WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Mr William Barr, the former US attorney-general, said in an interview that was broadcast on Monday night (Jan 18) that doubts raised about the legitimacy of the Nov 3 election results “precipitated the riot” at the Capitol on Jan 6. But he would not say whether he believed that President Donald Trump […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States First Lady Melania Trump released a farewell message on Monday (Jan 18) as she prepares to leave the White House, saying that “violence is never the answer”, weeks after President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol. In a formal, six-minute speech recorded on video, she made only a fleeting […]
A Texas man who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was arrested and accused of having threatened to shoot his children if they told authorities that he had gone to Washington, D.C., according to federal court documents released Monday. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, the man, Guy Reffitt, […]
The Trump White House on Monday released the report of the presidential “1776 Commission,” a sweeping attack on liberal thought and activism that calls for a “patriotic education,” defends America’s founding on the basis of slavery and likens progressivism to fascism. President Trump formed the commission in September, saying that American heritage was under assault […]
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (REUTERS) – US lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month. Researchers and law enforcement have been running photographs from the Jan 6 siege of the Capitol through […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 34 per cent in a Gallup poll released Monday (Jan 18), the low point of a presidency that already had the weakest average approval rating of any of his predecessors since the survey began in the 1940s. The new Gallup numbers, based on a […]
Melania Trump defended her legacy as first lady in a video posted on Monday, asked Americans to “lead by example” in caring for others, and name-checked her Be Best platform, which over the years never grew into a comprehensible policy effort. “Use every opportunity to show consideration for another person,” Mrs. Trump said in the […]
Deborah L. Rhode, a law professor who transformed the field of legal ethics from little more than a crib sheet for passing the bar exam into an empirically rich, morally rigorous investigation into how lawyers should serve the public, died on Jan. 8 at her home in Stanford, Calif. She was 68. Her husband, Ralph […]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to the acting secretary of defense demanding that he not install a Trump loyalist as the top lawyer at the National Security Agency, her office announced Monday. The action by Ms. Pelosi increases the pressure on the Pentagon to change course and not install Michael Ellis in an important […]
Donald Trump began to refer to himself using the third person as his presidency crumbled in the wake of his election loss, it was claimed. The President of the United States raged at his former Attorney General Bill Barr for refuting election fraud claims, saying: ‘Why would you say such a thing? You must hate […]