“The Russians are just over there.” The Ukrainian marine driving the truck peers intently into the swirling snow, pointing to the line of trees about a half-mile ahead of us. The Russians, he tells me, “they leave their bodies where they fall,” and shakes his head. His name is Oleksiy, …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted on Wednesday that she reported Jimmy Kimmel to the Capitol Police for a joke he made at her expense. Kimmel kept going after the conspiracy theorist from Georgia on Thursday night, repeating the joke, calling her a “sociopath” and “snowflake,” and wondering why someone who has …
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A jury in Grand Rapids has not convicted any of the four men charged withconspiring to kidnap the sitting governor of Michigan in hopes of setting off a new civil war. The jury in the trial of defendants Adam Fox, 38, Barry Croft Jr., 46, Daniel Harris, 24, and Daniel …
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Revelations about domestic violence and sexual misconduct within the Department of Homeland Security were removed from a still-unfinished report at the direction of the department’s inspector general and his top aides, according to an investigation published Thursday by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), and verified by The New York …
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UPDATE (4/6/2022):Hours after theArizona Mirrorrevealed Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) was listed as a featured guest for a white nationalist organization event in Tempe, Arizona scheduled for April 20 — which also happens to be Adolf Hitler’s birthday — a spokesman for the Arizona congressman told the publication that Gosar will …
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Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm President Biden’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. The 53-47 vote went as expected, with all 50 Democrats voting to confirm Jackson, along with three Republicans: …
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday joined a long list of high-profile figures in Washington, D.C., who have contracted Covid-19 in the past few days. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” Drew …
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Alexandra Preate, a longtime aide and spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon, was interviewed Tuesday by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Preate’s interview comes as the committee is preparing to hold public hearings about its investigation. Bannon, …
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to hold Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 committee. The resolution passed 220-203, with two Republicans joining Democrats in voting to refer the two Trump aides to the Justice …
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn last month asked Ketanji Brown Jackson how she defines a woman. It’s a ludicrous question and the Supreme Court nominee was right to decline to answer it. “I’m not a biologist,” Jackson said during the hearing. The exchange threw right-wing media and bigoted Republican lawmakers into a …
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