The Biden administration made a deal with moderate Democrats Wednesday on the $1,400 direct checks in the COVID-19 stimulus package which has many observers baffled by the political calculus.
GOP Plans Stalling Tactic Of Forcing Full, Many-Hour-Long Reading Of COVID Relief Bill
Senate Republicans on Wednesday suggested they are planning to force the chamber’s clerks to fully read Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill — a stalling tactic that could take by some estimates up to 10 hours, delaying the vote. Continue reading “GOP Plans Stalling Tactic Of Forcing Full, Many-Hour-Long Reading Of COVID Relief Bill”
The COVID ‘Death Harvest’ Will Shape The Country’s Demographics For Years To Come
The pandemic began one year ago. Since then, the full scale of the Trump administration’s ineptitude was revealed, with more than 500,000 Americans dead from the virus.
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After a Wave Of Violent Threats Against Election Workers, Georgia Sees Few Arrests
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On Nov. 30, 2020, as Georgia slogged through the second recount of its presidential election results, a man in Ohio perusing Twitter came across what he later described as a “call for action” to protect polling locations across the country. His response was to drive more than 500 miles to Gwinnett County in the Atlanta suburbs. He began surveilling the Gwinnett County elections office — and livestreaming his vigil on Twitter. Continue reading “After a Wave Of Violent Threats Against Election Workers, Georgia Sees Few Arrests”
Five Points On How Intelligence And Military Officials Testified To The Failures Of Jan. 6
With time, the scale of the intelligence and security failures that allowed an angry mob of Trump supporters to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6 becomes clearer and clearer.
WH Concerned About Vaccine Hesitancy After Biden Gives Timeline A Big Boost
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday stood by President Biden’s announcement the day before that the country has secured enough doses of COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate the country’s adult population by the end of May. However, Psaki also shared the administration’s concerns surrounding vaccine hesitancy. Continue reading “WH Concerned About Vaccine Hesitancy After Biden Gives Timeline A Big Boost”
National Guard Commander Reveals Hours-Long Delay To Approve Backup On Jan. 6
In the sequel to a hearing with Capitol security leaders last week, Senators today will grill officials from the FBI, National Guard, Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security on security failures during the January 6 insurrection.
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Where Things Stand: Let’s Check In On Steve
Steve Bannon was, of course, among the 100-plus people Trump pardoned during his last months and days and minutes in office. But there’s been speculation since the pardon was issued about how much weight it would actually hold — Bannon had only been charged, but not convicted, of allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a border wall crowd-funding campaign for personal use.
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One Year In, Researchers Recalculate COVID’s True Death Toll
One year into the pandemic, much of what we think we know about the number of people who have died may be wrong.
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Pence Uses Post-VP Platform To Boost ‘The Big Lie’ Trump Continues To Push
Even after his life was endangered during the Capitol insurrection earlier this year that then-President Trump incited, former Vice President Mike Pence has begun boosting the same election falsehoods that incensed the rioters. Continue reading “Pence Uses Post-VP Platform To Boost ‘The Big Lie’ Trump Continues To Push”