Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Joe Biden on January 20 as the next president of the United States. But that historic ritual on the West Front of the US Capitol will not free Roberts of Donald Trump. The nation’s 17th chief justice, who has tried to shield the Supreme Court from the politics
Continue Reading
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday will nominate William Burns as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, CNN has learned, tapping a respected veteran American diplomat who has served in posts around the world from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. “The American people will sleep soundly with him as our next CIA Director,” Biden said
Continue Reading First lady Melania Trump has broken her silence on the Capitol insurrection incited by her husband in a letter posted on the White House website early Monday morning in which she lashes out at her critics and then condemns the violence. “I am disappointed and disheartened with what happened last week,” the first lady, whose
Continue Reading
Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives, now finds itself virtually homeless on the internet as Amazon, Apple and Google have all booted it from their platforms in a span of a little more than 24 hours. Amazon said it would remove Parler from its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services, Sunday evening,
Continue Reading The progressive group Justice Democrats is throwing their support behind former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a top ally of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, in her campaign to succeed Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, who is poised to join President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet. Fudge was nominated by Biden in December to lead the Department of Housing
Continue Reading
Tennis star Ana Konjuh kept alive hopes of competing at her first grand slam in more than two years after outlasting Anna-Lena Friedsam in Australian Open qualifying in Dubai. Konjuh, a former world No. 20, has endured 18 months away from the game and undergone four elbow surgeries over the course of her young career.
Continue Reading
Smoking weed may expose you to the same type of toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke, a new study finds. People who only smoked marijuana had higher blood and urine levels of several smoke-related toxins such as naphthalene, acrylamide and acrylonitrile than nonsmokers, according to the study published Monday in the journal EClinicalMedicine. Naphthalene is
Continue Reading House Democrats are barreling toward impeaching President Donald Trump for the second time over his role in inciting last week’s riots at the US Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats on Sunday evening that the House would proceed with bringing an impeachment resolution to the floor this week unless Vice President Mike Pence
Continue Reading
Chinese search giant Baidu is teaming up with carmaker Geely to build electric vehicles, the latest move by a tech company to shape the future of the autos industry. Baidu is creating a company to manufacture intelligent electric cars, it said in a statement on Monday. Geely, the largest privately-owned carmaker in China, will invest
Continue Reading
As Ashlyn Atigre prepared to take her healthy son to the pediatrician for his 3-year-old well visit recently, a nagging concern was on her mind. “I want to talk about the social impact of the pandemic with the doctor,” said the Tampa, Florida, mother. “I’m an introvert but clearly need people. And I’m seeing his
Continue Reading
Midway through his mission to learn chess, Tom Vanderbilt found himself facing off against an 8-year-old child. Vanderbilt had a successful writing career, a college degree and decades of real-world experience. The kid, though, had superior skills. Vanderbilt lost in a few dozen moves. Defeat, however, couldn’t dampen Vanderbilt’s enthusiasm for chess, one of five
Continue Reading
The sports world already knows Tom Brady as the greatest quarterback of all time, but he proved it to Tampa Bay this weekend after leading the Buccaneers to their first playoff win since 2002. Simply beating the Washington Football Team would be impressive, but pair it with the fact that the Bucs have not even
Continue Reading
The United States is lifting decades-old restrictions between American and Taiwanese officials, in a move that will fundamentally change Washington’s relationship with the self-governed island — prompting threats from Beijing. Washington has for years “created complex internal restrictions to regulate” US officials’ dealings with Taiwan “in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing,”
Continue Reading
It took about 90 days for the United States to reach its first 2 million cases of coronavirus last year. But it took just 10 days to hit 2.2 million cases in 2021, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And new infections, hospitalizations and deaths keep soaring. “We’re in a dire situation,” said Dr.
