Reading archive 2021-01-31

Ukraine stayed quiet during Trump-era pressures. Now it’s sharing some Giuliani tales.

Ten Senate Republicans propose compromise covid relief package, request meeting with Biden: Move by GOP senators led by Susan Collins comes as Democrats prepare to go forward quickly with Biden package without Republican support

Opinion: Alexei Navalny may be in jail, but he’s helping to give birth to a new Russia

Woman charged in Capitol riot said she wanted to shoot Pelosi ‘in the friggin’ brain,' FBI says

‘Be ready to fight’: FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault - "'Historically, within the right-wing extremist movements, leadership has produced rhetoric to spin up their members, increase radicalization and recruitment, and then stand back and let small cells or individual lone offenders follow through on that rhetoric with violent action,' said Thomas O’Connor, a former FBI agent who spent decades investigating domestic terrorists. 'Domestic terrorism actually developed the leaderless resistance concept, taking the potential blame away from the leadership and putting it down into small groups or individuals, and I think that is what you’re starting to see here.'"

How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans

Police chief, officer under fire after bodycam video surfaces with racial slurs, explicit language: Video surfaced of comments both are seen making at a Black Lives Matter protest.