Raskin says he doesn't buy the Secret Service's lost text story

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, said he doesn’t believe the Secret Service’s story regarding the deletion of text messages the panel subpoenaed.  The committee asked the Secret Service to turn over text messages between agents on Jan. 5, 2001 and Jan. 6, 2021 to see if there was further evidence of former President Trump’s activities leadin

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Press: Success of Jan. 6 hearings: Three brave GOP women

If they gave out Emmys for congressional hearings, there’s no doubt about it : This summer’s blockbuster hearings by the Jan. 6 select committee would win hands down. Washington’s never seen anything like it.  Let’s be honest. Most hearings are less exciting than watching paint dry — nothing but talk, talk, talk; members of Congress bickering among themselves; witnesses droning on without saying anything; no control, no direction, no message. A total waste of time.  But not these hearings. Just the opposite. Netflix could not have produced a better series. They

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Zelensky accuses Russia of 'gas blackmail'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Moscow's reduction of natural gas output to Europe “gas blackmail” after Russian gas giant Gazprom said that it would be reducing daily flows to just half of what it is currently providing daily. “Even despite the concession regarding the Nord Stream turbine, Russia is not going to resume gas supplies to European countries, as it is contractually obligated to do. All this is done by Russia deliberately to make it as difficult as possible for Europeans to prepare for winter,” Zelensky

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The problem with a persistently late Federal Reserve

Some 15 months after the Federal Reserve started insisting that inflation was transitory&n

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Missouri AG leads GOP Senate primary field as Greitens drops: poll

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is leading the state’s Republican Senate primary field and outpacing controversial former Gov. Eric Greitens by double digits, according to an Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released on Tuesday.  Thirty-three percent of very likely Republican primary voters in Missouri said they planned on voting for Schmitt in the party’s primary, while 21 percent said they would vote for Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.). Sixteen percent said they would vote for Greitens.  Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) garnered five percent in the poll, while Ma

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