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    Dianne Feinstein: An iconic colossus who rocked America's politics

    30 Sep 2023

    Her achievements include writing the 1994 assault rifle ban and producing a 6,700-page report on the CIA torture programme during the US "war on terror."

    Guns, stress and politics: US road rage shootings on the rise

    21 Nov 2021

    Road rage incidents involving a gun have been responsible for record levels of injury and death in the United States since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recent report from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates against gun violence.

    Biden warns election deniers pose threat, blames Trump

    03 Nov 2022

    "Make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us," Biden said in a speech just days before Americans decide whether Democrats maintain control of both the US Senate and House of Representatives or hand over power to Republicans.

    The Senate gun deal is better than nothing — barely

    17 Jun 2022

    Twenty US senators spent much of Sunday and Monday praising themselves for reaching what they called “a commonsense, bipartisan proposal” on federal gun legislation. The news media and gun safety groups fell into line, observing that the proposal, if enacted by Congress, would be “the most significant national response

    During Watergate, Republicans made ‘the system’ work

    19 Jun 2022

    Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary that would end Richard M. Nixon’s presidency two years later. By then, his vice president and successor, Gerald R. Ford Jr., would tell Americans, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Little could Ford or his audience have imagined the nation’s current nightmare, one that’s far from over.

    Ballots and bullets: Desired gun reform remain zero

    20 Jun 2022

    Uvalde. Another school massacre. Another underage murderer. Another legally purchased weapon of war turned on innocent children. More calls for action. More thoughts and prayers. More braying about upholding the Second Amendment. More pandering. More nothing done. Or next to nothing, in any event. It appears Uvalde

    Republican Mark Meadows had a really bad Jan.6 hearing

    21 Jun 2022

    Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was not at latest hearing by the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But his presence loomed as witnesses reconstructed the events leading up to and on the day that supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol. Meadows, a former Republican congressman from

    January 6 hearings and the Republicans’ strategy

    07 Jun 2022

    On Thursday, the select committee investigating last year’s January 6 Capitol attack will hold its first of its prime-time televised hearings. While the committee held a hearing last year with officers who confronted the mob of Trump supporters, this will be the first hearing when many people will be paying attention.

    It’s time for former governor Nikki Haley to take off the gloves

    10 Dec 2023

    When Nikki Haley was elected governor of South Carolina, one of the first things she did was require all state employees to answer their office phones with: “It’s a great day in South Carolina.” This continued for five years until she left to become Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.

    Liz Cheney, a heroic Republican willing to do the right thing

    11 Dec 2023

    You don’t read a book like former Wyoming US Rep. Liz Cheney’s tell-all looking for literary pearls. You read it to find out what was going on behind the scenes in Congress after the 2020 election, as Donald Trump’s Republican sycophants and enablers schemed with him to overturn the results of a

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