Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate announced “they were launching a review of a recently completed audit of the 2020 election, just days after one of their members said the […]
Author: Taegan Goddard
GOP Lawmaker Sentenced to Two Days In Jail
Kansas state Sen. Gene Suellentrop (R) “will spend two days in jail for a wild wrong-way drunken ride down Interstate 70 in Topeka this spring after pleading no contest Monday […]
GOP Lawmaker Charged with Firearms Violations
Utah state Rep. Travis Seegmiller (R) “has been charged with three misdemeanors related to an incident in August involving the shooting of a deer in a residential area,” the Salt […]
Cyberattack Closes Gas Stations In Iran
“A cyberattack targeted gas stations Tuesday across Iran, shutting down a government system that manages fuel subsidies and leaving angry motorists stranded in long lines at shuttered stations,” the AP […]
Democratic Lawmaker Paid Thousands to Influencers
“Campaign committees for Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) have paid nearly $15,000 to bloggers for posting hundreds of flattering articles dating to his first run for Congress in 2016,” The City […]
Texas Bans Transgender Girls from Female Sports
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports at public schools, joining a wave of similar measures emerging from Republican-controlled […]
Glenn Youngkin Now Running Against Books
“A new ad for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin’s campaign features a Fairfax parent who sought to have Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s 1987 classic novel Beloved removed from […]
More Facebook Stories Are Coming
Brian Stelter: “Last week the number of American news outlets with access to internal Facebook documents supplied to the SEC by Frances Haugen stood at 17. Those outlets — from […]
Confidence In Biden to Navigate Pandemic Falls
A new Axios/Ipsos poll finds that just 44% of Americans said they are confident that President Biden can ensure a quick economic recovery from the pandemic — down from 52% […]
How Facebook Fostered Rage and Misinformation
“Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic ‘like’ thumbs-up: ‘love,’ ‘haha,’ ‘wow,’ ‘sad’ and ‘angry,’” […]