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Editorial: Follow Mitch’s lead: McConnell shows some backbone, a rarity in the Republican Party

Properly translating the Republican National Committee’s Orwellian statement that the Jan. 6 Capitol marauders and rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped the Newspeak and said in plain English: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection…

Tribune News Service · Feb 11, 2022

Biden’s State of the Union speech to have limited attendance

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address will be delivered to a limited audience in the U.S. Capitol under similar pandemic-related restrictions as last year, according to an official familiar with the arrangements.

Tribune News Service · Feb 11, 2022

Virginia deputy AG: Big fan of Jan. 6

Monique Miles claimed the Capitol attack was orchestrated by antifa and insisted Trump had won the election

Salon · Feb 10, 2022

Georgia Republicans say colleagues on Jan. 6 panel deserved RNC censure

WASHINGTON — Republican members in Georgia's congressional delegation took no issue with the Republican National Committee's censure of two GOP members serving on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But they also were unwilling to align themselves with the controversial language used, which described the insurrection as "legitimate…

Tribune News Service · Feb 10, 2022

Nevada lifts mask mandate as more US states ease Covid restrictions – as it happened

Governor Steve Sisolak rescinds state’s mask mandate immediately – follow all the day’s politics news

The Guardian - US · Feb 10, 2022

Will Madison Cawthorn be disqualified?

By fanning the flames of Capitol riot, contentious Republican freshman may have knocked himself off the ballot

Salon · Feb 10, 2022

Editorial: GOP infighting over Capitol insurrection myth-making is good for America

At long last, top Republican senators have reached their breaking point over their party’s unflinching support of former President Donald Trump and inexplicable defense of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. This split is good for the nation because it means that sanity might finally be returning to the top ranks…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 10, 2022

Jan. 6 defendant plea deal could be revised. Online sleuths ID him in LA Times video

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are revising a plea deal for a Georgia man present at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, citing new information that online sleuths attribute to video recently released by the Los Angeles Times.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 10, 2022

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee

WASHINGTON — Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser under former President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2022

Capitol rioter draped in Confederate flag pleads guilty

A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has pleaded guilty to joining the mob's attack

The Independent UK · Feb 9, 2022