Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a blog post Thursday , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would ban President Donald Trump from its platforms “indefinitely” following a pr
Merkel and Johnson Blame Trump for Riot, but Europe Also Expresses Hope As America’s European allies digested events that rocked Washington, many expressed faith in the strength of U.S. democracy to p
Biden Denounces Storming of Capitol as a ‘Dark Moment’ in Nation’s History The president-elect said the violence “borders on sedition” and made clear he viewed President Trump as responsible for incit
Impeach and Convict. Right Now. Trump is too dangerous to leave in office for even another minute. Jan. 6, 2021 Credit... Tom Brenner for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist This column has been u
Published 7 January 2021 Share page About sharing Related Topics US Capitol riots Image source, Reuters Image caption, Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday World
Updated at 6:06 p.m. ET on January 6, 2021. Insurrectionists are attacking the seat of American government in an attempted coup, urged on by the president of the United States. Saying that feels melod
T he president of the United States summoned his supporters to Washington, D.C., today, and then stood in front of the White House and lied to them, insisting that he had won the election and that ext
This afternoon, a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol, where Congress had convened to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The insurrectionists clashed with police, scaled wal
This is a moment of shame and grief. If we are not very careful, it will also be a terrible moment of opportunity for President Donald Trump. The violence Trump incited could be his pretext for furthe
WASHINGTON – Following are prepared remarks by Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), who had previously planned to address his colleagues in today’s Senate session: “We gather today due to a selfish man’s injur
Washington Memo You Think This Is Chaos? The Election of 1876 Was Worse As President Trump pushes Congress to block certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, his Republican allie
Jeff Flake: My Fellow Republicans, Trump Is Destroying Us There is power in standing up to the rank corruptions of a demagogue. Jan. 6, 2021 Credit... Michael Reynolds/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mr. Fla
Transcript: President Trump’s Phone Call With Georgia Election Officials The president pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the election in an hourlong phone conv
Trump Call to Georgia Official Might Violate State and Federal Law The president’s demand for action to overturn the result of the election in the state raised questions about whether he violated elec
Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election The president vaguely warned of a “criminal offense” as he pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the
Trump Calls Georgia Senate Races ‘Illegal and Invalid’ President Trump continued his assault on election integrity, baselessly claiming the presidential results and the Senate runoffs in Georgia were
Q Anon—the conspiracy theory that elite Democrats, government officials, and celebrities are part of a cannibalistic, child-sex-trafficking cult, and Donald Trump is the hero destined to stop them —ha
In Bill Barr’s confirmation hearing , he affirmed on three different occasions (each time with lessening force) that it would be a crime to offer a pardon for false testimony. Leahy: Do you believe a
Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence Some House Republicans plan to try to use Congress’s tallying of electoral results on Jan. 6 to tip the election to President Tr
When Donald Trump was granted a coat of arms for his Scottish golf courses in 2012 (after a lengthy court battle, of course), he chose as its motto “ Numquam concedere ”: Never concede. He has not, ev
Suddenly Rush Limbaugh doubts two different outlooks can exist in the same country while ignoring that he has stoked the fires of hate and division for decades. In the end stages of lung cancer, not o
As Trump Rails Against Loss, His Supporters Become More Threatening The president’s baseless claims of voting fraud have prompted outrage among his loyalists and led to behavior that Democrats and eve
Supreme Court Rejects Republican Challenge to Pennsylvania Vote In a one-sentence order, the court refused to overturn election results that had already been certified and submitted. A “Stop the Steal
Published 4 December 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, How US and China's break-up could affect the world The top US intelligence official says China is the "greatest threat to democracy an
Politics President Trump’s personal attorney has been leading effort to overturn last month’s election results Updated Dec. 6, 2020 10:24 pm ET Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, has be
Today the richest 40 Americans have more wealth than the poorest 185 million Americans. The leading 100 landowners now own 40 million acres of American land, an area the size of New England. There has
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. Nov. 30, 2020 By Contributing Opinion Writer HAMB
“T he guardrails of our system actually worked,” the political analyst Amy Walter marveled on Monday evening, capturing how many reacted to the Trump administration initiating a formal transition of p
Families Have Been Torn Apart by Politics. What Happens to Them Now? Unlike 2016, when conflicts emerged over political choices, this time many are centered on the legitimacy of the result itself. Sup
Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Ending Case His Justice Dept. Sought to Shut Down The president’s former national security adviser twice pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his conversations w
President-elect Joseph R. Biden JR. during a virtual meeting with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and members of the United States Conference of Mayors, on Monday, will now be able to officially mo
Published 22 November 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael BBC Reality Check Misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine and pandemic conspiracy th
Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations Inquiries into the president and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, are now looking at tax deductions taken on consulting
Pre-Election Reality: Election officials regularly update voter registration lists in accordance with legal protections against the removal of eligible registrants. Rumor: Election officials don’t cle
President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly clai
Published 17 November 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, AFP Image caption, President Putin has been in power for 20 years The Russian parliament's lower house - the Duma - has backed a bill
Published 18 November 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, Chris Krebs was a Trump appointee Donald Trump says he has fired a top election official who contradicted the U
In Unusually Political Speech, Alito Says Liberals Pose Threat to Liberties The conservative justice’s pointed remarks, which he made in a speech to the Federalist Society, reflected thoughts he has e
WASHINGTON —The Trump administration's unwillingness to acknowledge that former Vice President Joe Biden won the election has led to an unusual restriction on the flow of national security information
Trump Appointee Stands Between Biden’s Team and a Smooth Transition Emily W. Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, must formally recognize President-elect Joseph R. Biden J