https://apnews.com/article/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-indictments-coronavirus-pandemic-traverse-city-10f7e02c57004da9843f89650edd4510

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal grand jury has charged six men with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in what investigators say was a plot by anti-government extremists who were angry over her coronavirus policies.

The indictment released Thursday by U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge levied the conspiracy charge against Adam Dean Fox, Barry Gordon Croft Jr., Ty Gerard Garbin, Kaleb James Franks, Daniel Joseph Harris and Brandon Michael-Ray Caserta. They are all from Michigan except for Croft, who lives in Delaware.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, Birge said in a statement.

BREAKING: Defying McConnell, Sen-elect Tuberville suggests he will challenge Electoral College, while stumping in Georgia

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fbi-crossfire-hurricane-strzok-senate/2020/12/17/id/1002003/

Messages show that Papadopoulos, who was given the code name Crossfire Typhoon, was with his mother when FBI agents approached him for an interview. His mother urged him not to go to the FBI office, but he went anyway.

“Ha, that’s funny re Typhoon,” Strzok wrote. “That’s what you get for not listening to mom.”

Corporate Journalism is just like all those other "ism's" communism, islamism, socialism

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/530620-news-industry-must-seize-opportunity-restore-trust

Early indications, however, suggest the news industry is unwilling to look in the mirror, listen to news consumers, and do the soul-searching that must happen to put professional journalism back on the rails.

It was one thing when the media did no scrutiny of Biden during the campaign. The press treated candidate Biden like a grandpa, failing to dig deep on policies, letting his handlers put near-daily lids on press access, and treating the vacuous campaign as though it were normal. One reporter meekly allowed himself to be stifled by Jill Biden when he dared to ask about Joe’s propensity for gaffes. The media could justify its mushy campaign coverage because Trump was still in the political arena, and resistance reporting against Trump was still “correct” thinking in media corporate towers.

The free press was established to hold the powerful accountable, not to run interference for the powerful against the citizens. Shilling for politicians to manage the public is what happens at state-run media in authoritarian regimes. A polarized nation needs the press to return to its more traditional role — working for the public instead of working the public. A Gallup/Knight Foundation study earlier this year found 84 percent of Americans hold the media partly or even mostly responsible for political divisions in the nation.