Organizers of the Jan. 6 rally, hoping to keep Congress from obtaining their cell phone data, have sue telecom giant Verizon. The plaintiffs include former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s niece, Maggie Mulvaney, as well as Justin Caporale, Tim Unes, and Megan Powers. The organizers of rally that …
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a report on Sunday detailing its case to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. The report paints a damning portrait of the former White House chief of staff’s involvement in the effort to overturn the results of …
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A judge in a Jan. 6 case laid the blame for the insurrection at the feet of former President Trump. Judge Amit Mehta at a sentencing hearing on Friday said that the people who stormed the Capitol are paying the price while Trump and others who “created the conditions” causing …
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Almost two days after his close ally and former chief strategist was indicted, former President Donald Trump took to Twitter (through a spokesperson, the only way he can) to complain about it. “This country has perhaps never done to anyone what they have done to Steve Bannon and they are …
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“We’re back, baby,” Donald Trump told Chris Christie. It was a few days before Trump’s summer 2020 campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., and the president was excited, thinking this rally was going to be a packed, raucous affair that injected new energy into his troubled reelection run. But it turns …
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Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of State and one of the driving figures of the Iraq War, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. Powell was 84. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed …
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Ali Alexander, the Stop the Steal organizer who claimed three sitting U.S. congressmen helped plan the rally that came before the insurrection, has been subpoenaed by the January 6th Select Committee along with fellow rally organizer Nathan Martin. The committee is seeking records from Stop the Steal LLC in addition …
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While the internet has spent the day gleefully lambasting the fact that Facebook and its other properties are currently down, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has highlighted a darker side to the blackout: It’s a reminder of the tech giant’s stranglehold over the internet landscape — and the damage that does to …
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Crickets, and not microwaves wielded by a foreign adversary, are believed to be responsible for the noises connected to strange symptoms affecting U.S. diplomats in Cuba, according to a declassified report ordered by the State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News. The noises were believed to be linked to “Havana …
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Attendees of Trump’s rally were less than pleased when Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), whose remarks immediately preceded the former president’s, brought up the 2020 election and told the crowd to “put that behind you.” “There are some people who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020,” …
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