FBI memo warns law enforcement across U.S. of possible armed protests at 50 state capitols  —  The FBI has sent a memo to law enforcement agencies across the country warning of possible armed protests at all 50 state capitol buildings starting Jan. 16, and also says an armed group has threatened …

House to vote Wednesday as Pelosi gets the votes to impeach Trump  —  The House will vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, just seven days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

First Lady Melania Trump: Our Path Forward  —  Like all of you, I have reflected on the past year and how the invisible enemy, Covid-19, swept across our beautiful country.  All Nations have experienced the loss of loved ones, economic pain, and the negative impacts of isolation.

Watson Coleman Receives Positive Coronavirus Test Following January 6 Capitol Lockdown  —  f t # e  —  Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) received a positive rapid antigen test result for COVID-19.  She believes she was exposed during protective isolation in the U.S. Capitol building …

Is Trump Actually Still in Control?  —  Who is steering the American ship of state?  —  This isn't a philosophical question; we've spent four years wondering about the roots and motivations of Trumpism.  It's a specific question: Who is in charge right now when the White House has to make a decision?

Susan Collins recounts the moment rioters stormed the Capitol  —  The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com.  —  Susan Collins represents Maine in the U.S. Senate.

Yes, It Was a Coup.  Here's Why.  —  Since last Wednesday, people have been arguing what to call what happened at the U.S. Capitol - was it a riot?  An uprising?  An insurrection?  I've been public in calling it a coup, but others disagree.  Some have said it's not a coup because the U.S. military …

Historians and Constitutional Scholars' Statement on the Second Impeachment of President Donald Trump  —  Historians and Legal Scholars for Impeachment  —  As American historians and constitutional scholars, we support the impeachment and removal of President Donald J. Trump.

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf stepping down from Trump administration  —  Chad Wolf will resign from his position as acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, leaving the Trump administration nine days ahead of the president's departure from office, a senior DHS official told the Washington Examiner Monday.

Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric  —  After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.  —  Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular …

A Disgruntled Employee Changed The State Department's Website To Say That Trump's Term Ends Today, Sources Say  —  A disgruntled employee at the State Department changed the biographies of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to say their term was coming to an end on Monday …

New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership  — New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership  —  The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) …

Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived  —  In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler …

Republican No More: The GOP's Existential Crisis  —  In the wake of the trauma of the last two months, two inescapable questions emerge.  First, what does it mean to be republican?  And second, does the Republican Party represent those values at all any more?

Germany's Merkel hits out at Twitter over ‘problematic’ Trump ban  — German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds Twitter's decision to ban President Donald Trump's account “problematic,” her spokesperson said.  — Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account on Friday, following outcry over riots on Capitol Hill.

'We're in a Worse Place Today Than We Were Before He Came In'  —  Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the mess Donald Trump is leaving behind.  —  President Donald Trump is on the way out of office—perhaps even earlier than the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.

74% Of Voters Say Democracy In The U.S. Is Under Threat, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 52% Say President Trump Should Be Removed From Office  —  Following last week's mob attack on the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress to formally certify Joe Biden's victory …

Fox News removes one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage  —  New York (CNN Business)Fox News Channel is removing one of its only nighttime hours of news coverage and replacing it with a right-wing opinion show, signifying a further shift toward the incendiary programming that Fox viewers overwhelmingly prefer.

Our Preparations Ahead of Inauguration Day  —  We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year.  But our planning took on new urgency after last week's violence in Washington, D.C., and we are treating the next two weeks as a major civic event.  We're taking additional steps and using …

1,100 State Department employees got vaccinated.  At USAID, zero did.  —  When the federal government dispersed its first round of coronavirus vaccines to federal agencies last month, the State Department received and distributed them to about 1,100 employees in Washington …

‘War for the soul’: Capitol riot elevates GOP power struggle between pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and party establishment  —  The essay reads like the manifesto of a delusional conspiracy theorist — claiming that President Trump would remain in office on Jan. 20, after purging his Cabinet and replacing Vice President Pence.

QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State  —  An open letter to QAnon, “stop the steal,” and other communities involved in the Capitol attack  —  To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:  —  The Deep State is real, but it's not what you think.

Citing ‘censorship’ concerns, North Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter  —  Your T1 WIFI said it was blocking the sites for some customers who requested it due to “censorship.”  —  SPOKANE, Wash. — A North Idaho internet provider, Your T1 WIFI, confirmed it is blocking Facebook …

Federal officials seek information on manatee harassment  —  Updated with video  —  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the harassment of a manatee.  The animal was reported to federal authorities over the weekend when it was discovered with the words “Trump” scraped in its back.

Who Dies for Donald Trump?  —  Ashli Babbitt did not hide her far-right political views.  Outside her San Diego bungalow, located blocks from the beach, she flew both an American flag and a QAnon flag emblazoned with a giant Q and the acronym WWG1WGA, for “Where we go one, we go all.”

Arizona Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar implicated by activist in Capitol insurrection  —  Opinion: Activist Ali Alexander claims that he and the two Arizona congressman, and Mo Brooks from Alabama, ‘schemed up putting maximum pressure on congress while they were voting ...’

The worst run cities in America  —  The current state of many of America's large cities is poor and rapidly declining, leading to the greatest rates of emigration since the bad old days in the 1970s of bankruptcy, runaway crime, and disorder.  Eight cities stand out as the worst-run in the nation …