Trump's Pardon Promise, The Islamic State's Iran Attack, Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracies
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is making one campaign promise central to his bid for president. |
| 0:06.2 | If elected, he'll issue pardons for rioters convicted in connection with the January 6th attack on the U.S. capital. |
| 0:12.2 | Can he do that? And would Congress or the courts have the power to speak? the January 6th attack on the US capital. |
| 0:12.6 | Can he do that and would Congress or the courts have the power to stop him? |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Leila Faldul and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:18.8 | The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a double suicide bombing that killed more than 80 people in Iran this week. |
| 0:28.0 | The violence from the extremist group once controlled sprawling swaths of Iraq in Syria but was largely |
| 0:33.5 | dismantled. Why do they have their sights set on Iran? And a growing trove of court |
| 0:39.0 | documents related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revived conspiracy theories. |
| 0:45.2 | What are people saying in the darkest corners of the web? |
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| 1:34.2 | This weekend marks three years since a mob of Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. |
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