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Jackie, the bald eagle who lives at Big Bear, has laid her first egg of 2023 — and she is looking proud. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with all your essential arts and raptor reproduction news: Brasília overrun It felt like a grotesque re-imagining of Groundhog Day. Forty-eight hours after the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection in the United States, in which right-wingers weaned on conspiracy theories about a presidential election stormed the U.S. Capitol,…

WASHINGTON —  The 845-page final report of the House Committee on Jan. 6, which finally arrived late Thursday night, is an epic. Like “Moby Dick” or “War and Peace,” it is destined to be admired more than read.That’s a shame; don’t be deterred by the page count. The narrative at the heart of the report — the story of how former President Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election by extralegal means — takes up less than half of the volume. (The rest is mostly footnotes and legal briefs.)By now, though, most…

The decision of the House Jan. 6 committee to recommend that the Justice Department pursue potential criminal charges against Donald J. Trump is not binding on the department, which in any case is already investigating “whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election” under the leadership of a special counsel.Still, the panel’s recommendation Monday that the department pursue four potential charges against Trump — including inciting, aiding or giving…

“Thousands of documents are great, but millions of lines of data are better. And so when you look at call detail records or open source intelligence research or you look at social media, those types of things can tell you a lot,” Riggleman says. “And I think it can actually direct the way that you investigate more than bringing people in who lie, plead the Fifth, or sometimes conveniently forget things.”The real story, Riggleman contends, isn’t Trump. (“If you indict Trump, his polling numbers are going to go up,” he…

Telegram did not respond to a request fof comment.Telegram was used heavily by organizers of the January 6 riot in the US. The platform is unmoderated, with small exceptions for pornographic and terrorist content, making it a hub for conspiracy theories and disinformation that may otherwise be removed from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.Many of these Telegram channels are publicly searchable and have thousands of members who share tens of thousands of pieces of content a month. Many refer to Bolsonaro’s…

By Elvia Limón and Jason SanchezHello, it’s Tuesday, Sept. 27, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES Will Jan. 6 drive voters’ decisions?Locally and in the national political landscape, the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6 has been a minor subplot. There have been efforts to elevate it in the public’s consciousness as a do-or-die moment for democracy. Still, there is little sign that the riot, along with the continued denialism about former President Trump’s 2020 loss and the precariousness of future…

The United States Secret Service has been under intense scrutiny since it admitted to losing a number of text messages on January 6, the day of the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Now, it appears that Apple's iMessage feature may be partly to blame for the lost messages.As reported by Politico, the Secret Service says that they have discovered that members of the institution who used iMessage on their work phones were the ones that were lost. According to spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service is now reevaluating…