2023-01-28 19:18 |
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Profanity-filled tirades and threats about grassroots dominated RNC meeting...
Ronna McDaniel was re-elected to a fourth term as the Republican National Committee on Friday after staving off challenges to her leadership, but she will now have to deal with bitter recriminations that burst out into the open at the RNC get-together in ... |
2023-01-28 18:46 |
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Trump calls for wild education overhaul by 'certifying' patriotic teachers and allowing parents to elect school principals...
Former President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on education with his proposed plan of action to revise how public school administrators and faculty members are put in place. In a new presidential campaign ad, Trump expressed a need for more... |
2023-01-28 16:38 |
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How concentrated wealth and corporate power nurture the greed of thieves...
What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting?Most definitely not. To truly gauge a society's larcenous leanings, many of us would posit, we need to look beyond the nimble-fingered and focus m... |
2023-01-28 16:13 |
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'It's a mistake' to believe murder case against cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death 'will be easy': legal expert...
According to CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig, the criminal charges filed against the five Memphis police officers accused of murdering 29-year-old Tyre Nichols by beating him to death are justifiably... |
2023-01-28 15:54 |
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Tyre Nichols' family speaks out as the disturbing footage of his deadly beating leaves the nation reeling...
As the nation continues to reel over the disturbing footage of Tyre Nichols' deadly beating, his parents are now speaking out to share their reaction as well as their take on the course of action being taken to hold the officers involved accountable. ... |
2023-01-28 14:21 |
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Are evangelicals distancing from Trump?...
There are a lot of discussions in political and even religious circles these days about whether the marriage between Donald Trump and evangelical Christians is officially over. Prominent evangelical leaders are backing away from Trump heading into the 202... |
2023-01-28 13:21 |
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'Supervised by a single Black woman': Jason Whitlock attempts to blame Memphis police chief for Tyre Nichols' death...
In the wake of the Memphis Police Department's release of harrowing footage of the series of events that led to the death of Tyre Nichols, conservative Jason Whitlock is attempting to place blame elsewhere despite five police officers facing charges f... |
2023-01-28 12:06 |
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Pelosi attack video release leads to criticism of Musk, right-wingers who 'trafficked in homophobic conspiracy nonsense'...
News organizations won the release of police body cam video that shows the horrific moment when an intruder, "without warning or hesitation," whacked Paul Pelosi, the 82-year old husband of the now-former Speaker of the House, with a hammer, knock... |
2023-01-28 11:33 |
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DOJ suggests it is conducting a criminal investigation of George Santos...
The U.S. Dept. of Justice Friday signaled it is conducting a criminal investigation of U.S. Rep. George Santos' campaign finances when it asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to pause its probe into the embattled New York freshman GOP lawmaker.... |
2023-01-28 11:16 |
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'Depraved indifference to human life': Legal experts shocked by Tyre Nichols video...
On Friday evening, the Memphis Police Department released body camera footage showing four since-fired officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols during a traffic stop. Nichols died later as a result of his injuries, and the officers behind the beating, who w... |
2023-01-27 20:00 |
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Economists are praying these House Republicans will 'save' America from the 'fiscal abyss': report...
Countless economists have warned that if the United States were to default on its debt obligations, a major financial crisis could result — one with international implications. But if members of Congress don't come to some type of agreement on t... |
2023-01-27 19:52 |
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Why a new House committee will likely 'ignore' John Durham's 'giant waste of time and resources': reporter...
For months, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets relentlessly hyped former special counsel John Durham's probe of the Russia investigation. Durham, appointed by former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, conducted what was essentially an investiga... |
2023-01-27 19:49 |
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Twitter message reveals Elon Musk forced Twitter staff to suspend 'community activist' account...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk forced staffers to suspend the account of a... |
2023-01-27 19:46 |
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Mass death shouldn't be a consequence of disagreement...
I can't end the week without mentioning the twin massacres in California. The first was in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. Eleven were killed. The second was in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco. Seven were killed. Both were committed by elderly Asia... |
2023-01-27 19:43 |
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Trump made 'secret' $1M donation to failed Arizona election 'grift disguised as an audit': report...
Former President Donald Trump made a "secret" $1 million donation to the election audit conducted in Arizona following his false claims that the election was stolen from him, the Guardian reports. The audit was requested by Arizona GOP senators, a... |
2023-01-27 19:34 |
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Kavanaugh touts 'great relations' among Court justices despite 'obvious departure from collegiality'...
In the past, U.S. Supreme Court justices often had radically different views yet managed to disagree without being disagreeable. Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and far-right socially conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a Reagan appointee, vehemently... |
2023-01-27 19:21 |
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'Drop the hammer': Judge releases footage of 'violent attack' on Paul Pelosi...
