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In a Tuesday hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wray made it clear he believed the January 6 riot was an example of “domestic terrorism,” an issue he sees as an increasing problem in the US. “January sixth was not an isolated event. The problem of domestic terrorism …

Responding to an MSNBC discussion on Monday about Republican claims regarding the January 6 Capitol riot, Brennan said, “I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days, in light of what I see of my other white males saying.” The comment triggered a delighted laugh by host Nicole Wallace, …

“Facebook took down our video of me putting up the Transgender flag outside my office and labeled it as ‘hate speech,’” Newman tweeted on Thursday. She blasted the social media platform for censoring her content – typically a complaint from conservatives – but allowing Taylor-Greene’s own “transphobic” footage of her …

Tomasz Greniuch, a historian by training, has resigned his position as regional director of Poland’s influential Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). It came on Monday after weeks of pressure from politicians, activists and public figures, who saw him as an extremely inappropriate choice to hold the position given his past …

Tudor Britain was ‘problematic’ for many reasons.  Firstly, life was tough. Really tough. There was no welfare state, no NHS and no criminal justice system, which meant disease, starvation and crime were rife. People might’ve stolen to survive, but theft greater than five pence would often result in a brutal …

Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on the hit TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, posted a lengthy Twitter denunciation on Wednesday, describing how Whedon “abused his power on numerous occasions” during the time she worked with him – fat-shaming her while she was pregnant, mocking her religious beliefs, …

Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on the hit TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, posted a lengthy Twitter denunciation on Wednesday, describing how Whedon “abused his power on numerous occasions” during the time she worked with him – fat-shaming her while she was pregnant, mocking her religious beliefs, …

VOA is “rife” with political bias and staffed by people who engage in advocacy rather than journalism, argued Robert R. Reilly in an opinion piece published by the Washington Times on Thursday. Reilly had led VOA in 2001-2002 and again for a few weeks starting in December 2020, until he …

In a statement posted to Twitter by the CIA, Haspel said she was “deeply proud of the work [she and the CIA] have done together,” which – while largely classified – included running one of the agency’s notorious “black site” prisons. She was appointed director of the CIA in 2018, …

“As the European Union unrolls proven versions of the coronavirus vaccine, Hungary’s PM Orban, apparently to score political points with Putin, imports 6,000 doses of the Sputnik vaccine,” he tweeted on Tuesday, commenting on a Hungary’s receiving the modest shipment of the Russian inoculation for trials earlier this week. Roth has run …