The brother of the first woman to take the stand with accusations that Ghislaine Maxwell “groomed” her for sex with Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful men when she was underage has been removed as a prosecution witness for allegedly talking with his sister about her testimony, NBC News has learned.Brian, which is a pseudonym, was…Continue Reading
A former Minnesota police officer betrayed the “public faith and public trust” vested in her when she killed a 20-year-old motorist earlier this year, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge raised her right arm and recited the oath taken by Brooklyn Center police officers, and then accused defendant Kim Potter of violating that…Continue Reading
Lawyers for a Maryland woman who has been jailed along with her husband on espionage-related charges have made a new request for bail, arguing her plans to flee the country stemmed from her disgust with Donald Trump — not because she feared arrest.In court papers filed Wednesday, lawyers for Diana Toebbe introduced a text message…Continue Reading
More than 600 best-selling authors, publishers, bookstore owners and advocacy groups Wednesday condemned the recent wave of LGBTQ- and race-related book bans in public school libraries across the country.Over the last several weeks, lawmakers, school officials and parents in at least 10 states — including New York, Texas and Virginia — have sought to rid…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he was not considering unilaterally sending U.S. troops to Ukraine, a day after he met virtually with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”We have a moral obligation and a legal obligation to our NATO allies,” Biden said, adding that the obligation did not extend to Ukraine.”It would depend on…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for his decision not to cooperate with the panel’s requests.Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote in a letter to Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger III, Tuesday night that…Continue Reading
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Fandom has taken on the worst of the corrupted tribalism that has dominated so much of life outside the arena, the ballpark, and the stadium. December 8, 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. If you think that the true…Continue Reading
When Bob Dole bid for the presidency in 1996, the very conservative Republican from Kansas ran a campaign that proudly announced he “supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965” and “played an instrumental role in extending the Voting Rights Act in 1982.”1 Dole won the party’s nomination with relative…Continue Reading
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants to catch us in a trap where either we concede the state’s right to coerce reproduction or we abandon the state’s right to mandate vaccines. December 8, 2021 About halfway through the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the case from Mississippi that threatens…Continue Reading