Caitlin Dickson
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Dominion v. Fox News trial ends with last-minute $787 million settlement: Full coverage
Dominion had accused the conservative cable news giant of knowingly, and repeatedly, broadcasting guests’ and hosts’ baseless allegations after the 2020 presidential election that Dominion’s voting machines were rigged to help Joe Biden steal the election from then-President Donald Trump. → Read More
What to know about Biden’s controversial new rule for asylum seekers
The proposed regulation will impose new restrictions on who can seek asylum in the United States by penalizing migrants who cross the border without authorization or fail to apply for protections in another country if they pass through one en route. → Read More
Report reveals major e-commerce sites profit from selling extremist merch
These items include T-shirts featuring antisemitic caricatures, tote bags adorned with swastikas and stickers promoting QAnon conspiracies. → Read More
Jan. 6: Key takeaways from what may be the House committee's final hearing
At what was likely its final public hearing, the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 on Thursday made its most explicit argument yet that former President Donald Trump was personally responsible for the violent insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol last year. → Read More
Who is Cassidy Hutchinson, the ex-White House aide who testified before Jan. 6 panel?
Hutchinson's closed-door testimony has already been cited as the source of multiple revelations uncovered by the select committee’s probe. → Read More
Jan. 6 hearing: Key takeaways from Thursday's hearing featuring former DOJ officials
Three former Justice Department officials who threatened to resign rather than help then-President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election testified Thursday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. → Read More
Former Trump DOJ officials to testify at 5th hearing of Jan. 6, 2021, committee
Thursday’s hearing, the fifth in an ongoing series, will feature in-person testimony from former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel, who served as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel during the Trump administration. → Read More
Jan. 6 hearing: Key takeaways from Tuesday’s testimony from state officials
Arizona and Georgia state officials testified Tuesday to the Jan. 6 select committee about former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to convince them to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in those key battlegrounds. → Read More
Jan. 6 hearing: Key takeaways from 3rd day of testimony on Capitol attack
In its latest public hearing on Thursday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection zeroed in on former president Donald Trump’s effort to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. → Read More
Jan. 6 hearing: Key takeaways from 2nd day of testimony
The Jan. 6 committee investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol continued its series of public hearings on Monday morning with testimony that shed new light on how former President Trump deliberately sought to undermine the results of the 2020 election by spreading allegations of widespread voter fraud that he knew were false. → Read More
'Connecting the dots': Jan. 6 committee promises to show Trump's role in Capitol attack at Thursday's hearing
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol plans to open its case to the public Thursday night by “connecting the dots” between then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election and the deadly insurrection. → Read More
Tulsa police say gunman bought rifle hours before hospital shooting, targeted doctor
Officials in Tulsa, Okla., said that the gunman who killed four people in the shooting at Saint Francis Hospital on Wednesday had blamed his surgeon for ongoing pain after a recent back surgery and bought an AR-15-style rifle hours before the killings. → Read More
Photojournalist describes what Russia left behind in Bucha: 'It's apocalyptic'
Photojournalist Carol Guzy, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has documented the humanitarian toll of some of the world’s most horrific wars and natural disasters, discusses her experience of photographing the carnage in Ukraine. → Read More
Biden unveils new program to bring Ukrainian refugees to U.S.
The program, named Uniting for Ukraine, is aimed at making it easier for Ukrainian nationals with family or friends in the U.S. to apply for temporary resettlement. → Read More
As Texas buses migrants to D.C., Abbott faces backlash for chaos at the border
The plan to bus migrants to Washington, D.C., as well as enhanced inspections for trucks crossing the border into Texas, were part of what the governor’s office described as “the first in a series of aggressive actions by the State of Texas to secure the border in the wake of President Biden's decision to end Title 42 expulsions.” → Read More
CDC to end Trump-era rule blocking asylum seekers at the border
The Biden administration announced Friday that it will end a controversial pandemic-era policy that has effectively sealed off the U.S.'s borders to asylum seekers for more than two years. → Read More
Blinken says Putin is committing war crimes in Ukraine
The secretary of state's comments come one day after President Biden told reporters during an event at the White House that he thinks Putin is a war criminal. → Read More
U.S. to sanction Putin directly, White House says
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed reports that the United States would follow the lead of the European Union and the U.K. in sanctioning Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. → Read More
Can Russia withstand the latest sanctions from the West?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken a number of steps to beef up his country’s economic defenses since it was hit hard by Western sanctions over the annexation of Crimea in 2014. → Read More
White House hails Germany's decision to halt certification of Nord Stream 2 pipeline to punish Russia
The White House on Tuesday called Germany’s decision to halt certification of the new Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline “a major turning point in the world’s energy independence from Russia.” → Read More