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Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

Parler vanished from the internet when dropped by Amazon Inc’s hosting arm and other partners for poor moderation after its users called for violence and posted videos glorifying the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Top Wyoming GOP Official Suggests WY and TX Are Considering Seceding From the U.S. After Impeachment Vote

After his months-long smear campaign against the integrity of U.S. elections motivated a mob of extremists to attack the United States Capitol, the House of Representatives impeached outgoing President Donald Trump for a second time earlier this month.

WEF's top 5 global risks for 2020 are all about the environment

Economic and political polarization will rise in 2020, according to the World Economic Forum's latest Global Risks report, but severe threats to the climate account for all of the top five long-term risks.

The Battle of Liberty Place

A pitched battle took place in the streets of New Orleans on September 14, 1874. In it, the Democratic-Conservative White League attacked the Republican Metropolitan Police for control of the city and to put an end to Reconstruction in Louisiana.

'The lost years': Climate damage that occurred on Trump's watch will endure long after he is gone

For four years, President Donald Trump has careened from one crisis to the next, many of his own making.

Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.

This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary. The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was stoked in plain sight.

Trumps' snub of Bidens historic in its magnitude

On the morning of January 20, Donald Trump and Melania Trump will depart the White House as President and first lady, but they will not invite their incoming counterparts, Joe and Jill Biden, inside before they do.

'A Fearless Champion for Consumers': Warren Applauds Biden Pick of Rohit Chopra to Head CFPB

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Trump’s ‘1776 report’ defends America’s founding on the basis of slavery and blasts progressivism.

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Donald Trump Jr. Once Promoted Logo Of Extremist Militia Group That Stormed The Capitol Now Being Probed By FBI

As President Donald Trump and his allies face accusations of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol, an image made the rounds on social media Monday showing Donald Trump Jr.

House GOP leader tells members to quit spreading lies on riot, antifa

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of his GOP conference on a call Monday that the riot at the Capitol was not caused by antifa, urging lawmakers not to further spread misinformation about the pro-Trump mob that stormed the House and Senate last week.

Capitol rioter plotted to sell stolen Pelosi laptop to Russian intelligence

Riley June Williams was charged with disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with the intent to disturb a session of Congress and other charges after her former flame turned her in. Lund says the device and circumstances of what Williams was doing with it remain under investigation.

“All Bets Are Off the Next Few Weeks”

After the November election, amid Donald Trump’s rising rhetoric about a “stolen” vote, I talked to counterextremism experts about what it would take to bring the president’s most devoted and deluded supporters back from the edge.

Macho Politics Defined Trump's Presidency, Culminating With Capitol Riot

In President Trump's Jan. 6 speech ahead of the riot on Capitol Hill, there was a telling moment that was easy to miss amid his calls to "fight like hell." It was when Trump went on a tangent about the Republican governor of Georgia, one of the states Trump is angry he did not win on Election Day.

Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump

The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons. By Michael S. Schmidt and Kenneth P. Vogel

'Grim Reaper' Mitch McConnell Admits There Are 395 House Bills Sitting in the Senate: 'We're Not Going to Pass Those'

During a television interview, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that 395 bills sitting in the Senate are not going to be passed. On Fox News Friday, anchor Bret Baier asked McConnell if Democrats' statements about those bills were true and whether they could move forward.

Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government

Following state elections in 1898, white supremacists moved into the US port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state.

The Capitol insurrection could be a bigger racial reckoning than the George Floyd protests

An enraged White man thrusts the sharp point of an American flagpole toward a helpless Black man. A snarling police dog lunges at a civil rights protester. A White police officer presses his knee on the neck of an unconscious Black suspect.

Trump to issue around 100 pardons and commutations Tuesday, sources say

President Donald Trump is preparing to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the matter, a major batch of clemency actions that includes white collar criminals, high-profile rappers and others but -- as of now -- is

Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than We Remember

OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cis-hetero-patriarchal lens. In this installment, writer Jenn M. Jackson explores the radical nature of Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy, she says, was whitewashed over time.

A Murder, a Conspiracy Theory, and the Lies of Fox News

He was almost home. In the early-morning hours of July 10th, 2016, Seth Rich walked alone across northwest Washington, D.C., making calls to his friends and family, thinking about his future.

Misogyny in the Capitol: Among the insurrectionists, a lot of angry men who don’t like women

Among the various forms of violence on display during the U.S. Capitol insurrection, one has been largely overlooked: misogyny, or hatred toward women. Yet behaviors and symbols of white male power were striking and persistent features of the riots.

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

Additional contributions by Isaac Arnsdorf, David Armstrong, James Bandler, Ruth Baron, Kirsten Berg, Patricia Callahan, Haru Coryne, Lydia DePillis, Lynn Dombek, Adriana Gallardo, Jack Gillum, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Maryam Jameel, Louise Kiernan, Scott Klein, Celeste LeCompte, Dara Lind, J.

