Former President Donald Trump took White House records to Mar-a-Lago that were clearly marked as classified, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Some of the documents were assigned a “top secret” designation. The revelation comes a day after The New York Times reported that the National Archives was concerned the …
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Thomas Massie has done it. It took nearly two years of batting back competition from hordes of right-wing commentators and conservative lawmakers, but the Republican from Kentucky appears to have devised the single dumbest take on the Covid-19 pandemic, which has now killed nearly a million Americans. He tweeted it …
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Marjorie Taylor Greene ispushing a new conspiracy theory. The Georgia lawmaker claimed on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using a police force dedicated to monitoring Spanish vegetable soup (typically served cold) to spy on members of Congress. The outlandish claim has no basis in fact. “Not only do …
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The Minneapolis Police Department’s national scandals are so numerous they’re starting to overlap. The killing of Amir Locke during a no-knock raid last week has — yet again — brought the department’s violent tactics under scrutiny. And some of the same officers who were involved in that raid are linked …
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The FBI is investigating a clandestine meeting between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in a downtown Washington, D.C., parking garage the day before the Capitol Riot. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the FBI is looking into a meeting between about half a dozen far-right leaders, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart …
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio refused to say former President Donald Trump was wrong to press then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, and he later called the Jan. 6 committee “a partisan scam.” During an appearance Sunday on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Rubio if he agreed …
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Fox News‘ drive to cast President Biden as a job-killing socialist took a hit on Friday when the January jobs report revealed the economy has added 467,000 jobs since the start of the year, despite Covid-19 cases spiking as the Omicron variant continues to spread. “We created 467,000 jobs in …
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Emails obtained by government watchdog group American Oversight suggest that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been in regular contact with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The June 2021 emails, reported by Politico on Friday, were sent by conservative activist Ginni Thomas to someone in the DeSantis administration requesting that the …
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In July 1971, Shirley Chisholm began to talk about it. Chisholm, who in 1968 had become the first African American woman elected to Congress, would run for president. The congresswoman from New York announced her intentions to secure the Democratic nomination in September, and formally announced on Jan. 25, 1972. …
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President Biden promised on the campaign trail that if he had the opportunity to nominate a new Supreme Court justice, he would nominate a Black woman. No one seemed to care at the time. Presidents had made similar pledges in the past. Ronald Reagan in 1980 pledged to nominate a …
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