by Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch June 14, 2022 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he is comfortable with the bipartisan deal Senate Democrats and Republicans struck on gun control legislation, signaling that he will join in passing a bill when it comes to a vote. “For myself, …
Read More »Trump Spread Claims Of Election Fraud Debunked By His Own Legal Team
by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun June 13, 2022 Former President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by continually promoting theories that he lost the 2020 election through fraud, even though top advisers and officials told him there was no evidence to …
Read More »Bipartisan Senate Deal On Gun Control Met With Praise From Biden, Democrats
by Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent June 13, 2022 The White House and Democratic leaders expressed support Monday for a framework on gun control legislation that 10 Senate Democrats and 10 Senate Republicans, including U.S. Roy Blunt of Missouri, agreed to over the weekend. The second-deadliest school shooting in a decade …
Read More »Jan. 6 Hearing Offers Yet More Proof That ‘Trump Lied’ and ‘He Knew He Lied’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Donald Trump’s incessant and frequently outlandish lies about the 2020 election were in the spotlight Monday as a special House committee laid out its case that the former president’s falsehoods about widespread voter fraud were pivotal in catalyzing the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on …
Read More »Will It Be ‘every state for themselves’ As The Federal COVID Cash Dries Up?
by Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star State and local health departments remain in limbo over whether they’ll need to single-handedly fund their own COVID-19 vaccines and treatments as a stalemate in Congress drags into its fourth month. The Biden administration has raised alarm bells about the risk of inaction after sending …
Read More »U.S. Senators Reach Deal On Gun Legislation In Aftermath Of Uvalde Shooting
By Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, including Texan John Cornyn, announced Sunday the framework for a legislative deal to address gun violence in the aftermath of the May 24 mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead at a Uvalde elementary school. …
Read More »Preview Of The Jan. 6 Committee’s Second Hearing On Monday
Chairman Bennie Thompson gaveled in the first prime-time televised meeting of the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday night, when four officers testified about being beaten, crushed and knocked unconscious by a pro-Trump mob that the committee asserted was trying to overturn the 2020 election certification of President Joe Biden. The hearing …
Read More »31 Members of White Nationalist Group Arrested Near Idaho Pride Event
Thirty-one people affiliated with the white nationalist group “Patriot Front” were arrested in downtown Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Saturday. Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said all 31 people are being charged with conspiracy to riot, which is a misdemeanor charge in Idaho. Police believe they were headed to riot at …
Read More »Inflation Hits Fresh 40-year High, Pushing Fed To Get More Aggressive With Interest Rates
Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury Inflation surged at the fastest pace in over 40 years in May 2022, pushing the Federal Reserve toward a more aggressive pace of interest rate increases to slow it down. While there’s concern it could cause unemployment to spike, a little-known economics indicator suggests the …
Read More »‘Who Were They?’ Jan. 6 Panel to Name Republicans Who Sought Pardons From Trump
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams “Ok, we know Scott Perry. Who were the other members of Congress who asked Trump for a pardon?” That’s what the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and others wanted to know after U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Thursday night that …
Read More »Protesters Across U.S. and Texas Join March For Our Lives Rallies Against Gun Violence
By Joshua Fechter and Sewell Chan, The Texas Tribune FORT WORTH — Standing outside of the Tarrant County Courthouse on Saturday in 100-degree heat, a pair of mothers compared notes on whether to add a new item to their children’s school supply lists next year: bulletproof backpacks. Elizabeth Brown, a …
Read More »Jan. 6 Panel Says Trump, Far-Right Groups Responsible For Insurrection
by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent A widely anticipated hearing Thursday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol alleged two groups supporting then-President Donald Trump planned the riot to stop the transfer of presidential power — while Trump tacitly endorsed the insurrection and …
Read More »New Revelations Show Ginni Thomas ‘Very Much a Part of Seditious Conspiracy’
Ginni Thomas, the right-wing activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, lobbied far more Arizona state lawmakers than previously known to try to overturn the state’s 2020 election results—a revelation that reignited calls on Friday for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from cases related to the election. In …
Read More »Key Takeaways From The Jan. 6 Committee’s First Public Hearing
The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol began presenting its findings to the public for the first time Thursday night, seeking to convey to the American people the role former President Donald Trump and his allies played in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential …
Read More »DHS Warn That Uvalde Massacre, Impending Abortion Ruling And Midterm Elections Could Spur More Acts Of Violence
By Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune The Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about a potential increase in extremist violence fueled by recent mass shootings, including the massacre in Uvalde last month; an expected Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights; and November’s midterm elections. “In the coming months, …
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