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When Cassidy Hutchinson appeared before the House select committee on Jan. 6 to testify to what she had seen during the final days of the Trump White...
Perched on high ground across the river from the larger city of Severodonetsk, the town of Lysychansk has played a critical role over the last two...
When Donald Trump led an armed mob to the steps of the Capitol and urged them into making an assault on the electoral process, his efforts failed in...
Now that the Supreme Court has removed the right to obtain an abortion and handed the control of wombs over to state politicians, conservatives are...
Last week, federal agents seized a cell phone belonging to former Trump attorney John Eastman. Eastman was the author of the memo creating the...
With her jaw-dropping testimony before the House select committee on Jan. 6, former assistant to the White House chief of staff Cassidy Hutchinson...
In the public testimony that’s come so far, the Jan. 6 committee has carefully laid out the evidence showing that the assault on the Capitol was not...
On Tuesday, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided the committee with testimony that was absolutely...
In some of the most astounding testimony produced so far in the public hearings concerning Jan. 6, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House...
It’s usually only in Roadrunner cartoons that we get the chance to see someone hit with “a boulder.” And a blow so powerful that it almost...
As kos reported earlier, Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from Severodonetsk on Thursday evening and as of Saturday all but a handful of troops are...
There’s absolutely no doubt about it, America is exceptional. It’s exceptional in that as other developed nations are moving forward, so-called...
Most of the time, when looking at item imaged by a telescope, the reaction is to assume that the item being viewed looks pretty small to the naked...
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling...
Usually, when a decision is handed down from the Supreme Court, it takes some time before the broad consequences of that decision are felt across the...
The fifth day of public hearings by the House select committee on Jan. 6 may not have been the flashiest. There was little footage of the actual...
On Wednesday, the FBI handed subpoenas to an unknown number of people who took part in the Jan. 6 conspiracy as false electors. Subpoenas are reported...
On Wednesday, I started an update on the situation south of Severodonetsk several times, and each time I updated a map, or wrote several paragraphs of...
On Wednesday, multiple Republicans, including Donald Trump, expressed their dissatisfaction with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over how he...
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas across multiple states to Republican politicians involved in the scheme to use fake electors as a means of...
When Republicans on the Supreme Court were shocked by a few peaceful protesters at their home, Republican senators flew into an outrage, insisting on...
As the House select committee on January 6 unfolds the conspiracy Trump launched to overturn the results of a democratic election, Republicans are...
On Tuesday, the nation heard incredibly compelling testimony about the pressure placed on state and local officials by Donald Trump in an attempt to...
Every time it seems impossible that the intensity of combat in Ukraine could increase … it increases. On-the-ground reports, official Ukrainian...
By now, it seems trite to say that every time we learn anything new about the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, the situation regarding...
The House select committee investigating events around the Jan. 6 insurrection has issued a subpoena to documentary filmmaker Alex Holder. The...
A few weeks ago, I used the looser schedule created by a Monday holiday to post a review of my new telescope. The tiny and odd-looking Vaonis Vespera...
If you want to know where the Republican Party has going, there’s been one guiding light since 2016. Not Donald Trump … former Missouri Gov. Eric...
The Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kherson area is continuing, but as Ukrainian forces advances into positions that Russia has fortified and...
There are few reasons to admire Sen. Lindsey Graham. Actually, that’s not quite right. There are no reasons to admire Sen. Lindsey Graham. Still,...
It has now been two full months since Russian forces completely withdrew from the areas around Kyiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv. In the process, Russia left...
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel of outside experts gave their approval to vaccines from both Moderna and Pfizer for...
The biggest revelations from the public hearings of the House select committee aren’t new details of the violence that took place on Jan. 6. The...
On Thursday, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania paid a joint visit to Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. As with other meetings,...
During public hearings on Thursday, the House select committee on Jan. 6 has announced that it intends to seek an interview with Virginia...
As the House select committee on Jan. 6 heads toward its next public hearing, the focus is expected to turn toward the scheme created by Donald Trump...
On Tuesday, south Texas set records for high temperatures. In many areas, this was not just a high-temperature record for the day, but an all-time...
We’ve talked many times about the fog of war, but when action is underway—that’s when the fog really rolls in. If an area is stable for several...
Last Thursday, I wrote an article stating that the rate of deaths from COVID-19 among white Americans now exceeded those among Black or Latino...
Yes, I’m biased, but I’m also realistic about the strengths of our content coverage here at Daily Kos. And our very own staff reporter Brandi...
There’s no way around it. In spite of taking heavy losses. In spite of an artillery exchange that at the moment seems to seriously favor Ukraine. In...
In the tumble toward the 2020 election, as Donald Trump was already pre-declaring that he had been cheated out of an election months before the...
There’s supposedly a lot of action in this area, including several reports that Ukrainian forces have advanced multiple kilometers into formerly...
There’s a scene in the film Lawrence of Arabia in which the titular character and Bedouin sherif Ali are passing through hills at night. Below them...
For many of those watching the first night of the Jan. 6 hearings, the footage from that day was as visceral and disturbing as ever. The sounds of...
Exactly why Russia has an apparent deadline of taking control of Severodonetsk of June 10 remains a mystery. It’s been put forward as a test for the...
This was utterly predictable. When vaccine uptake slowed down after the first few months of 2021, newspapers and broadcasters were quick to talk about...
So far in 2022, national gas prices have averaged $3.77 for the year. That number is almost certain to go up; current prices are hovering around...