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U.S. NEWS Monday 25 april 2022
Warren calls McCarthy a 'liar' and 'traitor' over Jan 6 tape

By HOPE YEN where Trump had implored
Associated Press them to fight to overturn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden's vic-
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth tory in the presidential elec-
Warren is slamming Rep. tion, saying falsely the elec-
Kevin McCarthy as a "liar tion was stolen. Trump has
and a traitor" over record- denied responsibility for the
ings that show the House violence.
Republican leader — de- McCarthy has been a per-
spite his denials — placing son of interest for the House
responsibility on then-Presi- committee investigating
dent Donald Trump for the the storming of the Capitol.
Capitol riot and suggesting The committee requested
Trump should resign. an interview with McCar-
It's unusually strong lan- thy in mid-January, seeking
guage to use against the information on his commu-
House Republican leader, nications with Trump and
who is in line to become White House staff in the
speaker — second in presi- week after the violence,
dential succession — if Re- including a conversation
publicans win control of with Trump that was report-
the House in the November edly heated.
elections. McCarthy issued a state-
But Warren's statement re- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing, March 3, ment at the time saying he
flects a swell of Democratic 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. would refuse to cooperate
criticism against McCarthy. Associated Press because he saw the inves-
They point to his recorded tigation as not legitimate
comments in January 2021 false." But in an audio first "That is really the illness on how it is that we go for- and accused the panel of
as proof that GOP law- posted Thursday by the that pervades the Repub- ward in order to build an "abuse of power."
makers at the highest lev- newspaper and aired on lican leadership right now, economy, in order to make Trump and McCarthy had
els privately acknowledge Rachel Maddow's MSNBC that they say one thing to this country work better for a strained relationship af-
Trump's role in the insur- show, McCarthy is heard the American public and the people who sent us to ter the Capitol attack, but
rection at the Capitol yet discussing the possibility of something else in private," Washington." made amends after the
continue to defend him in urging Trump to leave of- Warren said. "Shame on Kevin McCar- GOP leader flew to the
public. fice amid the Democratic "They understand that it is thy," she said. former president's resort in
McCarthy, R-Calif., denied push to impeach him. wrong what happened, an There was no immediate Florida to smooth things
a New York Times report last Asked Sunday about her attempt to overthrow our response Sunday from Mc- over.
week that detailed phone reaction, Warren, D-Mass., government and that the Carthy's office to a request Their alliance renewed,
conversations with House called the circumstances Republicans instead want for comment. McCarthy is now relying on
Republican leadership "outrageous." to continue to try to fig- The crowd that attacked Trump to help Republicans
shortly after the riot that "Kevin McCarthy is a liar ure out how to make 2020 the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, win the House majority in
he thought Trump should and a traitor," she told election different instead marched there from a ral- this November's midterm
resign. He called it "totally CNN's "State of the Union." of spending their energy ly near the White House elections.q

Overdoses, not COVID-19, drive spike in LA homeless deaths

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Near- recorded 1,988 deaths of society, it is unacceptable
ly 2,000 homeless people homeless people, up from for any of us to not be pro-
died in Los Angeles County 1,271 deaths during the foundly disturbed by the
during the first year of the same period a year earlier, shocking needs document-
pandemic, an increase of the report said. ed in this year's homeless
56% from the previous year, During both of those years, mortality report."
driven mainly by drug over- drug overdoses were the A study of San Francisco
doses, authorities said. leading cause of death but homeless deaths released
The findings released Fri- increased by 78% during last month showed similar
day in a report from the the pandemic's first year. findings: Between March
county's Department of In the pre-pandemic year, 2020 and March 2021,
Public Health showed that the Department of Public there were 331 homeless
despite initial fears, the vi- Health reported 402 fatal deaths recorded in San
rus itself was not the main overdoses. In the year after Francisco, more than twice
culprit in deaths among the outbreak, the number the number of any previ- Officials walk past images of illegal drugs outside the Edward R.
California's largest-in-the- nearly doubled to 715, the ous year, with the leading Roybal Federal Building on May 13, 2021, in Los Angeles.
nation unhoused popula- report said.The report found cause of death being drug Associated Press
tion. But it did cut people that 179 homeless people overdose, according to a
off from mental health and died from COVID-19 during study conducted by the erty and drugs and where throughout the nation's
substance abuse treat- the pandemic's first year. University of California San LA's homeless population second-most populous city.
ment after services were "The findings in this report Francisco and the city's De- was once largely confined. Cities and states across the
drastically reduced to pre- reflect a true state of emer- partment of Public Health. Now, rows of tents, card- country are grappling with
vent the spread of the virus. gency," said First District Su- Los Angeles County is home board shelters, battered growing homelessness, as
Between April 1, 2020, and pervisor Hilda L. Solis said to the Skid Row neighbor- RVs and makeshift plywood well as mental health cri-
March 31, 2021, the county in a statement. "In a civil hood, notorious for pov- structures are familiar sights ses. q