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Omar's Washington home was searched under a court-authorized warrant on October twelfth, while police say Australian MP Helen Haines's attacker's motive is still under investigation.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA federal judge today ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition by December eleventh in his ten billion dollar defamation lawsuit against the BBC, over an edit of one of his speeches.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHis lawyers had cancelled the October sixteenth date for a matter of national importance, and the BBC says he was campaigning in Georgia that day.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe lawyers reportedly said he had no availability whatsoever before December eighteenth and offered January. A trial is provisionally set for February fifteenth, twenty twenty-seven.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNo availability whatsoever. Bro has a rally schedule and a calendar that only shows Georgia.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorVirginia state Senator Louise Lucas, an eighty-two-year-old Democrat, was charged today with drug trafficking and money laundering.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorProsecutors allege she was involved in acquiring and distributing a hundred kilograms or more of marijuana, and she is one of seven people indicted, including her two daughters and her grandson, according to Attorney General Todd Blanche.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe indictment says it ran under cover of her legal medical cannabis business, and Virginia opens regulated retail sales on July first, twenty twenty-seven.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWeeks early, then.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCongresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington home was searched by Homeland Security agents on October twelfth under a court-authorized warrant, and she says she will not be silenced.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIn Australia, lawmaker Helen Haines lost both legs when a driver struck her with a truck, witnesses say twice.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPolice say there was no intelligence of any threat and the motive is still being investigated.

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The story so far

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  2. Omar resurfaces, AI finds web flaw, Trump approval hits low · TheBlaze
  3. Democrats sue over voter roll cleanup, plus Omar, Brewers, Colombia… · Washington Examiner
  4. The latest: Trump rally, Omar, Phobos, Ohtani, Huggins · Al Jazeera
  5. Feds charge Virginia lawmaker who was key to redistricting push · CBS News
  6. Virginia senator Lucas charged; Hubbard freed from Russia · NBC News
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