Wednesday, November 17, 2021
House censures Rep. Gosar, ejects him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez   SHARE

       Friday, October 15, 2021
Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist Of "Dangerous Individuals And Organizations"   SHARE Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence. The restrictions appear to trace back to 2012, when in the face of growing alarm in Congressand the United Nations about online terrorist recruiting, Facebook added to its Community Standards a ban on “organizations with a record of terrorist or violent criminal activity.” This modest rule has since ballooned into what’s known as the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, a sweeping set of restrictions on what Facebook’s nearly 3 billion users can say about an enormous and ever-growing roster of entities deemed beyond the pale.

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       Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Andrew Cuomo says he will resign as governor.   SHARE Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said on Tuesday he would resign from office, succumbing to a ballooning sexual harassment scandal that fueled an astonishing reversal of fortune for one of the nation’s best-known leaders.  Mr. Cuomo said his resignation would be effective in 14 days. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, will be sworn in to replace him. She will become the first female governor of New York.

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       Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Trump Begs Judge to Bar Treasury From Handing Over His Tax Returns to Congress   SHARE Trump doesn’t care what the Department of Justice says, he does not want Congress to have his tax returns. The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel reversed a 2019 opinion last week and said the Treasury Department must provide the committee with the tax returns. It seemed to be the end of a years-long effort to unveil the mysterious filings after Trump refused to disclose them during his presidential runs.

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       Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Republicans divided on how hard to push vaccines   SHARE America is grappling with a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, but Republican lawmakers remain divided over whether to push millions of reluctant GOP voters to get vaccinated against the deadly virus.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been making the case for months that the vaccine works and will help prevent hospitalizations and save lives. But many rank-and-file Republicans continue to show apathy toward the national vaccine push, downplaying the severity of the coronavirus spike and arguing that the decision is a personal choice for individuals and families.

(2 comments)        Sunday, July 11, 2021
A 7-point-plan to reinstate Donald Trump as president "in days, not years" was handed out at CPAC   SHARE A plan to reinstate Donald Trump as president circulated at CPAC.  The plan involves ousting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and eventually installing Donald Trump in her place. Donald Trump as Speaker would then call for a vote to impeach, charge, and remove "imposters" President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. As the Speaker of the House is third in the line of presidential succession, Trump would then take up the presidency again in this highly improbable scenario. The plan also refers to the widely debunked conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was fraudulent, which has been rejected dozens of times in court.

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       Sunday, June 27, 2021
Mike Gravel, Former U.S. Senator For Alaska, Dies At 91   SHARE From  Huffpost Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91. Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. In Alaska, he served as a state representative, including a stint as House speaker, in the mid-1960s. He won his first Senate term after defeating incumbent Sen. Ernest Gruening, a former territorial governor, in the 1968 Democratic primary.

       Thursday, June 10, 2021
The Keystone XL pipeline project has been terminated.   SHARE The Canadian pipeline company that had long sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday that it had terminated the embattled project, which would have carried petroleum from Canadian tar sands to Nebraska. The announcement was the death knell for a project that had been on life support since President Biden’s first day in office and had been stalled by legal battles for years before that, despite support from the Trump administration. ught to build for over a decade. That same day, TC Energy, the company behind the project, said it was suspending work on the line.

       Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Here's the insidious reason Liz Cheney angers Republicans   SHARE The biggest news in Washington continues to be Liz Cheney's ongoing refusal to bend the knee to the former president and formally repudiate her inexplicable fealty to the truth. To unapologetically assert that Donald Trump's insistence that the election was stolen is a Big Lie simply cannot be tolerated. But  kicking her out of the leadership for telling the truth in the face of massive dishonesty can only add to her heroic luster in the long haul.

       Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Kimberly Potter to be charged with second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright shooting   SHARE Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright after mistakenly drawing her gun instead of her Taser, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors said Wednesday. Potter, 48, was charged a day after she resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department in the wake of the 20-year-old’s shooting, which set off a third day of protests in the Minneapolis suburb. The 26-year veteran and Police Chief Tim Gannon both resigned in the wake of the shooting. The city council also fired City Manager Curt Boganey over the incident. Wright’s death also is under review by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

(1 comments)        Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Trump urges ouster of "unsmiling political hack" Mitch McConnell   SHARE Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a blistering attack on the most powerful Republican in post-Trump Washington, calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell an “unsmiling political hack” who should be thrown out of office. “McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse,” Trump said.Trump’s Tuesday statement blames McConnell for Republican woes and credits himself for recent successes.

