Congress has finally taken notice of an unprecedented wave of fatalities at Fort Bragg, some 17 months after Rolling Stone first brought attention to an apparent drug crisis at the base. This morning, a group of five senators led by Sen. Edward Markey demanded answers from the military on the …
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James Madison defeated DeWitt Clinton in 1812 to secure a second term in the White House. To commemorate his inauguration, a craftsman from Paris made him a crystal flute. The flute eventually made its way into the possession of the Library of Congress and sat unplayed until this week, when …
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The Justice Department has charged billionaire Oleg Deripaska with violating sanctions imposed on him and other allies of Vladimir Putin in 2018 for Russia‘s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Authorities say Deripaska used three women — who are listed as co-defendants on the indictment, which was unsealed Thursday …
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Lance Wallnau, a self-styled “prophet” and one of America’s most strident Christian Nationalists, and Doug Mastriano, the GOP candidate who casts his bid for governor of Pennsylvania as a mission from God, are birds of a feather. They each fired up the faithful at the Jericho March / ”Let the …
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It was January of 2017, and a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump held a reception at the White House to meet with top congressional leaders. Hors d’oeuvres were on the menu. And the new president turned to a row of racially diverse Democratic staffers and asked them to retrieve the …
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Gadsden County Commissioner Jeffery Moore resigned last week after an alleged photo of him dressed as a klansman at a Halloween party surfaced in the community, the Tallahassee Democratreported on Tuesday. Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young told Politico multiple individuals told him the photo, which depicts a man at a …
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President Joe Biden asked if late Rep. Jackie Walorski was present during an event at the White House on Wednesday. Walorski was killed in a car crash along with two staffers and a driver on Aug. 3. She had been a champion of a bill that established the White House …
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton used his wife as a getaway driver while fleeing his McKinney, Texas, home in an attempt to avoid being served a subpoena related to an abortion lawsuit. In a sworn affidavit obtained by the Texas Tribune, process server Ernesto Martin Herrera testified that after arriving …
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VAYOTS DZOR PROVINCE, ARMENIA – The frequency of the ambulances starts to increase the further east you drive. It’s a sign of how bad the situation is. A mix of four-wheel-drive military trucks with red crosses and civilian ambulances are whisking away Armenian casualties in a steady trickle through the …
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“We stormed the capitol, it’s insane.” So proclaimed John Strand in a text after entering the halls of Congress last Jan. 6. The message was part of a seemingly endless procession of evidence — including photos, videos, tweets, texts, and more — documenting Strand’s role in the riot that was …
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