Even if the Senate votes to acquit former President Donald J. Trump at his second impeachment trial, it will hardly be the last or decisive word on his level of culpability in the assault on the Capitol last month. While the Justice Department officials examining the rash of crimes committed during the riot have signaled that they do not plan […]

Cuomo faces allegations of covering up nursing home COVID deaths The ‘Special Report’ All-Star panel discuss how the claims could impact the New York governor’s legacy New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday called for a “full accounting” of the circumstances behind an alleged coverup by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration of the number of New Yorkers who died in […]

Border Patrol reports steady rise in migrant apprehensions amid new Biden policies William La Jeunesse reports from the along the U.S. southern border in San Diego, California. Republicans are criticizing the Biden administration’s move to begin admitting 25,000 migrants held in Mexico as part of a Trump-era policy that was a key plank in the former administration’s efforts to end “catch-and-release.” The Department […]

Missouri GOP Sens. Josh Hawley and Roy Blunt were taken to task in a stinging column published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board this week. The newspaper’s board suggested the pair should have used ex-President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial for inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot to distance themselves from Trump and “to redeem themselves for blindly supporting […]

The crisis engulfing the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project deepened on Friday when Steve Schmidt, a co-founder, resigned abruptly from the board and former employees renewed demands to be released from nondisclosure agreements in order to provide more information about the organization’s handling of harassment allegations against another co-founder, John Weaver. Mr. Schmidt will remain with the organization in an […]

One of the key questions during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has been what he did while it happened. When did he find out about the Jan. 6 breach at the U.S. Capitol, and what did he do to stop it?  But Trump’s legal team refused to answer the question on Friday when Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and […]

In a private call with Democratic lawmakers, audio of which was leaked to the New York Post, secretary to Gov. Cuomo Melissa DeRosa said that the governor’s office “froze” when they were asked by the Department of Justice to turn in the state’s data on nursing home deaths from the coronavirus, because they were concerned that President Donald Trump would […]

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has come out as the second Democratic senator against raising the minimum wage to $15 in Congress’ emergency COVID-19 package, killing hopes of giving workers a major pay raise — at least for now. Sinema said she did not think raising the minimum wage belonged in the $1.9 trillion short-term relief bill in an interview with […]