 27 April. The data highlight not only which areas of the animals’ genomes are similar, but also when, over a period of millions of years, their genetic sequences diverged. “This really wasn’t possible without this scale of data set before,” says Katie Pollard, a data scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, who is a part of the project. Clarence Thomas Is Winning His War on Transparency The Atlantic The Inside Story of How Biden Cleared the Field for His Re-Election Bid TIME […] “There isn’t an opening” for a Democratic challenger, says a Biden aide who tracks his polling closely. “You’re not going to challenge somebody that you can’t beat,” adds another Biden adviser. Across the country, the Democratic Party’s biggest stars have conceded that point. In some cases, the President brushed back would-be challengers after bringing them into his administration, like Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. For others, like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, he’s incorporated some of their pet initiatives into his own agenda. Many of Warren’s former advisors and staff now populate the senior ranks of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and are in key spots running Biden’s trade policy. And Biden has echoed Sanders as he pressured pharmaceutical companies to swallow cuts to the prices Medicare pays for essential prescription drugs like insulin. With Democratic governors that have hinted at future presidential runs, like California’s Gavin Newsom and Illinois’s J. B. Pritzker, Biden has carved out extra time to meet them over his two years in office and deliver on the needs of their states. […] Much like he did with his 2020 campaign, Biden is expected to again lean into his experience. Presidential success requires as much an ability to manage the political winds as it does executing sound policies, and Biden’s pitching to voters that he’s cracked the code by not letting the news cycle drive his day. In these polarized times, his 2024 campaign will argue that Biden is uniquely able to simultaneously work with Republicans on issues like fixing the country’s aging infrastructure, bringing back high-tech manufacturing and pushing through some limited gun control measures, while advancing the ball on priorities for the left, like the climate crisis, student loan relief and easing marijuana sentencing. “Let’s finish this job,” Biden says in the video his campaign released Tuesday morning. NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft extends its interstellar science mission for 3 more years Space Voyager 2 can keep sending science back from interstellar space a little longer. NASA's long-running Voyager 2 mission will postpone an instrument shutdown three years to 2026 thanks to a technical feat by engineers. The change will allow the mission, which launched in 1977, to gather valuable science in deep space. "We are definitely interested in keeping as many science instruments operating as long as possible," Linda Spilker, Voyager's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California, said of the decision in a statement (opens in new tab) Wednesday (April 26.) As sea levels rise, the East Coast is also sinking Ars Technica [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/27/2166298/-Overnight-News-Digest-Pence-testifies-before-federal-grand-jury-investigating-Trump-s-role-in-coup Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/