The Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup try targeted its night listening to on the coup itself: the actions of Donald Trump on and earlier than that day to assemble an extremist mob, direct them to the Capitol, and rebuff safety pleas because the mob stormed the constructing, ransacking workplaces and attempting to find Mike Pence and others who refused to overturn the election’s outcomes on Trump’s behalf.
There was different information in the present day as effectively. President Biden introduced that now he, too, has contracted COVID-19; he’s vaccinated and is subsequently prone to undergo solely gentle or average signs. And Republicanism is changing into extra excessive by the second, now broadly in opposition to not simply abortion, however contraception.
