Washington : The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Friday that it will investigate how the department and its law enforcement agencies prepared for and responded to last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol. The investigation by the inspector general’s office will examine whether information was shared by the Justice Department to other agencies, including the Capitol Police, about the potential […]
Read MoreBoston: It was a tempest in a teapot — or, more accurately, a whiskey tumbler. Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at White House events. The letters shed new […]
Read MoreWashington: President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting that the US government had it totally under control, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward. “You just breathe the air […]
Read MoreWashington: Former US first lady Michelle Obama says she has been suffering from “low-grade depression” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the rising racial injustice and the “hypocrisy” of the Trump administration. Amid all the challenges facing the country, Obama said she is managing the “emotional highs and lows” by trying to maintain a routine, trying to not be hard […]
Read MoreNew York: Twitter has for the fifth time placed a label over one of Donald Trump‘s tweets for violating its policies after he threatened “serious force” against protesters, escalating the microblogging platform’s spat with the US President. The tweet says: “There will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, DC, as long as I’m your President. If […]
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