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May 13 2022
News
Revealed: supporters of Trump’s big lie work as election officials across Georgia
The effort to install local election officials who promote Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen has seen particular success in the crucial swing state of Georgia, where at least eight county election officials are promoters of the falsehood, a Guardian investigation has found.
The officials span the state, from suburban counties outside Atlanta to rural counties near the
The Guardian
Jan 20 2022
News
Jan. 6 committee asks Ivanka Trump to sit for interview
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is asking Ivanka Trump, former President Trump's daughter and one of his White House advisers, to voluntarily sit down with the committee.
The request — the first official outreach to a member of the Trump family — notes that Ivanka Trump spent considerable time with her father in the days leading up to Jan. 6,
The Hill
Nov 24 2021
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Kyle Rittenhouse Fired Lin Wood Over 'Insane' QAnon and Election Fraud Beliefs
Kyle Rittenhouse has said he fired his former lawyer Lin Wood because he thought the attorney "insane" for supporting QAnon and election fraud conspiracy theories.
The teenager—who on Friday was cleared of all charges related to shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August—has criticized Wood and another of his former attorneys, John Pierce, since being acquitted.
He told Fox
Newsweek
Jun 29 2022
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GDP contraction deepens giving fresh recession clues amid soaring inflation
The final revision of first-quarter gross domestic product confirmed a larger contraction of the U.S. economy than earlier readings, supporting the view that a recession is either in progress or coming, say economists, as inflation rages and stocks head for the worst first half of a year since 1970.
The latest report released by Commerce Department on Wednesday showed that gross
Fox Business
Oct 01 2021
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Australian border to reopen for first time in pandemic
Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives.
Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world's strictest border rules - even banning its own people from leaving the country.
The policy has been praised for helping to suppress Covid, but it has also controversially separated families.
BBC News
Dec 23 2021
Analysis
The Mother of All Vaccines May Be Closer Than You Think
In early 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to unfold, infectious disease researchers Matt Memoli and Luca Giurgea were already thinking about how the crisis might end. The two, both at the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, recalled what happened following a coronavirus epidemic 17 years earlier, and they were concerned about a repeat.
Mother Jones
Apr 27 2022
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New details show extent of GOP effort to unwind Trump’s loss
Documents and texts stemming from the House investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, offer new details about the extent House Republicans, particularly members of the Freedom Caucus, were involved in plans to unwind the 2020 election — even as lawyers at the White House warned them their proposals could be illegal.
The content — released in the committee’s court battle against Mark Meadows and
The Hill
Mar 05 2022
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Court Limits Biden's Use of Covid Policy to Expel 'Families Fleeing Danger'
Human rights advocates on Friday celebrated a key victory in federal court while also pressuring U.S. President Joe Biden to fully end what one critic called a "sham public health order" to expel immigrants seeking safety.
Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have faced intense criticism for continuing the Trump administration's policy of using Title 42 authority to
Common Dreams
Dec 22 2021
News
The F.B.I. Deployed Surveillance Teams Inside Portland Protests
In the hours after President Biden’s inauguration this year, protesters marched once again through the streets of Portland, Ore., sending a message that putting a Democrat in the White House would not resolve their problems with a system of policing and corporate wealth that they saw as fundamentally unfair.
“No cops, no prisons, total abolition,” they chanted. Some of the activists,
New York Times (News)
Nov 22 2021
News
DOJ Inspector General Says Department Must Address Concerns About Politicization
The Department of Justice (DOJ) must address deepening concerns that it’s not insulated from political influence, the agency’s watchdog stated in a new report.
The DOJ failed to follow policies and procedures designed to protect it from accusations that it’s politicized or partially applying the law in a number of cases, including while investigating Donald Trump’s campaign during the
The Epoch Times