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While railing against Trump coup, Biden appoints chief Ukraine coup-plotter Victoria Nuland
Jan 14, 2021 06:02Victoria Nuland was the driving force behind the 2014 insurrection that overthrew the Ukrainian government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine and is now set to serve as Biden’s Under Secretary for Political Affairs.
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Acting US homeland security secretary Chad Wolf resigns
Jan 13, 2021 16:39Chad Wolf, the acting homeland security secretary, who helped enact key pieces of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda, resigned on Monday (December 11), as the nation confronts heightened security threats after an attack on the US capitol by supporters of the president.
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The Trumps have fueled a far right media monster that is not going away
Jan 13, 2021 16:36A growing sea of bloggers, podcasters, message board moderators, conspiracy theorists, social media pundits, extremist preachers and “news” outlets feed off Trump directly, using the president’s lies and, latest tweets to garner likes, hits, donations and ad revenue. To gain followers, they repost trending conspiracies loved by Trump fans on social media and attack racial justice activists whose calls for social change generate resentment on the right.
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Trump can be indicted under Federal, State and DC laws for his role in Jan. 6
Jan 13, 2021 07:00The legal evidence is damning: Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for “seditious conspiracy” and “inciting insurrection” for his role in stoking the events of January 6, when an angry mob of Trump loyalists, incited by the president himself, stormed the Capitol building to stop the congressional counting of votes for Joe Biden in the Electoral College.
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Missions to Mars, Moon and beyond await Earth in 2021
Jan 13, 2021 06:50About a month after the New Christian Year has started on Earth, three spacecraft will pull into the vicinity of Mars. These explorers, which launched in July last year, will be heralds of a busy year of space exploration, launches and astronomical occurrences.
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Are soaring markets and house prices an 'epic bubble' about to pop?
Jan 13, 2021 06:43Despite a purported satisfactory performance last week, shares in London still have some way to go before they reach their pre-crisis level. Here, the asset class that has defied the depressed state of the economy and the health emergency is residential property.
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On the 20th anniversary of the so-called “war on terror,” is there any end in sight?
Jan 12, 2021 16:21America’s twenty-first-century wars have, instead, been tragedies for millions and have led to a proliferation of threats that damaged the United States in fundamental ways
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Unacceptable: Probe demanded after footage shows Capitol police standing aside for pro-Trump mob
Jan 12, 2021 16:17The images of US police officers calmly allowing barricades open, letting the crowd enter, and taking selfies inside the building with those who have stormed it cannot go without investigation and penalty.
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Once again, job losses fall unequally across the US economy
Jan 12, 2021 06:13With the coronavirus transforming consumer spending habits, economists believe some portion of these service jobs won’t return even after the US economy has regained its footing.
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Myth of 'Exceptionalism' shattered as globe expresses shock over 'day of shame for American democracy'
Jan 12, 2021 06:08After four norm-shattering years of Trump, it took just a few hours of mob rule to make America look pretty ordinary and as fragile as anywhere else.