[aggregation-styles] Forbes In the wake of the U.S. Capitol attacks, four major corporations said they are suspending contributions through their corporate PACs to Republican lawmakers they’ve previously backed who challenged the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Hotel giant Marriott International, the health insurance network Blue Cross Blue Shield, bank...
Trump Golf Club Loses 2022 PGA Championship
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription The P.G.A. of America, which conducts the P.G.A. Championship — one of golf’s four prestigious global major men’s championships — announced Sunday night that it would no longer hold its featured event at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. It had been...
WNBA Players Helped Oust Kelly Loeffler From the Senate. Will She Last in the League?
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription For the women of the WNBA, the push to expel one of their league’s owners from office — and ultimately help tip the balance of the U.S. Senate — started with two words on a plain black T-shirt. It was summer. Amid nationwide protests against...
Pence Has Not Ruled Out 25th Amendment, Source Says
[aggregation-styles] Politico Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says. The source said there is some concern inside Pence's team that...
Capitol Siege Was Planned Online. Trump Supporters Now Planning the Next One.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The planning for Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol happened largely in plain view, with chatters in far-right forums explicitly discussing how to storm the building, handcuff lawmakers with zip ties and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election — in what they portrayed as...
Elon Musk Wants You to Use Signal Instead of Facebook. Here’s What to Know About the App
[aggregation-styles] CNET Tech mogul Elon Musk -- known as widely for slinging cars into the sun's orbit as he is for advocating against COVID-19 safety measures -- took to Twitter Thursday to slam Facebook over its latest privacy policy updates for its supposedly secure encrypted messaging app WhatsApp. Musk instead...
Senior Trump Official: We Were Wrong, He’s a ‘Fascist’
[aggregation-styles] New York Magazine On Friday afternoon, 48 hours after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by violent insurrectionists encouraged by Donald Trump in an attempt to overthrow the government in protest of his election loss, a senior member of his administration spoke to me while he was driving to work....
Man Pictured Carrying Away Pelosi’s Lectern, Two Others Charged in Capitol Riot
[aggregation-styles] NBC News A man photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern through the U.S. Capitol while a pro-Trump mob rampaged on Wednesday has been arrested, as have two others who were seen in the riot, a West Virginia legislator and a longtime QAnon supporter who was seen wearing wearing...
Multiple Republicans Are Considering Supporting Impeachment, Sources Say
[aggregation-styles] CNN A growing number of Republicans want President Donald Trump to leave office before January 20, with some top lawmakers telling CNN they are considering supporting his impeachment. Two Republican members of Congress who are former Trump allies told CNN they would support impeachment against the President over his...
Obama and Clinton Will Join Bush at Biden’s Inauguration
[aggregation-styles] CNN Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, officials say, joining former President George W. Bush, who also plans to be in Washington for the official transfer of power. The decisions, reported midday Friday, came around the same time that President Donald Trump...