Thursday, May 20, 2021

Reading archive 2021-05-20

Chris Cuomo took part in strategy calls advising his brother, the New York governor, on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations

A Texas family hunted for a teen vandal. Instead, they killed an innocent neighbor, police said.

Opinion: D.C. should end the felon-in-possession initiative

FBI probing possible illegal donations to Susan Collins PAC and congressional campaign, search warrant indicates - "In the summer of 2019, the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research awarded Navatek an $8 million contract to develop safer ship hulls. Collins advocated for that funding."

How Paul Mooney made SNL a cultural phenomenon with one legendary Richard Pryor-Chevy Chase sketch

Opinion: Why Republican opposition to a Jan. 6 commission could be a blessing in disguise - "This will play well on Fox 'News' but, like much of what the right says these days, it simply isn’t so. The bill to establish a January 6 commission was negotiated in good faith between Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and the ranking Republican member, Rep. John Katko (N.Y.).

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"In 2014, the Republican House majority voted to create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack — a terrorist assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. Republicans treated this as a scandal akin to Iran-contra or Watergate — largely, as McCarthy later boasted, because they wanted to hurt the presidential prospects of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

Body-cam video shows Louisiana troopers stunned, hit and dragged Black man before his death

65-year-old woman fatally shot in Southeast Washington

Russell Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention’s leadership prompts questions over its future

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