The floor debate moves the upper chamber closer to a showdown over the 60-vote filibuster rule. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday kicked off debate on voting rights legislation and moved closer to a potential floor battle over the filibuster rule, which Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have vowed to uphold despite the dire implications for U.S. democracy. […]
President Barack Obama called it “the most precise air campaign in history” Thousands of previously hidden Pentagon documents show that the US air wars in the Middle East have been marked by “deeply flawed intelligence” and have killed thousands of civilians, many of them children, according to a shocking new report in the New York Times Saturday afternoon. […]
U.S. soldiers reportedly fired warning shots into the air and used smoke grenades to disperse crowds of desperate Afghans. At least five people were reportedly killed at Kabul’s international airport on Monday as thousands of desperate Afghan civilians and foreign nationals gathered there in hopes of boarding a flight out of the country, with the […]
Israel destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and other media outlets on Saturday, the latest step by Israel to silence reporting. Israeli bombs destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and other media outlets on Saturday, the latest […]
The president ordered the strikes on facilities the administration says belonged to Iran-backed militia groups Sparking swift criticism of U.S. imperialism, the United States on Thursday carried out airstrikes ordered by President Joe Biden on facilities in Syria that government officials told reporters belonged to Iran-backed militia groups—retaliation for a trio of recent rocket attacks on bases […]
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky informed colleagues in an email Saturday morning that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a deadly insurrection, despite admitting less than two weeks after the January 6 assault that the former president “provoked” the right-wing mob. McConnell hid behind a procedural justification for his decision, […]
The new footage, said one Democratic aide, “shows a view of the Capitol that is quite extraordinary.” Hours after the Senate reaffirmed the constitutionality of the impeachment trial in a largely party-line vote, House Democrats on Wednesday are set to present their case for convicting former President Donald Trump for inciting a violent and deadly insurrection against […]
As Congress and President Donald Trump’s Cabinet face mounting pressure to immediately remove him from office for inciting a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter announced Friday that it is permanently suspending the president’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump, for violating the platform’s rules. “After close review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—specifically how they […]
“President Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible, indicted, and convicted,” said the head of Common Cause. In the wake of Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol incited by President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers who opposed the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, a growing list of elected officials, leaders of civil society groups, […]