In scrutinizing Trump and his allies, Jan. 6 panel adopts prosecution tactics
The House select committee scrutinizing the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol is borrowing techniques from federal prosecutions, employing aggressive tactics typically used against mobsters and terrorists as it seeks to break through stonewalling from former President Donald Trump and his allies and develop evidence that could prompt a criminal case. The committee, which has no authority to pursue criminal charges, is using what powers it has in expansive ways in hopes of pressuring Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute them. The committee has interviewed more than 475 witnesses and issued more than 100 subpoenas.
Three dead and one wounded in shooting near Milwaukee, police say
A gunman shot three people, killing two and injuring one, before taking his own life Saturday at an apartment building in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, a village north of Milwaukee, police said. Peter Nimmer, the police chief of Brown Deer, said that what started as a domestic dispute between two people escalated into gunfire. Nimmer said that police were unsure where the dispute started but knew that it unfolded in the building’s parking lot, hallway and second floor. A child was in the gunman’s apartment but was unharmed and placed with relatives, he added.
Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth
Overall, 2021 will go down as the year with the slowest population growth in U.S. history. New census data shows why: Both components of growth — gains from immigration and the number of births in excess of the number of deaths — have fallen sharply in recent years. In 2021, the rate of population growth fell to an unprecedented 0.1%. These figures show a pattern: Immigration, even at reduced levels, is making up a majority of population growth. In part, this is because Americans are dying at higher rates and having fewer babies, trends accelerated during the pandemic. But it is also because there are signs immigration is picking up.
Rogan apologizes for ‘shameful’ past use of racial slur
As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past episodes. In an Instagram video, Rogan — whose talk show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is Spotify’s most popular podcast — addressed what he called “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.” A compilation video showed Rogan using the slur numerous times in past episodes of his show.
Dinosaur prints in Utah are feared damaged by construction equipment
North of Moab, Utah, visitors can walk across the same land dinosaurs roamed millions of years ago and peer down at footprints and other marks the prehistoric beasts left behind at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite, one of the most significant of its kind in the world. In the past week, however, several paleontologists and scientists have called on the Bureau of Land Management to halt work on a new walkway at the site, saying some fossilized footprints had been damaged by construction. A bureau spokesperson confirmed Friday that the agency had halted the work, and assessments were being made.
5-year-old boy dies after being trapped in well in Morocco for days
The vigil had lasted for four days, transfixing thousands of people as a small band of rescuers in a Moroccan village tried to free a 5-year-old boy from the deep well into which he had plunged. On Saturday night, workers who had dug a rescue tunnel finally reached Rayan Oram, the boy. But the medical helicopter that had been waiting for days to take him to a hospital had no need to take off. He was dead. Minutes later, word spread: The king of Morocco, Mohammed VI, had called Rayan’s parents, Khaled Oram and Wassima Khersheesh, offering them his condolences.
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