The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Cue up the spinning wheel of bad news. Simply turn on the TV or crank up the internet. Just as we thought the hellscape of 2020 was behind us, a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado replaces a mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, which supplants a border crisis…
Editor’s Note: Originally published by ProPublica. Republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license, with a few minor editorial changes to reflect his official announcement in Huntsville on Monday. By Isaac Arnsdorf Mo Brooks, the Alabama congressman who just launched a campaign for United States Senate, has officially said he condemns the Capitol riot…
Federal Prosecutors Have Not Ruled Out Charging Trump With Inciting the Violent Mob – By Glynn Wilson – The acting U.S. attorney leading the investigation into those involved in the January 6 Capitol insurrection appeared on CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” on Sunday and admitted that prosecutors are looking into former President Donald Trump’s role in inciting…
By Glynn Wilson – Republican Congressman Mo Brooks of Huntsville, Alabama, was in on inciting the Capitol insurrection Jan. 6 and we’ve already written that he should be investigated for his role in that. Related: The American Public Deserves the Whole Truth: Will All Those Involved in the Capitol Insurrection Be Held Accountable? In the…
An Update on the Legal Jeopardy of Steve Bannon and Donald Trump – Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – Now that the nation is finally beginning to turn the corner on the coronavirus pandemic and on this first day of spring begin to reemerge from the economic downturn caused by it, there is a…
By Glynn Wilson – As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to action on climate change and restoring science to federal government agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking the first step in a relaunch of its climate change website, according to a press release just out on the newly launched email list. Both the…
By Glynn Wilson – As a leading agency observing and understanding environmental changes to planet Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday that it officially joined the National Climate Task Force created by President Joe Biden in an executive order issued an Jan. 27, which outlined details of the task force directing all…
Staff Report – The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released new information and videos showing suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal police officers during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and is seeking the public’s help to identify them (videos below). It has been two months since violent extremists breached…
FBI Releases Report on Nashville Bombing – Staff Report – The Christmas bombing in Nashville, Tennessee that left devastation for blocks in a downtown entertainment district and caused millions in property damage but resulted in no deaths, was an act of individual suicide and not related to ideology or terrorism, according to an investigation by…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spring forward and sleep late. I know I did. The iPhone clock said 10:30. The devil who shall not be named is no longer tweet storming an insurrection against American democracy from the White House. A new sheriff is in town. People are already…
Live Video – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the White House for the first time on Thursday night on the one year anniversary of the national emergency declaration over the coronavirus pandemic, and broke the news that his administration will beat previous announced deadlines for getting Americans vaccinated and…
By Glynn Wilson – Nanci Pelosi’s House approved the amended Senate version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan on Wednesday by a vote of 220 to 211, sending the historic anti-poverty legislation to the president for his signature. It could be signed and become law by the weekend, with $1,400 coronavirus pandemic…
Spoiler Alert By Glynn Wilson – What would we do without television entertainment and literature in the age of COVID? While I’m not a huge fan of Hollywood monster movies, it was hard to resist John Logan’s Penny Dreadful, a Showtime series now on Netflix depicting the dark side of Victorian England in the 19th…
Editor’s Note: For the past five years, while the New American Journal has continued to keep up with some major stories related to the natural environment such as the latest news on global warming and climate change, our priorities have tended to focus largely on coverage of national science and public affairs, and some state…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It was 56 years ago today (Sunday) that John Lewis led civil rights marchers north across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to face Alabama State Troopers and Dallas County sheriffs deputies on the other side with billy clubs, cattle prods and tear gas. By putting their…
House to Vote on Changes Tuesday – By Glynn Wilson – In a historic vote of epic proportions that demonstrates the paramount importance of voting and elections in a democracy, Democrats in the Senate voted 50-49 on Saturday to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for coronavirus pandemic relief without a single…
By Glynn Wilson – House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell, a Democrat in Congress from California, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday against former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on January 6 to delay certifying Joe Biden as president. Attempting to move the impeachment case made by the…
By Glynn Wilson – Poor Richard. It’s not fair. Richard Barnett, that is, the Arkansas redneck Trump supporting insurrectionist and domestic terrorist who was infamously photographed during the Capitol riot on January 6 with his feet propped up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk. He shouted at a federal judge during a virtual court appearance…
Staff Report – The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to make arrests of right-wing extremists for threatening members of Congress, according to new announcements from the United States Department of Justice. Jaap Willem Lijbers, a Dutch national and member of the Bugaloo Bois, was arrested Tuesday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with illegal…
Staff Report – As the Senate prepares to debate President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, new public opinion polling shows strong bipartisan support for the legislation is holding up against an uptick in Republican attacks on its size, scope and price tag. In the new survey, conducted Feb. 26 to March 1, 77…
