Comment on this story Comment The nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci — a public face of the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — is sharing his concern about the toll on his wife and children from abuse by “lowlife” trolls. Fauci, 81, who has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious … Read more
An Independence man sentenced Friday for breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6 blamed Trump, right-wing media and other elected officials — including Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley — for spreading the “Big Lie” that led to his actions. In a court document filed prior to the sentencing, defense attorney Ronna Holloman-Hughes said Devin Kiel Rossman was … Read more
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The election for a seat on a typically obscure regulatory commission in Louisiana, a state with a front row seat to the effects of climate change, has gained national attention as major utility companies and outside political action committees for hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race. Saturday’s runoff … Read more
Dec. 9—A federal judge has sentenced a Gorham man to 30 days in federal prison, followed by three months on probation, for participating in the storming of the US Capitol last year. Nicholas Hendrix, 35, was sentenced on one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building on Jan. 6, among more … Read more
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Friday accused Missouri’s attorney general of seeking sanctions against her “because he has no case” in his effort to keep Lamar Johnson in prison for a murder that Johnson has long contended he had nothing to do with. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt asked … Read more