Nearly 140 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, and now a lone member of that group has come forward to say he regrets it. “In retrospect I should have voted to certify,” Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) told Politico on Wednesday. “Because …
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a Mississippi case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. After almost two hours of oral argument, it’s clear that the fate of nationwide legal abortion is now in the hands of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. That’s not good news for the future of abortion …
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Top allies of Donald Trump are putting together a legal fund to support rally organizers who’ve been subpoenaed as part of Congress’ investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple people familiar with the effort. The legal fund demonstrates how wealthy and powerful people within Trump’s inner …
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of only two Republicans sitting on the Jan. 6 committee, will not seek reelection for his House seat in 2022. In a video posted to Twitter on Friday morning, Kinzinger announced his decision in a nearly five-minute address, saying, “I also remember during that campaign …
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Oklahoma State Senator David Rader, a Republican, is under fire for referring to Asian American families as “yellow families” when speaking to a criminal justice policy analyst testifying before the legislature about the racial wealth gap, KFOR reported late Friday. In a presentation to the state senate, Damion Shade, who …
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Jon Stewart thinks the media’s focus on Donald Trump misses the larger point, which is that our democracy is being threatened by much larger systems, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday. The comedian appeared on the news network to promote his new show,The Problem With …
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Ambassador Daniel Foote, the Special Envoy for Haiti, has chosen to resign rather than carry out the Biden administration’s plans to deport refugees from Haiti currently at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jake Johnston from the Center for Economic and Policy Research first reported. “I will not be associated with the United …
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President Joe Biden on Thursday night promised to “hunt down” the terrorists responsible for Thursday’s suicide bombings outside the Kabul airport that killed 12 U.S. service members and injured 15 others, noting that hehas already directed the Pentagon to develop operational plans to “strike ISIS-K assets, leadership and facilities.” “We …
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On the first day of the House select committee investigation into the January 6th insurrection, officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department who responded that day gave harrowing testimony about the abuse they endured at the hands of an angry mob of Trump supporters. “That day …
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The University of Florida was roiled in the fall of 2017 when Richard Spencer tried to bring his white nationalist roadshow onto the school’s campus. He’d just made his way through Charlottesville, Virginia, that summer for the Unite the Right rally, and many were worried that a Spencer-led rally could …
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