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Kevin McCarthy, Liz Cheney spar over Trump CPAC speech and his future in the GOP
The Republican civil war over former President Donald Trump is far from over. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., briefly sparred at a news conference Wednesday over Trump and his future role in the GOP. Asked about Trump’s upcoming speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee convention in Orlando, Florida, McCarthy suggested he can’t wait for the return of the GOP’s most popular leader. “Yes, he should [speak],” McCarthy said curtly, turning quickly away from the reporter who asked the question. But the reporter interjected by asking Che...
New York Daily News
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Editorial: Buckley would weep at the CPAC circus coming to Orlando
If the political descendants of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia were coming to town, that would be exciting. But that’s not what CPAC is bringing to Orlando, Florida, starting Thursday. We’re getting a new breed of 21st century conservatives, who, instead of focusing on economic policy and foreign affairs, obsess over fables of stolen elections and delusions of victimhood. The four-day Conservative Political Action Conference at the Hyatt Regency on International Drive features seven separate sessions — seven — devoted to elections. The titles include, “Protecting Elec...
Orlando Sentinel
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My worst moment: Isiah Whitlock Jr. (yes of 'The Wire' and that draaawnn out epithet) and the missed entrance
The sharply sardonic “I Care a Lot” on Netflix stars Rosamund Pike as a glossy-looking scam artist who persuades a judge to make her the legal guardian of retirement age people, who she then strips of their assets. The judge in question is played by Isiah Whitlock Jr., who “unwittingly allows her to do what she’s doing,” he said. Whitlock knows a thing or two about playing corrupt characters himself, most memorably on “The Wire” as state Sen. Clay Davis, who had a particular way of stretching out a certain profanity, a word that has become so associated with Whitlock’s trademark delivery that ...
Chicago Tribune
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Prosecutors drop DWI charges against Bruce Springsteen
New Jersey federal prosecutors dropped a DWI charge Wednesday against rocker Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen was cleared during his 11 a.m. remote appearance before Newark Federal Court Judge Anthony R. Mautone, where the Boss and his lawyer attended remotely. The session drew more than 125 media members, with Springsteen pleading to a single count of consuming alcoholic beverages hear a New Jersey beach. Springsteen was arrested on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, N.J., just 12 miles from his Jersey home, after he admitted knocking back a pair of ...
New York Daily News
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Prosecutors drop DWI charges Bruce Springsteen
New Jersey federal prosecutors dropped a DWI charge Wednesday against rocker Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen was cleared during his 11 a.m. remote appearance before Newark Federal Court Judge Anthony R. Mautone, where the Boss and his lawyer attended remotely. The session drew more than 125 media members, with Springsteen pleading to a single count of consuming alcoholic beverages hear a New Jersey beach. Springsteen was arrested on the afternoon of Nov. 14 at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, N.J., just 12 miles from his Jersey home, after he admitted knocking back a pair of ...
New York Daily News
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Federal judge allows businesses to proceed with lawsuits seeking COVID-19 payouts from Society Insurance
A Chicago federal judge has rejected a bid by Society Insurance to toss a mountain of lawsuits filed by businesses hit hard by the pandemic, a departure from recent rulings in other courts that sided with insurance companies. The Monday ruling gives hope to dozens of restaurants, bars and other businesses — including Chicago's storied Billy Goat Tavern and the Lettuce Entertain You restaurant company — whose claims for business interruption insurance were denied by the company after COVID-19 and government-mandated shutdowns forced them to close or severely curtail operations. Their cases can ...
Chicago Tribune
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Long live Ida: Trailblazing life of journalist and activist Ida B. Wells
She was born in slavery, but she would not be chained. Long after the Civil War ended, Ida B. Wells continued to fight for freedom. She battled segregation, wrote groundbreaking exposés, and marched for women’s suffrage. Wells set out to change the law and ended up inspiring a nation. Her descendants have long cherished her memory. Now her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster, pays tribute in “Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells.” The woman who grew up to be someone federal agents called “one of the most dangerous Negro agitators” was born in Holly Springs, Miss...
New York Daily News
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Trudy Rubin: Why Americans should care about the trial of democracy activist Martin Lee in Hong Kong
Watching the confirmations hearings for Judge Merrick Garland as U.S. attorney general reminded me of a tragic trial in process in Hong Kong. When asked about former President Donald Trump’s claim he had “absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department,” Garland made clear his primary loyalty was to the Constitution, meaning rule of law. Meantime, in Hong Kong, nine veteran pro-democracy activists are on trial on trumped up charges, as China crushes the rule of law it pledged the city could retain for 50 years after Britain returned the territory in 1997. The Chinese government is...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Cuba’s Revolutionary Square got a new name on Google Maps. It didn’t mention the rebels
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For a few hours, Cuba’s storied Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro once gave hourslong speeches to the masses, had a different name on Google Maps this week: Freedom Plaza. A group of Cubans on the island and in the diaspora launched a campaign to change the name of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana to the Plaza de la Libertad — and succeeded, though only temporarily. User requests for the switch made it through Google’s system, the company confirmed, but were eventually flagged and the name reverted back to its revolutionary idiom. Osmani Pardo, a Cuba-based a...
Miami Herald
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Internal emails reveal Michigan county's response to voting problem that fueled conspiracies
DETROIT — Antrim County has inspired nationwide conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential election, but internal emails from the northern Michigan county clerk's office show election officials quickly identified the human errors that led to problems with initial results. There wasn't a mysterious glitch with the Dominion Voting Systems election technology, as some lawyers and advocates have suggested without providing clear evidence. Instead, late changes to the ballot and the lack of a thorough rechecking of the machinery led to the discrepancies. Antrim County election officials ...
The Detroit News
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