Brian Kilmeade employed some interesting logic on Friday to criticize President Biden’s push to get more Americans vaccinated. “They’re going to knock on your door, they’re going to demand that you take it, and they’re going to give you a third shot,” the Fox & Friends host said. “It’s unbelievable …
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Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called on the Department of Justice to launch a review of the ways that the Trump administration politicized the agency. In the early days of the Trump administration, DOJ prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for records …
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Former President Trump really doesn’t like leakers. He repeatedly deemed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee throughout Trump’s time in office, the worst of them. “He’s the biggest leaker in Washington,” Trump said of Schiff in 2019. “He’s a leaker like nobody has ever …
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President Biden released a $6 trillion budget proposal for the coming year that includes new social safety net programs paid for by increasing taxes on corporations and the rich. Although usually the president’s budget is largely ignored by Congress, it is an opportunity for the administration to articulate its priorities …
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A highly-anticipated U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the operation to kill Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Khashoggi was murdered by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The two-page report, released by the …
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As wildfires ravaged California last August, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) figured the devastation was a good opportunity to make a point about the ills of renewable energy. “California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity,” he gloated on Twitter, responding to a directive …
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“For years, I had this figure in my head — 4.2 million deaths,” Karn Vohra says. That’s the annual number of fatalities attributed to air pollution — dust, wildfire smoke, fossil-fuel combustion — by a well-known study. It’s a large number, but calculations done by a team including Vohra, a …
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WASHINGTON — What do former president Donald Trump’s impeachment defense strategy and the Pizzagate conspiracy theory have in common? Pizzagate was the baseless and vile conspiracy theory formed in 2016 that eventually led to QAnon, an even more deranged fiction that posits without an ounce of evidence that a cabal …
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A new report by New York‘s attorney general concluded that the state’s department of health likely undercounted the number of nursing home deaths from Covid-19 by as much as 50 percent. This news comes after the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, had been seen by many — including Rolling Stone— as …
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On January 3rd, Congressman Jason Crow, a Democrat from Colorado and a decorated Army Ranger and veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sworn in for his second term. Three days later, Crow was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives as the certification of the Electoral …
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