Oct 08 White House blocks Donald Trump from withholding documents on Jan. 6 attack By Yamiche Alcindor and Associated Press President Biden and White House officials on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from the House committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack. Continue reading
Oct 07 Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments cut by Trump By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Environmental and tribal groups had sued to reverse the cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. But the reductions were applauded by conservative state leaders who considered the size of both monuments U.S. government overreach. Continue reading
Oct 07 Senate report details Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker, Colleen Long, Associated Press The report released Thursday offers new insight about how the Republican incumbent tried to undo the vote and exert his will on the Justice Department, asking leaders to declare the election "corrupt" and disparaging its top official for not doing… Continue reading
Sep 24 Watch 5:16 How Arizona's election review is providing a national playbook for disgruntled politicians By PBS NewsHour Republicans in the Arizona State Senate had commissioned a review of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County even though election officials found no large-scale fraud. But a partisan group called Cyber Ninjas undertook a controversial review of the vote and affirmed… Continue watching
Sep 24 Iran foreign minister says country will return to nuclear talks 'very soon' By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Former President Donald Trump denounced the nuclear accord and withdrew the U.S. from the agreement in 2018. Biden and his team have made a U.S. return to the deal one of their top foreign policy priorities. Continue reading
Sep 24 WATCH: GOP review finds no proof Arizona election was stolen from Trump By Bob Christie, Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press A Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largest county ended Friday without producing proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. Continue reading
Sep 23 House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump advisers, associates By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Associated Press The subpoenas are for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel and former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon. Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch 4:34 News Wrap: Senate Dems, GOP end police reform talks, face stalemate over debt ceiling By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Wednesday, Democratic Senators say they ended bipartisan negotiations on police reform and collecting data on use of force. Senators have also reached a stalemate on the fight over the debt ceiling. There's word that large numbers… Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch 8:59 How America faced 'Peril' in final days of Trump presidency By PBS NewsHour The first draft of history is being written about the final, chaotic days of Donald Trump's presidency and the earliest days of Joe Biden's. A new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reveals the alarm and… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch 5:34 Gun laws, abortion rights: upcoming SCOTUS hearings to be impacted by RBG's death By PBS NewsHour It’s been a year since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Her seat on the bench is now occupied by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the third judge appointed by former President Donald Trump. On October 4th, the court will resume in-person… Continue watching