Author: Farnoush Amiri
-
Sources: Trump aide Miller to speak to Jan. 6 panel
WASHINGTON • Stephen Miller, who served as a top aide to President Donald Trump, was being questioned Thursday by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, according to two people familiar with the matter. Miller was a senior adviser for policy during the Trump administration and a central figure in many of the…
-
House debates contempt for Scavino, Navarro in Jan 6 probe
WASHINGTON • The House moved Wednesday to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress as a new round of partisan fighting erupted over the House committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers argued over a resolution, that if approved later in the day as…
-
Takeaways from Jan. 6 panel so far
WASHINGTON • The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol has previewed some of its findings in a federal court filing, and investigators for the first time said they have enough evidence to suggest then-President Donald Trump committed crimes. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump will be charged or even that…
-
Pelosi: GOP Reps. Boebert, Greene ‘should just shut up’
WASHINGTON • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had stern words Thursday for two of the most right-wing members of her chamber after their outbursts during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union. “I agree with what Sen. Lindsey Graham said, ‘Shut up.’ That’s what he said to them. They should just shut up,” the California Democrat…
-
Sen. Luján to be out at least 4 weeks, Biden agenda at risk
WASHINGTON • The Democrats’ fragile hold on the Senate majority became vividly apparent Wednesday with the sudden illness of New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who won’t be back to work for at least four weeks, throwing President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick and lagging legislative agenda in doubt. The 49-year-old Democrat remained hospitalized after…
-
Despite video, only GOP minority say 1/6 very violent
WASHINGTON • The fighting — so ferocious that one Capitol Police officer described it as “medieval” and another as a “trip to hell” — left more than 100 law enforcement personnel injured, some beaten with their own weapons. Video cameras captured the violence live, with rioters clubbing officers with flag polls and fire extinguishers, even…
-
McConnell openly courts Manchin to leave Democrats, join GOP
WASHINGTON • Mitch McConnell is done with subtleties. The Senate Republican leader is putting his party’s courtship of Joe Manchin on full public display after the West Virginia Democrat’s fractious split with the White House over the president’s big social and environmental spending package. McConnell says Manchin “feels like a man alone” and if he…
-
Rep. Perry denies Jan. 6 panel’s request for interview
WASHINGTON • Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania on Tuesday rebuffed a request for him to sit down for an interview and turn over documents to the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, joining other allies of former President Donald Trump in trying to stonewall the committee. “I stand with immense respect…