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WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors allege some involved in riot at Capitol had intended ‘to capture and assassinate elected officials’.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas is on track to pay out an extra $300-a-week federal unemployment benefit as part of a coronavirus rescue aid package enacted late last month, a top Department of Labor official said. Ryan Wright, who stepped down as acting secretary of the agency in December ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Joel Bitonio's long playoff wait with the Browns is over. The Pro Bowl left guard has was activated from the COVID-19 list Friday after missing last week’s wild-card win over Pittsburgh. Cleveland’s longest tenured player, Bitonio had to isolate at home and missed his first career postseason ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the state’s efforts to increase COVID-19 vaccinations have been thrown in disarray because of “deception on a national scale” by the Trump administration. Via Twitter on Friday morning the Democrat said she was told by General Gustave F. Perna, who leads ...

RIVERVIEW, Mo. (AP) - Police have identified a man shot to death earlier this week in Riverview. The shooting was reported just before 9 p.m. Tuesday, television station KMOV reported. Arriving officers found a man along Chambers Road suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was taken to an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - No one will be charged in the shooting deaths of three men in South Carolina because they all shot at each other when a drug deal turned into a robbery, investigators said. Two of the men died by the time deputies arrived Sunday at the Columbia ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The state of Maryland is allocating $30 million in emergency relief for music and entertainment venues, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Friday. The aid is for venues that have been hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s part of more than $700 million in emergency economic relief ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A federal judge has ordered Indian Health Services to release a report investigating how one of its doctors was able to sexually abuse boys on Indian reservations in South Dakota and Montana. Stanley Patrick Weber, the former pediatrician, was sentenced last year to five consecutive ...

JENNINGS, Mo. (AP) - A St. Louis County man has been charged in vandalism that occurred at more than a dozen businesses in Jennings, including churches and nonprofits. David Jackson, 40, was charged Thursday with one count of first-degree property damage. He was not yet in custody on Friday. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's largest health care organization is looking for volunteers to enroll in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. Lifespan is one of about 115 sites in the U.S. and Mexico participating in the Phase 3 safety and efficacy trial of the vaccine being developed by Novavax, a ...

The decision comes more than a week after a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters marched across the park and stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Stocks fell on Friday after President-elect Joe Biden announced details of a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan and major banks released their quarterly results.

Michael Avenatti faces trial this year for allegedly stealing from clients, including porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had a tryst with Donald Trump.

Dimon's blunt assessment was in response to questioning from analysts who pointed out the rich, tech-like valuations of fintech players.

Studios that were able to release films before the pandemic shut down cinemas in March, held onto their box office gains and remained top earners for the year;

The incoming Biden administration will push Congress to expand food benefits for Americans struggling because of coronavirus until at least September 2021.

After GameStop's short squeeze sent the shares over 100% higher this week, two market analysts share which highly shorted stocks may see a similar upside surprise.

Lore joined Walmart in 2016 when the retailer acquired the start-up he co-founded, Jet.com, for $3.3 billion.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding a press briefing on the coronavirus Friday as the state continues to roll out coronavirus vaccines.

Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson are charged in the riot that came after President Trump's rally. National Guard members now guard the Capitol.

Five claims caught our attention. The Biden team quickly provided citations and back-up.

Some of Trump's defenders dusted off old spin from Trump's first impeachment.

What is this latest impeachment gambit really about? Of course, it was a Parthian shot to discredit President Trump's supporters.

Republican arguments against impeachment misunderstand history, the intentions of the Founding Fathers and the law.

After spending the last five years talking to avid Trump supporters, CNN's Alisyn Camerota writes it is time to tune out the President's die-hard supporters for good. Listening to Trump's supporters, she argues, is now problematic and dangerous.

The term is being casually flung about, with little distinction between wrong-headed lawmakers and the rioters themselves.

It's not just Trump - some on the right have supported violence for years now; the party has built its power on them.

