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- Chuck Schumer blamed the GOP for slowing down the passage of the infrastructure bill.- The $1 trillion package would see spending on high-speed internet, new roads, and other projects.- Sen. Bill Haggerty, a Republican who opposes the bill, blocked efforts to fast-track it.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Republicans of slowing efforts to pass President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill after a GOP Senator scuppered efforts to speed up the timeline.Biden's infrastructure bill would see billions of dollars spent on new roads, bridges, highways, high-speed internet, and improvements to drinking water.He initially proposed a much bigger package, but...

Since supporters of then-President Donald Trump swarmed the US Capitol on January 6 — forcing Congress to go into lockdown and damaging the halls of government — 599 people have been arrested and charged with crimes. The FBI is seeking the public's help to identify people who took part in one of the most documented crimes in US history. But since many rioters were allowed to walk free on January 6, it's taking some time to track them down. This table includes the names, charges, and links to court documents of all the people charged so far. We're keeping it...

A Washington, D.C. judge has ruled that the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute cannot be held responsible for an outside blogger’s 2012 online attack on a prominent climate scientist. At the same time, the judge decided that a jury should decide whether the blogger, Rand Simberg, should be held liable for his post, which excoriated Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann and suggested that he had engaged in fraud. Mark Steyn, an outside blogger for the National Review, another conservative publication, also should face a trial over his own post, two days after Simberg’s, Superior Court Judge Alfred...

An Arizona GOP official tore into the Maricopa County election audit on Monday, saying the claims of voter fraud that prompted the recount were baseless and likening the situation to a "borderline dystopia."Richer said of the former president's claims: "It's disappointing. It's borderline dystopian. And unfortunately, when the president says something like that, it's very hard to put the genie back in the bottle."

‘ Pence Aides still getting Government Paychecks and Pence got a big time book deal and bought a Mansion on a lake in Indiana. Behind a Paywall

Former President Donald Trump believed that he contracted COVID-19 last October from ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, according to a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff. Shortly before Trump announced he tested positive coronavirus on October 2, he worked with Christie to prepare for the September 29 presidential debate against Joe Biden. Trump, a self-described germaphobe, had "seen the spittle" come out of Christie's mouth and "tried to duck from the droplets" as they sat across from each other at practice debate sessions, Wolff wrote in his book, "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency." Trump later blamed his...

Hollywood has a reputation for being a liberal bastion of political correctness. But as these appalling movies show, it wasn't always so. Some of them—such as 1975's Mandingo—are almost fetishistically racist. Others are fantastic movies degraded because stereotypical characters such as Long Duk Dong from "Sixteen Candles" or Mr. Yunioshi from "Breakfast at Tiffany's." We've compiled a list of the worst racist indiscretions made in Hollywood from the very birth of film. And there are a lot. Warning: Some of this material may be upsetting. 21. "North" (1994) had Inuit/Eskimo racism in one ridiculous scene. In this strange and terrible...

The rise of the Greens in Germany may hit a snag this Sunday, when the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt goes to vote. The far-right Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in some opinion polls there.

A former aide to Roger Stone, a longtime friend and former adviser to Donald Trump, appeared to indicate at a QAnon conference over the weekend that Hillary Clinton should be hanged. Referring to Clinton as a "godawful woman who shall not be named," Jason Sullivan, Stone's ex-social media adviser, made a noose gesture with his hand on a stage. His action was received with loud applause from a crowd of QAnon gatherers.

Monday will mark 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre destroyed "Black Wall Street." Several events will take place over the weekend, including a visit by President Joe Biden. White supremacists could target the commemorative events in racially charged attacks, the DHS warned. Monday will mark 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre destroyed "Black Wall Street," and the US Department of Homeland Security has warned that white supremacist groups might target events commemorating it...... The Tulsa race massacre saw mobs of white residents attack Black residents and businesses in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Somewhere between...

... Both AstraZeneca's and J&J's shot are viral-vector vaccines, which introduce a coronavirus gene into the body using a genetically engineered common-cold virus. Some scientists are wondering whether the platform itself could be linked to clotting. ... At an American Medical Association webinar on Tuesday, Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said the US has identified just three CVST cases among the 68 million people who got the double-dose mRNA vaccines. In a Tuesday statement, Moderna also said it had carried out its own comprehensive analysis and found no association between its shot and...

Hunter Biden has reignited a feud with the Trump children, calling them out for getting rich on Trump's dime. In his memoir, Biden says the Trump kids could never get a job outside Trump's business. Don Jr. and Biden previously tangled over who benefited more from their fathers' public service.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has told Axios that he was "a little bit nervous" about catching the coronavirus during President Donald Trump's administration, since the White House at the time was "sort of a superspreader location."

I love America, I support the troops, and I want sports teams to stop playing the national anthem before every game. It's not an act of genuine patriotism, it's a ritual of joyless conformity. End the obligatory performances and shame-enforced head-bowing. For the love of America, make the "Star Spangled Banner" mean something again.

The mass delusion that rampant election fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election isn't an overnight phenomenon. It required the steady hum of repetition for it to become ingrained in the minds of Trump supporters. Whether it was from a meme on Facebook or a conservative news network or a right-wing conspiracy blog, the deluge of lies stuck in the brains of millions. Some of those consumed by these lies stormed the Capitol; many more say they no longer believe in American democracy.

President Joe Biden wants to remove the word "alien" from US immigration law as a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the US "as a nation of immigrants." In a summary of his immigration bill, Biden said he planned to replace the word with "noncitizen." "The language change on the first day of this administration, with Kamala Harris the daughter of immigrants, to me it's not just symbolic ... it's foundational," Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and undocumented immigrant, told CNN. The US Code defines an "alien" as anyone who's "not a citizen or national of the United States." Several local jurisdictions...

Indeed, watching that speech again, his words seem more prescient than ever. Contrast how a patient, persistent, and overwhelmingly peaceful Black Lives Matter movement successfully passed scores of police oversight bills around the nation -- while a violent spasm of insurgents at the Capitol brought nothing but chaos, destruction, and an indelible shame to themselves and those who supported their heinous acts. And yet, while the actions of these domestic terrorists (let's call them what they are) cannot be defended, and derive from an elaborate framework of conspiracy and lies, I'm reminded of what Dr. King said immediately after: "But...

Amazon filed its response Tuesday to an antitrust suit brought against it by Parler, arguing that the social media upstart's refusal to remove violent content from its platform violated its contract, and that Parler had failed to prove any antitrust claims. Parler sued Amazon on Monday after the tech giant booted the platform from its web-hosting service, Amazon Web Services, amid public outcry over Parler's role in enabling far-right insurrectionists to organize and plan last week's attacks on the US Capitol. "This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling viewpoints. It is not about a conspiracy to restrain trade,"...

A yoga studio in Washington state is staying open amid state shutdown orders after its founder claimed it has a religious exemption. In a Tuesday appearance on "Fox & Friends First," Hauteyoga founder Leah Zaccaria said she believes yoga should not be considered a physical fitness center or gym. Zaccaria told the show she has not officially "proclaimed myself a church or a religious organization" in the eyes of the law, but believes the exemption applies to yoga because it is a "spiritual practice" that includes "mind, body, and spirit." "It is more than a fitness practice," she said on...

Google was hit by a major outage on Monday morning.Per Downdetector, a wide range of Google services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Suite, and Google Maps started experiencing problems at around 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time.Downdetector's data suggests the outage is worldwide, with reports coming in from Europe, the US, India, Japan, Australia and more.