AVDIIVKA – On Saturday afternoon, as Irina Holobatenko ushered me into her spare flat on the ground floor of an apartment complex on the edge of Avdiivka, an industrial suburb in far Eastern Ukraine, two dull booms from artillery sounded in the distance. “Privyet!!” Irinia’s husband, Vitaliy, chuckled. Avdiivka was …
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Accountability for police violence is bigger — in Texas? A grand jury in Austin has indicted as many as 19 officers on charges of using excessive force against protesters who took to the streets in the Texas capital following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The indictments set up …
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President Biden has rejected former President Trump’s bid to keep the Jan. 6 committee from getting its hands on White House visitor logs. Trump had tried to claim executive privilege over the logs, including those from the day of the Capitol attack, but White House Counsel Dana Remus wrote that …
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A federal judge on Thursday sided with environmental groups by revoking more than 80 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico that the Biden administration had approved in what had been the largest such sale in U.S. history. The decision, in the U.S. District Court …
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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) is sending out unsolicited applications for mail-in ballots to voters in his district, even after he supported a state law that banned local election officials from the same practice, The Texas Tribune reports. Last September, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 1, which made …
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Fox News hosts were more influential in the White House than previously known, often acting as shadow advisors to the president in private phone calls. According to a Washington Post report, former President Donald Trump would frequently speak with Fox anchors like Sean Hannity or Judge Jeanine Pirro, who had …
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Mike Huckabee hosted a Christmas special on Newsmax this week, and he was lucky enough to score an interview with Donald Trump. It went about as expected, with the former Arkansas governor gushing about all the invaluable work the former president did to reinvigorate America with the spirit of Christmas …
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The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol has obtained a trove of electronic messages from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including an email referring to a PowerPoint suggesting Trump could declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of …
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The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol has been busy. In the five months since the probe was launched, the committee has issued dozens of subpoenas to high-profile members of former President Trump’s circle, as well as a smattering of other MAGA-affiliated figures …
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Kyle Rittenhouse‘s attorney said that he booted a Tucker Carlson/Fox News video crew filming a documentary on Rittenhouse from the defense’s room “several times” during the weeks-long trial of his client, who shot three people, killing two, at a racial justice protest. Not long after news broke that a jury …
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