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Month: February 2022

Chief DC federal judge blasts GOP’s ‘legitimate political discourse’ description of Capitol attack

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The chief judge of Washington, DC’s federal court lambasted the Republican Party Thursday for saying that the January 6, 2021, attack at the US Capitol was “legitimate political discourse.” “A major political party has described what happened on January 6 as legitimate political discourse,” Chief Judge Beryl Howell

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Chief DC federal judge blasts GOP’s ‘legitimate political discourse’ description of Capitol attack

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The chief judge of Washington, DC’s federal court lambasted the Republican Party Thursday for saying that the January 6, 2021, attack at the US Capitol was “legitimate political discourse.” “A major political party has described what happened on January 6 as legitimate political discourse,” Chief Judge Beryl

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Special counsel John Durham says he wasn’t trying to inflame partisanship and media commentary with Sussmann filing

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Special counsel John Durham said Thursday he wasn’t trying to inflame partisanship and media commentary with a recent cryptic filing that prompted former President Donald Trump and others to go on the attack about Democrats and the FBI’s early Russia investigation. Durham was criticized this week by

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Megadrought grips California, impacting the Coachella Valley

California, along with the Western U.S., is in its worst drought in centuries, scientists reported this week. A study published in Nature Climate Change found the period from 2000 to 2021 was the driest in 1,200 years. Last year’s drought severity was “exceptional,” researchers said, and all indications are the extreme conditions will continue through 2022. The human-caused

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Justice Department to focus more on thwarting cybercrime, even if it means jeopardizing arrests

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Justice Department is shifting its approach to cybercrime to focus more on preventing further harm to victims, even if in some cases it means tipping off suspects and jeopardizing arrests, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced Thursday. Monaco said the department needed to apply the “same thinking” it does to

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