The first-ever indictment of a former U.S. president is giving social studies and civics teachers a chance to teach American history as it happens. The opportunity is complicated, however, by the inherently divisive nature of Donald Trump. Some educators are avoiding the subject altogether; others let their students watch Trump's arraignment live on Tuesday. |
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BY AMIE PARNES AND DOMINICK MASTRANGELO |
Wall-to-wall media coverage of Donald Trump's indictment this week underscores the former president's hold on the press and the challenges for rivals to break through. Cable networks breathlessly covered the indictment, even when there was little new to report. |
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Michael Cohen, former President Trump's onetime personal attorney and key witness in the Manhattan district attorney's case, said he did not feel vindicated by the charges brought against Trump on Tuesday.
"I'm glad that accountability is finally at Donald's doorstep," Cohen told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Saturday. "But at the end of the day, it's a very sad day for America in the fact that he's the first president in U.S. history to be indicted." |
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A bipartisan bill that aims to give the administration the power to ban apps linked to foreign adversaries, including TikTok, is raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum. The RESTRICT Act, led by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), is touted by supporters as a way for the administration to review and potentially ban services without solely targeting the controversial video app, the way other GOP-backed bills do. |
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Twitter has dropped the "state-affiliated media" label from NPR's account and replaced it with a "government funded" label, after facing backlash over the decision. The label first appeared on NPR's account on Tuesday, leading the news organization to halt its posts on the social media platform. |
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BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
The White House reignited criticism over its handling of the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan on Thursday when it released a 12-page review of the decision-making process that largely blamed the Trump administration for limiting President Biden's options upon taking office. Republicans took issue with the White House's characterization, and with comments from national security spokesperson John Kirby, previewing the aggressive oversight the Biden administration will face in the coming weeks over one of the low points of the president's first two years in office. |
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The Justice Department (DOJ) is investigating the apparent leak of classified documents on multiple social media websites that potentially detail information about U.S. and NATO aid to Ukraine. The Defense Department is also reviewing the documents after they were shared by Russian sources online on sites like Twitter. The documents, which are dated March or earlier this year, do not appear to include any major plans for the expected Ukrainian counteroffensive this spring, but they do seem to discuss Ukrainian training, munition expenditures and estimated casualties from both sides of the war. |
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Republicans are grappling with how they message on abortion in next year's elections, after the party suffered a defeat in the highly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race on Tuesday. Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz's victory handed a majority to liberals on the court for the first time in 15 years, along with abortion rights activists fighting to make the procedure legal in the state following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year. Her win follows a slew of Democratic and abortion rights victories across the country during last year's midterms. |
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The Texas ruling against the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a pill that can be used for an abortion up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, could have major implications for abortion access throughout the country. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued his opinion on Friday, which could stop the prescribing and distribution of mifepristone, after deciding that the FDA improperly rushed the approval process for the drug and allowed a dangerous drug regimen to make it to market. Here's four things to know about the ruling. |
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A group of 16 congressional Democrats asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate the luxury trips that Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted from a major Republican donor for more than two decades. Eight senators and eight representatives sent Roberts a letter on Friday to urge him to initiate an investigation into any unethical and "potentially unlawful" conduct that Thomas might have committed. The letter states that the court has "barely acknowledged" the allegations so far. |
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OPINION | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, dominated as it is by Republican appointees, just declared that President Biden can't require his own employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This strange ruling is the latest manifestation of two dangerous trends. The Republican Party continues its descent into anti-vaccine recklessness, and its judges continue to ignore settled law when it conflicts with party loyalties. |
OPINION | Nobel Laureate Albert Camus once said, "Insurrection is certainly not the sum total of human experience but … it is our historic reality." Those words came to mind this week when Tennessee's House of Representatives expelled two members accused of disrupting legislative proceedings in what some called an "insurrection" or a "mutiny."
The scene on the floor of the Tennessee House perfectly captured our "age of rage." |
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. |
BY VIVIAN SALAMA AND NANCY A. YOUSEF |
The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by Russia reflects a growing trend of authoritarian governments arresting Americans to gain concessions from the U.S., after years of hostage crises involving terrorist organizations and other nonstate actors. |
The question for Stanford and other institutions is whether the memo can ease tensions in this fraught and seemingly intractable political climate. In an era of high-pitched politics, living up to lofty free-speech principles can get messy on the ground. |
BY ANNIE GOWAN AND HADLEY GREEN |
Tennessee House Republicans said it was a just a matter of decorum, the need to behave properly in the historic chamber of the state Capitol. |
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