Secret Service deleted Jan. 6 text messages, watchdog says.
MANCHIN SAYS NOPE TO DEMOCRATS' HOPES OF A BIG LEGISLATIVE WIN Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is flatly refusing to support any new spending to combat climate change — or tax hikes on the wealthy or corporations. It's a massive setback to efforts to fight climate change and to Democrats' chances of getting through a new economic package before the Senate's annual August recess. [HuffPost] MORE QUESTIONS FOR JAN. 6 PANEL OVER DELETED TEXTS Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, even after an inspector general requested they be preserved for the investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog found. The Jan. 6 House panel has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. [AP] IVANA TRUMP DEAD AT 73 Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died Thursday at her New York City apartment. Donald Trump announced the death on his social media outlet. She is survived by her three children: Eric, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. [HuffPost] EVEN FORCING 10-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIMS TO GIVE BIRTH IS NO LONGER TOO MUCH FOR GOP Extreme positions on abortion are no longer outliers in the GOP. Rhetoric on forcing rape victims to give birth is not only widely embraced, but has become law in many states, thanks to the Supreme Court's conservative majority overturning Roe v. Wade, writes Amanda Terkel. [HuffPost] |
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BIDEN TRIED TO SPIN SAUDI TRIP — AND IT WAS A TOTAL MESS President Joe Biden and his team have spent weeks trying to publicly and privately defend his stop in Saudi Arabia as part of his Middle East trip. But skeptical national security staffers see the Saudi stint as hypocritical and unlikely to boost American interests ― with some calling it a "Summit for Autocracy" in a pointed reference to Biden's "Summit for Democracy" last December. [HuffPost] WHITE WOMAN WHO ACCUSED EMMETT TILL SAYS SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM MURDERED The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered, according to an unpublished memoir. An arrest warrant on kidnapping charges issued for Carolyn Bryant Donham in 1955 was never served and was recently discovered. [HuffPost] MORE THAN 500 WOMEN SUE UBER ALLEGING SEXUAL ASSAULT BY DRIVERS A lawsuit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court claims women "were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, and/or otherwise attacked" while being transported by Uber drivers. The transportation company has known about the incidents since at least 2014, but it has failed to take adequate safety actions, the complaint alleges. [HuffPost] BILL GATES VOWS TO LEAVE WORLD'S-RICHEST LIST Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates plans to give a percentage of his wealth to the philanthropic foundation he shares with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates, moving down and eventually off the list of the world's richest people. Gates' charitable actions come after what he described as "global setbacks," including the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. [HuffPost] INJURED CAPITOL COP SAYS GOP LAWMAKERS HE FOUGHT TO PROTECT 'PRETEND NOT TO SEE ME' NOW Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said it's "disheartening" that the only Republicans who acknowledge him now are Rep. Adam Kinzinger (D-Ill.) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the two GOP members of the Jan. 6 panel. "But that shows a lot from the people who claim that they support the police and back the blue and are pro-law and order," he said on MSNBC. [HuffPost] |
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