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Democrats Ask Ethics Panel to Investigate Sens. Cruz, Hawley

(Headline USA) Seven Democratic senators on Thursday asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the actions of Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley “to fully understand their role” in the Jan. 6 pre-planned siege at the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump and members of Antifa. Thousands had gathered...

THE BIDEN TYPE: FBI Director Chris Wray Will Stay on Board in New Regime

Although widely criticized during the Trump presidency for reluctance to rein in bureaucratic abuses within his agency, FBI Director Christopher Wray received a ringing vote of confidence from new President Joe Biden. Wray was appointed in 2017 to replace the fired James Comey, but while not as overtly corrupt as...

John Kerry Laments ‘Wasted Years’ in Climate Fight Under Trump

(Headline USA) U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Thursday lamented “wasted years” under the Trump administration to slow "climate change" and urged faster work to curb fossil fuel emissions. Kerry spoke remotely to an Italian business conference in his first international climate address under President Joe Biden. Biden, in his first hours...

Biden Goes Big on Immigration Policy Reversals on Day One

(Headline USA) For the opening salvo of his presidency, few expected Joe Biden to be so far-reaching on immigration. A raft of executive orders signed Wednesday undoes many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives, such as halting work on a border wall with Mexico, lifting a travel ban on people from several...

Keystone XL Pipeline Halted as Biden Revokes Permit

(Headline USA) Construction on the long disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline halted Wednesday as incoming U.S. President Joe Biden revoked its permit on his first day in office. The 1,700-mile pipeline was planned to carry roughly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through...

THEY’RE BA-ACK: Radicals Riot in Portland Against Biden and ICE

(Headline USA) A group of protesters carrying anti-President Joe Biden and anti-police signs marched Wednesday in Portland streets and damaged the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Oregon, police said. Some in the group of about 150 people smashed windows and spray-painted anarchist symbols at the political party building. Police said eight...

Biden Takes the Helm as President: ‘Democracy Has Prevailed’

(Headline USA) Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed." He swore the oath of office to take the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. Biden's inauguration...

LOL: China Hits Top Trump Officials w/ Travel Sanctions on Their Way Out

(Headline USA) China imposed sanctions on nearly 30 former Trump administration officials moments after they left office on Wednesday. In a statement released just minutes after Joe Biden was inaugurated, Beijing slapped travel bans and business restrictions on Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and U.N....

Trump Leaves White House, Says ‘It’s Been a Great Honor’

(Headline USA) Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president. “It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world," Trump told reporters before...

JUDGE: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Relationships w/ Adults Can Be Secret

(Headline USA) Testimony by Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend about her sexual experiences with consenting adults can remain secret when a transcript is released next week, a judge said Tuesday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan pertained to a July 2016 deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell in a civil...

Trump Pardons Ex-Strategist Steve Bannon, Dozens of Others

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family. The last-minute clemency,...

BACK TO THE SWAMP: Trump Frees Former Aides from Lobbying Ban

(Associated Press) President Donald Trump, in one of his final acts of office, released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge, which included a five-year ban on lobbying their former agencies. The ethics pledge was outlined in one of Trump’s first executive orders, signed...
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