New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event.
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Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies. ...[
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The enemies on Jan. 6 were Americans: thousands of people from across the country who had descended on the Capitol, intent on stopping Congress from certifying an election they believed was stolen from Trump. They had been urged to attend by Trump himself ...[
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For Republican lawmakers, former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial appeared to be a relatively easy acquittal but the latest vote in favor of subpoenaing witnesses reportedly has his base in an uproar. On Saturday, Feb. 13, when the impeachment t ...[
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"These numbers are yet another cry for help from Yemen, where each malnourished child also means a family struggling to survive," said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program, which prepared the report with the Food and Agriculture Org ...[
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It must be said, ahgain, the question is settled. A bipartisan majority of the members of the United States Senate voted this week to declare that the upper chamber of the United States Congress has the authority to conduct a trial of an impeached former ...[
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Prosecutors have requested a new arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who killed two men and severely injured one more when he openly fired at protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration last year. Rittenhouse was charged... ...[
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On the second day of former President Trump's second impeachment trial, House impeachment managers presented detailed documentation of the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection and shared dramatic new footage of the violence as it unfolded.
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The hexachloroethane smoke that police used against protesters can cause vomiting, respiratory distress and even death.
BLM protesters were no strangers to tear gas and smoke — after all, the Portland Police had gassed them many times since the George ...[
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The scathing new report is an indictment of both Trump and a health care system that values profit over human life. ...[
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Revelations that Donald Trump was told that Mike Pence had been whisked from the Senate floor just minutes before the former president decided to tweet an attack on his own vice president has added to the already staggering body of evidence that any state ...[
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