The prosecutor for war crimes of the Kharkiv region stands with a coroner and a police officer at the site of a mass burial in a forest during the exhumation September 16, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. Yevhenii Zavhorodnii | Global Pictures Ukraine | News from Getty Images | Getty Images Editor’s Note: The following article…

Exxon made $19.66 billion in profit in just three months. Good work when you can get it and not be plagued by guilt, patriotism, or concern for global democracy. Yesterday it was Shell making headlines with huge earnings, today it’s Exxon — but Exxon far ahead of Shell and others with earnings “nearly doubling” in…

Former U.S. President Donald Trump throws hats as he attends a rally in Warren, Michigan, October 1, 2022. Dieu-nalio Chery | Reutersm Former President Donald Trump and other defendants reject New York Attorney General Letitia James’ request for an independent observer to oversee the submission of Trump Organization financial statements to third parties in a…

On Wednesday morning, two other notable Republicans, David L. Hobson and John M. Bridgeland, took the floor to support Democrat Tim Ryan’s run for the US Senate in an op-ed piece ominously titled, “A republic, if You Can Keep Them” on Cleveland.com. They began with a reminder from history of what is at stake: When…

The country’s largest employers have collectively laid off more than 100,000 workers during the Covid pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday by a House subcommittee. Hourly workers were hit particularly hard. Not only were they more likely to be fired than employees in 2019, 2020 and 2021, but they were also more likely to…

Judge Clarence Thomas intervened on his own initiative, temporarily blocking an order ordering Senator Lindsey Graham to testify in a Georgia criminal case. CNN reported: Judge Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order calling for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to testify before a special jury in the Atlanta area investigating…

Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, during a hearing of the Special Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S., on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The House special committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots in the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald…

The only justification for Bannon’s bitterness right now is that he thinks laws either shouldn’t exist or shouldn’t apply to him. Yesterday, Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison, sixty days less than prosecutors requested, and a fine of $6,500, or $193,500 less than prosecutors requested. All of this could have been avoided if…

Samuel Bankman-Fried, Founder and CEO of FTX, speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Food and Forestry Committee hearing on “Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation and Innovation” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2022 out . Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images According to one of the group’s chief strategists, a network of…

MAGA’s reaction to Igor Danchenko’s acquittal came as a surprise to many of us on the left. Very few of us followed the Durham Inquiry (there wasn’t much to follow), few of us thought that much was going to come of it, and most of us believed that the FBI could not and would not…