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Posted Aug 12, 2022, 10:28 am
Emily Zantow
/Courthouse News Service
Former President Donald Trump said late Thursday night that he will not oppose the Department of Justice's motion to unseal the search warrant approved by a federal judge for the FBI's raid on his south Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.... Read more»
Posted Aug 10, 2022, 8:59 am
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
Republicans in Congress fumed Tuesday in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s Monday evening statement that the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, a copy of which has not yet been released by the former president.... Read more»
Posted Aug 9, 2022, 9:35 am
Emily Zantow
/Courthouse News Service
Democrats are emphasizing that no one is above the law while Republicans are threatening an investigation of the Justice Department and attorney general after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's south Florida home on Monday.... Read more»
Posted Mar 30, 2022, 12:39 pm
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
There are a lot of places and events I want to stay away from. Papa John’s Pizza, another Trump rally, a Nickelback concert, Sturgis, Mar-a-Lago, Cats the musical or movie, renaissance fairs — and now we can add cocaine-fueled Republican orgies to the list.... Read more»
Posted Mar 17, 2022, 7:20 am
Jennifer Shutt & Jacob Fischler/Arizona Mirror
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday invoked the Pearl Harbor attacks ahead of World War II and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while urging the United States to do more to stop the Russian war against his country. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 17, 2022, 7:54 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program - touted by members of Congress as a highly effective cash assistance program for low-income parents and kids - is a program distinguished by failure and no substitute for a monthly federal stipend for families with children.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 9, 2022, 7:14 am
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the Republican National Committee erred in censuring two House GOP lawmakers - Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger - for joining the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 6, 2022, 6:47 am
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was the culmination of months of false claims about election fraud, and on that day — and afterward — FactCheck debunked false, misleading and unfounded claims related to the events that day. Here is a summary of the coverage.... Read more»
Posted Dec 15, 2021, 9:56 am
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
Here’s the thing, kids: Journalists are not supposed to be a part of the story. Journalists are supposed to tell the story. Legitimate news outlets fire journalists who make themselves a part of the story, which we saw recently when CNN fired Chris Cuomo.... Read more»
Posted Nov 19, 2021, 9:50 am
Laura Olson, Jacob Fischler & Ariana Figueroa/Arizona Mirror
U.S. House Democrats united around a landmark $1.85 trillion social spending and climate bill on Friday, sending the major plank of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda to the Senate - though major revisions are expected to gain support from Senate Democratic moderates.... Read more»
Posted Nov 10, 2021, 10:46 am
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, refused to back down Tuesday from his weekend tweet of a violent cartoon that appeared to show him and other House conservatives attacking President Joe Biden and a liberal House Democrat.... Read more»
Posted Sep 24, 2021, 5:08 am
Lydia DePillis
/ProPublica
As Congress launched a bailout to keep businesses afloat at the outset of the pandemic, officials stressed that the loans were for businesses that didn’t have another easily available lifeline - instead, the government gave out generous loans to companies that may not have needed them. ... Read more»
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Posted Aug 23, 2021, 6:49 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Data from roll call votes shows that 171 U.S. House Democrats and 89 Republicans have voted by proxy at least once since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi authorized the pandemic-era practice beginning last year. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 19, 2021, 7:39 am
D'Angelo Gore
/Factcheck.org
As of July, there had been more than 1.3 million “encounters” at the southwest border in fiscal year 2021 - but that does not mean that 1.3 million people crossed the border, nor does it mean that 1.3 million people tried to illegally enter the country.... Read more»
Posted Jul 30, 2021, 7:28 am
Brandi Buchman
/Courthouse News
With the Delta variant of COVID-19 driving a new surge in infections in the United States, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced a new rule for federal employees: Get vaccinated or face regular testing and other restrictions.
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Posted Jul 28, 2021, 2:49 pm
Alyssa Marksz
/Cronkite News
Police officers gave hours of emotional testimony Tuesday about being on the front lines at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, while separate groups of GOP lawmakers attacked the hearings as a sham and defended the rioters as “political prisoners.” ... Read more»