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Former President Trump on Wednesday said he planned to file a lawsuit against CNN, alleging the network has repeatedly defamed him dating back to his 2016 campaign for the presidency. Trump said in a statement, “I have notified CNN of my intent to file a lawsuit over their repeated defamatory statements against me,” “I will also be commencing actions against other media outlets who have defamed me and defrauded the public regarding the overwhelming evidence of fraud throughout the 2020 Election. I will never stop fighting for the truth and for the future of our Country!” The 282-page letter from Trump’s attorneys to CNN executives, dated July 21, calls for the network to retract or correct numerous on-air statements and published articles about Trump that the lawyers allege are false and defamatory. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #CNN #reporting

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Senate Democrats for reaching a deal Wednesday to reform the tax code, warning it would “hammer workers and kill many thousands of American jobs.” Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #mcconnell #tax

A large pink diamond, believed to be the largest pink diamond found in 300 years, was discovered at a mine in Angola on Wednesday. The 170-carat diamond, named the "Lulo Rose" was discovered in a river bed by the Lulo alluvial diamond mine, owned by the Lucapa Diamond Company. Pink diamonds are considered rare, according to Lucapa Diamond Company Managing Director Stephen Wetherall. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #diamond #pink #Angola

Former CNN host Chris Cuomo is set to join NewsNation as a prime-time host beginning this fall. The hire was revealed as Cuomo appeared for an interview with NewsNation on Tuesday, his first television appearance since he was fired from CNN last year for his role in helping his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, combat sexual misconduct allegations. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #CNN #newsnation #Cuomo

Fox News declined to air former President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) summit, despite airing a speech by Vice President Mike Pence hours earlier. Although the network skipped Trump’s speech, Fox News aired former Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Young Americas Foundation’s national student conference just hours before Trump spoke. Trump’s speech at the AFPI summit, organized by former senior officials in his administration, marked the first time the former president had been in Washington D.C. since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #trump #Pence #Biden

A member of the House select committee revealed that the Secret Service "dumped hundreds of thousands of documents" on the panel investigating the 2021 riot at the Capitol Building on Tuesday Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) told MSNBC that the committee had been asking the Secret Service for the documents for "almost a year," and they were only delivered on Tuesday morning. The congresswomen also expressed concern about the actions of the Department of Homeland Security inspector general and said that there are "troubling behavior patterns" emerging from the committee's dealings with the Secret Service. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Jan. 6 #trump

President Biden on Tuesday tore into former President Trump over remarks he made during a speech earlier that day in Washington, D.C., in which Trump said there is no longer “respect for the law” in the U.S. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #joe_biden #Biden #Trump

Kid Rock and his fans were not happy when the musician’s concert was canceled at the North Dakota State Fair due to weather. After waiting more than two hours for reported wind and lightning on the outskirts of town to pass Friday, the North Dakota State Fair decided to nix Kid Rock’s performance, per TMZ. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #kidrock #concert

Jared Kushner reveals in a memoir that he had thyroid cancer during his time as a top White House adviser to father-in-law former President Donald Trump. His secret health battles, which included having surgery to remove a tumor from his throat, were reported Monday by the New York Times, citing a chapter in Kushner's forthcoming Breaking History: A White House Memoir, which hits shelves Aug. 23. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Kushner #trump #China

Former President Trump tore into Fox News’s flagship morning program on Monday, lashing out at its hosts for their coverage of his polling as he eyes another run for president in 2024. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #election

The FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden wrongly labeled verified evidence as “disinformation,” agency whistleblowers claimed. according to Sen. Chuck Grassley, Agents investigating President Joe Biden's son "opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease," Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Hunter #biden #FBI

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) ripped Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Monday evening for his criticisms of the public hearings put on by the House committee investigating the Capitol hill riot. Cotton spoke with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Monday morning, where he argued that the lack of cross-examination of witnesses in hearings concerning Jan. 6 was a departure from “Anglo-American jurisprudence.” Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cheney #trump #Jan. 6