Full video of the violent attack on Paul Pelosi last year, along with audio of his 911 call, were released after San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Murphy ruled that the footage must be released to the public by the district attorney's offi... |
2023-01-27 17:56 |
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Another Santos financial concern: GOP lawmaker claims campaign paid WinRed triple the fees it should have...
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2023-01-27 17:18 |
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Supreme Court failed to reveal its 'longstanding financial ties' with expert who reviewed Dobbs leak probe: report...
When the U.S. Supreme Court released the results of its investigation of the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, it revealed that it was unable to determine who the leak came from. The Court had ... |
2023-01-27 17:02 |
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'Deliberately deceived the nation': Legal experts stunned by 'jaw-dropping' report on Barr, Durham protecting Trump...
Legal experts are now weighing in on Thursday's bombshell, massive and months-long reporting from The New York Times that reveals, among several previously unknown allegations, that then-Attorney General Bill Barr and his special counsel, John Durham ... |
2023-01-27 16:56 |
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AOC hits back at Republican House member who told her to 'educate herself'...
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words when South Carolina GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan urged her to "educate herself" after she proposed an amendment to a fossil fuel bill, HuffPost reports.The bill, according to Roll Call,... |
2023-01-27 16:30 |
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Abbott says he won't give up COVID-era power until Texas lawmakers ban vaccine mandates, strengthen border...
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2023-01-27 16:11 |
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'Scammed' users rage at Trump over 'misleading gimmicks' on Truth Social...
Because major advertisers are avoiding Donald Trump's Truth Social, users are instead being exposed to a flood of ads from what the New York Times characterizes as... |
2023-01-27 16:06 |
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Nevada Republicans tearing themselves apart after failed MAGA candidate's vulgar speech goes viral...
A recording of a vulgar rant by a failed Republican candidate has thrown Nevada's GOP into turmoil.Newly elected GOP delegate Drew Hirsty was expelled by the state Republican Party Central Committee earlier this month for recording and sharing a video... |
2023-01-27 15:14 |
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Shameless self-promotion: Media rush to rehabilitate Trump regime as fascists expertly exploit the free press...
There is no such thing as... |
2023-01-27 15:00 |
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Questions raised about another freshman Republican's finances after he refuses to comply with federal law...
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) isn't the only freshman Republican facing questions about his personal finances.An investigation conducted by News Channel 5 in Nashville has found that freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) never complied with federal laws requiri... |
2023-01-27 13:46 |
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Federal prosecutors considered charging Trump with financial crimes after he left office: CNN legal analyst...
Although former President Donald Trump continues to be the subject of multiple investigations, he has yet to be criminally charged with anything. But according to a new book by CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, federal investigators for the Southern District ... |
2023-01-27 13:17 |
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Questions raised about former US attorney who knew the DOJ was protecting Trump...
A former U.S. attorney who knew that the Department of Justice during Donald Trump's administration was protecting the former president is off the hook for an ethics complaint that could have led to his disbarment.In the book... |
2023-01-27 12:09 |
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'I think it's pretty obvious': Sean Hannity claims the Bidens hired 'SWAT' teams to 'attack' their critics...
Conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed without evidence on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter have... |
2023-01-27 02:42 |
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Fired Memphis cops charged with second-degree murder for killing Tyre Nichols...
Five Memphis, Tennessee police officers who were fired for what their chief called a... |
2023-01-27 02:23 |
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Pregnant wife faints and gets pinned by flag during Republican's presidential run announcement...
Mid-way through a press conference held at the West Virginia State Capitol last Friday, during which Republican Dr. Rollan Roberts II announced his intent to run as a presidential candidate in 2024, his pregnant wife Rebecca fainted behind him.A video cli... |
2023-01-27 02:18 |
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Bill Barr asked Italian officials to discredit Russia probe — they responded with evidence linking Trump to crimes...
A new report from the New York Times details how former Attorney General Bill Barr's efforts to discredit the probe into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russian agents completely floundered.One particularly telling section of the Times' sto... |
2023-01-27 01:24 |
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment to bar Biden from selling oil goes down in massive bipartisan defeat...
For the last year, President Joe Biden has released a record amount of oil from America's petroleum reserves in order to increase oil supply and lower the price of gasoline that skyrocketed at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Some Republi... |
2023-01-27 00:10 |
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Watch: Santos responds to report he joked about Hitler, 'the Jews' and Black people...
U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) allegedly made a social media post appearing to praise Adolf Hitler while referring to "the Jews and Black" people, and frequently made pejorative "jokes" about being Jewish according to friends interviewed b... |
2023-01-26 23:53 |
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'Moral turpitude': Trump coup memo author now facing 11 counts of alleged ethics violations — and disbarment...
