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by Paul LeBlanc and Zachary B. Wolf : Trump speaks in Dallas Former President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered another avalanche of lies about the 2020 election in a disturbing preview of where Republican energy is parked ahead of next year's midterms.
Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump peddled the same falsehoods that sparked the deadly Capitol insurrection and set off a GOP-led clampdown on voting rights nationwide.
He lied about election integrity. "We were doing so well until the rigged election happened to come along."
He lied about about big tech. "The big tech giants worked together to suppress and diminish news coverage that was negative for Joe Biden."
He lied about election officials. "This was an election where the person that counts the votes was far more important than the candidate."
He lied about the Justice Department. "They failed to call out the late night ballot stuffing that took place in Georgia."
But the Big Lie has big buy-in. At a gathering branded as "America UnCanceled," Donald Trump Jr. warmed up the crowd on Friday night with quick-witted condemnations of cancel culture and digs at President Joe Biden's son Hunter. But the biggest applause line wasn't even his own. During his speech, an attendee bellowed "Trump won!" eliciting a standing ovation and setting off a round of "Trump" chants.
The refusal to move on has consequences. Echoing Trump's falsehoods, state lawmakers have enacted nearly 30 laws since the 2020 election that restrict ballot access, according to a tally by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
Texas Republicans want to be next. GOP lawmakers in the state are mounting another push for restrictive voting laws during a 30-day special legislative session that Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to see focused in part on "election integrity."
Felony voting back in the spotlight. A Texas man who told CNN he waited for "over six hours" at a polling center in Houston to participate in Super Tuesday last year was arrested and charged with two felony counts of illegal voting. He now faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted.
: White House week ahead Monday, July 12. Biden "will meet with local leaders including law enforcement, elected officials, and a community violence intervention advocate" on gun crime and other violent crime, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
Tuesday, July 13. The President is expected to deliver remarks in Philadelphia on voting rights.
Wednesday, July 14. Biden will meet with a bipartisan group of governors and mayors to discuss infrastructure investments.
Thursday, July 15. Biden will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He is also expected to deliver remarks on expanded child tax credit.
Friday, July 16. The President will virtually attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders retreat "on the response to the COVID 19 pandemic," Psaki said. : One giant leap for space tourism On Friday, we wrote about how today's space race has boiled down to a PR space-off between aging billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.
That much was clear on Sunday when Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund.
Branson's flight -- which came just nine days before Bezos is slated to rocket into suborbital space aboard his own company's spacecraft -- sets up a direct competition between the pair, with each offering tickets to wealthy customers for brief rides to the upper atmosphere aboard supersonic, rocket-powered spacecraft.
How wealthy? Virgin Galactic plans to conduct just one more test flight before it will begin flying paying customers. More than 600 people have reserved tickets priced at $200,000 to $250,000 so far. The company is expected to reopen ticket sales soon, though at a higher price point.
You can watch the flight into space here: : Obama's reading room The tradition continues.
Former President Barack Obama released his summer reading list on Friday. Here are the 11 books he's recommending this summer:
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