Elon Musk denied a report on Sunday that he had an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brinn. The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX called the Wall Street Journal report "total bs," and he called on the newspaper to run stories that "actually matter." The report is the latest in a string of scandals that have plagued Musk since he announced his intention to purchase Twitter, a deal he is in the process of backing out of. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #elonmusk #Google #Tesla #SpaceX

Moldova’s prime minister on Sunday said she is “very worried” about Russia invading her country next, as it makes advances in Ukraine’s east and south, near the Moldova-Ukraine border. “It’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odessa, then of course we are very worried,” Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Moldova #Russia #ukraine #invasion

Marvel Director Taika Waititi Bashed Critics of ‘Too Gay’ Thor Sequel Disney-owned Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi took aim at critics who say that the latest superhero movie is “too gay,” declaring that “we’re all queer” to explain his recent turn to focusing on LBGTQ stories and characters. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Marvel #LBGTQ #Thor

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) did not rule out running for president in 2024 when asked about it on Sunday. The question came up during an interview with CNN that largely focused on the Jan. 6 committee's work. Toward the end of the conversation, Cheney was asked if she would consider running for president in order to stop former President Donald Trump from regaining the position. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cheney #trump #election2024

Trump at TPUSA: Democrats are hurting his candidacy for 2024 Former President Donald Trump vowed to never abandon his beliefs — including that the 2020 election was stolen — while delivering the keynote address at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit Saturday evening. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #election

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency after the virus reached more than 70 countries around the world. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Saturday that he decided the outbreak represents a “public health emergency of international concern.” Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #who #monkeypox

Hunter Biden could wind up behind bars for failing to register properly as a foreign agent while engaging in some of his business endeavors abroad, according to a report. Biden had registered as a lobbyist for domestic interests, but not under the federal Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to the New York Post. Revelations from his laptop have indicated that the first son has engaged in a slew of business dealings overseas in countries such as China, Ukraine, and elsewhere that may have required him to register as a foreign lobbyist. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Biden #Hunter

Former President Donald Trump’s potential return to the Oval Office will include an effort to purge the unaccountable administrative state that creates and directs vast amounts of far-left policy in the federal government, a report Friday by Axios detailed. If reelected in 2024, Trump is planning to cut about 50,000 administrative state employees to rein in unelected technocrats in federal government agencies that have great influence over policies impacting American workers, according to the outlet. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #trump #election

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined in with those who made fun of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for what they viewed as her pretending to be handcuffed by U.S. Capitol Police at a pro-abortion rights protest outside the Supreme Court. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cruz #aoc #election

A micrometeoroid caused “significant uncorrectable damage” to NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Telescope, a new report explains. While experts say the impact was small, it has prompted further investigation. At 21 feet, Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by the bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Micrometeoroids are fragments of asteroids that are usually smaller than a grain of sand, according to NASA.. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #NASA #Webbtelescope #jameswebbtelescope

Nine staffers from CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert arrested for allegedly trespassing in the U.S. Capitol last month will not be prosecuted, government lawyers said Monday. As Breitbart News reported, the group was arrested in the Capitol’s Longworth House Office Building and initially charged with illegal entry into the House office buildings after hours. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Stephen_Colbert #U.S.Capitol #trump #nnh

The only text message the Secret Service turned over to the House committee investigating the capitol hill attack was a plea from then-Capitol Police officer Steven Sund asking for help. Lawmakers on the panel are increasingly confused and irritated by the lack of messages from the Secret Service after it subpoenaed the records following a letter from a government watchdog indicating that messages had been “erased” during a device replacement program. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Jan.6 #trump

Hunter Biden could reportedly be charged by the Justice Department for tax violations and lying to law enforcement about illegally purchasing a firearm, as the probe into President Joe Biden’s son comes to a head. Trump-appointed U.S. prosecutor David Weiss is deliberating whether to charge Hunter for “making a false statement in connection with Biden’s purchase of a firearm at a time he would have been prohibited from doing so because of his acknowledged struggles with drug addiction,” CNN reported Wednesday. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Hunter #biden #Joe