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  The calls lied about mail voting in the run-up to the 2020 election. Jack Burkman, left, a lawyer and Republican political operative, and Jacob Wohl, an internet political activist and supporter of then-President Donald Trump, speak during a news conference to address their allegations against special counsel Robert Mueller in Arlington, Va., on Nov. 1, 2018. The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $5.1 million fine against conservative activists Jacob Wohl and John Burkman and J.M. Burkman & Associates for making 1,141 unlawful robocalls that made false claims about mail voting, the agency said Tuesday. “Did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts?” the call said, before also erroneously claiming the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might use such data to enforce mandator...

  The bill would require states with recent histories of discrimination to get federal "preclearance" to change their voting laws. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, at a news conference with Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Democratic Texas House members outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. The U.S. House passed H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, later in the day. House Democrats on Tuesday passed a sweeping voting rights bill named after Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the late civil rights icon. The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was approved 219-212. All Republicans voted against the legislation. The bill is part of congressional Democrats' broader campaign to strengthen voting laws at the federal level to fight restrictive voting laws passed in Republican-led states, such as Texas and Georgia. However, it faces steep opposition in the Senate, where Democrats hold a wafer-thin majority. The House returned from its recess this week to take up the bipa...

  The victim might have cut the attack short by deploying bear spray, officials said. The Alaska Range with Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, Alaska, in October 2016. A tourist from Indiana was attacked and injured by a grizzly bear at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Monday night, park officials said. The 55-year-old tourist, whose name was not released, was hiking alone in dense fog in the Thoroughfare Pass area when a mother bear and multiple cubs charged him from nearby bushes, the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday. He had puncture wounds to a calf, his left ribs and his left shoulder, the agency said. The victim used bear spray that might have cut the attack short, the park service indicated. He walked 1.5 miles to a visitor's center where "medical personnel" vacationing at Denali treated him as a park bus driver called 911, it said. The hiker was taken to a medical center near the park before he was transferred to ...