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(1 comments)        Thursday, February 11, 2021
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out   SHARE Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 -- telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors .  The Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because "Donald Trump starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. "He told the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us. And basically, we froze,” she said.

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(4 comments)        Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Australia Says Assange Is "Free to Return Home" if US Extradition Appeal Fails   SHARE Australia's prime minister said Tuesday that his government would allow Julian Assange to return home should efforts fail to extradite the WikiLeaks founder from London to face charges in the U.S.  Assange has remained in U.K. custody for months following his eviction from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he was previously sheltered for years.  Mexico's government also extended an offer of asylum on Monday. 

       Monday, December 21, 2020
Barr says he sees no need to appoint special counsels to investigate Hunter Biden or fraud in the 2020 election   SHARE Attorney General Bill Barr said in a Monday press conference that he will not appoint special counsel prosecutors to investigate either President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden or voter fraud in the 2020 election, another significant break with President Donald Trump.  Only the attorney general, not the president himself, has the authority to appoint a special counsel. And on Monday, Barr, who is set to leave the DOJ on December 23, threw cold water on the idea of naming a special counsel for either matter. 

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       Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Pompeo predicts "smooth transition" -- to second Trump administration   SHARE US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo predicted Tuesday that President Trump would emerge victorious in this year’s election. “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo said with a smile. He added: “The world should have every confidence that the transition necessary to make sure that the State Department is functional today, successful today and successful with the president who’s in office on Jan. 20 a minute after noon.”

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       Monday, November 9, 2020
HUD Secretary Ben Carson reportedly tests positive for COVID-19   SHARE HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a new report Monday, becoming the latest member of the Trump administration to contract the respiratory disease.  A third wave of cases has broken out in the West Wing with chief of staff Mark Meadows and multiple White House aides testing positive in the days following Election Day.  The outbreak spells more bad news for President Trump who is vowing to fight the outcome of the presidential election, which was called for Joe Biden on Saturday.

(5 comments)        Saturday, November 7, 2020
"This election is far from over." President Trump refuses to concede   SHARE President Trump is refusing to concede the election to Joe Biden, insisting “this election is far from over.” A statement signed by the president said Biden “has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor.”

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       Sunday, October 18, 2020
Trump turns his ire toward Cabinet members   SHARE Trump earlier this month expressed frustration with a pair of his most loyal Cabinet members -- Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo -- for what he described as a failure to implicate his political enemies in wrongdoing. More recently, Trump swiped at Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, seemingly blaming him for not delivering a result after weeks of coronavirus relief talks with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump’s public rebukes of his own Cabinet members have been remarkable though perhaps not entirely surprising; he has often criticized his health experts and has even jettisoned officials whose actions he dislikes.

       Friday, October 9, 2020
Biden to participate in ABC town hall Oct. 15 in lieu of Trump debate   SHARE Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take part in a town hall forum hosted by ABC News on the night of what was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Biden will instead participate in an event in Philadelphia moderated by ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos. The Trump campaign, which complained it was not consulted about making the debate virtual, said it would hold a rally instead on Oct. 15, despite questions about whether the president would still be contagious at that point. The campaign later urged the commission to delay the two remaining debates by a week each so that both candidates can participate on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29. The Trump campaign, which complained it was not consulted about making the debate virtual, said it would hold a rally instead on Oct. 15, despite questions about whether the president would still be contagious at that point.

       Thursday, September 17, 2020
Former Pence aide says she will vote for Biden because of Trump's "flat out disregard for human life" during pandemic   SHARE Olivia Troye, who worked as homeland security, counterterrorism and coronavirus adviser to Vice President Pence for two years, said that the administration’s response cost lives and that she will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this fall because of her experience in the Trump White House. Troye said Trump was constantly looking to reopen states and schools — even when others feared it would be unsafe — and would regularly disregard what his advisers suggested.  She said, “I wish I would have been more aggressive with the staff on the vice president’s team and some of the president’s staff.”