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Georgia subpoenaing Giuliani, Graham in Trump election probe

By KATE BRUMBACK and market or movie theater,
JILL COLVIN their city.
Associated Press The latest act of mass vio-
ATLANTA (AP) — The Geor- lence to hit the U.S. came
gia prosecutor investigat- Monday in the northern
ing the conduct of former Chicago suburb, when
President Donald Trump police said a gunman
and his allies after the 2020 climbed to the top of a
election is subpoenaing business along Highland
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Park’s Independence Day
former New York Mayor parade route and opened
Rudy Giuliani, and other fire. Seven people died
members of Trump’s cam- and more than 30 people
paign legal team to testify were wounded.
before a special grand jury. The violence has focused
Fulton County District At- attention on Highland
torney Fani Willis on Tues- Park’s 2013 ban on semi-
day filed petitions with the automatic weapons and
judge overseeing the spe- large-capacity magazines.
cial grand jury as part of Illinois officials have long
her investigation into what contended that legal and
she alleges was “a multi- illegal weapons are easily
state, coordinated plan by purchased in surrounding
the Trump Campaign to Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a states, hampering even
influence the results of the news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, the toughest local laws’ ef-
in Washington.
November 2020 election in Associated Press fectiveness. Authorities said
Georgia and elsewhere.” Tuesday that the suspected
The move marks a major ple,” said Robert James, said there is no evidence of Highland Park set tight gun gunman, a 21-year-old resi-
escalation in a case that former district attorney the fraud he alleges. limits long before parade dent of nearby Highwood,
could pose a serious legal in DeKalb County, which The investigation is sepa- attack legally purchased the rifle
challenge to the former neighbors Fulton. rate from the congressional By KATHLEEN FOODY The used in the attack in the
president as he weighs The special grand jury has committee that has been Associated Press Chicagoland area but did
another White House run. been investigating whether examining the events sur- CHICAGO (AP) — In a state not say exactly where he
While the special grand jury Trump and others illegally rounding the deadly insur- with some of the country’s bought it. They also have
has already heard from top tried to meddle in the 2020 rection at the U.S. Capitol toughest gun regulations not specified the type of
state officials, Tuesday’s fil- presidential election in on Jan. 6 as well as the De- and a city that bans semi- weapon used, only de-
ings directly target several Georgia as he desperately partment of Justice’s own automatic weapons, Dana scribing it as high powered
of Trump’s closest allies and tried to cling to power af- sprawling probe. Gordon still feared a mass and “similar to an AR-15.”
advisers, including Giuliani, ter Democrat Joe Biden’s The escalation comes as shooting could happen Highland Park’s clamp-
who led his campaign’s le- victory. Trump continues to Trump has been mulling an- here.Gordon, a Highland down survived a legal chal-
gal efforts to overturn the insist that the election was nouncing a third presiden- Park resident and an anti- lenge from a local pediatri-
election results. stolen, despite the fact that tial run as soon as this sum- gun violence activist, knew cian and the Illinois State Ri-
“It means the investiga- numerous federal and local mer as he seeks to deflect the familiar questions from fle Association that ended
tion is obviously becom- officials, a long list of courts, attention from the ongoing victims of mass shootings at the U.S. Supreme Court’s
ing more intense because top former campaign staff investigations and lock in across the country — how doorstep in 2015 when jus-
those are trusted advisers, and even Trump’s own at- support before a long list of could such violence come tices declined to hear the
those are inner circle peo- torney general have all other potential candidate to their school, their super- case.q

Great Salt Lake hits new historic low for

2nd time in a year

lake west of the Mississippi. economy that’s worth an
Utah Department of Natu- estimated $1.3 billion in ARUBA
ral Resources said Monday mineral extraction, brine
in a news release the Great shrimp and recreation. The CLEAN
Salt Lake dipped Sunday expanding amount of dry
to 4,190.1 feet (1,277.1 me- lakebed could also send
ters). That is lower than the arsenic-laced dust into the
previous historic low set in air that millions breathe, sci-
October, which at the time entists say.
matched a 170-year re- The state’s Republican-led
cord low. Legislature is trying to find
Mirabilite spring mounds are shown at the Great Salt Lake on
May 3, 2022, near Salt Lake City. Lake levels are expected ways to reverse the trend,
Associated Press to keep dropping until fall but it won’t be easy. Water
or winter, the agency said. has been diverted away
Dwindling water levels at from the lake for years for
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The year as the ongoing mega- the giant lake just west of homes and crops in the IS MORE
Great Salt Lake has hit a drought worsened by cli- Salt Lake City puts millions nation’s fastest-growing
new historic low for the mate change continues of migrating birds at risk and state that is also one of the DUSHI
second time in less than a to shrink the largest natural threatens a lake-based driest.q