Continue Reading With COVID-19 hospitalizations surpassing 100,000 for 40 days in a row, officials are trying to ramp up the pace of vaccinations across the United States. “We really need to get this vaccine out more quickly, because this is really our only tool,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said
Continue Reading A manhunt is underway for six inmates who escaped from the Merced County Downtown Jail in Northern California, according to a press release from the Merced County Sheriff’s Office issued Sunday. The inmates, ages 19 to 22, were able to make it to the roof of the jail and used a “homemade rope to scale
Continue Reading A controversial advertisement for make-up removal wipes has been pulled from the internet in China, after it prompted widespread backlash on social media over claims it “demonized” victims of sexual assault. The advertisement, produced by Chinese cotton product brand Purcotton, shows a woman walking down a dimly lit street at night followed by a masked
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. So many lies led up to last Wednesday’s riot in Washington. Now there are new lies being proffered on the right-wing web to defend the indefensible. And President Trump’s cheering section is desperately trying to
Continue Reading As hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, breaking windows and wreaking havoc, politicians and activists were among the many who drew comparisons between the police response on Wednesday to that of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. The death of George Floyd — a Black man who died after a
Continue Reading Federal authorities are working to determine the level of planning and coordination among insurgents, including members of law enforcement and the military, that carried out the attack last week on the US Capitol, law enforcement officials said. Among the questions federal prosecutors and investigators are pursuing: Was there a plan to capture and hold hostage
Continue Reading
Six people were ejected from the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday as the third Test between Australia and India was overshadowed by allegations of racist abuse. The Indian team lodged an official complaint after bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj complained of hearing racist slurs while fielding near the boundary rope on Saturday, the third
Continue Reading Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser on Sunday sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking for an emergency declaration in order to get additional funding for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration as safety concerns mount following the US Capitol breach. “In light of the attack on the Capitol and intelligence suggesting further violence is likely during
Continue Reading Federal authorities are working to determine the level of planning and coordination among insurgents, including members of law enforcement and the military, that carried out the attack last week on the US Capitol, law enforcement officials said. Among the questions federal prosecutors and investigators are pursuing: Was there a plan to capture and hold hostage
Continue Reading At least 25 domestic terrorism cases have been opened in the wake of Wednesday’s US Capitol breach that engulfed the nation’s capital in chaos, Army secretary Ryan McCarthy told Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, according to a news release from the congressman’s office. Crow, a member of the House Armed Services committee, said McCarthy relayed the
Continue Reading US federal prosecutors say Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández helped an alleged drug trafficker deliver thousands of kilos of cocaine to the United States in exchange for hefty bribes — a claim the Honduran Presidency rejected on Sunday as “100% false.” A motion submitted Friday by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York details
Continue Reading A rioter who stormed the US Capitol Wednesday wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “Camp Auschwitz” has been identified as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia, according to three sources who spoke with CNN. An image of Packer inside the Capitol, whose sweatshirt bore the name of the Nazi concentration camp where about 1.1 million
Continue Reading The CEO of a Chicago company said he was arrested after breaching the US Capitol during Wednesday’s Trump-fueled insurrection in Washington, DC. Brad Rukstales, CEO of the marketing technology firm Cogensia, apologized for what he called a “moment of extremely poor judgment.” “It was the single worst personal decision of my life,” Rukstales said in
Continue Reading A woman charged with attempting to assault a 14-year-old and falsely accusing him of stealing her cell phone has been granted supervised release after her arrest and extradition to New York, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told CNN. Miya Ponsetto, 22, of Piru, California, was arraigned Saturday evening on charges of attempted
Continue Reading President Donald Trump is preparing to lean into his fight with Twitter and other social media platforms this week, a Trump adviser said, using his permanent suspension from Twitter as an opportunity to shift the narrative away from the insurrection on Capitol Hill earlier in the week. While the President was outraged by Twitter banning
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is not the only one getting some fanfare as he enters the White House — his rescue dog, Major, is being honored by the shelter he came from. The Bidens adopted Major, a German shepherd, in 2018 from the Delaware Humane Association (DHA). The shelter and Pumpkin Pet Insurance are now hosting
Continue Reading Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close ally of President Donald Trump who was critical of the President this week, was confronted and screamed at by Trump supporters at Reagan National Airport, according to videos posted on social media Friday. “You traitor,” a woman screams at the senator in one video, as he walks
Continue Reading As part of the hunt for new coronavirus variants, an international database shows the United States ranks 61st in how quickly virus samples are collected from patients, analyzed and then posted online. Countries with far fewer resources, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Suriname, process samples more quickly than the United States does. “It’s pathetic,” said
Continue Reading
Idaho officials reported 432 new COVID-19 cases and 6 new deaths on Sunday.
