In a speech praising State Department employees for their dedication, President Joe Biden mentioned that he had been shot at in the past, reviving memories of remarks he made in 2007 about his visits to Iraq as a senator. “You not only have great intellectual capacity, you have great personal courage,” Biden said Feb. 4. […]
Before MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s documentary aired on the One America News Network, a disclaimer rolled slowly across the screen: “The statements and claims expressed in this program are presented at this time as opinions only and are not intended to be taken or interpreted by the viewer as established facts.” The disclaimer cut a […]
Nearly a month after supporters of President Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recounted the experience from her perspective. In a 90-minute Instagram Live video, Oscasio-Cortez described fearing for her life as she hid in the bathroom of her office in the Cannon House Office Building, a part of the […]
Even as the pace of vaccination against COVID-19 has steadily accelerated — hitting an average of 1.3 million doses a day in the last days of January — the frustration felt by many of those unable to secure an appointment hasn’t waned. Why, they wonder, can’t I get one if 100 million shots will soon […]
A Newsmax TV anchor walked off the set after his guest, MyPillow Inc. CEO Mike Lindell, started voicing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and technology company Dominion Voting Systems less than 15 seconds into a Feb. 2 interview. It’s rare to see an anchor get up and leave during a TV segment, so […]
In their opening brief against Donald Trump, House impeachment managers argued that the former president spent months fueling misinformation about the 2020 election, culminating in a Jan. 6 rally that whipped a crowd of supporters into a “frenzy” and “aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue.” The Democrats’ 80-page memo further argued that […]
A Facebook post claims Democratic legislation is aimed at protecting the Washington establishment and is anti-American, but the post’s claims don’t add up. HR 1, called the For the People Act, is a bill that folds together previous proposals for absentee voting, in-person voting, campaign finance and ethics. Democrats say the goal of the legislation […]
Right now, vaccine rollout is a numbers game. The nation has a pretty good idea of how many doses have gone to each state and county. The government’s COVID-19 vaccination dashboard shows how many people have received their second shot — over 5.9 million as of the time we wrote this. Getting shots in arms […]
As officials scramble to successfully carry out a worldwide vaccination campaign against COVID-19, scientists are facing a new foe: Variants of the virus. It’s not uncommon for a virus to change and evolve, and with uncontrolled spread in the United States and around the world, the coronavirus is getting plenty of chances. But it’s still […]
One of the newest members of Congress is under intense scrutiny from her own party following her promotion of conspiracy theories and inflammatory comments supporting violence against other lawmakers. At least 67 House Democrats have signed on to a forthcoming resolution that calls for the expulsion of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from Congress. Others […]
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump deny that he incited the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot and argue that the Senate lacks jurisdiction to hold an impeachment trial because Trump is no longer in office, in a defense brief filed ahead of next week’s trial. Lawyers Bruce L. Castor, Jr., and David Schoen also say […]
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice took a victory lap on national cable networks on Feb. 1, explaining how West Virginia succeeded in vaccinating a greater share of its residents than any other state. In appearances on both CNN and MSNBC, Justice said that his state had actually injected more than 100% of the vaccine doses […]