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Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images It’s safe to presume that this January 6, rioters won’t attack the U.S. Capitol building to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying the winner of the presidential election. This time, Donald Trump won, so he and his allies won’t be holding a frenzied “stop the steal” rally nearby on […]

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: AP Images Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that come January 20, he will institute the biggest mass-deportation in American history. He has appointed Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, two voluble and competent immigration hardliners, to pursue his draconian agenda, and says he will use the military, among other agencies, to carry it

Photo: Quinn Batley In early 2023, Alex took a job at Cloud 9, a strip-mall smoke shop off Atlanta’s I-85. He had recently graduated from college and wanted something laid-back; the shop, with its graffitied ceilings and cheesy blue-light displays, seemed like the ideal register job for a stoner with a music degree. It didn’t

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. For now. After a handful of hard-right Republicans held out on Friday, he was reelected, winning them over not with his own personal charm but with the muscle of Donald Trump. The day began with the formulaic roll call of every member of the

Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images Mike Johnson once again survived a brush with political disaster as he won reelection as House Speaker after President-elect Donald Trump personally helped talk two right-wing holdouts into changing their votes to back him before the first ballot was finalized. Now the House can proceed as scheduled to participate in Monday’s

Photo: Ronda Churchill/Reuters In an alarming start to the New Year, a Tesla Cybertruck parked in front of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas exploded on Wednesday morning, hours after an unrelated terrorist attack in New Orleans. Days later, several questions about the explosion still aren’t fully answered. The driver, 37-year-old Army Special Forces soldier

Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images New York’s hotly debated congestion-pricing plan has faced its fair share of challenges since the State Legislature passed it into law in 2019. The program cleared several political and legal hurdles and was ultimately approved by the federal government, but Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the MTA to pause its scheduled implementation

Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images As members of Congress returned to Washington this week, the focus was on Mike Johnson, who narrowly won reelection as House Speaker after initially failing on the first ballot. But in the longer run, the locus of legislative action in the second Trump administration is likely to be the U.S. Senate,

Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson initially failed to win reelection on the first ballot taken among the members of the 119th Congress on January 3. Johnson lost three Republican votes, from Kentucky’s Tom Massie, Keith Self of Texas, and South Carolina’s Ralph Norman. That’s two more than he could afford with his

Photo: Sebastian Arlt/laif/Redux On Friday, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory that warned of the correlation between alcohol consumption and an increased risk of cancer, calling for alcoholic beverages to carry a label warning of the potential danger. In a new report, Dr. Vivek Murthy describes alcohol use as the “third leading preventable cause