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will attempt to pass a resolution by unanimous consent Monday morning calling for Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office — her first time definitively saying the House will move to impeach him. If the
Continue Reading Danish freediver Stig Severinsen has broken the world distance record for swimming with fins on just one breath — making it 202 meters (662 ft 8.7 in) underwater, Guinness World Records has confirmed. Guinness said Severinsen, 47, completed the swim on November 26 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The previous record of 177
Continue Reading The man seen chasing a Black Capitol Police officer up the stairs during Wednesday’s insurrection and riot is Doug Jensen, according to a CNN comparative analysis of his booking photo and posts on social media. Jensen is one of the individuals now facing federal charges. On a Twitter account bearing his name, Jensen twice identified
Continue Reading President Donald Trump ordered that the flag flying above the White House be lowered to half-staff on Sunday to honor US Capitol Police officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood, who were both on duty when a mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. The step comes days after Capitol Police announced on
Continue Reading House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Sunday said House Democrats might wait until after President-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office to send any articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, a move that would give the incoming President time to tackle his agenda in Congress before the start of a
Continue Reading The CEO of Parler, a social media platform popular among conservatives, told Mediaite that it removed a post from attorney Lin Wood calling for Vice President Mike Pence to be executed by “firing squads.” “Yes, some of his parleys that violated our rules were taken down,” John Matze told Mediaite, specifying that the post, or parley,
Continue Reading A Capitol Police officer who was among those who responded to the storming of the Capitol last week, died while off duty, the Capitol Police said. Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, was assigned to the Senate Division and has been with the Department since April 2005. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends,
Continue Reading The United States witnessed a violent insurrection on Wednesday designed to prevent the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. It left five dead, including police officer Brian D. Sicknick. The majority of Americans — including between 70% and 80% of Republicans surveyed in two new polls this week — have rightfully disavowed the violence. Yet
Continue Reading House Democratic leaders have not finalized plans for the coming week, after spending several hours on a call Saturday night working through the possible outcomes tied to impeachment, according to a source with direct knowledge of the call. Speaker Nancy Pelosi held the call with her leadership team as the Democratic caucus has moved into
Continue Reading In some hospitals, health centers and pharmacies in the United States, there are vials of Covid-19 vaccines that aren’t making it into arms. Out of the more than 22 million doses of vaccine that have been distributed to hospitals and pharmacies so far in the United States, only about 6.7 million people have received their
Continue Reading Many grandparents have one goal in mind this winter: Get vaccinated so they can see their children and grandchildren again. But is that safe if their younger family members have not yet been vaccinated? Older adults are one of the priority groups for vaccination. After health care workers and nursing home residents are vaccinated, the
Continue Reading Journalists reported on violence and chaos in real time as rioters stormed the Capitol Wednesday, and some members of the media experienced the wrath firsthand. CNN’s Senior National Security Correspondent Alexander Marquardt and his crew were bombarded by insurrectionists as they covered the rowdy and violent crowd at the Capitol. “There’s more of us than
Continue Reading In a call for unity following Wednesday’s siege of the US Capitol, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said President Donald Trump will be remembered as the worst President in US history and urged Americans to offer their support to President-elect Joe Biden. “We need to heal, together, from the drama of what has just happened,”
Continue Reading A sick brew of misinformation and hate, cooked up for years by pro-Trump media and enabled by Big Tech, culminated last Wednesday in the siege of the US Capitol, the symbol of American democracy. “The more research I did this week, the more I realized that Fox News shows and Facebook groups are just part
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Tulsa World ( Tulsa World) — Cars began lining up just after sunrise on a damp January morning. Some turned off their engines to save gas and people huddled under blankets to stay warm, waiting nearly three hours before the line even started to move. All this,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Jerome, Arizona (KTVK) — A Facebook picture showing Ross and Ryan started it all. According to Ryan, the photo on Ryan’s Facebook page was posted before the insurrection on January 6th. “We certainly did not have any intention of causing any problems,” said Ryan. But others did. When
