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Seattle Times : Former gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp drops election fraud lawsuit after Washington state threat Losing Republican gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp has withdrawn his lawsuit against Secretary of State Kim Wyman alleging widespread election irregularities and fraud. Culp’s laws...

WaPo : Undercutting Trump, Justice Dept. ends Pa. election investigation, having found ‘insufficient evidence’ of criminal intent The top federal prosecutor in Harrisburg, Pa., announced Friday that his office has closed an investigation into nine discarded ballots found in the northeastern part of...

The Scientist : Past SARS-CoV-2 Infection Mostly Protects Survivors Immune responses from a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection reduce survivors’ risk of reinfection by more than 83 percent for at least five months, according to preliminary data from a study of more than 20,000 UK healthcare workers publ...

CNN : Pelosi announces retired lieutenant general to lead review of 'security infrastructure' after Capitol attack (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced that retired Lt. General Russel Honoré will lead a review of the "security infrastructure" of Capitol Hill, following a vi...

WaPo : Inspectors general of several federal agencies open sweeping review of security, intelligence surrounding Capitol attack Internal investigators for the departments of Justice, Defense, Interior, and Homeland Security will investigate how security officials prepared for and responded to the p...

New York Times : FBI is investigating 37 in the killing of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick by a pro-Trump mob The F.B.I. is investigating 37 people related to the killing of Officer Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died after being injured during the pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6, ac...

WaPo : Post-ABC poll: Overwhelming opposition to Capitol attacks, majority support for preventing Trump from serving again The vast majority of Americans say they oppose the actions of the rioters who stormed and ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, while smaller majorities say President Trump bears re...

Just Security : Ousted Autocratic Presidents and Their Backers in the Legislative Branch What Other Countries Can Tell the United States About the Road Ahead Any hope that the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol would generate such a backlash that the president and extremist forces aligned with him ...

Daily Beast - Michael Thomsen: How Neo-Nazis and Gangs Infiltrated the U.S. Military: Matt Kennard’s ‘Irregular Army’ Fears of white supremacists infiltrating the U.S. military date back at least decades. In the 1970s, a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was discovered operating at California’s Camp Pend...

Similar to Reuters report below. CNN : US says Capitol rioters intended to 'capture and assassinate' elected officials (CNN)Federal prosecutors offered the most chilling description yet of rioters who seized the Capitol last week, writing in a new court filing that the intention was "to capture...

Gregg is on the mend :lovestruck: so in his honor, this cross-post: Pew Research : Biden Begins Presidency With Positive Ratings; Trump Departs With Lowest-Ever Job Mark As Joe Biden prepares to take office just days after a deadly riot inside the U.S. Capitol, 64% of voters express a positive opini...

Pew Research : Biden Begins Presidency With Positive Ratings; Trump Departs With Lowest-Ever Job Mark As Joe Biden prepares to take office just days after a deadly riot inside the U.S. Capitol, 64% of voters express a positive opinion of his conduct since he won the November election. Majorities al...

Politico : Lawmakers who conspired with Capitol attackers in legal peril If any members of Congress are proven to have colluded with the rioters, their position likely won't save them from criminal liability. Lawmakers who interacted with the pro-Trump protesters who rioted at the Capitol last week...

Political Wire : Feds Edge Closer to Sedition Charge In Capitol Riots “Federal prosecutors on Thursday for the first time described last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol as a ‘violent insurrection that attempted to overthrow the United States Government’ — and one they consider to still be underw...

ABC News : Longtime Trump advisers connected to groups behind rally that led to Capitol attack Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn all promoted the Jan. 6 rally. Three of the key advisers who helped engineer Donald Trump's' rise to the presidency in 2016, and who fell from grace under the w...

Cross-posting Associated Press : Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up th...

Associated Press : Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stai...

Reuters : U.S. says Capitol rioters meant to 'capture and assassinate' officials - filing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday, saying in a court filing that rioters i...

Yahoo News : Rod Rosenstein admits family separation policy 'should never have been implemented' For the first time, a senior Trump administration official who helped implement family separation has condemned the hardline immigration policy, which made it possible for the government to take more th...

The Hill : Justice Department launches webpage tracking individuals charged in Capitol riot The Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs on Thursday launched a new webpage listing every defendant facing charges in Washington, D.C., over their alleged roles in last week's violent pro-Trump riot...

Michigan Advance : GOP Senate majority leader had COVID-19 over Christmas Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) tested positive for COVID-19 last month, the Advance has confirmed. He was on hand for the first day of the new legislative term Wednesday. “For your information, Senate Major...