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A judge rejected Trump’s effort to halt the criminal investigation he faces in Georgia over interference in the November 2020 presidential election, saying the former president’s allegations of prosecutorial misconduct are meritless.

The FBI’s access to a controversial intelligence trove of intercepted emails, texts and other data should be curtailed after missteps that have damaged public and congressional trust in the surveillance tool, a White House panel of intelligence advisers concluded. 

Coup leaders in Niger arrested several ministers and senior members of the party of detained President Bazoum, dealing a blow to African nations’ efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis that has shaken one of the U.S.’s main counterterrorism allies.

Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama and ending months of politically fueled debate, according to senior U.S. officials.

California’s new privacy regulator said it will examine the growing amalgamation of data collected by smart vehicles and whether the business practices of the companies collecting that data comply with state law.

A former business associate of Hunter Biden testified before a Republican-led House panel investigating the business dealings of the president’s son.

Died: Paul Reubens, 70, Pee-wee Herman creator.