Continue Reading The Rev. Raphael Warnock said Sunday his election victory was a “glimpse of God’s vision” as he delivered his first sermon at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since he and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff won Georgia’s Senate runoff elections. “Whoever would have thought that in the state of Georgia we would see the people of Georgia
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story St. Louis (KMOV) — A St. Louis County employee is under investigation after a racial slur was used over the police radio Saturday. A St. Louis County Police spokesperson said the employee was working as a dispatcher when he said N-word while dispatching a call. He was immediately
Continue Reading Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives, now finds itself virtually homeless on the internet as Amazon, Apple and Google have all booted it from their platforms in a span of a little more than 24 hours. Amazon will remove Parler from its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services, Sunday evening, effectively kicking
Continue Reading When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs. No, really. The director of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense have a little less than six months now
Continue Reading Lawmakers and Capitol staff on Sunday received a memo from the Capitol’s attending physician warning of a possible risk of Covid-19 exposure after a large group of lawmakers were forced to gather in a secure location during the breach of the US Capitol last week. “On Wednesday January 6, many members of the House community
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — Determined not to be caught short again, Hartford HealthCare unveiled a new “PPE stockpile” warehouse today intended to store supplies of masks, gowns, face shields and gloves for use with infectious patients. A warehouse building in Newington with no signage and at
Continue Reading The Capitol insurrection didn’t come out of thin air: It was a result of rage and a web of delusion that many supporters of President Donald Trump are entangled in. “A web of delusion had real life consequences on Wednesday and it will continue to have real-life consequences,” CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter said
Continue Reading Sen. Pat Toomey said Sunday that President Donald Trump should resign from office and could face “criminal liability” after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, becoming the second Republican senator to call for the President’s resignation. “I think at this point, with just a few days left, it’s the best path forward, the best
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Springfield Twp., Ohio (WTVG) — Two children are safe after being trapped in a house that was on fire in Springfield Township Saturday morning. According to Springfield Twp. Fire Department, firefighters responded to a 911 call in reference to a house on fire in the 25-hundred block of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Salt Lake City (KUTV) — The Utah Avalanche Center is warning of the avalanche danger in the coming weeks, one day after the death of a snowboarder in the backcountry. The current danger rating all across the state is “considerable,” which is the middle-of-the-road level on the center’s
Continue Reading The restaurant industry is among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. In communities across the US, people are “adopting” restaurant workers on social networks to help alleviate their hardships. A search for “Adopt a Server” groups and pages on Facebook yields over 40 results across locations in the United States, from New Jersey to
Continue Reading Parler, the alternative social network popular with conservatives, has been banned by Apple, Google and Amazon. Despite its niche audience, Parler is surging in popularity. The platform became the most-downloaded app on the weekend of November 8 — the day major media outlets called the election for Joe Biden. But the platform has failed to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, Nebraska (KPTM) — Student-athletes from both the UNO baseball team and golf team partnered with Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and the 4Urban.org organization to give kids some extra Christmas cheer this Saturday. “I felt so proud of the UNO athletic department and in this case the baseball
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story West Richland, Washington (KAPP) — For most people, birthday celebrations include a frosted sweet treat covered with lit candles. Two Tri-Cities organizations have teamed up to ensure that everyone in the area receives one on their special day. The new birthday cake initiative is led by nonprofit Mo’s
Continue Reading All the signs are looking good that leading Italian football club AC Milan could secure its first Serie A title in 10 years. Milan defeated Torino 2-0 on Saturday to extend the Rossoneri’s lead at the top of Serie A as second-place Internazionale drew at Roma on Sunday. After its 17 games — nearly half
