House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, one for obstruction of Congress and one for abuse of power. If (and when) approved, the will go to the Senate. The White House said that it would not intend to defend President Trump in the impeachment hearings. That indicates it feels confident that the Senate …

According to David Sievers, the campaign director for progressive public policy group MoveOn, said that there are 401 protests scheduled for the night before the House vote on Trump’s impeachment. The protests are expected to bring out 70,000 people. MoveOn also scheduled the United We Dream, Stand Up America, and the Women’s March. Despite the …

Professor Michael Gerhardt, law professor at the University of North Carolina, testified before Congress during the impeachment hearing on Wednesday. “If what we’re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable,” Gerhardt told Congress. “This is precisely the misconduct that the framers created a Constitution, including impeachment, to protect against.” Congress cannot give Trump …

A variation of the “Liberate Hong Kong” chant has been heard some 60 miles to the west of Hong Kong in mainland China. The protestors also said that they were “just like” Hong Kong. This, coupled with the new law that will require new mobile phone users to scan their faces, signals that China may …

China is introducing a new law that will require new mobile phone users to scan their faces. The law does not mean that users will scan their faces with their phones, but rater that they will need to scan their faces at the shop where they buy the SIM card. The law is designed to …

Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer for Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal does not have a very high opinion of the Trump White House. “Crime family: Donald, Ivanka, Jared, Donald Jr. They all belong in prison,” he tweeted. That’s largely because Trump has not only given many of his family position’s in his administration …

A man who has claimed to be a defecting Chinese intelligence officer has told Australian authorities that China is actively meddling in Hong Kong and Taiwan government operations. Beijing is allegedly buying adds, creating social media movements, and supporting candidates in order to destabilize the ruling government and eventually gain hegemony over its neighbors. Although …

So it turns out that Mark Zuckerberg had a secret dinner at the White House. Your first reaction to that might rightly be: so what? Let the guy have dinner. Except here’s the problem. Facebook is under scrutiny for potentially violating antitrust legislation, and Elizabeth Warren thinks that Zuckerberg is “going on a charm offensive.” …

The U.S. Senate passed legislation designed to protect human rights in Hong Kong, as the Chinese government and Hong Kong police crack down on pro-democracy protests. The “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” is one of two bills aimed at punishing Hong Kong and China with trade restrictions if human rights were violated. Protests …

Earlier this week, federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two jail guards responsible for watching Jeffery Epstein the night he hanged himself. The officers rejected the deal. This led to speculation that there would soon be charges against the guards, which has proven true. Federal authorities have charged them conspiracy to defraud the United …

Although the Chinese government has denied or downplayed its near-genocidal policy against the predominately Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighur. But recently leaked files, the largest such leak from within the Chinese Communist Party in decades, reveal that Chinese officials carefully orchestrated an extreme crackdown against the Uighur people in the far western province of Xinjiang. …

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently published an article containing leaked emails from Stephen Miller, a White House senior policy advisor. In those emails, Miller appears to support white supremacist ideology. The Guardian suggests that Miller isn’t an outlier––instead, he’s representative of the entire GOP. The acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center told an audience …