Jun 10 U.S. to end COVID-19 test requirement for incoming international travelers By Zeke Miller, Associated Press The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the… Continue reading
Jun 10 Cost of necessities rose in May, leaving U.S. with new 40-year high in inflation By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press The costs of gas, food and other necessities jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: ‘Trump asked us to come,’ rioters said during Jan. 6 attack By Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado and Associated Press Before ending its nearly two hour hearing, the committee investigating the Capitol insurrection played video footage of rioters saying former President Donald Trump asked them to come to Washington on Jan. 6. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Filmmaker Nick Quested recalls documenting Proud Boys during Jan. 6 attack By Associated Press In his opening statement, Quested said that on January 6th, 2021, he "documented the crowd turn from protesters to rioters to insurrectionists."… Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: ‘It was carnage. It was chaos,’ Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards says of Jan. 6 attack By Hannah Grabenstein, Associated Press Edwards said in her opening statement June 9 before the House Jan. 6 committee that on the day of the attack and in the days that followed, she was called a number of names, including “Nancy Pelosi’s dog,” “incompetent,” “hero,”… Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Jan. 6 committee shows new footage of Capitol attack By Associated Press The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection presented 12 minutes of violent, previously unseen footage of rioters beating police and smashing way into Capitol. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Jan. 6 violence was ‘no accident,’ but part of ‘Trump’s last stand,’ Rep. Thompson says By Associated Press Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said “the world is watching” the U.S. response to the panel's yearlong investigation into the Capitol riot and the defeated president's extraordinary effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election victory. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Barr, Ivanka Trump say they knew there was no voter fraud in 2020 election By Associated Press Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee introduced clips from video depositions by Ivanka Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr to show President Trump's claims of substantial voter fraud were "complete nonsense."… Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: What happened in the days before the Capitol attack, according to the Jan. 6 committee By Associated Press Cheney outlined what the committee has learned about the events leading up to that brisk January day when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell” for his presidency. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Capitol riot was ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ Jan. 6 Committee chair Thompson says By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol said it put America's "constitutional democracy at risk."… Continue reading