Big Oil Evaded Regulation And Plastic Pellets Kept Spilling

This story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks, or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach.

Here Are the Donors to Tea Party Group That Helped Organize Pre-Riot Rally

Donors to the Tea Party Patriots Foundation, one of the groups that helped organize the January 6 rally preceding the deadly attack on the U.S.

Home-Grown Extremism: Look to the Right

Since right-wing insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6 with the vague but violent idea of taking over the government, observers are paying renewed attention to the threat of right-wing violence in our midst.

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In Wake of Capitol Riot, GOP Legislatures “Rebrand” Old Anti-BLM Protest Laws

Within one day of last week’s attack on the Capitol, at least three states introduced legislation to criminalize protest.

Denial of American Fascism Has Cost Us Dearly

For too long, our country and our communities have been in denial about the rise of far-right authoritarianism and the enabling of fascism.

From Paul Ryan to Nikki Haley: GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True

The long-held Republican nightmare that a champion of working-class people and the common good—one who has dedicated his political career to curbing poverty and injustice while denouncing corporate greed, endless war, and the cruelty of a for-profit health system that leaves millions upon millions

The word “Orwellian” has lost all meaning

How the right made the word “Orwellian” an empty cliché. It’s possible Donald Trump’s greatest talent is driving people to buy copies of 1984.

Some Democrats in Congress are worried their colleagues might kill them

WASHINGTON — After last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, members of Congress are expressing something once unthinkable: that some of their own colleagues may be endangering their lives. Not in a rhetorical sense, but in a direct and immediate way.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert and husband racked up arrests in home district

Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting freshman Republican Colorado congresswoman who ran on a law-and-order platform, has had several dust-ups with police, starting as a teenager. The 34-year-old lawmaker, who beat her district’s very conservative Rep.

Remembering when bankers tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictator

When we look back at history, we have the benefit of knowing how things turned out — not true for those who were living through history's tensest moments.

The American Abyss

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done.

Trump Already Has a Wall. It’s the Thin Blue Line.

At protest after protest in recent years, when police officers have moved in with their pepper spray or rolls of orange mesh to break things up, the same chant has greeted them: “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” It rang out in the Occupy encampments and in the movement for black lives.

The Capitol riot is a reminder of the links between police and white supremacy

Almost 30 police officers attended the Capitol rally. It should come as no surprise. As investigations of last week’s riot at the US Capitol continue, one thing has become abundantly clear: The people involved were not just “fringe” elements, disconnected from the mainstream of society.

How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption

Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake.

We’re Just Finding Out How Bad the Riot Really Was

As terrifying as it was to watch the attempted coup unfold on January 6, the news that afternoon offered some cause for relief. Although the U.S. Capitol was overrun, few injuries were initially reported. At first, it appeared that only one woman died in the melee. No lawmakers were harmed.

Some GOP House members won't comply with metal detectors

Several Republican members of Congress won't comply with the metal detectors on the House floor, which were ordered put in place by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after last week's deadly riot at the Capitol.

'They Should All Resign': Here Are the GOP Lawmakers Dodging Metal Detectors Installed After Capitol Assault

Flippantly disregarding a basic safety measure put in place in the wake of last week's deadly invasion the U.S.

Republicans dodge metal detectors & tote guns in the capitol. Harvey Milk’s assassin did the same.

On a November morning in 1978, former San Francisco supervisor Dan White snuck past metal detectors at San Francisco City Hall and assassinated his colleagues, mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.

National Rifle Association Files Bankruptcy, Citing New York Politics

The National Rifle Association of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday with plans to regroup in Texas, citing opposition in New York. The group intends to restructure and reincorporate, according to a statement on its website.

Still going to the grocery store? With new virus variants spreading, it’s probably time to stop.

Health experts say you should avoid optional trips whenever you can. You probably need a better mask, too. Recent developments in the Covid-19 pandemic have exposed a grim reality: If we keep doing what we’re doing now to prevent infections, we’re screwed. Well, even more screwed.

Trump Is on the Verge of Losing Everything

President Trump’s second impeachment, like the other repudiations he has suffered, feels provisional. He is never quite banished. He is impeached, but Senate Republicans refuse to convict or even allow evidence into his trial. He loses the election, but won’t concede, and may just run again.

The planet is dying faster than we thought

Humanity is barreling toward a "ghastly future" of mass extinctions, health crises and constant climate-induced disruptions to society — one that can only be prevented if world leaders start taking environmental threats seriously, scientists warn in a new paper published Jan.

Covid-19 deaths are the highest they’ve ever been — and the more infectious variants could make things much worse

As horrific as the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak looks right now, it is almost certainly about to get worse. They’ve raced through South Africa, the United Kingdom, and, increasingly, elsewhere, and now, new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus have gained toeholds in the United States.