Former Trump adviser indicted by grand jury on two counts for contempt of CongressDonald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon has been charged with contempt of Congress after failing to appear before a committee investigating the 6 January attack on the…
‘Get shit done’: how Republican dog-whistles beat Democratic inaction
Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race by playing dirty over CRT – and the Democrats had no answerNo film director could have choreographed it better. At the very moment Joe Biden emerged from his helicopter into a cold, dark night on the Whit…
‘A story people need to know’: behind a shocking new TV series about the opioid crisis
In the revealing new drama Dopesick, starring Michael Keaton, the horrifying story of the painkillers and the company that created them is brought to a wide audienceThey have been described as the most evil family in America – not by hyperbolic headlin…
Biden overrules Trump effort to keep White House files from 6 January panel
The National Archives told to give documents to House committee despite ex-president’s attempt assert executive privilege Joe Biden has blocked an attempt by former US president Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the 6 January …
‘Moral bankruptcy’: whistleblower offers scathing assessment of Facebook
Frances Haugen’s animated remarks were a striking contrast to Mark Zuckerberg’s robotic testimony before CongressIt might, as one senator put it, be remembered as “the big tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth”.The truth-teller was former Facebook data …
Biden warns ‘meteor headed to crash’ into US economy amid debt struggle
President condemns ‘reckless’ Republicans for pushing government towards historic debt defaultUS politics – live coverageJoe Biden has condemned “reckless” Republicans for pushing the US government towards a historic debt default, warning: “A meteor is…
‘We couldn’t be more inconsistent’: discordant Democrats imperil Biden’s agenda
Divisions between progressives and moderates in Congress are threatening to scuttle a $3.5tn social spending program and a $1tn infrastructure billAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez cannot have been surprised that wearing a “Tax the Rich” dress to New York’s Met…
Biden under pressure to close the ‘vaccination gap’ with poorer nations
In low-income countries fewer than 2% of the population has received a shotJoe Biden convenes a virtual coronavirus summit of world leaders on Wednesday under pressure to close the vaccination gap with poorer nations.The meeting on the margins of the U…
US-UK ‘special relationship’ faces new challenges despite signs of healing
Relationship between Biden’s US and Johnson’s post-Brexit UK remains complicated and inevitably transactionalWhat a difference a month makes.In August Joe Biden was being denounced in the British parliament for a “shameful” retreat from Afghanistan tha…
California recall vote show Trump’s big lie is now Republican playbook
Pre-emptively branding as rigged an election you are likely to lose risks turning off GOP voters and undermining democracyIt was a pre-emptive strike against truth by some of the biggest names on the American right wing.Former president Donald Trump wa…