In the news today: Shortly after promising pardons against those who helped him mount an attempted insurrection and urging his supporters to take to the streets if any one of the (many) investigations against him turn out badly, Donald Trump issued a new statement that definitively acknowledged that his actions on Jan. 6 were intended to topple the U.S. government.
No, this is not going to be a pointed news piece. Yes, this is going to be a rant. (Hey, give me a rant here and there, right?) We have years under our belts of watching Republicans under Donald J. Trump and Republicans out on their own governing their states. It is rare—very rare—that we get any sort of exception.
The song “Amazing Grace,” the hymn written by Anglican priest John Newton in 1772—put to music in 1835 by William Walker—has in modern times been closely connected with the American abolitionist movement and our subsequent civil rights movement. And rightly so. John Newton was a former enslaver of Africans, bringing them to England in the 18th century and spending later years repenting as a Christian.
Nearly 37,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Allies Rescue could qualify for permanent status through the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program, CBS News reports. But a similar number lack a pathway, and could become vulnerable should their humanitarian parole protections end in two years with no other relief.
In case you didn’t know, a violent group of Nazis demonstrated in my hometown of Orlando this weekend. They screamed antisemitic rants against Jews, Blacks, and Hispanics, waved swastikas, and even assaulted a driver during an argument. It was a shocking display for this diverse town and was widely reported all over Florida as well as in national publications like Newsweek:
Twitter users began posting videos of the neo-Nazi rally after they passed by on Saturday.
The National Archives received the papers at the end of the Trump administration and handed them over to lawmakers for their inquiry into the Capitol riot.
He “really doesn’t care anymore” and is going for broke, so far without major consequences, as usual, says Haberman.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating Trump over his efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
The company is aiming to produce at least 2 billion doses of its vaccine in 2022, of which the U.S. has ordered 100 million.
A small pilot program will help layoff victims navigate the process of claiming benefits.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw, refused to join her fellow Florida officials in decrying a Nazi rally held in Orlando, and instead blamed Democrats.
The approval for people ages 18 and up will make it easier for schools and workplaces to require vaccination.
Sign up for Kaitlyn and Lizzie’s newsletter here.Lizzie: Have I ever been to the Hamptons? No, I don’t think so, although I do have a tendency to forget these things. For example, I have been to Staten Island, although I don’t remember driving over a bridge to get there, but it turns out I must have.
We speak with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about her new book, “An Abolitionist’s Handbook,” which lays out her journey toward abolition and 12 principles activists can follow to practice abolition, which she describes as the elimination of police, prisons, jails, surveillance and the current court system.
Jailed 77-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 less than a week after describing his prison conditions as a “torture chamber.” Peltier was convicted of aiding and abetting the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 while a member of the American Indian Movement. He has long maintained his innocence and is considered by Amnesty International as a political prisoner.
The American moon missions, more than 50 years later, are each memorable in their own way. Apollo 11, of course, is known for being the very first time human beings set foot on the moon. Apollo 12, for being a little rowdier. Apollo 13, for nearly ending in disaster. Apollo 14—the third of six moon landings—is known, as I recently discovered, for its “moon trees.”Stuart Roosa, one of the Apollo 14 astronauts, took a small canvas bag of tree seeds with him on the journey.
Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here.A few years ago, a young writer asked me if I had any tips for an aspiring journalist. My first instinct was to say no. My career has been full of hard work but also quirky luck, and I think everybody should distrust individuals who claim that the path to success is a highly specific set of circumstances that just happens to match, step for step, the story of their life.A rant about selection bias seemed misplaced, though.
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Don’t want to miss a single column? Sign up to get “Dear Therapist” in your inbox. Dear Therapist,I’m writing about a struggle I’m having with my mother. My father passed away at the end of May after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Sign up for Caleb’s newsletter here.This week I want to take a break from our usual format and write about the biggest news in the word-puzzle community since the invention of the anagram. By now, you’ve probably heard about Wordle 10 times over from friends and followers alike. The daily word game, originally created by the software developer Josh Wardle to amuse his partner during pandemic downtime, quickly became a viral sensation.
Robert Califf’s supporters fear his candidacy is on the brink — raising the threat of a setback for Biden and the health agency at the center of his pandemic response.
As the U.S. prepared for authorization of the first Covid-19 vaccines, the administration prepared a secret list of which nations would get the doses first.
The deficiencies include failures to outline roles and responsibilities for other entities involved in a response.
At a time when inflation is a growing concern, the survey found more than four in 10 people believe that both the BBB and the infrastructure bill will increase inflation.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
The jump is the latest evidence that rising costs for food, rent and other necessities are heightening the financial pressures on America’s households.
The potential clash over the Fed’s plans to tighten monetary policy could be a harbinger of conflicts to come with Democrats and even some Republicans.
Families of passengers who died in fatal crashes while aboard Boeing 737 MAX jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia are urging the Department of Justice to reopen a Trump-era settlement that allowed the company to evade criminal prosecution. We speak with the father of one of the victims, as well as the director of the new documentary, “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” which details Boeing’s push for profit over safety and is set to air on Netflix February 18.
Israeli forces continue to expel Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a move that the United Nations has described as a possible war crime. We speak to Palestinian poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd, whose own family is among those facing eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Sheikh Jarrah is also where the Salhiyeh family recently gained attention for threatening self-immolation while protesting their eviction and the demolition of their home.