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — UPDATE (Jan. 10): Three people are dead following a crash on Saturday night in Dauphin County, police said. According to the police report, the driver lost control of the vehicle on a curve in the roadway and struck a curb before coming to
Continue Reading Tens of millions of workers lost the right to paid sick and family leave at the end of December after Congress failed to extend them in the new relief package. Congress provided the pandemic-related benefit in March to give ill workers and parents whose children’s schools were suddenly closed a cushion. But lawmakers left out
Continue Reading Watching rioters storm the US Capitol reopened old wounds for Valarie Carey. Carey’s younger sister, Miriam Carey, was fatally shot by Capitol police and US Secret Service officers more than seven years ago after leading officers on a high-speed chase near the White House. Carey said the restraint shown by Capitol police on Wednesday was
Continue Reading Telsa shares outperformed all other major stocks by a wide margin last year, rising 743%. So does that mean its incredible run is behind it? Maybe not. The first week of 2021 once again saw Tesla among the S&P 500’s best performers, rising 24.7%, just 1 percentage point behind market leader L Brands. The week’s
Continue Reading A gunman killed at least three people and wounded several others in a series of shootings in the Chicago area Saturday before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a news briefing the shootings started in Chicago at 1:50 p.m. (2:50 p.m. ET) Saturday when the suspect
Continue Reading There are plenty of reasons to bet against the US dollar right now. Add the riots at the Capitol last week to the list. What’s happening: Political instability often weighs on currencies around the world, and the violence incited by President Donald Trump is unlikely to bolster confidence in the US dollar at a moment
Continue Reading A new Democratic-controlled Senate boosts the chances Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, would retire this year and offer new President Joe Biden an early opportunity to put his imprint on America’s high court. Breyer, who before becoming a judge was chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, knows better than most how last week’s
Continue Reading Telsa shares outperformed all other major stocks by a wide margin last year, rising 743%. So does that mean its incredible run is behind it? Maybe not. The first week of 2021 once again saw Tesla among the S&P 500’s best performers, rising 24.7%, just 1 percentage point behind market leader L Brands. The week’s
Continue Reading Human remains and plane wreckage have been pulled from the crash site of an Indonesian passenger jet that plunged into the ocean minutes after takeoff on Saturday, with 62 people on board. The Sriwijaya Air flight 182 — a Boeing 737-500 — was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on the Indonesian side
Continue Reading A Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday. Maj. Gen Bambang
Continue Reading The weekly tallies of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. The total number of Americans infected with the virus surpassed 22 million Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and more than 372,000 have died. Kentucky
Continue Reading A Chinese soldier was apprehended on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), south of the Pangong Tso lake in the Ladakh region on Friday, the Indian Army said in a statement. The Chinese soldier was taken into custody by Indian troops after crossing over the LAC, the de facto border between
Continue Reading Almost four weeks after the first American was vaccinated against the coronavirus, around 6 million people have received one of the shots — far below the US target, set last year, of 20 million by the end of 2020, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Thursday, 5.9 million people
Continue Reading Search and rescue teams are scouring the stormy waters of the Java Sea, hunting for the wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182. At this early stage, Indonesian officials still don’t know why the Boeing 737 suddenly plunged from the sky within minutes of take-off. Hours after the plane crashed Saturday afternoon, authorities began the grim
Continue Reading A gunman killed at least three people and wounded several others in a series of shootings in the Chicago area Saturday before being shot and killed by police, authorities said. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said in a news briefing the shootings started in Chicago at 1:50 p.m. (2:50 p.m. ET) Saturday when the suspect
Continue Reading After the first coronavirus case was reported in the United States in early 2020, it took about 90 days to reach 2 million cases. Bu just nine days into 2021, more than 2 million people have been infected with Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In that same time frame, an additional 24,260
Continue Reading
With Governor Little set to deliver his State of the State address on Monday, some local legislators in Bannock County shared their thoughts and expectations as they make the trip up to the state capital.
