By Nov. 12, former President Donald Trump’s team of election lawyers knew he had lost his re-election bid, that despite Trump’s tweets and public comments, “there was no substantial evidence of election fraud, and there were nowhere near enough ‘irregularities’ to reverse the outcome in the courts,” The New York Times reports. But their protestations […]
As states were formulating plans to vaccinate their residents against COVID-19 last fall, top Trump administration officials pushed Congress to deny the state governments any extra funding for the vaccine rollout, Stat News reported Sunday. The officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and White House Office of Management and Budget chief Russ […]
The Conversation Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here’s what we learned from getting 1.5 million calls on 66,000 phone lines New research aims to give phone companies tools to help curb robocalls. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea More than […]
New drone video shows the recent damage wrought on California’s iconic Highway 1, where part of the road collapsed after heavy rains washed it into the ocean last week. The video, released by the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, shows a large part of the highway still flooded and covered with debris from recent rainfall and […]
The Guardian Why Republicans won’t agree to Biden’s big plans and why he should ignore them The new president can achieve huge and vital reform and relief without the party of Trump – and they know it Joe Biden speaks to journalists before boarding Marine One at the White House. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters If there […]
Photograph taken in the East Midlands in 2020 showing a hare coursing gang with their spoils Rural communities have suffered a steep rise in hare coursing, with the RSPCA saying the growing involvement of gangs in wildlife crimes is a major factor in its decision to hand over its 200-year-old prosecuting powers to the CPS. […]
In the latest QAnon theory to emerge from the archives of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Congresswoman suggested that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was replaced by a body double years before her death. Ms Greene was speaking in an interview posted to the Facebook page of United America First in February 2019, in which a caller asked […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) seemed to think he had a slam dunk argument against President Biden’s rush of executive orders. But in an attempt to spin Biden’s own words against him on Thursday, McConnell ended up replacing Biden’s quote with a misleading version that has been circulating online. Biden has signed more than […]
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again batted down questions about her future. (Getty Images) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made it clear to Sen. Ted Cruz that the events of the Capitol insurrection were still fresh in her mind, and that the recent frenzy of attention on the stock market battle between Reddit investors, hedge funds and […]
China ratcheted up its rhetoric towards Taiwan on Thursday, bluntly warning the island that “independence means war” after increased Chinese military activity was recorded near Taiwan over the weekend. “We warn Taiwan independence elements: those who play with fire will be burned. Taiwan independence means war,” warned Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian. […]