Fuhgeddaboudism demands that we erase context and develop amnesia for not only history but for what happened every night last summer.

Or his ability to help Americans will be doomed from the start.

The economy was bad, and the White House planned to go big. On the day the mammoth $800 billion Recovery Act became law, however, the new president took care to stress how his administration would keep a close eye on every dollar going out the door. This task of providing oversight, Barack Obama announced at […]

It's also worth remembering that the success of candidates like Raphael Warnock is a product of years of voter engagement

Could the Republican party mandarins, gathering once again in a mythical 'smoke-filled room', rig the 2024 primaries to stop Trump?

President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday that Obama administration veteran and longtime aide Anita Dunn will serve in the White House as a senior adviser.The Biden transition team announced Dunn's role as part of...

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) and Ed Rollins, who managed President Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign, are launching a new public affairs firm.The agency, called Unifire Advisers, will provid...

President Trump's approval rating has cratered after he incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, led by a dramatic drop in support among voters of his own party.A new Pew Research Center ...

Inspectors general across four government agencies plan to review the government's response to the riots on January 6, examining how poor communication and planning led to a siege on the Capitol.Invest...

The federal government late Thursday executed 52-year-old Corey Johnson, who was convicted for his involvement in a burst of gang violence in Virginia in 1992, despite a federal judge earlier this week initially hal...

Criminal ComplaintA Texas real estate agent who took a private jet to the Capitol last week to answer President Donald Trump’s “call” was charged Friday for participating in the violent insurrection. Jenna Ryan, a Frisco, Texas real estate broker and life coach, has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without […]

Win McNamee/GettyThe so-called QAnon Shaman who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week in Viking garb before sitting in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair on the Senate dais admitted to federal agents he intended to return to D.C. to “protest” President-elect Biden’s inauguration.“I’ll still go, you better believe it,” Jacob Chansley bragged in an interview with […]

Brad Trent/ReduxAmid ongoing ratings struggles, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace are fighting for their jobs as their boss Rupert Murdoch has swooped in to take a more hands-on role at the network in recent days, multiple network insiders told The Daily Beast.In fact, according to people familiar with the situation, Scott’s […]

via savedustinjhiggs.comThe Trump administration’s sole success was in removing any lingering doubt that the right-wing is a death cult.This president’s nihilistic indifference to the coronavirus pandemic helped kill 385,000, his incitement of his white supremacist followers left five dead after the Capitol insurgency, and his administration’s anti-immigrant family separation policy killed children. In its final […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/ShutterstockI’ve always wanted a flying car like the ones in The Jetsons. But despite 80 years of flubbed attempts, and an awful lot of ink spilled over at Popular Science, I still don’t have one in my driveway—and it’s not even close.But I do have a robot in my kitchen […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastThis week, the world as I know it was turned upside down by the news. Sex and the City is being rebooted, sans Kim Cattrall. On the one hand, that’s like having sex without… having sex. On the other hand, I will devour every episode of this and have already […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyOne of the most frightening aspects of the assault on the U.S. Capitol was how, well, normal some of the participants seemed—and how openly they spoke of their willingness to murder other Americans if President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory was certified.The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer was outside the Capitol on […]

Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/GettyThe GOP’s prescription to address Donald Trump’s incitement of an insurrection is for us all to come together in a big kumbaya fest and simply “unite.” We heard that sentiment over and over Wednesday during the House debate on impeachment—even from people like Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, who has been a leader […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos via Getty/Harper CollinsIf you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday.Sarah Ferguson, the irrepressible former wife of Prince Andrew, continues to stand by her beleaguered man.Despite […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos GettyA building-sized billboard was erected in Times Square during the summer of 2010 large enough for any gawking tourist to spot. Mikhail Prokhorov, who’d recently bought the then-New Jersey Nets—a purchase that failed to put much of a dent into his Russian billions—posed next to fellow owner Jay-Z, though […]