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Summary List PlacementA Trump supporter in Pennsylvania threatened to shoot up a local Democratic Party office, boasted to party officials that it would be hard to catch him, and then was arrested this week after apparently following through on this threat, according to a federal criminal complaint. On January 6, the day of the pro-Trump insurrection at the US Capitol, Anthony Francis Nero, 48,...

Summary List PlacementDemocrats now control the House and the presidency, and narrowly control the Senate, and activists want them to use their power, and with any means available, to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation. "This is our time," Greisa Martinez Rosas, executive director of United We Dream, said on a conference call Wednesday. Her group — a youth-led immigrant...

Summary List PlacementIn a democracy, 50% plus one equals a governing majority. But in the US Senate, it takes 60 votes — or arcane maneuvers like budget "reconciliation" — to get much of anything done thanks to the filibuster, a Senate rule allowing a senator or senators from the minority party to hold up a bill, which has ossified into a permanent obstacle. And...

Summary List PlacementDeclaring his intent to restore the United States' "moral leadership," President Joe Biden announced that he is raising the cap on the number of refugees the country to as many as 125,000 for the fiscal year that begins this fall. According to the White House, Biden also intends to work with Congress on overriding the cap for this fiscal year, set at...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia who two years before winning her first election said Jews were starting wildfires with laser beams from outer space, is sorry about all that — or at least behind closed doors, she was sorry for the controversy she's caused. Privately, on Wednesday, she apologized. According to sources who spoke to The Hill, she told...

Summary List PlacementProsecutors in Wisconsin are demanding that Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenage vigilante charged with murdering two people at a Black Lives Matter protest, be arrested for failing to inform authorities of his whereabouts, which are currently unknown. Court records show that, on January 28, mail sent to Rittenhouse's stated address in Antioch, Illinois, was returned to sender. In a motion filed Wednesday, the...

Summary List PlacementIn an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, Karl Rove, the Republican operative who has advised presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, spoke out against fringe conspiracy theories put forth by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.Rove said that Greene, an elected Republican from Georgia, should be stripped of her committee assignments. Greene has made headlines for, among other things, claiming that...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, has suggested that school shootings are "false flags" and that 9/11 was an inside job, while expressing support for executing top Democrats. But until Monday, leading members of her party had refused to explicitly condemn her — House Republicans, instead, appointed to her to a committee that oversees education policy. Senate Minority Leader Mitch...

Summary List PlacementMyanmar's top political leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Mynt, were "taken" in an early-morning raid, a spokesperson for the ruling party told Reuters on Sunday. "I want to tell our people not to respond rashly and I want them to act according to the law," Myo Nyunt, of the National League for Democracy, told the news wire. He...

Summary List PlacementA top Arizona Republican who promoted a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2020 election has introduced a bill that would allow legislators override the certification of the state's top elections official and effectively overturn the results of a future presidential election. Rep. Shawnna Bolick, a Phoenix-area Republican, does not dispute her own reelection in November. But after Donald Trump lost his bid...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the newly elected far-right Republican from Georgia who has embraced conspiracy theories about school shootings, will now be on a House committee overseeing the nation's education system. And that, say the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook, is a vile assault on truth that should have no place in Congress. As the liberal watchdog group Media...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, on Facebook and elsewhere, has endorsed conspiracy theories claiming that mass shootings are "false flags" to justify gun control and shown support for calls for executing high-level Democrats. Now some are saying the newly elected Republican from Georgia should be kicked out of the people's house. "Such advocacy for extremism and sedition not only demands her immediate expulsion...

Summary List PlacementProsecutors can introduce two previous incidents of alleged excessive force in their case against Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, a judge ruled Tuesday. Floyd was killed in 2020 after Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, pressed him to the ground with a knee on his neck for almost nine minutes. Bodycam footage shows Floyd pleaded for...

Summary List PlacementThe mayor of Portland told police that he asked the man to back away. When the man refused, he took out his pepper spray and spritzed him in the eyes — before offering him a bottle of water to wash it out. "He had no face mask and got within a foot or two of my face while he was videoing me,"...

Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump should be impeached for a second time after being "caught on tape trying to rig a presidential election," the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said Sunday. The demand comes after the release of a recording that features Trump pleading with Georgia elections official Brad Raffensperger to "find" more votes for him so that he could...

Summary List PlacementA man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse, and the parents of another person killed by the teenage vigilante, have filed a lawsuit against officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, seeking millions of dollars in compensation for their pain and suffering. As first reported by Milwaukee NBC affiliate WTMJ, Gaige Grosskreutz, who was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse after he killed another man, and the...

Summary List PlacementFormer members of the Church of Scientology who accuse the organization of harassing them to cover up sexual assault will not have their claims heard in court. Instead, a California judge ruled Thursday, their claims will have to be weighed in a private arbitration process designed by the organization itself. The ruling stems from a 2019 lawsuit accusing "That 70s Show" star...

Summary List PlacementThis week saw the deadliest day in the United States since the coronavirus pandemic began, with a record-breaking number of hospitalizations foreshadowing potentially darker days still to come. States across the US reported more than 3,900 deaths on Wednesday and over 125,000 hospitalizations, according to data from The Covid Tracking Project. The figures may not reflect the actual tallies due to delays...