One of the Trumpist rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month may have stolen House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and then tried to sell it to Russian intelligence, according to a criminal complaint. The extraordinary claim—which is now under investigation by the FBI—comes from an affidavit describing the criminal case against Pennsylvania woman Riley June Williams. She was recognized in footage of the deadly […]
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Sheldon Adelson, the multibillionaire casino magnate who was one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers in both of his presidential election cycles, has died at the age of 87. Adelson’s death was confirmed Tuesday morning by his wife and his company, Las Vegas Sands. Dr. Miriam Adelson said her husband died of “complications from a long illness,” just five days after it was reported that he […]
Last week, five people died as rioters incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol seeking lawmakers to lynch. But First Lady Melania Trump has identified the worst thing about the entire horrific spectacle—people saying mean things about her online. In a deeply weird and jarring farewell statement posted by the White House early Monday morning, Melania first paid tribute to those who lost their […]
Associated Press photographers Julio Cortez and John Minchillo were both in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday doing their jobs—documenting the unprecedented storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. But, as Cortez’s terrifying GoPro footage shows, the rioters did not want them anywhere near them to record their illegal and destructive actions. Cortez’s video begins as he and Minchillo are apparently taking photos of police officers […]
Joe Scarborough has had enough. The Morning Joe host opened Thursday’s show, the day after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, with a powerful and furious tirade against the president—and the police officers who didn’t stop the MAGA hordes from breaking in. Scarborough opened his address by asking what would have happened if the rioters weren’t overwhelmingly white and pro-Trump. “If these insurrectionists were Black, they […]
EDINBURGH—Scotland has long prided itself on the warm welcome it gives to visitors, but that’s before a pandemic erupted around the world, and it’s never included President Donald Trump anyway. It’s been well-documented that Trump was reviled and ridiculed in Scotland long before he got anywhere near the White House. Now, with rumors flying around that he’s plotting an escape to his flagship Scottish golf resort […]
Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States to face charges over the release of secret military documents because of his serious mental health problems, a British judge has ruled—but the U.S. Department of Justice has vowed to appeal the dramatic decision. Monday morning’s court hearing could have resulted in the WikiLeaks founder being sent to face the justice system in the U.S., where he’s […]
EDINBURGH, Scotland—The first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Britain was treated like a national wartime effort. Most people gathered weekly on their doorsteps to applaud frontline workers, they looked to the dear old queen for reassurance, and followed the rules in the understanding that they would be temporary and effective. But now Britain is in a wave that seems equally as dire as the first, […]
No one has enjoyed the news this year—but, if it’s any kind of consolation, the morning Cheat Sheet team probably enjoyed it a bit less than you. Our job is to digest as many big stories as possible as early as possible and tell them back you in a way that is to the point and—when the content isn’t highly distressing, which, to be fair, has […]
EDINBURGH, Scotland—On Jan. 2, Boris Johnson was feeling pretty good about himself. Having just secured a massive majority in last year’s festive election, the British prime minister posted a thumbs-up photo of his grinning face with the caption: “This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain.” As 2020 draws to a close—with a mutant virus running riot through his country, Christmas canceled for millions, […]
Remember in the early days of the pandemic, when people like Tucker Carlson and Sen. Rand Paul advocated for the U.S. following the Swedish model of avoiding strict lockdowns and letting life carry on largely as normal amid the highly contagious virus? Well, as the year ends, Sweden is coming to terms with a death toll per million that is approximately 10 times higher than neighboring […]
EDINBURGH—Ninety-year-old granny Margaret Keenan became the world’s most unlikely megastar this week when she became the first person to receive a fully-approved coronavirus vaccine in the Western world. The sweet old lady told reporters that she was so happy to get the jab as it meant she might see her family after being on her own for nearly a year. To some, however, the soon-to-be-91-year-old, who […]
Iran has accused Israel of carrying out “an act of state terror” after the assassination of a top nuclear scientist who is believed to have masterminded Iran’s atomic bomb program for decades. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, dubbed “the father of Iranian regime’s nuclear bomb,” died from his injuries in hospital after an armed group of assassins fired on his car in Absard, east of capital Tehran, on Friday. […]
It’s been nearly a year since Germany woke up the shocking news that a billion dollars worth of jewels had been stolen from one of Europe’s most prized collections of historic treasures. Now, following a successful pre-dawn raid in Berlin, the daring thieves may soon face justice. German police said Tuesday that three men have been arrested, and two more are being hunted down, in connection […]
At the end of October, a 73-year-old man was beaten so badly by a group of teenagers in the Dutch city of Arnhem that he later died of his injuries. Dutch police say it’s the latest and most serious example of “pedophile hunting,” which is sweeping the country. According to local police, the man, who was a retired teacher, was in an online chatroom where he […]
A British nurse has been charged with murdering eight babies, as well as the attempted murders of 10 others, after a years-long investigation into an unexplained spike in baby deaths at a hospital’s neonatal unit. It’s the third time that Lucy Letby, 30, has been arrested. She was previously detained in 2018 and 2019 as authorities probed the string of infant fatalities at the Countess of […]
Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother, Wendy, has blamed protesters and law enforcement for a deadly night in Kenosha, Wisconsin that ended with her 17-year-old son fatally shooting two protesters. Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, the 45-year-old said that the protesters shouldn’t have been there the night they were shot by her son, she blamed Kenosha police and state and local government for the deadly incident, and voiced her […]
Joe Biden has taken the lead from President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania—a position which, unless Trump can pull off a shock late surge from the state’s mail-in ballots, looks set to land the former vice president in the White House. A fresh batch of results from Philadelphia on Friday morning saw Biden vault Trump’s lead in the Keystone State on the same day that the Democrat […]
President Donald Trump is not feeling good. As his path to victory narrowed to a virtual tightrope with key battleground states counting up their crucial final votes, the president reportedly realized—despite his legal tub-thumping—that he was sinking. CNN’s Dana Bash reported late Wednesday that the president started feeling “down” as he watched live cable news coverage of his apparent demise through Wednesday, and is “starting to […]
Three men and one woman who identify as members of the ultra-right-wing Proud Boys group were stabbed near the White House in the early hours after Election Day, according to multiple reports. Police told NBC Washington that a fight broke out around 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue Northwest—a few blocks from the White House campus. The four were stabbed […]
Six weeks ago, Boris Johnson’s top team of scientific advisers came to him with a chilling warning. He had to bring in an immediate two-week national lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus from spiraling out of control, they said, and a failure to do so would likely result in what they called “a very large epidemic with catastrophic consequences.” The warning went largely ignored. […]
Three people have been killed in a suspected terror attack near a church in the French city of Nice, according to local media. The city’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, wrote: “I confirm that everything suggests a terrorist attack in the Notre-Dame basilica.” Estrosi said that one person had been arrested. More to follow… Source link
To be fair, it’s probably easier to be a COVID-19 denier in New Zealand than in the United States. The island country has effectively eliminated the virus, twice, and life is now carrying on largely as normal. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t expect to be absolutely torn to pieces if you start spouting virus conspiracy theories in public there. Sadly for one man, conspicuous by […]
We all had a good laugh about the audacious fly that crawled around on Mike Pence’s sensible haircut during Wednesday night’s debate—but were we actually seeing a demonic manifestation before our very eyes? Of course we weren’t. But, in what may or may not have been an attempt at a joke, the veteran Republican and anti-Trump strategist Steve Schmidt said that there was something of the […]
Just hours before President Trump announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19, he was mingling with fundraisers at an event held at his New Jersey golf club—and even posed for personal photo-ops with supporters. The event went ahead after the White House learned that one of the president’s closest aides, Hope Hicks, had tested positive for the disease, according to multiple reports. Trump was last […]
At first glance—with headlines such as “Sleepy Joe Set Politics Back 180 Years,” “BLM Body Count,” and “Trump Paid Zero Taxes? Good for Him”—it doesn’t look much different from hundreds of other Trumpist news sites that rage against Democrats and the elitist mainstream media. But the clunkily titled “Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens,” or NAEBC, was on Thursday exposed as a Russian front reportedly […]
President Donald Trump might have choked on his Egg McMuffin on Wednesday when tuning into his favorite morning show. Fresh from an aggressive debate performance which his campaign chalked up as a victory before it had even happened, Trump most likely tuned into Fox & Friends expecting the kind of sycophantic flattery he’s become accustomed to over the past four years. However, even the president’s pals […]
Everyone knows that live television isn’t easy. Anything can go wrong—from a faulty connection, a verbal slip-up, or, as was the case on Tuesday morning’s Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani bellowing insane conspiracy theories at the nation with no obvious way to stop him. It’s always a risk to allow Giuliani to share his wildly unpredictable stream of consciousness live. The man who was named Time […]
LONDON—Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House. The revelation comes from an enormous data leak obtained by the British news network Channel 4. It shows that, four years ago, the Trump campaign prepared files on almost 200 […]
Police in Paris have confirmed that four people have been hurt in a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. A major trial is currently taking place in Paris over the terror attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices in 2015, which kickstarted three days of violence in which 17 people were killed. The Paris Police Prefecture said Friday morning that they are […]
LONDON—Alexander Nix, the man who was running Cambridge Analytica when it harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters without their knowledge so it could be exploited by the Trump 2016 campaign, has been banned from directing any companies for seven years. The now-defunct Cambridge Analytica was a U.K. digital black-ops firm that collapsed in 2018 following revelations that it secretly collected Facebook profile […]
The Seattle Police Department is investigating after a video showed one of its cops rolling a bike over the head and neck of a fallen protester at Wednesday night’s Breonna Taylor demonstrations. Protests erupted in the city in response to officers in Louisville, Kentucky, not being charged for fatally shooting the 26-year-old Black woman. The SPD confirmed in a statement that 13 people were arrested at […]
Senate Republicans have released their controversial report on Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s former dealings with Ukraine in a politically-charged move to taint Biden’s campaign weeks out from Election Day. The investigation, which was spearheaded by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) focuses on Hunter Biden’s work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings—a key issue in last year’s impeachment of President Donald Trump. […]