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The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

West faces drought, "climate emergency"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Fox host Tucker Carlson (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

USAA pushed to drop Tucker Carlson ads

Brett Bachman
Rachel Bitecofer (Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company)

Can Dems stop the "red wave" of 2022?

Paul Rosenberg
Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone (R) answers questions while leaving the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), with U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (C) at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jan. 6 cop blasts McCarthy after meeting

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
A view of a USA Swimming flag (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Inside swimming's sex abuse scandal

Irvin Muchnick
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

GOP ousting local election officials

Igor Derysh
A 7-foot tall statue (with a 17-foot tall cross) of evangelist Billy Graham graces the front entrance to the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. (Getty Images)

Why Southern Baptists rejected Trumpism

Alex Henderson - Alternet
US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (Getty Images)

Trump aides almost used Insurrection Act

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Former President Donald Trump (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Org. may face charges next week

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
White House press secretary Jen Psaki (Getty Images)

Psaki asked about Trump reinstall prep

Zachary Petrizzo
Erik Prince (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The undercover scheme to infiltrate Dems

Zachary Petrizzo
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media about the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis eyes border despite condo crash

Brett Bachman
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure deal at the White House on June 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden said both sides made compromises on the nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden whispers — and the right loses it

Zachary Petrizzo
A supporter of US President Donald Trump decorates his truck before a Trump Train rally in Harlingen, Texas (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

"Trump Train" hit by anti-KKK law

Michael Lovito
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a press conference announcing a voting rights enforcement action against the state of Georgia during an event at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ sues Georgia over new voting law

Igor Derysh
Tucker Carlson and the Capitol Rioters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right-wing calls for violence get louder

Amanda Marcotte
US President Donald Trump walks with US Attorney General William Barr (L), US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley (R), and others from the White House to visit St. John's Church after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Trump tests the right's patriotism

Heather Digby Parton
Kevin McCarthy and Mark Meadows, connection to the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How McCarthy and Meadows bent the rules

Zachary Petrizzo
This Country by Chris Matthews (Photo illustration by Salon/Simon & Schuster/Brian Sager)

Chris Matthews: I fear for democracy

Dean Obeidallah
Donald Trump, Merrick Garland and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former Bush lawyer: Send Trump to jail

Chauncey DeVega
Former President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley, looks on. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump to military: "Shoot" protesters

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
Peter Thiel (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

Thiel's $5B retirement account tax dodge

Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan, James Bandler - ProPublica
Sean Hannity, left, and Tucker Carlson (Getty Images)

Fox civil war erupts: Hannity vs. Tucker

Brett Bachman
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Gaetz deletes "defund" FBI tweet

Zachary Petrizzo
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