Jim Bourg

First Thing: police killings will continue until system changes, grieving family says

Tyre Nichols’ death reopens wounds felt by family of Steven Askew, who died 10 years ago at hands of Memphis police. Plus, wave of ‘sushi terrorism’ grips Japan Good morning. More than 200 miles away from Memphis, as Tyre Nichols’ family mourned the…

Biden’s Document Issue Is Nothing Like Trump’s

No equivalence exists in the ways that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have respectively handled the classified documents found in their possession. Yet panicky Democrats—ruled either by a thirst for TV airtime or by a knee-jerk…

Calif. seeks to disbar Trump adviser John Eastman over Jan. 6 charges

The State Bar of California intends to seek the disbarment of former president Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a statement, the office of California bar Chief Trial…

California moves to disbar Trump’s lawyer John Eastman over 2020 election

An attorney for Eastman, Randall Miller, disputed the allegations on Thursday, saying it was Eastman’s responsibility as a lawyer to provide Trump with a range of legal options to contest the election results. Eastman, a former law professor at…

Biden vows to veto Republican plans that threaten economic ‘chaos’ – as it happened

'I will not let that happen,' says Biden about national debt default “They’re threatening to have us default on the American debt, the debt that has been accumulated for over 230 years … we’ve never ever done that,” Biden said, referring to fiscal…

Four Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy

Members of anti-government militia found guilty for roles in January 6 attack at the US Capitol Four members of the Oath Keepers anti-government militia were convicted on Monday of seditious conspiracy relating to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at…

Four Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy in latest January 6 convictions – as it happened

Four members of the Oath Keepers extremis group have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other charges for the involvement in the January 6 insurrection, Politico reports: JUST IN: All four Oath Keeper defendants — Ed Vallejo, Roberto…

Afternoon Update: Ardern endured ‘unprecedented’ level of abuse; Australian Open schedule slammed; and a ‘Toadzilla’ in Queensland

The relentless attacks on Jacinda Ardern may have contributed to her decision to step down, several prominent political figures have said. The abuse Ardern endured, primarily from a vocal anti-vaccination movement, escalated over the course of the…

U.S. says Proud Boys ‘did not stand back,’ sought to keep Trump in office

The Justice Department on Thursday pointed to leaders in the far-right Proud Boys as responsible for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, suggesting the attack might not have succeeded if organized extremists had not led the charge. “The…

First Thing: Oceans at their hottest since records began

Higher sea surface temperatures are supercharging extreme weather. Plus, Prince Harry’s frozen todger Good morning. The world’s oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, demonstrating the profound and pervasive changes that human-caused…

Lawyers who enabled Trump in election plot face heightened risk of charges

House panel refers John Eastman, Jeff Clark, Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro to DoJ for offering Trump bogus legal cover Four lawyers who gave Donald Trump erroneous legal advice that aided his drive to overturn the 2020 US election now face…

Biden ‘surprised’ about discovery of classified files at former office

President Biden has said he was “surprised” to learn that classified files had been found at his former private office, as Republicans sought to capitalise by calling for a criminal investigation. The documents dating from the time of Biden’s…

Opinion The awful corruption of Trump’s ‘coup lawyers’ demands accountability

You are probably familiar with the term “mob lawyer.” It might now be time to inaugurate another, similar term: “coup lawyer.” John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani were instrumental to the plotting and execution of President Donald Trump’s attempt to…

At trial, Oath Keeper alleges specific plan to stop vote count

Caleb Berry got little sleep on the night of Jan. 6, 2021. The 19-year-old said he lay awake in bed at a Hilton Garden Inn, not far from where he and other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group had just stormed the U.S. Capitol, regretting what…

For John Eastman and Clarence Thomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades

In July 2021, dozens of former clerks of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gathered for a reunion at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, a casual weekend of horseback riding and panel lectures with spouses and children. Photos from the event…

Donald Trump accused of ‘multi-part conspiracy’ to overturn 2020 election in final January 6 report

Former president was ‘central cause’ of Capitol riot, panel claims Donald Trump oversaw a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election and subvert American democracy, the House committee investigating the January 6…

Skepticism before a search: Inside the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents investigation

The FBI was initially reluctant to investigate Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents, and cautious when it did so FBI officials had a lot to worry about in late July as they discussed whether to search one of Donald Trump’s homes for…

Post Politics Now Biden expresses hope that inflation will normalize by late next year

Today, President Biden said a report showing inflation cooled again in November provides “some optimism for the holiday season” and expressed hope that price increases would return to more normal levels by the end of next year. Biden spoke from the…

First Thing: Two more classified documents found in Florida by Trump lawyers

Discovery in storage unit appears to confirm DoJ’s suspicions that former president possessed additional government records, sources say. Plus, Australia’s worst Christmas trees Good morning. Two more documents bearing classification markings have…

Alex Jones owes $1.5bn and declared bankruptcy. So how is Infowars still running?

t first glance, the disgraced far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones would appear to be finished. He’s been ordered in two judgments by a Connecticut court to pay nearly $1.5bn in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary…