
A year after the insurrection, Republicans around the country still promote Trump's election lies
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In Colorado -- a state President Joe Biden won handily in 2020 -- a Republican candidate for US Senate pointed his firearm at a fake Dominion voting machine and blasted it to smithereens in a campaign ad riddled with falsehoods.
In deeply liberal Washington State, one local Republican party launched a door-knocking effort to try to uncover phantom voters.
In Crow Wing County, Minnesota, a bright red enclave in a state that's gone blue in presidential contests since 1976, residents are pressing the board of commissioners for a post-election audit.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there to represent the US, officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

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