Continue Reading Officials at Fort Bliss have moved to court-martial a private first class accused of the sexual assault of a fellow soldier who was found dead on New Year’s Eve. Pfc. Asia Graham, 19, was found unresponsive in her barracks on December 31, Fort Bliss said in a press release issued January 2. Special agents for
Continue Reading It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for 9-year-old Braeden Lousier-Hicks of Airdrie, Alberta, who has an extremely rare genetic disease. After the family waited five years to go on a charity-sponsored trip to Hawaii, it was postponed indefinitely due to Canada’s Covid-19 restrictions. His mother, Lia Louiser, says the heartbreak of
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors have charged three men and the FBI arrested another on Saturday in connection with Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol, including a man seen on video carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and another wearing a bearskin headdress. The arrests Saturday, coming a day after federal charges were announced against more than a
Continue Reading Vice President Mike Pence will attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to a source familiar with the plans. CNN previously reported that Pence was planning to attend the inauguration, but he was waiting on an invitation. Word of Pence’s intention to watch President-elect Joe Biden take his oath of office in person spread
Continue Reading A massive search operation is underway in Indonesia to find the wreckage of a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the capital Jakarta on Saturday with 62 people on board. Sriwijaya Air flight 182 — a Boeing 737-500 — was heading from Jakarta to the city of Pontianak, on
Continue Reading Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says. The source said there is some concern inside Pence’s team that there are risks to invoking the 25th
Continue Reading It was an Extremely Online riot. Some of the people who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, stalked its majestic halls, and delayed the certification of Joe Biden’s victory were pro-Trump internet personalities, and others were their fans. Rioters livestreamed their crimes, took selfies to commemorate the occasion, and chatted about their experiences later on social
Continue Reading Presidential inaugurations — and the swirl of festivities that surround them — usually offer prime schmoozing opportunities: Lobbyists attempt to woo incoming administration officials at VIP-only luncheons; big campaign donors score coveted tickets for the swearing-in ceremonies, and corporate executives mingle with Washington powerbrokers at private receptions. But not this year. With the coronavirus pandemic
Continue Reading Apple removed Parler, the alternative social media platform popular with conservatives, from its app store on Saturday. “[T]here is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” the iPhone maker said. Apple notified Parler of its decision in a message that said it had violated the company’s app store terms. “The
Continue Reading A horrifying video from Wednesday’s Capitol riots showed an officer crushed between waves of a pro-Trump mob and officers defending the building. During the confrontation, captured on video by investigative outlet Status Coup, one officer was pinned between a door and the masses of people. At least one individual attempted to rip away the officer’s
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 977 new COVID-19 cases and 5 new deaths on Saturday.
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Saturday he thinks President Donald Trump “committed impeachable offenses,” but said he is not certain attempting to remove the President from office with just a few days left in his term is the right course of action. “I do think the President committed impeachable offenses,” Toomey told Fox
Continue Reading White House officials pressured a top Georgia federal prosecutor to resign ahead of the state’s high stakes Senate runoff elections because President Donald Trump was upset he wasn’t pursuing Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread election fraud strongly enough, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Saturday that
Continue Reading President Donald Trump is considering having Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz defend him if he faces another impeachment trial, two sources familiar with the matter said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment next week if Trump doesn’t resign, and Trump is beginning to mull who would represent
Continue Reading President Donald Trump announced Friday that he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20. If he follows through, he’ll become only the fourth president to boycott his successor’s regularly scheduled inauguration and the first in more than 150 years to do so. Two other presidents missed their successors’ regularly scheduled swearings-in, Martin Van
Continue Reading A Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on
Continue Reading Members of Congress will be getting increased security while traveling through airports in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol Wednesday and as several senators have been harassed at airports, according to a notice sent to lawmakers Saturday. The US Capitol Police and Sergeant at Arms’ office said they will coordinate with other
Continue Reading