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Ron Johnson Says He Still Has Many Unanswered Questions

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has been on the forefront of elevating fringe theories about President Biden’s son Hunter, the coronavirus and the results of the 2020 election. In recent weeks he has come under renewed scrutiny for claiming in a series of radio interviews in his home state that the Jan. 6 attack on […] More

by Tonya Frazier March 1, 2021, 3:00 am
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Trump Revives Familiar Falsehoods in CPAC Speech

Former President Donald J. Trump, in his first public appearance since leaving the White House, mounted inaccurate attacks against his successor and revived familiar falsehoods in a speech on Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. In a speech replete with false and misleading claims, Mr. Trump again repeated the lie that he had won […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 11:21 pm
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Opinion | Voter Suppression Is Grand Larceny

But it is the coded language that harkens to the post-Reconstruction era racism that strikes me. In Georgia, which went for a Democrat for the first time since Bill Clinton in 1992 and just elected two Democratic senators — one Black and one Jewish — there have been a raft of proposed voter restrictions. As […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 7:20 pm
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Trump, Addressing Conservatives, Plans to Claim Leadership of G.O.P.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former President Donald J. Trump was planning to use his first public appearance since leaving office to lash President Biden and insist that there are no divisions within the Republican Party — even as he plots revenge on those lawmakers who have broken with him. In a speech prepared for his Sunday […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 3:09 pm
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A Supreme Court Test for What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act

But Paul M. Smith, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, which submitted a brief supporting the challengers, said lower courts had worked out a sensible framework to identify restrictions that violate Section 2. “It is not enough that a rule has a racially disparate impact,” he said. “That disparity must be related to, and […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 12:24 pm
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Opinion | The Era of Vaccine Diplomacy Is Here

Poor countries will remember who came to their assistance, and when. Moscow and Beijing saw an opportunity early on, sending masks and protective gear to hard-hit countries last spring. Now, with low- and middle-income countries clamoring for vaccines, countries from Serbia and Algeria to Brazil and Egypt are getting doses from China and Russia. Serbia, […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 11:00 am
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Covid Stimulus Bill Heads to the Senate

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s agenda is facing its most consequential test as Democrats prepare to maneuver his $1.9 trillion stimulus package through the evenly divided Senate, an effort that could strain the fragile alliance between progressives and centrists and the limits of his power in Congress. An early-morning House vote to pass the sweeping pandemic […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 27, 2021, 12:47 pm
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A Quiet Life Out of the Spotlight? Not for This Former President

He was widely hailed on the first day of the CPAC convention Friday. “Let me tell you right now,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said, “Donald J. Trump ain’t goin’ anywhere.” Even Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader who at one point let it be known that he might vote to convict Mr. Trump in […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 27, 2021, 12:00 pm
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Democrats Move to Salvage Minimum Wage Hike

If Democrats cannot find a way to include the wage increase in the stimulus measure, the bill could lose support from progressives, although Ms. Pelosi said the House would “absolutely” pass the measure without the wage increase if needed. “I don’t think we can go back to voters and say, ‘Look, I know Republicans, Democrats, […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 9:20 pm
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Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, the Murderous Monarch

The Biden administration formally acknowledged on Friday what President Donald Trump would not, that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia approved the plan to kill the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But Mr. Biden seems to have concluded that the potential cost of taking action against the 35-year-old de facto ruler of a key […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 8:27 pm
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Trump Loyalists Spurn ‘Failed Republican Establishment of Yesteryear’

ORLANDO, Fla. — One month after Donald J. Trump left office, thousands of his conservative allies and other far-right leaders on Friday began trying to center the Republican Party around the grievances of his presidency, pushing false claims about the American voting system, denouncing what they called liberal cancel culture and mocking mask-wearing. Gathering at […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 7:57 pm
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Biden Visits Storm-Battered Texas and Vows Federal Help ‘For the Long Haul’

WASHINGTON — At an emergency response center in Houston on Friday, President Biden praised officials who had slept in stairwells as they worked around the clock to help people with no power or drinkable water because of the devastating storms, low temperatures and breakdown of basic utilities that had paralyzed Texas. At a food bank, […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 26, 2021, 7:48 pm