Joe Biden

January 6, 2021 was among the most horrifying days in U.S. history — a day in which a violent mob of far-right insurrectionists attacked the U.S. Capitol Build in the hope of preventing Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over their idol, then-President Donald Trump. Yet Tucker Carlson and other far-right Fox News hosts have not only been apologists for the January 6 coup attempt, but also, pushed the nonsense conspiracy theory that some of the rioters were really leftist Antifa members. Washington Post opinion writer Aaron Blake examines some of Carlson's January 6-related claims in his December 10 column, explaining why they are so ludicrous and detached from reality.

"From basically the moment the January 6 Capitol insurrection concluded, supporters of Donald Trump have sought to pitch the event as a 'false flag' — and ultimately even some kind of government conspiracy," Blake explains. "It looked bad, after all, to have allies who believed Trump's bogus stolen-election claims resort to violence and chant about killing (then-Vice President) Mike Pence while marauding through the halls of Congress. So, for 11 months, the likes of Tucker Carlson and conspiratorially-minded members of Congress such as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) have sought evidence in support of that conclusion. It continues to go poorly."

New documents reveal that the United States worked on a deal with members of the Mafia to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in Cuba.

President Joe Biden released 1,500 pages of information from the assassination investigations surrounding former President John F. Kennedy. Many of the documents don't specifically deal with JFK's murder but it has a lot to do with the FBI and CIA's investigations of any known criminals or suspected Kennedy foes in or around the Dallas, Texas area.

A team of former military officers organized by retired general Mike Flynn is conducting a large-scale operation to delegitimize the 2020 presidential election.

Flynn and his former colleague Phil Waldron, an Army Reserve colonel who says he served under the former general at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, are working with at least two other retired and reserve officers to persuade Americans that last year's election was stolen from Donald Trump, reported Reuters.

It has been 58 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas. However, the extensive research and investigations that followed produced documents that have remained largely classified. President Joe Biden has released a trove of documents surrounding the assassination and the probes that followed.

According to CNN.com, the documents were scheduled to be disclosed in Oct. 2021 but were put on pause due to national security issues. Now, just a little over a month later, 1,500 documents are being disclosed. That leaves 10,000 documents left that have been redacted or withheld. It's that reason that JFK researchers assume the so-called "smoking gun" isn't included.

Donald Trump's co-conspirators are complaining the House select committee lacks a “legitimate legislative purpose" in investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, but one columnist explained why those claims are "absurd."

Conservative attorney John Eastman, author of the so-called "coup memo" advancing the theory that vice president Mike Pence could stop the certification of Joe Biden's win to tip the election to Trump, filed a lawsuit after he was subpoenaed arguing that the panel was engaged in law enforcement and not legislation, reported the Washington Post.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is furious because President Joe Biden's White House hung up on him when he demanded action on a Cuban human rights activist arrested in Cuba.

While the United States has no power to control the Cuban legal system, Fox News reported that Scott took to Twitter to call the hang-up "weakness, it’s shameful cowardice."

A Republican lawmaker sent a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows within hours after polls closed to hatch a plot to overturn a Donald Trump loss.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) read a message from the GOP lawmaker, whose name was not publicly revealed, when the U.S. House voted to hold Meadows in contempt of court, and revealed that members of Congress were conspiring with the White House to prevent Trump from losing before the results were known.

Republican extremists are going to ludicrous lengths as they attempt to attribute extreme weather disasters to anything other than global climate change.

Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to blame deadly California wildfires on a giant Jewish space laser.

President Joe Biden briefly spoke with the media Wednesday before boarding Air Force One to view the devastation in Kentucky. Biden acknowledged that he had not yet reviewed the texts sent from lawmakers to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, but called the contempt charge appropriate.

"I don't know enough -- just what I've seen, I have not spoken to anyone," Biden said. "It seems to me he's worthy of being held in contempt."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday said that the character of Democrats had been "revealed" by a "time of crisis," but the lawmaker forgot to mention that he fled his own state last year when a winter storm crisis hit.

During a 20-minute appearance on CBNC, Cruz repeatedly railed against vaccine mandates and downplayed the need to be vaccinated.

CNN host Brianna Keilar recalled group projects in school where some do all the work and someone who doesn't do anything takes all of the credit. That's what she thinks Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and other Republicans are doing now that funding from the COVID-19 relief bill is being distributed to states.

In a CNN segment, John Avlon recalled that no Republicans voted for the American Rescue Plan, the bill President Joe Biden and Democrats passed in the early days of 2021. Those funds paid for significant investments in a local airport.

The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, crossed 800,000 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed.

The figure is greater than the entire population of several states, including North Dakota and Alaska.