Politics
A Trump Supporter Has Been Charged For Threatening The FBI Over The Mar-A-Lago Search
Adam Bies allegedly wrote on Gab that everyone who worked at the FBI, from its directors to its janitors, deserved to die after the search of Donald Trump's Florida estate.
David Mack
Trans Men Talk About Why They Got Abortions
“If I got pregnant, I would not live through that experience.”
Hallie Lieberman
24 Very Serious Guesses About What Trump Was Hiding In His Safe
“They even broke into my safe!"
David Mack
Welp, Trump Is Under Investigation For Espionage Act Violations And Obstruction Of Justice
Newly unsealed documents show FBI agents seized at least 11 classified documents from the former president’s Florida estate.
David Mack
Attorney General Merrick Garland Defended The FBI's Raid Of Trump's Mar-A-Lago Estate
The attorney general also revealed that he personally approved the decision to ask a court for a search warrant in the politically charged case.
David Mack
Trump, Who Said The Fifth Amendment Is For Guilty Mobsters, Invoked The Fifth Amendment
The former president invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions on Wednesday in a civil investigation by the New York attorney general.
David Mack
Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski Was Killed In A Car Crash Along With Two Staffers
The lawmaker from Indiana was first elected to Congress in 2012.
David Mack
Millions Of People Tracked Nancy Pelosi's Flight To Taiwan
The enormous influx of users overwhelmed Flightradar24, so much so that a waiting room had to be set up to prevent the site from crashing.
Julia Reinstein
Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America. Now, Her Son Reconsiders Her Legacy.
In his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, Zayd Dohrn, the son of 1970s Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, revisits her story.
Alessa Dominguez
“You Will Go To Your Grave As A Traitor”: How One Jan. 6 Participant Cooperated With The FBI
The lengths to which right-wing influencer Brandon Straka cooperated with the FBI were only revealed in court documents that were apparently released to the media by accident.
David Mack
TikTok Owner ByteDance Used A News App On Millions Of Phones To Push Pro-China Messages, Ex-Employees Say
Former employees claim the company placed pieces of pro-China content in its now-defunct US news app, TopBuzz, and censored negative stories about the Chinese government. ByteDance says it did no such thing.
Emily Baker-White
Listen To The Speech A Republican Lawmaker Gave At His Gay Son’s Wedding Days After Voting Against Marriage Equality
“We’re just blessed, and we just want to say thank you to everyone here as part of the celebration,” said Rep. Glenn Thompson, three days after voting against codifying marriage equality in federal law.
David Mack
A Jury Found Steve Bannon Guilty Of Contempt Of Congress
Bannon, a top adviser to former president Donald Trump, was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
President Joe Biden Has Tested Positive For COVID
The president has mild symptoms and has begun taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid.
Nidhi Prakash
LGBTQ Activists Are Quietly Preparing For A Nightmare: The Supreme Court Undoing Marriage Equality
“It's exhausting to even think about trying to do this again in the environment that we're in now,” one LGBTQ campaigner said.
David Mack
The Jan. 6 Committee Alerted The DOJ To A Phone Call Trump Tried To Make To A Witness
“Let me say one more time: We will take any efforts to influence witness testimony very seriously,” Rep. Liz Cheney warned Trump and his supporters.
David Mack
Abortion Bans May Be Unconstitutional In These Red States Where Courts Have Said Privacy Is A Right
“Every single [state constitution] has rights that protect the right to abortion if read correctly by the state courts. The question is whether courts will view them that way.”
Stephanie K. Baer
Here Are Joe Biden's 17 Picks For The Presidential Medal Of Freedom
The list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients this year also includes civil rights activists and the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
David Mack
Ketanji Brown Jackson Was Sworn In As The First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice
Jackson has ascended to the court at a critical time, with both the institution and the country rife with division.
David Mack
China Destroyed Muslim Culture In This Ancient City — Then Turned It Into Disneyland
The government’s campaign in Kashgar began with CCTV cameras watching people pray. Now it features tourists taking Instagram selfies.
Alison Killing
Lawmakers Are Pushing Visa And Mastercard To Do More To Clamp Down On Consumer Fraud
“It may be technically true that they don’t have an obligation, but it’s a pretty pathetic commitment to the public good of their customers,” Rep. Peter Welch told BuzzFeed News.
Rosalind Adams
Trump Tried To Attack A Secret Service Agent So He Could Lead An Armed Mob To The Capitol, An Aide Said
In explosive testimony, a former top White House aide said Trump knew his Jan. 6 supporters were armed, but wanted them let through security. When he couldn’t go to the Capitol, he was said to have become so enraged he tried to grab his limousine’s steering wheel.
David Mack
The Fall Of Roe V. Wade Is Frightening, But We’ve Got To Help Each Other
The overturning of Roe v. Wade and a spate of other recent Supreme Court decisions will put many people’s lives in danger. We’ve got to work to keep each other safe.
Estelle Tang
These Parents Explained Why They Feel More Strongly About Supporting Abortion Rights Than Ever Before
“It’s definitely not for everybody.”
Paige Skinner
“We Had To Do Something”: Crowds Are Gathering Across The US To Protest The Overturning Of Roe V. Wade
“I’m a teacher — I stuck [posterboard and markers] in my bag at the last minute in case the decision came down today.”
Ellie Hall
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: Laws On Same-Sex Marriage And Relationships, As Well As Contraception, Should Be Next
President Joe Biden warned the Supreme Court decision on abortion had set the US on an “extreme and dangerous path” that could overturn marriage equality, among other rights.
David Mack
Liberal Supreme Court Justices Couldn't Preserve Abortion As A Constitutional Right. Here's Their Dissent.
"One result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens."
David Mack
"Do You Feel Safe? You Shouldn't.": The Instagram Comment That Will Likely Send A Man To Prison
A man from Nebraska is the first person to plead guilty as part of the Justice Department's task force to protect elections workers.
David Mack
An Armed Man Who Was Arrested Near Brett Kavanaugh's Home Has Been Charged With Attempted Murder
The man told police he was angry about the court's possible overturning of federal abortion rights.
David Mack
Prosecutors Escalated The Stakes For Proud Boys Leaders In The Latest Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy Indictment
Ex–Proud Boys national chair Enrique Tarrio and his codefendants are already set for trial in August.
Zoe Tillman
