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Jun 24 2022
News
Trump feeling fallout of Capitol attack hearings as allies abandon ship
Somewhere in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, it seems quite possible that an elderly man was sitting in front of a television howling with rage.
Donald Trump, who spends summers at his Bedminster golf club, is a TV guy, a ratings guy. So the widely televised hearings of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol hit him where it hurts
The Guardian
Mar 08 2022
Analysis
Can Donald Trump run for president if indicted or convicted of a crime?
Donald Trump has always been confident in his chances of winning over voters, even if he committed crimes.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Trump said at a 2016 campaign stop in Iowa. "It's, like, incredible."
His comment at the time was seen as a joke. But now that Trump faces an investigation by prosecutors in
PolitiFact
Jan 06 2023
Headline Roundup
US Economy Added 223,000 Jobs in December, Bringing 2022 Total to 4.5M
The United States economy added 223,000 jobs in December, according to a jobs report released by the Department of Labor on Friday. Unemployment fell to 3.5%, matching a half-century low. This is one of the last reports on 2022 jobs data, with the year’s total job growth finishing at 4.5 million, bringing employment back to pre-pandemic levels,
Key Quote: In a statement released Friday
The Guardian
Fox Business 
Axios
Jun 15 2022
Fact Check
Republican TV Ad Makes False Claim About ‘Dead’ Voters
An illegal ballot cast on behalf of a deceased voter is rare, and we could find no examples of it occurring in Michigan in 2020 or 2016. Yet, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan falsely claims in a TV ad that “dead people always vote Democrat,” and misleadingly suggests it is a widespread problem in his state.
Many Republican candidates in the 2022 election cycle have
FactCheck.org
Feb 02 2022
News
Ukraine
“Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia's security concerns over Ukraine… Russia has massed more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border and Western countries say they fear Putin may be planning to invade.” (Reuters)
“President Joe Biden said Friday night he will move U.S.
The Flip Side
Apr 10 2022
News
Cheney rejects report of a dispute among Jan. 6 committee on criminal referral for Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday rejected a report that there is a dispute among members of the Jan. 6 House select committee regarding whether to make a criminal referral for former President Trump.
The New York Times reported that members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the
The Hill
Aug 07 2021
News
Fourth officer who responded to US Capitol attack dies by suicide
A fourth police officer who defended the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump is now confirmed to have taken his own life.
Washington DC’s Metropolitan police department (MPD) confirmed late Monday that another of their officers, Kyle DeFreytag, died by suicide earlier in July, just hours after declaring that MPD officer Gunther Hashida
The Guardian
May 11 2022
Opinion
Greg Abbott’s New Border Strategy Works
Afew months ago I wrote that policymakers shouldn’t be afraid to coerce Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador into complying with security aims:
The socialist president lacks the political capital or leverage to protect the cartels from American wrath, presenting the U.S. with an opportunity to decapitate major cartels with minimal martial cost and potentially political
The American Conservative
Jun 02 2017
News
U.S. job growth slows; unemployment rate drops to 4.3 percent
U.S. job growth slowed in May and employment gains in the prior two months were not as strong as previously reported, suggesting the labor market was losing momentum despite the unemployment rate falling to a 16-year low of 4.3 percent.
Reuters
Apr 21 2022
News
Biden sends $800M in additional military aid to Ukraine, bans Russian ships from U.S. ports
U.S. President Biden said Thursday he is sending another $800 million in military aid to Ukraine to send an “unmistakable message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“He will never succeed in dominating and occupying Ukraine. That will not happen,” Mr. Biden said from the White House.
Paraphrasing Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Biden said the U.S. will “speak softly and carry a large
Washington Times