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Joe Biden Blamed Afghan Leaders For Giving Up As The Taliban Took Control
In an address from the White House, Biden stood by his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, insisting he would not repeat past mistakes. View Entire Post ›
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Tested Positive For COVID-19, As He Fights Mask Mandates
Abbott is vaccinated and not experiencing symptoms, his office said. The coronavirus is surging in Texas. View Entire Post ›
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Vaccinated Americans Will Be Offered COVID-19 Booster Shots As Early As...
US health officials announced that most Americans should get a booster shot eight months after vaccination, as the Delta variant spreads rapidly across the US. View Entire Post ›
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A Capitol Riot Sentencing Got Derailed After New Videos Surfaced Hours Before...
Robert Reeder pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for going into the Capitol on Jan. 6, but new videos appeared to show him attacking police. View Entire Post ›
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Joe Biden Is Putting Pressure On Nursing Homes To Vaccinate Employees
The White House announced new steps Wednesday to fight the Delta variant in nursing homes and schools. View Entire Post ›
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A Judge Questioned Why Jan. 6 Plea Deals Take Court Oversight Of Capitol...
Most Jan. 6 defendants are pleading guilty to low-level misdemeanors for which supervised release isn’t an option for judges at sentencing. View Entire Post ›
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A Jan. 6 Defendant Could Go Back To Jail After The Government Caught Him...
Douglas Jensen was released from jail in July. The government says he violated his release conditions within the month by accessing the internet. View Entire Post ›
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Joe Biden Said He Is Committed To Helping Evacuate Afghan Allies Who Have...
In a speech at the White House, Biden again stood by his decision to withdraw US forces from the country. View Entire Post ›
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ICE Prosecutors Have Been Told To No Longer Use A Biden Memo That Provided...
The email indicates that a federal ruling on Thursday will have major implications for ICE and how it operates. View Entire Post ›
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Infowars Host Owen Shroyer Has Been Charged In The Jan. 6 Riots
The government says Shroyer went into a restricted part of the Capitol. View Entire Post ›
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Prosecutors And Judges Really Don’t Want You To Call Capitol Rioters "Tourists"
The defense that Jan. 6 rioters were simply "tourists" has struck a nerve with prosecutors and judges. "No rioter was a mere tourist that day." View Entire Post ›
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The FBI Is Selling A Spy Plane That It Used To Watch Black Lives Matter Protests
The aircraft watched protests in Washington, DC, in June last year and also flew over Baltimore in 2015 after Freddie Gray’s death. View Entire Post ›
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Foreign UN Staffers Are Evacuating Afghanistan. Local Staffers Say They Have...
Afghan nationals who work for the UN take on far greater risks for less pay than their international colleagues, and their work leaves them exposed to Taliban reprisals. View Entire Post ›
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A Judge Slammed Sidney Powell And Other Trump Allies For "Profound Abuse" Of...
The judge imposed a series of sanctions against lawyers involved in one of Powell’s “Kraken” cases in Michigan. View Entire Post ›
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Seven Capitol Police Officers Suing Trump Shared The Violence And Racism They...
The lawsuit is the latest one to accuse Trump of conspiring with right-wing groups to incite the Capitol insurrection. View Entire Post ›
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Evictions Can Resume After The Supreme Court Halted The Biden...
The Biden administration had revived a pause on evictions as the Delta variant causes COVID-19 cases to spike. View Entire Post ›
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Eight Months After The Capitol Riots, Thousands Of Hours Of Surveillance...
There are 14,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Capitol riots. Most of it isn’t public, and the government is fighting to keep it that way. View Entire Post ›
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The US Military Has Left Afghanistan After 20 Years
The evacuation itself was increasingly dicey, first with concerns over Taliban forces allowing people to freely access Hamid Karzai International Airport, where American evacuation flights were...
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He Got Out Of Afghanistan Just In Time. His Family Didn’t.
When Farhad Wajdi left Afghanistan for the US, he assumed he could help his parents get out too. But then everything changed. View Entire Post ›
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Joe Biden Defended His Decision To Not Push The Afghanistan Withdrawal Into A...
But drone strikes against terrorist targets are likely to continue, Biden said in a speech the day after the withdrawal ended. View Entire Post ›
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A 6-Week Abortion Ban Took Effect In Texas After The Supreme Court Didn't...
The law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and empowers private citizens to sue to enforce it, went into effect Wednesday in a monumental shift on abortion rights. View Entire Post ›
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Texans Now Have A Lucrative Incentive To Sue Abortion Providers
Abortion providers said they were complying with Texas’s 6-week abortion ban once it took effect Wednesday, citing the risk of an endless stream of civil claims. View Entire Post ›
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The Supreme Court Officially Refused To Stop Texas’s New Abortion Ban
The law bans abortions after the 6th week of pregnancy and deputizes private citizens to file lawsuits to enforce it. View Entire Post ›
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An Alleged Capitol Rioter Will Return To Jail For Streaming Conspiracy Theory...
Douglas Jensen was caught in his garage with an iPhone less than a month after a judge released him from jail on the condition he couldn’t go online. View Entire Post ›
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Here's How The Supreme Court Can Rule In A Major Abortion Case In The Dead Of...
