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    Breaking: ‘I will vote to impeach the president,’ says GOP Rep. Liz Cheney
    Jan13

    Breaking: ‘I will vote to impeach the president,’ says GOP Rep. Liz Cheney

    Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming became the second House Republican to announce support of the impeachment of President Donald Trump after a congressman representing New York’s 24th congressional district became the first. Rep. John Katko of New York was the first House Republican to announce support Tuesday afternoon. “On January 6, 2021 a...

    ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ Trump Says of Democrats’ Impeachment Effort
    Jan12

    ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ Trump Says of Democrats’ Impeachment Effort

    U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Democratic lawmakers’ push to impeach him in the last days of his presidency is “absolutely ridiculous.” Speaking to reporters for the first time since thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday to try to upend his defeat for reelection, Trump rejected any contention...

    German investigators shut down big darknet marketplace
    Jan12

    German investigators shut down big darknet marketplace

    BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday that they have taken down what they believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet and arrested its suspected operator. The site, known as DarkMarket, was shut down on Monday, prosecutors in the southwestern city of Koblenz said. All sorts of drugs, forged money, stolen or forged credit...

    Russian Court Jails Three Crimean Tatars On Extremism Charges
    Jan12

    Russian Court Jails Three Crimean Tatars On Extremism Charges

    Another group of Crimean Tatars has been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on charges of being members of a banned Islamic group and plotting to seize power in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Republicans Want Impunity, Not Unity
    Jan12

    Republicans Want Impunity, Not Unity

    For the past two months, the bulk of the Republican Party and the conservative movement has pushed unhinged conspiracy theories about election fraud. Most of them stood back and stood by while President Donald Trump constantly lied about the outcome, or while he pressured state officials into overturning their election results. While Trump raged...

    US House Moves to Remove Trump from Office
    Jan12

    US House Moves to Remove Trump from Office

    The Democrat-majority U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution calling for Vice President Mike Pence and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to use their constitutional authority to remove Trump from office.The measure, which is expected to pass, sets a 24-hour deadline for Pence to respond.WATCH: US...

    Facebook locks Ron Paul out of his account for violating ‘community standards’
    Jan12

    Facebook locks Ron Paul out of his account for violating ‘community standards’

    Former Republican Congressman and libertarian icon Ron Paul (Texas) was locked out of his Facebook account by the social media giant on Monday, after he shared a column blasting Big Tech for silencing Americans and accused platforms of a coordinated attack with government to stifle free speech.What are the details?”With no explanation other...

    GOP Sen. Susan Collins thought the mostly white pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was ‘the Iranians’ at first
    Jan12

    GOP Sen. Susan Collins thought the mostly white pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was ‘the Iranians’ at first

    U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty Images GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in a new op-ed said she initially thought the Capitol siege was the work of the Iranians. “My first thought was that the...

    U.S. Sanctions 2020 Election Meddlers Tied to Giuliani
    Jan12

    U.S. Sanctions 2020 Election Meddlers Tied to Giuliani

    The Trump administration on Monday issued a fresh round of sanctions on a Russia-backed network of individuals who attempted to influence the 2020 election by spreading false information about Joe Biden, according to an announcement by the Treasury Department. The sanctions target several people linked to Andrii Derkach, the Ukrainian lawmaker...

    Biden Is No Centrist
    Jan11

    Biden Is No Centrist

    One of many things that will distinguish a President Joe Biden from his predecessor is that the incoming president is likely to speak less in public, mostly because of how he garbles his thoughts and words. The most recent example was when he called Peter Doocy of Fox News a “one-horse pony.” Translators are still working to decipher that...