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Lachlan Murdoch sues Australia's Crikey for defamation

Fox News boss sues small Australian news site over article linking the Murdoch family to the January 6 Capitol riots in the US.

Truthout

Photo Shows Pence and His Family Hiding From Trump Mob on January 6

A new photo obtained by shows former Vice President Mike Pence and his family in hiding during the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

New York Daily News

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Fox News to cover Jan. 6 hearings 'as news warrants,' won't air during primetime on main station

Fox News Media will relegate coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to secondary outlets including Fox Business Network and move forward with its regularly scheduled primetime programming Thursday, which includes shows featuring on-air personalities caught up in the investigation.

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Truthout

Trump Falsely Claims Biden's Pro-Democracy Speech Threatened MAGA Loyalists With Military Force

Other Republicans also blasted Biden's speech , which the president presented as an attempt to reclaim America's soul.

Truthout

Former Oath Keeper Testifies That Trump Fueled Extremists' Actions

Chilling live testimony at the seventh hearing of the January 6 House select committee hearing came from former Donald Trump supporters who detailed their own radicalization in response to Trump's actions leading up to the deadly insurrection.

www.npr.org

Hutchinson's bombshell Jan. 6 testimony sways legal experts and conservative media

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified during the sixth hearing by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

Nytimes

Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, announced on Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus and will not appear in person at what could be the committee's last hearing of the summer.

Nytimes

World politics

Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 panel, has tested positive for the coronavirus.

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The Independent

UK news

Boris Johnson says deadly 6 January Capitol riots were 'pretty weird'

Prime minister Boris Johnson has referred to the fatal assault on the United States Capitol mounted by violent supporters of Donald Trump as "pretty weird."

FanSided

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National Football League

Jack Del Rio deletes Twitter account after controversial Jan. 6 comments

The Washington Commanders had yet another controversy on their hands thanks to defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio.

The American Conservative

4 months ago

US politics

Look Back in Anger

The author estimates that there were tens of thousands of people at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The Capitol riot was largely driven by QAnon supporters. [ more ]

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Arkansas sues TikTok, Meta over privacy, child safety claims

U.S. Representative Jamal Bowman (D-NY) joins TikTok creators at a news conference to speak out against a possible ban of TikTok at the House Triangle at the United States Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2023.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN (REUTERS) The state of Arkansas sued TikTok and Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday, claiming the social media companies were misleading consumers about the safety of children on their platforms and protections of users' private data.

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House January 6 Committee: Introductory Material to the Final Report - emptywheel

[ NB: check the byline, thanks./~Rayne]
This is a working post and thread dedicated to the introductory material of the final report prepared by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.Under the terms of its authorization, the House January 6 committee's 18-month investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol must culminate in a report, specifically:

... issue a final report to the House containing such findings, conclusions, and recommendations for corrective measures described in subsection (c) as it may deem necessary.

www.aljazeera.com

2 years ago