Failing Government, Freezing Texans  —  A cold and chaotic week in Galveston.  —  VOLUNTEERS HAND OUT CASES OF WATER BOTTLES TO GALVESTON RESIDENCE AT THE SCHLITTERBAHN WATERPARK PARKING LOT ON FEBRUARY 19, 2021 IN GALVESTON, TEXAS.  - A FIERCE AND DEADLY WINTER STORM THAT WREAKED HAVOC …

U.S. investigating possible ties between Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Capitol rioters  —  The Justice Department and FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look …

Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says  —  Mr. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to U.N. investigators.  —  NAIROBI, Kenya — Erik Prince …

Griddy customers face $5,000 electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas  —  In our deregulated market, Griddy and some other power suppliers charge customers wholesale variable rates.  Those plans are relatively new — and left customers frustrated after the storm.

Exclusive: New York City tax agency subpoenaed in Trump criminal probe  —  (Reuters) - The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has subpoenaed a New York City property tax agency as part of a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's company, the agency confirmed on Friday …

State GOP lawmakers propose flurry of voting restrictions to placate Trump supporters, spurring fears of a backlash  —  GOP state lawmakers across the country have proposed a flurry of voting restrictions that they say are needed to restore confidence in U.S. elections, an effort intended …

Ted Cruz's family seen soaking up the Cancun sun while Texas shivers  —  Here's what Ted Cruz is missing out on in Cancun.  —  The Texas senator's family was happily soaking up the Mexican sun Friday — without him — after leaving the Lone Star State, where millions experienced power outages …

WWII Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Removed to Germany  —  Man is the 70th Nazi Persecutor Removed from the United States  —  Today a Tennessee resident with German citizenship was removed to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

The Republicans UnCivil UnWar  —  Mitch versus Trump?  LOL no.  —  1. The UnBattle of Ohio  —  A dour, sullen, unsmiling, political hack.  This was former president Donald Trump's assessment of Mitch McConnell in a press release this week.  Politico reported that Trump was persuaded …

Extreme Cold Killed Texans in Their Bedrooms, Vehicles and Backyards  —  At least 58 people died in storm-affected areas stretching to Ohio, victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, car crashes, drownings, house fires and hypothermia.  —  SAN ANTONIO — Carrol Anderson spent much of his life …

‘Never before’ has the leader of the free world been ‘so cognitively compromised’  —  It is clear US President Joe Biden is not up to the task he has been “sworn in to do”, according to Sky News host Cory Bernardi.  “Never before has the leader of the free world been so cognitively compromised …

Trump gears up for war with his own party  —  There's no longer a chief of staff to screen his calls and he keeps no predictable working hours.  So an unspoken rule has governed Donald Trump's calendar since he left Washington last month: To sit down with the former president …

Whistleblower at Smith College Resigns Over Racism  —  Jodi Shaw made less in a year than the cost of tuition.  She was offered a settlement, but turned it down.  Here's why.  —  We all know that something morally grotesque is swallowing liberal America.  Almost no one wants to risk talking about it out loud.

Mitt Romney Tears Into Donald Trump Again Amid GOP Civil War  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) launched another scathing attack on former President Donald Trump, accusing him of dividing the United States into a “dark and dangerous place” by continuously claiming the November election results were fraudulent.

We Have Another Fauci Reversal...This Time on the COVID Vaccine  —  I honestly don't know what to say anymore.  It's like we've never seen viruses before COVID.  How can news of a vaccine being effective against spreading a virus be...actual breaking news?  Of course, vaccines do that.

Feds now say right-wing extremists responsible for majority of deadly terrorist attacks last year  —  The U.S. government is acknowledging for the first time that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according …

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Texas Disaster Declaration … Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Texas and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms beginning …

Biden's top doctor nominee made more than $2 million doing pandemic consulting, speeches  —  Tapped to be surgeon general, Vivek Murthy's financial entanglements draw scrutiny before his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday  —  As Vivek H. Murthy advised Joe Biden on the pandemic during …

Jack Daniel's-Swiggin' TikTok “Patriot” Arrested for Threatening FBI Agents  —  KEEP NEW TIMES FREE  —  I SUPPORT … SUPPORT THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF MIAMI AND HELP KEEP THE FUTURE OF NEW TIMES FREE.  —  Palming a bottle of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire, Palm Beach County resident Suzanne …

Black Americans should face lower age cutoffs to qualify for a vaccine  —  Oni Blackstock is a primary care and HIV physician and founder and executive director of Health Justice.  Uché Blackstock is an emergency physician and founder and chief executive of Advancing Health Equity.

‘Thank God for The Texas Tribune’: Power crisis shines light on local news  —  New York (CNN Business)For nearly a year, newsrooms have mostly sat empty because of the pandemic.  Staffers have been working from home and not seeing many of their coworkers in person.

Seeing ‘Political Grandstanding’ in Election Lawsuit, Judge Orders Attorney to Face Grievance Committee  —  “When any counsel seeks to target processes at the heart of our democracy, the committee may well conclude that they are required to act with far more diligence and good faith than existed here,” the judge said.

Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion conjuring trick  —  Stage sets are sometimes moved into place in full view of theatergoers.  On other occasions, such mechanics are meant to go unnoticed, but the audience can still hear scenery being dragged around in the darkness between acts.

Cruz and Cuomo Face Scandal.  Trump Can't Save Them.  —  Without Donald Trump dominating the political conversation, politicians' audacious behavior isn't so quickly subsumed.  —  Even by Washington standards, this has been a particularly shameless week.  —  With millions of Texans freezing …

Two women ‘dressed up as grannies’ tried to get vaccinated in Florida.  —  Maybe it was the bonnets.  —  Or the gloves that the two women donned, though the temperatures in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday hovered in the 60s.  —  In a scene right out of a sitcom, the women went …

Inspector General Reviews Trump Admin's Last-Minute Decision To Relocate Space Command  —  The decision to relocate from Colorado to Alabama was made one week before Donald Trump left office.  It has raised questions of political retaliation.  —  DENVER (AP) — The Department …