An unsealed search warrant shows that the Justice Department suspects former President Donald Trump of violations of the Espionage Act. Additionally, the warrant that granted the FBI access to Mar-a-Lago says Trump is under investigation for concealing federal records, an offense that could be applied to obstructing justice charges. The list of items taken by […]
Soon after FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, former President Donald Trump posted a statement decrying the “weaponization of the justice system.” He called the search “political targeting at the highest level,” and contrasted what was happening to him with what happened to his 2016 Democratic opponent. “Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid […]
As a mob overran the seat of American democracy on Jan. 6, 2021, beating police officers with clubs and bats, and calling for the hanging of Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump watched Fox News and ignored pleas from the most inner of his inner circle to call off the crowd. “Donald Trump refused […]
The text of a 135-year-old law — the Electoral Count Act — was just vague enough for former President Donald Trump and his congressional allies to use dubious tactics to try to crash a normally routine process during the presidential election of 2020. Trump’s plan spurred thousands of violent protesters to riot at the Capitol. […]
The visuals in video games can look pretty real, and we’ve seen social media users sharing action-packed clips from games as if they are the real thing. In the race to be the Republican nominee for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, an ad from venture capitalist Blake Masters doesn’t pretend to show actual footage of the […]
In the last month, the Jan. 6 hearings kept the Capitol assault and the underlying belief of a flawed election in the news. The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade prompted a claim from President Joe Biden about how the U.S. stacks up against other developed nations. We heard from readers about both, […]
The latest House hearing on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, painted a picture of former President Donald Trump as a man running out of options. As of mid-December 2020, he had lost 60 out of 61 court challenges to state election results. His top campaign and White House advisers were telling him there was […]
When President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun bill into law, he expanded protections for people who are at risk at the hands of their partners. Federal law already prohibited convicted domestic abusers from owning a firearm. But that applied largely to married couples, or at most, to abusers “similarly situated to a spouse.” The […]
From her desk in the heart of the West Wing, just seconds away from the Oval Office, Cassidy Hutchinson was privy to pivotal conversations among former President Donald Trump and his inner circle of staff and advisers. On June 28, Hutchinson, the executive assistant to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, sat before […]
Not long after news organizations called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, then-President Donald Trump started asking the Justice Department to dig into allegations of election fraud. Trump’s Attorney General William Barr told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that his staff followed orders. But Barr’s people found […]
Ending nearly 50 years of federally protected access to abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, returning power to individual states to set their own laws. “The Constitution makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion…,” the June 24 ruling said. “We thus return the power to weigh […]
A Georgia election clerk described how her life was upended and her family frighteningly harassed with racist texts and worse. An Arizona Republican leader told of the ugly texts, death threats and loss of friends that came as he rebuffed efforts by a sitting president, Donald Trump, to revoke election results that showed another man […]