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Fulton County DA empaneling new grand jury to weigh Trump election charges

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The DA probing efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia is empaneling a new grand jury to weigh possible charges against former President Trump. The Atlanta-area prosecutor investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia is empaneling a new grand jury that could ultimately decide whether to approve charges against former President Donald Trump. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis met Tuesday with prospective jurors in front of Judge Robert McBurney at a courthouse near Atlanta, where she has been probing whether Trump and his allies' overtures to state officials in late 2020 amounted to criminal activity. In April, Willis signaled publicly that potential charges could be brought as soon as this summer. MORE: Fulton County DA says charging decisions to come this summer in 2020 election probe Willis officially launched the probe in February 2021, sparked in part by the now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021, phone call Trump made to Ge...

Judge to weigh Hunter Biden plea deal that enflamed critics

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President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden will appear in a courtroom Wednesday to formally agree to the plea deal he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden will appear in a Delaware courthouse Wednesday to formally agree to the plea deal he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors -- a resolution to a yearslong probe that e NFL amed his father's political adversaries. The younger Biden in June agreed to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges and enter into a pretrial diversion program that will allow him to avoid prosecution on a separate felony gun charge. U.S. Judge Maryellen Norieka will have the opportunity to either reject or accept the terms of the deal on Wednesday morning. MORE: Hunter Biden updates: Plea deal struck on tax charges, potentially ending yearslong DOJ probe News of the plea agreement reached last month animated GOP partisans to new heights, with critics decrying the deal's terms as a...