A Florida handyman who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children, prosecutors told NPR. Andrew Paul Johnson, the pardoned rioter, attempted to bribe one victim with money he claimed he would receive as part of restitution for Jan. 6 defendants, police reported. The conviction is the latest case of a pardoned Capitol rioter committing new crimes after receiving a pardon. On Tuesday, a jury in Hernando County, Fla., found Andrew Paul Johnson guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition.
"Recent US-Russian talks about ending Moscow's war on Ukraine should not be taken as a sign that Russia poses less of a threat to the US and Europe. Despite this illusory thaw, Russia continues to regard the US as its principal global adversary."
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The US House of Representatives has voted to rescind US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods.
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is endorsing over a dozen candidates for the mid-term elections which will be held on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
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The president appeared to experience a system malfunction during a self-indulgent speech at the White House on Wednesday.
Women played a key role in the 2024 student-led uprising that rocked Bangladesh's political foundations. They marched in the streets, blockaded roads, painted slogans, and participated in strategy sessions. After the autocratic government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fell, women organized nighttime patrols to monitor public safety.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran has been elected Vice-Chair of the U.N. Commission for Social Development.
Mass Shooting at Florida Home Part of Cross-State Murder Spree that Left 7 Dead: Sheriff The suspect allegedly killed two people in Fort Lauderdale, including an ex, before killing four others and then himself in Sarasota Read more
Canadian police confirmed ten deaths and at least 35 injuries following a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. The shooter, who also killed himself, was identified by a close family member as Jesse Strang, a transgender person identifying with she/her' pronouns. According to media reports, an active shooter alert was issued at 3.15pm Mountain Time (MT) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), covering a large area including Chetwynd and Dawson Creek.
A passenger plane in Somalia carrying 55 people on board crash-landed in shallow water on a seashore near the international airport on Tuesday.
In a Facebook post stretching three times the length of the Gettysburg Address, a North Carolina senator praised Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance as "the most American halftime show I have even seen," an experience that drove him to tears and kept him writing nearly to midnight.
The airport said in an Instagram post that all flights to and from the airport would be grounded from late Tuesday through late on Feb. 20, including commercial, cargo and general aviation flights. It suggested travelers contact their airlines to get up-to-date flight information. The shutdown is likely to create significant disruptions given the duration and the size of the metropolitan area. El Paso, a border city with a population of nearly 700,000 and larger when you include the surrounding metro area, is hub of cross-border commerce alongside neighboring Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park, NYC, representing the president's latest attack on the queer community at the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.Christopher Park
Donald Trump: "The Peace President"
New analysis from trans journalist and researcher Jessica Kant has found that Fox News publishes more articles about trans people than any other media outlet in the country. And that includes LGBTQ+ publications. The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it's actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people and not the other way around. Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media. "Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party," Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right "manufactured the illusion of a dangerous all-powerful enemy out of a tiny demographic with no political influence, financial resources, nor social capital."
