The latest test of Trump’s leverage in the Republican Party comes on Tuesday, as he has backed the challengers of two Republican incumbents, one who voted for impeachment, and one who attacked him over the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump is backing State Rep. Russell Fry who is …
Read More »Chris Stirewalt defended his team’s calling the election for Biden. Fox News fired him.
When Chris Stirewalt watched rioters attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, he was a journalist for Fox News, which was trying to recover from a ratings slump in the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost his re-election campaign. Two months later, Mr. Stirewalt was fired by Fox, where …
Read More »Sarah Palin Leads Crowded Field In Race For Alaska’s Sole Seat In U.S. House
By Kim Jarrett (The Center Square) Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is leading a pack of 48 candidates in a race to fill out the remaining months of the late U.S. Rep. Don Young’s term. Palin has 29.77%, or 32,371, of the votes cast so far, according to results from …
Read More »The Justice Department Is Talking About Charging Trump
The 1/6 Committee members say that they have enough evidence, and the Justice Department has had conversations about charging Trump. NBC News reported: A person familiar with the matter told NBC News there have been conversations inside the Justice Department about the far-reaching implications of pursuing a case against Trump, …
Read More »Two Targets of Trump’s Ire Take Different Paths in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a campaign event the weekend before South Carolina’s primary election, Tom Rice, a conservative congressman now on the wrong side of former President Donald J. Trump, offered a confession. “I made my next election a little bit harder than the ones in the past,” he said …
Read More »John Dean Blows A Giant Hole In The Republican Complaints About The 1/6 Committee
John Dean pointed out that witnesses who are testifying in front of the 1/6 Committee on Monday are Republicans, a fact that destroys the GOP’s witchhunt claims. Video of John Dean: Dean told CNN’s Jim Acosta: We actually know most of what these people have testified to or will testify …
Read More »Senators Reach Bipartisan Deal on Gun Safety
WASHINGTON — Senate negotiators announced on Sunday that they had struck a bipartisan deal on a narrow set of gun safety measures with sufficient support to move through the evenly divided chamber, a significant step toward ending a yearslong congressional impasse on the issue. The agreement, put forth by 10 …
Read More »Opinion: Jan. 6 And Uvalde Massacre Highlight How Violent Gun Culture Undermines Democracy
The January 6 hearings, designed to shed light for Americans on an orchestrated armed and violent attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, coming on the heels of the Uvalde massacre, draws into relief a cultural and political dynamic in America we need to recognize: the relationship between a violent and …
Read More »A Trove of Guantánamo Photos
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Like so many articles, our project in Sunday’s newspaper on the once-secret Pentagon photos from the earliest days of U.S. detention operations here, in 2002, started …
Read More »Former Chief Political Correspondent Blasts Fox News As Nonsense And A Farce
Former Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron called the network a farce that is broadcasting baloney and nonsense. Video: Carl Cameron told CNN’s Jim Acosta: I mean, I didn’t watch. I have seen clips, and the only thing that they left out was Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, complete nonsense throughout …
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