Jan 11 Biden chooses veteran diplomat Burns as CIA director By Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. Continue reading
Jan 11 LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on three cases By Associated Press The high court on Monday also formally refused to put on a fast track election challenges filed by President Donald Trump and his allies. Continue reading
Jan 10 Oaths questioned as Trump’s backers fight against loss By Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press Before they take office, elected officials swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution. But what happens when they are accused of doing the opposite?… Continue reading
Jan 10 EXPLAINER: Can social media companies boot Trump? Yes By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Social media companies decided this past week they had finally seen enough from President Donald Trump. Twitter ended a nearly 12-year run and shuttered his account, severing an instant line of communication to his 89 million followers. Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch 11:48 Dan Rather on the Capitol attack, the state of our nation and ‘What Unites Us’ By PBS NewsHour The January 6 attack on The U.S. Capitol was the staggering culmination of years of political division and misinformation. Now, as debate rages over if President Trump should be held accountable for inciting the riot, President-elect Biden prepares to take… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch 5:37 Capitol riot: The ‘third world’ trope offends, misreads history By Ivette Feliciano Condemning the Capitol Hill riot, President George W. Bush and Senator Marco Rubio likened it to political upheavals in “Banana Republics” and the “third world.” But Lucia Dammert, a Wilson Center Global Fellow and Professor at the University of Santiago… Continue watching
Jan 10 2nd GOP senator now urges Trump to resign over Capitol riot By Darlene Superville, Alan Fram, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Two Republican senators now say President Donald Trump should resign as support for the drive to impeach him a second time is gaining momentum in his final days in office after the deadly riot at the Capitol by a violent… Continue reading
Jan 10 Anti-abortion faith leaders support use of COVID-19 vaccines By David Crary, Associated Press In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement in the United States are telling their followers that the leading vaccines available to combat COVID-19 are acceptable to take, given their remote and indirect connection to… Continue reading
Jan 09 Trump pressured Georgia to ‘find the fraud’ in earlier call By Ben Nadler, Associated Press While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressed a lead investigator to “find the fraud” and said it would make the investigator a national hero. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 12:53 Twitter, FB have deplatformed Trump. Is it enough? By PBS NewsHour Facebook and Twitter suspended President Trump’s accounts after the violence on Capitol Hill, on January 6, in a bid to prevent him from inciting further violence. Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public… Continue watching