Kieran Corcoran
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SCOTUS justices went on cushy teaching trips to Italy, Iceland, and the UK funded by a conservative law school: NYT
Neil Gorsuch, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh went on George Mason University teaching trips that, per one expert, look a lot like free vacations. → Read More
Boris Johnson drops out of race to be next UK PM, despite claiming he could win
Johnson made the declaration Sunday night, leaving Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak as the two possibilities to succeed Liz Truss as prime minister. → Read More
Russia denied using Iranian suicide drones to attack Ukraine, even though there are pictures of it
US and UK assessments are that Russia is using Iran-made Shahed-136 drones, and the distinctive shape of the drones was photographed above Kyiv. → Read More
2 Russian lawmakers branded traitors and ordered out of meeting for demanding Putin end invasion of Ukraine
Leonid Vasyukevich and Gennady Shulga outraged fellow lawmakers in Primorksy Krai with the direct appeal to Vladimir Putin. → Read More
Russian commanders angry at how long it's taking to capture Mariupol, where Ukraine says it will fight to the end: UK intel
Mariupol, a city on Ukraine's southern coast in the Donetsk region, has been surrounded and under heavy attack for weeks without surrendering. → Read More
Ukraine credits Turkish drones with eviscerating Russian tanks and armor in their first use in a major conflict
The Turkish-made Bayrktar drone became a celebrated part of the Ukrainian war effort, with top commanders sharing videos of strikes on Russian armor. → Read More
Russian state media denies its military attacked Kyiv and even claims Ukraine shot down its own plane there
Russian state media appeared determined not to tell its readers that there had been missile strikes on the densely-populated Ukrainian capital. → Read More
Putin orders Russian troops to eastern Ukraine for 'peacekeeping' operation, a major escalation towards a war
Putin made the order in a decree recognizing the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. → Read More
Russian state TV claims the Queen, Prince Charles, and Prince Andrew are pushing for war in Ukraine to distract from scandals at home
Dmitry Kiselyov made improbable claims about the motives of world figures as war looms in Ukraine. UK royals have no say in matters of war. → Read More
Russian media awash with seemingly faked videos, matching warnings of 'false flag' campaign to justify invading Ukraine
* Russian media is circulating claims of car bombings and chemical attacks blamed on Ukraine. * The US, UK, and others have warned that Russia would seek to create a fake pretext for war. * Some videos given as evidence have metadata suggesting they were made in advance. As Russia continued to mass troops around Ukraine, Western leaders repeatedly said that its officials would manufacture media… → Read More
Many people hospitalized in the Omicron surge are there for other reasons and have only mild COVID-19
"Incidental" coronavirus cases are complicating the picture of how severely the Omicron variant is harming people in its latest surge. → Read More
As Europe enters a bleak winter of COVID restrictions, US unlikely to return to lockdowns
Austria announced a full lockdown on Friday, taking a step that European leaders had hoped would be unnecessary. → Read More
Kevin McCarthy breaks record for longest-ever House speech, talking for more than 8 hours to obstruct Biden's social-spending bill
The House Minority Leader began speaking at 8:38 p.m. Thursday and finished at 5:11 a.m. on Friday. He beat a record held by Nancy Pelosi. → Read More
Video: American Airlines pilot says he'll divert plane and strand Trump supporters in Kansas if they don't 'behave'
The pilot objected to the behavior of some of those on board a flight from Reagan National Airport to Phoenix in the wake of riots at the US Capitol. → Read More
Trump did consider deploying the National Guard to the US Capitol, New York Times says — to protect his supporters in case people got in their way
Trump, according to the New York Times, was concerned that his supporters might be held back. In the end, the opposite was true. → Read More
Pence asked a judge to kill a lawsuit filed by Trump fans seeking to empower him to overturn Biden's election win on January 6
Lawyers for Pence asking for the suit to be dismissed on December 31, describing it as "a legal contradiction." → Read More
Thousands packed the streets to celebrate New Year's Eve in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged, as other cities worldwide were deserted
Wuhan's citizens made the most of their freedom in the city to enjoy the New Year. It reported the first COVID-19 cluster on December 31, 2019. → Read More
The UK approved Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, the first Western nation to give it the green light
UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) said Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine's safe and works against COVID-19. → Read More
TikTok's sale in the US could be thrown into chaos after China rewrote its export rules to give itself a new veto
Negotiations to sell the US arm of the app were sent off-course by new rules out of China which could give its government a veto on any sale. → Read More
Sean Hannity quietly changed the cover of his new book after realizing its Latin motto was full of mistakes
Publicity images for "Live Free Or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink" showed an incorrect Latin motto, likely the product of Google Translate. → Read More