John Eastman, the far-right attorney, disgraced former law professor, former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and current chairman of the anti-LGBTQ National Organization For Marriage (NOM) is facing eleven counts of alleged ethics violatio... |
2023-01-26 23:11 |
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Top legal experts call for ethics probe into Bill Barr's handpicked special counsel John Durham...
Since 1977 John Durham has been a government prosecutor, first at the state level and five years later, at the federal level. Over the course of his 45 years he handled some of the most notable investigations in American politics, often examining the inne... |
2023-01-26 23:02 |
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How the 'rank idiocy' of GOP 'culture wars' gives the left political ammunition: conservative...
Political comedian Bill Maher, on his HBO show "Real Time," hasn't been shy about calling out what he views as culture war overreach on both the left and the right. Maher's politics lean liberal, and he has been a scathing critic of former... |
2023-01-26 22:30 |
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'We don't appoint a king': Ron DeSantis critics push back against 'executive privilege' claims...
During his four years in the White House, Donald Trump often claimed "executive privilege" in order to avoid cooperating with investigations he disliked. And he isn't the only far-right MAGA Republican who has used that concept. Someone who ma... |
2023-01-26 22:00 |
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'People have moved on': Grim number of potential 2024 Trump endorsements suggests nightmare scenario for GOP...
The New York Times recently conducted a poll of the Republican National Committee's 168 asking whether or not they'd be willing to endorse former President Donald Trump for president. According to the news outlet, only four members of that 168 exp... |
2023-01-26 21:30 |
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National Archives asks former presidents, VPs to 'conduct an assessment' of records for classified documents...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requested that all former presidents and vice presidents since Ronald Reagan's administration double-check their personal records for classified documents, CNN reports. The request comes after th... |
2023-01-26 21:00 |
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'The DeSantis A-team': How a 'digital army' of conservative influencers relentlessly promotes the Florida gov...
Although Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has restored Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump account, the former president has so far opted to keep his own Truth Social as his primary social media outlet. But Trump rival Ron DeSantis, who may be competing ... |
2023-01-26 20:26 |
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Bombshell NYT report reveals Bill Barr's special counsel opened 'secret' financial crimes probe into Trump...
Special counsel Robert Durham, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr, uncovered possible financial crimes by Donald Trump but made no attempt to prosecute them, The New York Times reveals in massive, bombshell report published Thursday after a mont... |
2023-01-26 20:22 |
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What is effective altruism? A philosopher explains...
Effective altruism is an intellectual and charitable movement that aspires to find the best ways to help others. People dedicated to it rely on evidence and rational arguments to identify what they can do to make the most progress toward solving the world... |
2023-01-26 20:07 |
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The 'fundamentally important' element missing from Canada's new drinking guidelines: behavioral epidemiologist...
This month, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction issued revised recommendations for lower-risk alcohol consumption. The new guidelines state that no amount of alcohol is "safe" and that individuals should drink no more than two stand... |
2023-01-26 19:59 |
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'Would make Alex Jones blush': Republican says land conservation is a plot to 'control' and 'kill' people...
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., spewed conspiracy theories about an environmental plan to conserve 30% of US land and waters by 2030 ahead of her election last year.Speaking at R-CALF, a convention for independent cattle producers, Hageman in August 2021 an... |
2023-01-26 19:43 |
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Republicans blasted as 'hyperbolic hypocrites' for double standard on Biden and Pence documents...
Several congressional Republicans are swiftly moving past Tuesday's news that classified documents were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home, but still suggest there is something more suspicious about the documents found a... |
2023-01-26 19:36 |
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Why an NDA may derail a former Manhattan DA special assistant's new tell-all Trump book: report...
When Mark Pomerantz was working as a special assistant to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, he vehemently disagreed with DA Alvin Bragg, Jr.'s decision to prevent a prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The Manhattan DA's Offic... |
2023-01-26 18:34 |
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'Big no-no': Questions swirl after Santos 'campaign treasurer' says he doesn't work for the congressman...
An amended Federal Elections Commission (FEC) campaign finance report from U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) made headlines this week after it appeared to indicate the embattled freshman New York Republican lawmaker was withdrawing his previous claims of hav... |
2023-01-26 18:14 |
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Suspended Florida prosecutor urges Ron DeSantis to reinstate him following judge's ruling...
When U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle issued a ruling on the suspension of Andrew Warren, the Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis, he was critical of DeSantis but also said that he did not have the power to give Warren his job... |
2023-01-26 17:39 |
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Trump clearly agitated after Fulton County DA made a stunning admission in court: columnist...
Donald Trump must have received an unwelcome update this week about the criminal investigation he's under in Georgia, because he's been raging online about the case for days. The twice-impeached former president posted a lie-filled rant about his ... |