10 things you need to know today: July 26, 2022

Pence's former chief of staff testified to Jan. 6 grand jury, Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous Canadians for residential schools, and more

Pope Francis wears a traditional headdress gifted to him Indigenous leaders
Pope Francis wears a traditional headdress gifted to him indigenous leaders
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1. Pence's former chief of staff testified to Jan. 6 grand jury

Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence's onetime chief of staff, testified last week before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, The New York Times reported Monday. Greg Jacob, who was Pence's counsel, also appeared before the committee. Short and Jacob are the highest-ranking Trump administration officials known to have cooperated after being subpoenaed by federal prosecutors. Short and Jacob also testified to the House Jan. 6 committee about how Trump and his allies tried to pressure Pence into blocking the certification of President Biden's 2020 election victory. "If the mob had gotten closer to the vice president, I do think there would have been a massacre in the Capitol that day," Short told ABC News.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.