Judge Will Let Trump Out of Contempt—If He Pays Up and Cooperates
AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s legal battle with New York Attorney General Letitia James has agreed to give the former president a break on the $10,000-per-day fines that have been piling…
Report: Annual Drug Overdose Deaths Reach All-Time High
Signs are displayed at a tent during a health event on June 26, 2021, in Charleston, W.Va.John Raby/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A record 107,600 people died of drug overdoses in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported…
One America News Admits “No Widespread Voter Fraud” by Georgia Election Workers
Yuri Gripas/Sipa/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.One America News, the right-wing cable network, aired a 30-second segment yesterday essentially admitting the falsity of its previous “reporting” on supposed voter fraud by two Georgia election workers. The prerecorded statement aired shortly…
Still in Contempt, Trump Now Owes New York $150,000
AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Former President Donald Trump now owes at least $150,000 in fines for contempt of court stemming from his failure to cooperate with New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud investigation into…
Yes, Susan Collins Actually Called the Cops Over a Sidewalk Chalk Message. I Got the Police Report.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called the local police department in response to a pro-choice chalk message outside her home in Bangor, Maine on Saturday. The Bangor Daily News reported the incident…
Protesters Showed Up Outside Kavanaugh’s Home, and the Tone Police Lost Its Mind
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.According to plenty of tweets in my feed these past few days, it sure seems like a lot of people can excuse stripping people of their reproductive rights—but draw a hard line at noise…