It usually takes the Supreme Court months to rule in a case. But there’s a back door, and it’s getting a lot of use. View Entire Post ›
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Most Of Texas's Congressional Republicans Are Silent On Their State's New...
Just 4 out of 25 officials responded to questions, and many of the most vocal anti-abortion advocates were silent about the 6-week ban. View Entire Post ›
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The Shirtless, Horned Man Photographed Storming The Capitol Has Pleaded Guilty
Jacob Chansley pleaded guilty to one felony charge for obstructing Congress. View Entire Post ›
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We Found Rage In A Hopeless Place
A lot of people thought this summer would be great, but most people seem totally fried and at loose ends instead — expectations keep getting subverted, and anger keeps flowing into the void. View...
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Arizona's Election “Audit” Isn’t Done, But Two Trump-Supporting Republicans...
There’s no end to the Arizona audit in sight. But with other Trump backers looking to take up audits of their own, some are ready to just call it a win. View Entire Post ›
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The Department Of Justice Is Suing Texas Over The State's 6-Week Abortion Ban
SB 8, which has effectively stopped most abortions in Texas, took effect after the Supreme Court refused to step in this month. View Entire Post ›
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Biden Is Mandating COVID Vaccines For All Federal Workers And Large Employers
All companies with more than 100 employees will be required to ensure their workers are either fully vaccinated or tested weekly. View Entire Post ›
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The Fight For Paid Parental And Medical Leave Has Officially Begun
The biggest legislative battle of the year began this week with Democrats promising sweeping new support programs for parents. View Entire Post ›
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Pennsylvania Republicans' Attempts At A 2020 Election "Audit" Are Off To An...
The state’s first hearing featured testimony about an audit backed by Trump supporters that didn’t actually find any election issues. View Entire Post ›
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Has Issues With Incentivizing Abortion Lawsuits
Florida Republicans have shied away from fully supporting the Texas abortion ban in the latest split for the anti-abortion movement. View Entire Post ›
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Trump's Judges Are Playing A Huge Role In Upholding Anti-Abortion Laws Across...
Judges nominated by Donald Trump have staked out strong anti-abortion stances in their short time on the bench. View Entire Post ›
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Why Are Democrats Freaking Out About A Race In California?
Gov. Gavin Newsom is considered likely to survive a recall attempt this week, but the fact that it’s even a question has Democrats around the country on edge. View Entire Post ›
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Capitol Police Say They Arrested A Man With A Machete And Swastikas On His...
The man was arrested not far from where a pipe bomb was left on Jan. 5 and just days before another right-wing rally is planned for the Capitol. View Entire Post ›
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She’s One Of Congress’s Leading Progressives — Just Not In Her Own Office,...
Former staffers who worked for Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a House Democrat who built her reputation on being a champion of workers, say her treatment of her staff was often inconsistent with her public...
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Democrats Plan To Tax The Rich Lets Billionaires Keep Paying Less Than...
The party is planning to raise taxes on corporate investors and the wealthy to pay for social programs, but is not fundamentally reforming a system that allows billionaires to skirt paying taxes. View...
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Carlton Waterhouse Is Fighting For Environmental Justice At The EPA — And...
Ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, the environmental lawyer has become a target of the far right’s bogus narrative around race. View Entire Post ›
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Live Results: The California Recall Election
Californians are voting on whether to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. See the results as they come in. View Entire Post ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Beat The Effort To Recall Him
The Democratic governor survived an attempt to remove him from office, after weeks of anxiety from Democrats around the country. View Entire Post ›
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Pennsylvania Republicans Are Subpoenaing Millions Of Voters’ Personal...
Pennsylvania Republicans are joining in on the pro-Trump audit craze, as Democrats vow to take to them to court. View Entire Post ›
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After Tense Fights, An FDA Panel Said Pfizer Boosters Should Go To Older...
The advisory panel of outside health experts recommended that a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine be authorized for people over 65 and those at high risk, rejecting the benefit for the general...
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"Justice For J6" Says They're Rallying For Non-Violent Offenders. Most...
The “Justice for J6” rally is being pitched as support for “nonviolent offenders,” but that doesn’t describe charges against most defendants in jail. View Entire Post ›
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It Was Billed As A Pro-Jan. 6 Rally To Support “Nonviolent” Capitol Rioters,...
A former Trump staffer succeeded in getting a lot of media attention, but Trump himself didn’t acknowledge the rally and members of Congress avoided it. View Entire Post ›
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These People Are Telling Their Abortion Stories As The Supreme Court Prepares...
More than 6,600 people signed their names to a new brief supporting abortion rights: “I hope the justices read every single one of them.” View Entire Post ›
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The US Is Ending Its International Travel Ban For Fully Vaccinated People
The new US international travel guidelines will start in November and will require testing, contact tracing information, and masking requirements, as well as full vaccinations. View Entire Post ›
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Joe Biden’s Agenda Is Hanging By A Thread As Democrats In Congress Threaten...
Progressives and centrists are holding major pieces of legislation hostage, and both have the numbers to make good on their threats. View Entire Post ›
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Prosecutors Lost A Fight To Keep A Set Of Jan. 6 Capitol Surveillance Videos...
A judge rebuffed the government’s argument that releasing more surveillance videos posed a national security risk. View Entire Post ›
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