President Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat
The IndependentPresident Donald Trump asserted a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election defeat
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www.bloomberg.comA decade ago, a gunman with paranoid schizophrenia killed six and injured 13 including Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
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www.bloomberg.comJill Biden is taking a step toward fulfilling a promise to revive a support program for military families that she once led with former first lady Michelle Obama
The IndependentPresident Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on his vice president in a futile effort to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 presidential election in Congress
The IndependentJack Ma, the Chinese billionaire currently under scrutiny by the government of China, has reportedly not been seen in public for several weeks. Ma was scheduled
www.businessinsider.inTexas' solicitor general who did not join embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results is resigning
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www.buzzfeednews.comFor the occasion of Donald Trump’s last day as President, Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits his essay published in the October 2017 of The Atlantic, The First White President, which argued persuasively that Trump is a white supremacist. In a new introduction, he writes: It was popular, at the time of Donald Trump’s ascension, to stand on the thinnest of reeds in order to avoid stating the obvious. It was said that the Trump presidency was the fruit of “economic anxiety,” of trigger warnings and the...
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www.buzzfeednews.comPresident Donald Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff resigned his post as special envoy to Northern Ireland on Thursday, saying “I can’t do it
The IndependentAuthorities say an organizer of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group has been arrested for taking part in the siege of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month
The IndependentU.S. Census Bureau statisticians are under significant pressure from Trump political appointees to figure out who in the U.S. is in the country illegally
The IndependentA watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the 2020 census
The IndependentThe Trump administration finalized changes to a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species, despite warnings that billions of birds could die as a result
The IndependentSTOW, Mass. (AP) — No children died in fires in Massachusetts last year, the first time that has happened according to records researched by the state fire marshal’s office, the agency said Friday.
www.boston.comAs Tennessee has fueled one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 surges for weeks, Gov. Bill Lee’s approach hasn’t strayed much from how he and several fellow Republican governors battling similar spikes have long approached the virus
The IndependentThe governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank has denied he made any transfers from the bank’s funds
The IndependentA New Mexico county official who runs a group called Cowboys for Trump and who had vowed to return to Washington after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested by the FBI
The IndependentThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday
The IndependentPending litigation over the Trump administration’s delisting of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act could complicate Colorado's efforts to reintroduce the wolf to the state
The IndependentJill Biden is taking a step toward fulfilling a promise to revive a support program for military families that she once led with former first lady Michelle Obama
The IndependentOfficials say a Sudanese military helicopter loaded with weapons and ammunition has crashed shortly after taking off from an airport in an eastern province that borders Ethiopia
The IndependentU.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham says he plans to resign with the change in presidential administrations
The IndependentA group of Democratic lawmakers are joining civil right groups in calling for U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham’s resignation after a watchdog agency said he had set a deadline for pressured statisticians to produce a report on the number of people in the U.S. illegally
The IndependentThe governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank has denied he made any transfers from the bank’s funds
The IndependentCentral African Republic officials said security forces repelled attacks by rebels trying to seize the capital after intense fighting on the city’s outskirts
The IndependentThe Trump administration has missed a deadline for giving Congress numbers used for dividing up congressional seats among the states, as the U.S. Census Bureau works toward fixing data irregularities found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census
The IndependentU.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham says he plans to resign with the change in presidential administrations
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www.bloomberg.comSmall pro-Trump rallies popped up in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary Wednesday, as a riotous mob supporting the outgoing president occupied the U.S. Capitol.
globalnews.caAdam Serwer writing at The Atlantic: The Capitol Rioters Weren’t ‘Low Class’. They were business owners, CEOs, state legislators, police officers, active and retired service members, real-estate brokers, stay-at-home dads, and, I assume, some Proud Boys. The mob that breached the Capitol last week at President Donald Trump’s exhortation, hoping to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, was full of what you might call “respectable people.” They left dozens of Capitol Police...
kottke.orgGregory T. Angelo, the former head of Log Cabin Republicans, was spotted cheering on the president by Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson. Angelo led the group for LGBTQ Republicans from [
www.gaytoday.comThe ousted inspector general of the intelligence community says he is “disappointed and saddened” that President Donald Trump has fired him
The IndependentU.S. Census Bureau statisticians are under significant pressure from Trump political appointees to figure out who in the U.S. is in the country illegally
The IndependentPresident-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department, helping set trade policy and looking to promote U.S. opportunities for growth domestically and overseas
The IndependentPresident-elect Joe Biden’s choice to be treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees in 2019 and 2020 from major financial firms and tech giants including Citi, Goldman Sachs and Google
The IndependentRepublican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has issued a pointed rebuke of GOP attempts to object Jan. 6 to the Electoral College tally of the presidential election
The IndependentAnti-LGBTQ and QAnon-believer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claims that Donald Trump will remain president for the next four years and that impeachment is a desperate attempt to remove him [
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www.bloomberg.comA New Mexico county official who runs a group called Cowboys for Trump and who had vowed to return to Washington after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk has been arrested by the FBI
The IndependentThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemned “lawless behavior” and the violence of rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol in a statement Friday
The IndependentSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem blames an inadequate education in American civics as the root cause of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
The IndependentU.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham says he plans to resign with the change in presidential administrations
The IndependentA group of Democratic lawmakers are joining civil right groups in calling for U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham’s resignation after a watchdog agency said he had set a deadline for pressured statisticians to produce a report on the number of people in the U.S. illegally
The IndependentAttorneys for a coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups say they plan to seek court sanctions against Trump administration attorneys for refusing to turn over data and documents about the quality of the 2020 census as part of a lawsuit over the count of every U.S. resident
The IndependentMississippi Gov_ Tate Reeves is set to sign a bill that gives the state a new flag with a magnolia and the phrase, “In God We Trust."
The IndependentWest Virginia Gov. Jim Justice brushed off criticism that the posh resort he owns did not follow coronavirus pandemic guidelines during a New Year’s Eve gala
The IndependentPuerto Rico's new governor is vowing to achieve statehood for the U.S. territory and fight against poverty, corruption and COVID-19
The IndependentAlberta’s premier has reversed course and is now punishing members of his government for vacationing outside Canada despite government guidelines urging people to avoid nonessential travel during the pandemic
The IndependentThe military’s top leaders have issued a written reminder to all service members that the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week was an anti-democratic, criminal act, and that the right to free speech gives no one the right to commit violence
The IndependentHuman rights activists are denouncing FIFA President Gianni Infantino's starring turn in a promotional video for the Saudi Arabian government, in which he claims the kingdom has made important changes
The IndependentThe military’s top leaders have issued a written reminder to all service members that the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week was an anti-democratic, criminal act, and that the right to free speech gives no one the right to commit violence
The IndependentJill Biden is taking a step toward fulfilling a promise to revive a support program for military families that she once led with former first lady Michelle Obama
The IndependentAttorneys for a coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups say they plan to seek court sanctions against Trump administration attorneys for refusing to turn over data and documents about the quality of the 2020 census as part of a lawsuit over the count of every U.S. resident
The IndependentThe U.S. Census Bureau says less than a half percent of census takers interviewing households for the 2020 head count may have falsified their work, suggesting it was few and far between
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