Category: Capitol

LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (March 8): House Panel Says FTC Harassing Twitter; Lawsuit Prompts Release of Study on Fluoride

A House panel on Tuesday accused the Federal Trade Commission of orchestrating “an aggressive campaign to harass Twitter”. The panel says it’s part of the agency’s “unusual response” to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. A study on the potential harm of fluoride is scheduled to be released soon, as part of a years-long…


NTD News Today (March 8): House Panel Says FTC Harassing Twitter; Lawsuit Prompts Release of Study on Fluoride

A House panel on Tuesday accused the Federal Trade Commission of orchestrating “an aggressive campaign to harass Twitter”. The panel says it’s part of the agency’s “unusual response” to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. A study on the potential harm of fluoride is scheduled to be released soon, as part of a years-long…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: New Jan. 6 Footage Shows Falsehoods in Mainstream Narrative; Trump Proposes Freedom Cities

The more than 40,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, initially withheld from the public, is now being released. Fox News host Tucker Carlson received the footage and has begun releasing clips on his show. And the footage presents a starkly different picture than what officials and legacy news outlets had claimed….


LIVE NOW: New Jan. 6 Footage Shows Falsehoods in Mainstream Narrative; Trump Proposes Freedom Cities

The more than 40,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, initially withheld from the public, is now being released. Fox News host Tucker Carlson received the footage and has begun releasing clips on his show. And the footage presents a starkly different picture than what officials and legacy news outlets had claimed….


New Jan. 6 Footage Shows Falsehoods in Mainstream Narrative; Trump Proposes Freedom Cities

The more than 40,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, initially withheld from the public, is now being released. Fox News host Tucker Carlson received the footage and has begun releasing clips on his show. And the footage presents a starkly different picture than what officials and legacy news outlets had claimed….


LIVE 3/8, at 10:30 AM ET: New Jan. 6 Footage Shows Falsehoods in Mainstream Narrative; Trump Proposes Freedom Cities

The more than 40,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, initially withheld from the public, is now being released. Fox News host Tucker Carlson received the footage and has begun releasing clips on his show. And the footage presents a starkly different picture than what officials and legacy news outlets had claimed….


McCarthy Targeted With Ethics Complaint After Handing Over Jan. 6 Footage to Tucker Carlson

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) received an ethics complaint from a watchdog group which accused the speaker of acting in a politically motivated way when he released Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson. Members of the group Public Citizen, a left-wing nonprofit consumer advocacy group, sent a letter (pdf) on Tuesday to the Office of…


Tucker Carlson Shows Footage of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Around on Jan. 6

Newly released footage from Fox News host Tucker Carlson appears to show U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick walking in the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach, which Carlson said is evidence that top lawmakers lied about his death to claim a “deadly insurrection” occurred that day. The new footage released by Fox News…


DOJ Argues Trump Shouldn’t Have Absolute Immunity in Jan. 6 Lawsuits

The U.S. Department of Justice argued Thursday that it doesn’t back former President Donald Trump’s argument that he has absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. In a court filing submitted (pdf) to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, DOJ lawyers wrote that…


Driver Arrested After Crash Through Fence at Texas Capitol

AUSTIN, Texas—A Texas woman has been arrested after an SUV she was allegedly driving crashed through a fence at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, authorities said. Karla Morales Mateo, 25, drove the vehicle onto a sidewalk and dropped her two daughters, ages 4 and 2, out of the vehicle, then drove through the southwestern…