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rt to the Congress, with testimony from Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell; 10:00 AM • Senate Judiciary Committee concludes consideration of Merrick Garland to be AG - Nominations hearing considers Merrick Garland to be Attorney General, second and final day, with testimony from external witnesses * Hear
Garland "appears to be on his way to Senate confirmation." CBS' Kris Van Cleave: "Nearly five years after being nominated to the US Supreme Court, Merrick Garland finally got his Senate confirmation hearing today for attorney general. ... He'd take over a department beset by low morale and under fire by Democ
o impose sanctions on four senior Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin in a mainly symbolic response to the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny." The agreement, which "came after France, Germany, Poland and the Baltic states urged the 27-member bloc to send a message to Putin that debate an
0 Democrats will boycott, Schumer highlighted" Senate Majority Leader McConnell's actions in 2016 "when he refused to consider Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the choice of President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February." Reuters <https://www.reuters
discourage-navalnys-return-says-ally-idUSICBN27614G> (10/21, Zverev, Nikolskaya) reports, "The Kremlin is trying to intimidate opposition politician Alexei Navalny to discourage him from returning to Russia to campaign once he recovers from his poisoning," according to Leonid Volkov, a member of his team. Since
of a 10-year term for the FBI director serves the important purpose of insulating the bureau from political pressure." Along with Biden's chose of Merrick Garland, who didn't endorse Biden, as his attorney general, the "decisions send a signal that the new president is serious about not interfering in prosecu
gness to do so. But, the spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, also "accus[ed] Washington of meddling in mass protests in support of detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny." Ahead of demonstrations on Saturday "which saw police detain more than 3,000 people and use force to break up rallies across Russia," the US Emba
acks as the 20th anniversary of the attacks looms." The Herald adds, "GOP lawmakers in DC — along with a few Democrats - wrote to both U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to finally go public with the intel. It could expose how out of the 19 hijackers that day, 15 of them were citize
deration." Navalny Allies Continue To Protest Despite Threat Of New Charges. Reuters (4/25) reports that allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny "pledged on Sunday to continue their actions despite the prospect of being outlawed under extremism charges." Moscow City Court "is expected to rul
Entities connected to both Merrick Garland and Alexei Navalny

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