Cabinet Minister Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary tweeted: ''Terrible scenes at the US Congress today. To our great friends in the US, we have always admired your peaceful transfers of power and the graceful acceptance by candidates of both electoral victory and defeat. Those who seek to undermine this must never prevail.'' … [Read more...] about US Capitol attack: Four dead after Donald Trump supporters in violent ‘coup attempt’
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Don Lemon Blows Up at Trump’s Allies Praising Martin Luther King Jr.
"The Biden-Harris administration was elected to represent all Americans with more than 81 million people voting for them," Lemon said. "But it was voters of color who put them over the finish line, even as the current president until Wednesday at noon, anyway, deliberately tried to divide us." … [Read more...] about Don Lemon Blows Up at Trump’s Allies Praising Martin Luther King Jr.
Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
Ms. Haines, a former CIA Deputy Director and former Deputy National Security Adviser in the Obama administration, was to have appeared on Friday before the Senate intelligence committee, but the hearing for her confirmation to be Director of National Intelligence, or DNI, was postponed until Tuesday. She is expected to promise to keep politics out of the intelligence community, a departure from a Trump administration that saw repeated pressure on intelligence officials to shape intelligence to the President’s liking. … [Read more...] about Joe Biden’s national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
Don’t Call It an ‘Insurrection’ | Opinion
Calling the storming of the Capitol an "insurrection" equates to glamorizing the devastating Rodney King Riots of 1992 (which claimed 63 lives) as "The Los Angeles Uprising." The destruction of nearly a billion dollars' worth of private property (mostly small businesses in L.A.'s Koreatown), like murdering a Capitol cop with a fire extinguisher to the head, served no cause or vision or purpose beyond the expression of self-consuming rage. … [Read more...] about Don’t Call It an ‘Insurrection’ | Opinion
North Korea Shows Off New Submarine-Launched Missile at Military Parade
North Korea has for months boycotted nuclear talks, frustrated at the U.S. refusal to relax sanctions. U.S. President Donald Trump met Kim three times during his presidency, but the meetings did not lead to North Korea giving up any of its nuclear weapons. … [Read more...] about North Korea Shows Off New Submarine-Launched Missile at Military Parade
