by Common Dreams | Sep 6, 2022 | Quick Facts
Trailing badly in the polls with the presidential election less than a month away, far-right Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is attempting to galvanize his supporters with incendiary rhetoric and lies about the integrity of the vote—and Facebook is supplying him with...
by Georgia Recorder | Sep 3, 2022 | Quick Facts
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham could soon be peppered with questions by Fulton County prosecutors to determine whether he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger or others to toss out ballots and manipulate election practices in order to influence the 2020...
by The Conversation | Aug 28, 2022 | Quick Facts
The Justice Department on Aug. 26, 2022, released an affidavit written by an FBI special agent that was used to obtain a court order for the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate for documents related to national defense and other government...
by The Conversation | Aug 16, 2022 | Quick Facts
The federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law was listed as one of three potential violations under Justice...
by The Conversation | Aug 8, 2022 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Quick Facts
In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and the spread of rumors that the election was stolen, Americans’ confidence in the integrity of the country’s electoral system is at an all-time low. A recent ABC News/Ipsos Poll found that 41% of Americans are not so...
by ProPublica | Jul 29, 2022 | Quick Facts
About a month ago, British health authorities announced they’d found evidence suggesting local spread of polio in London. It was a jolt, to be sure. The country was declared polio-free in 2003. But at least no one had turned up sick. The proof came from routine tests...