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The Los Angeles Times reported late Wednesday night that federal law enforcement agents seized North Carolina Senator Richard Burr’s cellphone while serving a search warrant at Burr’s Washington, D.C., residence.  The LA Times report also says that agents served a warrant on Apple in recent days to obtain information from Burr’s iCloud account.  The search warrants come as an investigation intensifies into whether Burr profited off of nonpublic information about the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic by selling significant investment holdings prior to the downturn in the stock market.  On Thursday morning, Burr announced that he would step down as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Keep reading for more news.

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