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One-hundred days after the breach of the United States Capitol building by a mob of Donald Trump loyalists, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) renewed her push to establish a “9/11-style” commission to examine what exactly happened that day and how to address potential acts of violence like it in the future. Pelosi expressed her resolve to establish such a commission in a “Dear Colleague” letter she published on Friday. Her previous calls to do so were dismissed by Republicans. �...

Endorsed by Trump Allies, Disgraced Former Missouri Governor Will Run for Senate Former Gov. Eric Greitens delivers the keynote address at the St. Louis Area Police Chiefs Association 27th Annual Police Officer Memorial Prayer Breakfast on April 25, 2018, at the St. Charles Convention Center. Laurie Skrivan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Tribune News Service via Getty Images By Missouri has embarrassingly made international headlines several times as of late. In January 2018, then-Gov. Eric Greit...

A way too early guide to the 2024 Republican primary D. Hunter Schwarz The 2024 Republican primary is already here. Though, we’re still more than 1,300 days away from the next presidential election, potential candidates are already making stops in early caucus and primary states and working behind the scenes to prepare for a possible run. Late last month, C-SPAN kicked off its “Road to the White House” coverage with a speech by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Iow...

James Reston Jr. AP   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Jan. 6 attack on Congress takes its place next to the other terrible national traumas of the past 60 years — the JFK assassination, the race riots of 1967-68, the Challenger space shuttle crash and 9/11. Like those other shocks to our national consciousness, Jan. 6 demands a seminal, sweeping account of what happened and why, a summation that anchor...

Democrats lining up for shot at open Missouri Senate seat By Jason Hancock Democrats aren’t immune from the speculation. While any Democrat would face an uphill fight, the chance of a messy GOP primary — and maybe an Eric Greitens nomination — has a slew of possible contenders wondering if 2022 is their year. Among those rumored to be considering a run is Jay Nixon. Sources close to the former Democratic governor say he had no interest in jumping back into politics — until after Blunt�...

The Real Story of Aunt Jemima Mar 10, 2021 TODD: I think God was the first, first actual anti-racist. Not in the social justice sense. He made all of us. That’s my view. And to the secular portion of this, racism is being taught in the school. It’s being taught us if you’re white you’re racist, you can become an ally, but you can’t be not racist because it’s in your DNA. We have Disney pulling Dumbo, the Aristocats and Peter Pan off the shelves because they’re racist. There’s th...

Number of Migrant Children Detained at Border Has Tripled in Two Weeks Last Updated March 24, 2021, 7:38 a.m. ETMarch 24, 2021, 7:38 a.m. ET President Biden directs the Education Department to review Trump-era rules that afforded greater protections to students accused of sexual assault. On Capitol Hill, House members urged for swift action after receiving an update from a task force examining the failures that allowed the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Here’s what you need to know: A migra...

People and groups with extremist views were no longer rejected by the Republican Party but were welcomed as partners in their struggle to gain and retain power. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s public suggestion that he may appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton has alarmed current and former Justice Department officials who fear he will f

David Treadwell: The GOP is going down with the Trumptanic By David TreadwellJust a Little Old Share When Lindsay Graham was running for President in 2016, he warned, “Trump is a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party.” You nailed it, Lindsay, although your total post-election turnaround on Trump revealed your spineless character. It’s sad that millions of Republican primary voters preferred a lying, racist, narcissistic, bullying, reality TV star to John Kasich, a decent h...