When Kevin Chmielewski emerged from the FBI’s fortress of a headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., his head was spinning. It was the fall of 2017. He’d just left a classified briefing about a matter of national security. As he walked back to his office at the Environmental Protection Agency, Chmielewski …
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Remember how President Trump’s “elite strike force” of election lawyers kept promising they were going to release a trove of information proving the election was rigged in Biden’s favor, in part by compromised voting machines? Well, it turns out there was no trove after all, and that the Trump campaign …
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Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, but to paraphrase Robert Earl Keen: the road goes on forever, and the grift never ends. The Washington Post reported late last month that Trump’s Save America PAC has raked in over $75 million in 2021, largely on the idea …
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said he would support subpoenas for anyone who has information regarding the January 6th attack on the Capitol, including Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Trump sycophant Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). The congressman, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Capitol …
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Florida resident Paul Hodgkins, who carried a Trump flag into the Senate chamber on January 6th and took a selfie, received an eight-month prison sentence for his involvement in the Capitol attack. He is the first participant to earn a felony sentence for the events of January 6th and may …
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Last year, the United States saw record numbers of gun sales, and it strained the FBI‘s background check process, meaning more background checks were left incomplete. If an FBI background check is delayed by more than three business days, gun dealers can legally sell a firearm without a completed background …
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WASHINGTON — Democracy dies live on C-SPAN. That’s how it felt on Tuesday as the public watched Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 49 other Senate Republicans use the filibuster to block any debate on the For the People Act, an 800-page mega-bill intended to combat dark money, voter suppression, …
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A federal judge has overturned California’s assault weapons ban, a law that has been in place for more than three decades. Governor Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, has said he will appeal, calling the judge’s decision a “direct threat to public safety and innocent Californians.” U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez …
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With 12 states now reporting 70 percent of their adult population is vaccinated with at least one dose, medical experts are concerned about a possible surge of coronavirus cases in states and territories that have fallen behind. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and chief medical adviser …
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In a ruling designed to have far-reaching effects on the world’s largest oil companies, a Dutch court has held Royal Dutch Shell liable for its contributions to climate change, finding the massive energy company’s ongoing fossil-fuel operations undermine basic guaranteed human rights. The court ordered the company to act immediately …
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