“There were officers on the ground,” Caroline Edwards testified Thursday evening, during the first public hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the events of the January 6 insurrection. The Capitol Police officer was describing the violence she observed as she attempted to defend the building from the mob. She described her fellow officers, outnumbered and outmatched: “They were bleeding,” she said. “They were throwing up.
The demographer Diana Greene Foster was in Orlando last month, preparing for the end of Roe v. Wade, when Politico published a leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion striking down the landmark ruling. The opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, would revoke the constitutional right to abortion and thus give states the ability to ban the medical procedure.
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
The second witness who testified live in the first primetime hearing of the House select January 6 committee was Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as she tried to hold the line outside the Capitol with fellow officers. She was with officer Brian Sicknick, who she said appeared to have been sprayed in the face and was extremely pale. Sicknick died the next day. Sicknick’s fiancee sat behind Edwards as she testified.
The white supremacist Proud Boys group and the far-right, anti-government Oath Keepers militia played an instrumental role in planning for a violent insurrection on the Capitol, according to the January 6 House committee, which aired new testimony from witnesses and the groups’ leaders in its first public hearing Thursday night. British filmmaker Nick Quested was embedded with the Proud Boys and shared his footage with the committee.
The January 6 committee released new footage Thursday night showing a detailed timeline of the day of the insurrection.
Donald Trump “engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him,” Congressmember Liz Cheney, vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, said during Thursday’s primetime hearing. “This was not true.
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing Thursday night, televised in primetime by all major networks except Fox News. We spend the hour featuring excerpts from the hearing, starting with Committee Chair Bennie Thompson’s opening statement, in which he argued January 6 was the “culmination of an attempted coup” by Donald Trump, comparing the insurrection to the ransacking of Washington, D.C.
Bad news is mounting for Trump’s former chief of staff.
A group of Democratic and Republican senators have reached a tentative deal on a bill that would deal with the nation’s rampant gun violence problem, but there are two problems remaining. The first is that many in that group are already well-known for “negotiating” compromises that they themselves later back out of; the second is that the proposals for curbing gun violence pointedly dodge doing anything about the actual guns.
The committee announced that Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a hearing Monday.
Their future relationship will depend on if they still stand to benefit from one another, Trump’s niece said. It’s “completely transactional.
Republicans—even before The Man Who Lost An Election And Tried To Steal It crawled out of the muck of birtherism to take over the party—have been engaged in a multi-front assault on public education. They’ve sought to weaken K-12 schools through all kinds of measures—for example, vouchers that often end up with taxpayer dollars supporting private, even religious institutions—and they’ve attacked higher education funding as well.
The fog of war is thick, and propaganda muddies it further. The Ukrainian government isn’t immune. For example, the Ukrainian government is saying this:
Ukraine has now almost completely run out of ammunition for the Soviet-era weapons systems that were the mainstay of its arsenal, and the Eastern European countries that maintained the same systems have run out of surplus supplies to donate, Danylyuk said.
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has made headlines again for his cringe-worthy comments. After claiming women’s bodies aren’t their own and that God says abortions are wrong, Robinson is now claiming that Christians are “called to be led by men,” not women.
According to WRAL, Robinson made the comments during a Charlotte area church congregation on May 23.
Trump’s former personal attorney called the violence that day a “spontaneous” riot that included antifa involvement.
This article was originally published at Prism
Intellectually and developmentally disabled people have historically been weaponized against abortion rights by conservative politicians, or forced into sterilization by eugenicists. But a recent poll conducted by Data for Progress and shared with The 19th shows that 53% of Americans with disabilities want abortion to remain legal in most circumstances, in line with 55% of non-disabled people who want the same thing.
Lauren Boebert made her remarks toward President Joe Biden at the Family Camp Meeting event at Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Illustrations by Miki LoweThe poet A. E. Stallings lives in Athens, where the past is always bumping up against the present and ancient ruins stand amid trendy cafés. The old and new mingle in her work too. A classics scholar, Stallings tends to draw on Greek mythology and traditional poetic forms—but she uses them to explore thoroughly contemporary themes.
Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET on June 12, 2022.Eating alone began as a matter of circumstance.In the spring of 2020, as my world shrunk to the square footage of my apartment, food became a mode of injecting pleasure and delight into an otherwise bleak and lonely period of my life. I frequently ordered pizza from my favorite local spot in Washington, D.C.; I sampled different brands of instant ramen; I baked loaves of banana bread. In some ways, this routine was familiar.
I regret to inform you that Joe Biden is right to go to Saudi Arabia.Biden’s planned visit to the kingdom represents a determination to both rationalize the amount of attention we pay to the region and formulate a foreign policy that works on behalf of the American middle class. But it is not going to make anyone happy in the near term, and it is going to cost him precious political capital with his own party.
While monkeypox can be spread at close range through saliva droplets or respiratory secretions, the agency said it cannot travel through aerosols, like SARS-CoV-2.
The order is larger than earlier ones to the U.S. and represents a significant escalation in the fight against a growing monkeypox outbreak.
Michigan is one of more than 20 states with a law on the books that would outlaw nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
At the same time, more than six in 10 respondents believe that more congressional spending on Covid aid will contribute to inflation.
Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public hearings—hearings that will show, in the words of vice chair Liz Cheney, that “Donald Trump oversaw a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power.”Or, as committee chair Bennie Thompson put it, “Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy.
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.