Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Al Jazeera reporter, was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
Author: Bryan Pietsch
Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right provocateur, is a Marjorie Taylor Greene intern
Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News in 2017 after a video surfaced that appeared to show him condoning pedophilia.
George W. Bush called Iraq war ‘unjustified and brutal.’ He meant Ukraine.
The former U.S. president, who has faced criticism for the 2003 Iraq invasion, made an apparent verbal slip.
Biden seeks to send proceeds from Russian oligarchs’ confiscated assets to Ukraine
There is a bipartisan push to send Kyiv financial support using the assets of oligarchs linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s new social media app, Truth Social, appears in App Store
The app, Donald Trump’s answer to being booted from major social media platforms, became available for download ahead of its expected Presidents’ Day launch.
Congress votes to let Capitol Police chief directly call on National Guard, law enforcement after Jan. 6 riot
Lawmakers said that the chief’s lack of authority during the Jan. 6 insurrection had caused “unnecessary delays.”
House votes to ban goods made by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region
The bill’s passage, by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, came several days after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games due to China’s human-rights abuses.
Marjorie Taylor Greene buys up to $50,000 worth of Trump SPAC stock during week of wild fluctuation
The stock is down from its high on Friday, when the Republican congresswoman purchased the shares.
Trump, still barred from Twitter and Facebook, to launch social network in ‘fight back’ against Big Tech
The Trump Media and Technology Group is merging with a blank-check company to form a home for Truth Social and a “non-woke” streaming platform.
ACLU sues Oklahoma, saying law restricting teaching of gender and race theories is unconstitutional
The lawsuit alleges the law led some schools to tell teachers not to use terms like “white privilege” in lessons and prompted some school districts to remove books like “To Kill a Mockingbird” from reading lists.