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CNN to shut down airport network as air travel drops in pandemic

CNN announced Tuesday that it will shutter its airport network, a ubiquitous presence for airline travelers for three decades, citing the drop in passenger traffic brought on by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

January 12, 2021

PBS fires lawyer over ‘hateful rhetoric’ after Project Veritas undercover sting

A Public Broadcasting Service lawyer was fired Tuesday after being caught on undercover footage by Project Veritas making cracks about throwing Molotov cocktails at the White House if President Trump won reelection, and taking away the children of Trump voters if he didn't.

January 12, 2021

Prosecutors add attempted murder counts in alleged attack on GOP pro-police rally

Prosecutors have filed attempted first-degree murder charges against a driver accused of wheeling into a GOP pro-police rally, narrowly missing attendees who included children, as he jumped curbs and plowed through a park in Eaton, Colorado.

January 12, 2021

Rand Paul’s wife Kelley rips Twitter CEO for ignoring ‘hateful tweets,’ threats against her husband

Kelley Paul took on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey amid the platform's recent conservative purge, saying that the tech giant failed to take action against the "thousands of hateful tweets" directed at her husband, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

January 12, 2021

Joe Biden, Democrats allege racism in Capitol police response; Black conservatives push back

President-elect Joseph R. Biden and other Democrats were quick to resurrect the police-racism narrative after the U.S. Capitol riot, drawing a swift rebuke from the right led by prominent Black conservatives.

January 11, 2021

Republicans slam Dems’ months-long ‘defund the police’ push in wake of Capitol attack

The protest siege on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was met with widespread bipartisan condemnation, a show of unified outrage that Republicans said would have been nice last year when leftist hordes were looting and burning major U.S. cities.

January 10, 2021

Lisa Murkowski wants Donald Trump to resign, casts doubt on her GOP future

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, said Friday that President Trump should resign, and suggested that she could part ways with the GOP if it has become "the party of Trump."

January 8, 2021

Maxine Waters: Trump must be ‘stopped dead in his tracks, however we can do it’

Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, said Friday that President Trump "has got to be stopped dead in his tracks," either by impeachment or having him stripped of the powers of his office via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.

January 8, 2021

Xi Jinping, Chinese president, wins 2020 ‘climate hypocrite’ award for green talk, coal action

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was named 2020 "Climate Hypocrite of the Year" by British skeptics for touting the Paris agreement and encouraging global emissions reductions even as China fires up new coal plants.

January 8, 2021

Marco Rubio rebukes Joe Biden for stoking tensions with Black Lives Matter comments

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, on Thursday chided President-elect Joseph R. Biden for heightening political tensions in the aftermath of the siege by a pro-Trump mob on the U.S. Capitol.

January 7, 2021

Lee Zeldin rips Democrats’ ‘double standards’ on violence

The protest siege on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob met Thursday with widespread bipartisan condemnation, a show of unified outrage that Republicans said would have been nice last year when leftist hordes were looting and burning major U.S. cities.

January 7, 2021

Joe Manchin looms as key swing vote with Democrats poised to take Senate

West Virginian Joe Manchin calls himself a "moderate conservative Democrat" is poised to become the crucial swing vote in the evenly split Senate, and the last line of defense against a progressive leftist agenda, thanks to the apparent double-Democratic victory in the Georgia Senate runoff.

January 6, 2021

Andrew Wheeler, EPA secret science rule ripped for attempting to ding Biden

The Trump administration delivered an eleventh-hour blow to the regulatory state Tuesday by finalizing a scientific transparency rule requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to back up its mandates with publicly available data.

January 5, 2021

Emanuel Cleaver defends ‘a-woman’ prayer as tribute women in Congress

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat, defended Tuesday his decision to end the opening House prayer with "a-woman," calling it a "lighthearted pun" and a reference to the record number of women in Congress.

January 5, 2021

Andrew Wheeler, EPA chief, rips ‘activists masquerading as environmental reporters’ for ‘agenda’

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler took a parting shot Tuesday at media bias, accusing some journalists covering the agency of being "environmental activists masquerading as environmental reporters."

January 5, 2021

Josh Hawley blasts ‘Antifa scumbags’ who held protest at his home with wife, baby inside

Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, accused "Antifa scumbags" of terrorizing his wife and newborn baby with a noisy protest outside his home Monday night over his plan to object to the Electoral College certification.

January 5, 2021

Donald Trump Jr. blasts ‘insane’ House Democratic prayer ending with ‘amen and a-woman’

Donald Trump Jr. weighed in Monday on House Democrats' "amen and a-woman" prayer, calling it "insane."

January 4, 2021

Raphael Warnock staffers say he wants to defund the police in Project Veritas sting

No election would be complete without a Project Veritas undercover expose of campaign staffers saying things in private that they would never say in public, and that includes the Georgia Senate runoff.

January 4, 2021

David Perdue backs Republicans objecting to election certification over ‘huge irregularities’

Sen. David Perdue, Georgia Republican, has sided with Republicans planning to object to the presidential electoral certification Wednesday, calling it the last chance for lawmakers to get to the bottom of the "huge irregularities" in the 2020 race.

January 4, 2021

House Democrats open 117th Congress with prayer ending ‘amen and a-woman’

The 117th Congress kicked off with a fresh controversy Sunday when the Democrat delivering the opening prayer concluded by saying "amen," and then added "a-woman."

January 3, 2021