“Top elected officials preferred to keep Americans in the dark and set policy based on political considerations, not science,” said one former CDC adviser. Documents released Friday reveal how in early 2020 the Trump administration downplayed the deadly danger posed by the nascent Covid-19 pandemic, silencing and sidelining top health officials who tried to warn the […]
“President Biden should forswear future U.S. production and use of anti-personnel landmines and fulfill the previous U.S. goal of eliminating this inherently indiscriminate weapon.” As a benchmark report on worldwide landmine casualties showed a 21% increase in deaths and injuries in 2020, one of the paper’s editors on Wednesday renewed calls for the Biden administration to […]
Frustrated by the U.S. attorney general’s failure to investigate or take legal action against former President Donald Trump and his associates for various potential crimes, Free Speech for People argued Thursday that because Merrick Garland “is unwilling to step up, it is time for him to step down.” Free Speech for People’s call for Garland to resign came […]
Biden, said one journalist, believes “there is a coup-plotting exception to executive privilege.” President Joe Biden on Friday ordered federal record-keepers to allow the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection to access a cache of former President Donald Trump’s White House documents, denying an attempt by Trump to shield the information through executive privilege. “As a part […]
“Donald Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election represents a very real and continued threat to our democracy,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released an exhaustive report that describes in new detail how then-President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly pressured the U.S Department of Justice to overturn his 2020 […]
“The Biden administration must drop its charges against Assange immediately.” Under the leadership of then-Director Mike Pompeo, the CIA in 2017 reportedly plotted to kidnap—and discussed plans to assassinate—WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who is currently imprisoned in London as he fights the Biden administration’s efforts to extradite him to the United States. Citing conversations with more […]
“We must keep Arctic oil in the ground if we want a livable planet for future generations.” A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out construction permits for a sprawling, multibillion-dollar Alaska oil drilling project that the Trump administration approved and the Biden Interior Department defended in court earlier this year, infuriating Indigenous groups, climate advocates, and scientists. In […]
The senator said the panel “should also examine the extent of any coordination between those groups, the Trump administration, and the members of Congress who objected to the electoral count.” Linking the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol with a protracted effort by secretive right-wing groups and wealthy GOP contributors, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Friday […]
Activists urge lawmakers to reverse a relevant 2017 law, “cancel the leases issued by the Trump administration, and shut down this dangerous drilling program once and for all.” Indigenous and environmental groups on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. Interior Department’s decision to review the Trump administration’s controversial move opening up previously protected land in Alaska to drilling […]