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There’s plenty to unpack following Wednesday night’s announcement that former President Trump is launching a new “media and technology” group, one that includes a social media platform, Truth Social, promising “open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.” Trump has long railed against Big Tech censorship, particularly …

Sheriff Chad Bianco, of Riverside County, California, has admitted he was a dues-paying member of the extremist Oath Keeper militia in 2014, when he served as a lieutenant in the department. “I’m not ashamed,” he told reporters with the Southern California News Group. Bianco — a bombastic figure who recently …

Witnesses who defy subpoenas related to the House investigation into the January 6th insurrection will face “criminal referrals,” said Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), according to Politico. Thompson, the Democrat who is leading the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, told reporters on Friday: “The committee will probably, …

Donald Trump has lost a legal challenge to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against former White House aide and Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman, The New York Times reports. The decision was handed down Monday, September 29th, by the American Arbitration Association in New York. Along with saying the NDA was …

President Joe Biden addressed the nation following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent collapse of the American-backed government in Kabul as the Taliban took over. The president defended his decision to withdraw but admitted that the government’s fall came “more quickly than we had anticipated.” “I …

Ninety-six percent of ICU beds in Texas are occupied as of Saturday thanks to a Covid-19 surge overwhelming the state’s health care system, and at least one city has no ICU beds available for children. Yet Republican Governor Greg Abbott still insists on banning mask mandates in the state’s schools. …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, including current and former state employees, and retaliated against at least one woman for going public with her complaints, according to a much-anticipated report released on Tuesday by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The findings are the results of …

The FBI is warned lawmakers earlier this month that adherents to QAnon could engage in violence against their political opponents, as adherents of the deranged conspiracy become even more fanatical in their belief that the world is governed by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles continues. The two-page threat assessment, titled …

The top-ranking Democratic and Republican members of the House Homeland Security Committee announced plans to move forward with a bill creating a bipartisan commission to look into the events of the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. While the bill does not yet have the support of top-ranking House Republican …

President Biden signed an executive order Friday establishing the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan group of experts who will make recommendations on reforming the highest court in the country. The panel will analyze issues such as term limits and expanding the court as …