A federal grand jury in Miami late this afternoon returned an indictment charging Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, with attempting to kill former President Donald J. Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15. “Violence targeting public officials endangers everything our country stands for, and the Department of
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As the Senate nears its second vote on whether or not to convict former President Trump and bar him from holding future office, the outcome, in spite of a riveting prosecution and a chaotic defense, appears to be a foregone conclusion.
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Among his first acts in office last week, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to advance racial equity, declaring that the nation must take a “a systematic approach to embedding fairness in decision-making processes.”
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Coming just a week before President Trump incited an insurrection against Congress, President Erdoğan's installation of a hand-picked rector for Boğaziçi University is both a blow to Turkish academic freedom and a warning for American democracy about the danger of personalized power, write Ayşe Candan Kirişci and Kemal Kirişci. This post originally appeared in Just
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In the days after the insurrection incited by President Trump and carried out by his radical thug supporters, I—like many others—followed media reports closely and also browsed several social networks as a way to better understand what happened in America.
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The January 6 Capitol protests that became an insurrection painfully highlighted how the white supremacist movement is intermingled with anti-government extremists, conspiracy theorists, partisans of President Trump, and other causes.
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In an extraordinary phone call, U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded Saturday with election officials in the southern U.S. state of Georgia to find him enough votes to overturn his pivotal loss there to President-elect Joe Biden.
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OHCHR spokesperson Marta Hurtado, said in a statement on Wednesday that pardoning the four employees of private military company Blackwater, for their part in the killings that took place when they and other guards opened fire in Nisoor Square, “contributes to impunity and has the effect of emboldening others to commit such crimes in the
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The Trump administration leaves a legacy of confusion over cybersecurity issues with few positives.
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Today, medical workers administered the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in the United States–a feat that earlier this year many experts claimed would take a miracle.
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