In not returning salutes given to her by military personnel, Vice President Kamala Harris is breaking with recent practice, but not official protocol. On March 19, a Harris spokesman posted a 20-second video clip of Harris walking up stairs to board Air Force Two as she departed Atlanta. Two members of the military honor guard […]
President Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump for the surge of migrants at the southwest border, saying his predecessor dismantled the country’s immigration system and failed to provide enough beds for child migrants. At the first press conference of his presidency, Biden downplayed the number of migrants crossing the border, saying past years had seen similar […]
In recent years, it’s been rare to see prosecutors file sedition charges. But there are signs that participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could face such charges in the coming months. Michael R. Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who until recently led the Justice Department’s investigation into the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, […]
A week after a gunman shot and killed eight people in Georgia, a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., killing 10 people, including a police officer. After a year of social distancing and closures from the COVID-19 pandemic, the tragedy of two mass shootings, less than a week apart, led politicians […]
A surge of migrants arriving at the southern border has Republicans blaming President Joe Biden while sounding the alarm over what they contend is a frightening threat to national security. It’s not just families and children who are trying to get into the country, some Republican lawmakers say. People on the terrorist watchlist are trying […]
There are a few big chunks of money in the American Rescue Plan Act that have generated a lot of news coverage and are pretty well known. In response to a reader’s request, we present the whopping $1.86 trillion spending plan in pie chart form. There are the $1,400 checks (or more likely deposits) to […]
As pandemic shutdowns and fear flooded the United States last spring, it brought with it a wave of hate crimes and incidents targeting Asian Americans. Some were prosecuted as hate crimes, such as a woman in the Bronx who was hit on the head with an umbrella as her assailants used anti-Asian comments. Other incidents […]
One of the most common Republican criticisms of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, even after it passed, was that the $1.9 trillion spending plan discriminates against states that reopened their economies relatively early on. In a March 14 appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said that Biden’s relief bill “punished the […]
The news that most European governments suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has health experts worried that it could hamper an already slow vaccine rollout on the continent and fuel vaccine skepticism. France, Italy, Spain and Germany are among a dozen European Union countries that suspended the use of the vaccine over concerns […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom attacked the leaders of the recall campaign against him in a national TV blitz this week, alleging they’re anti-immigrant, connected to far right militias and embrace QAnon conspiracy theories. The Democratic governor’s high-profile push back was his most forceful yet against the effort to remove him from office. It took place […]
Donald Trump’s multiple phone calls to election officials in Georgia are still grabbing headlines, weeks after he’s left office. The Washington Post recently had to issue a high-profile correction to January reporting about one of two known calls in which Trump urged state officials to find evidence to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results A newly […]
It’s been a long, dark winter of Covid-19 concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may […]