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The decisions handed down against some members of the Proud Boys for their participation in the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, "should" affect whether authorities charge former president Donald Trump for his role, a former prosecutor said.

The Justice Department won a huge case on Thursday after charing five members of the Proud Boys militia with seditious conspiracy. Each of the four leaders were found guilty, while the lower-level "soldier" was found not guilty.

CNN contributor and former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone alleges the network declined to run an op-ed critical of its decision to host a Donald Trump town hall next week, Puck News reports.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts recently declined an invitation from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And the justices have been resisting calls for a High Court ethics code.

If there's one thing Disney doesn't play around with it's copyright and trademark infringement. Bloomberg Law spotted a hat for Ron DeSantis 2024 presidential campaign that uses a Disney-link font with the signature "D" and bubble dotting the "I."

Kanye West is returning to the political scene, and the rapper known for promoting antisemitic views has brought back right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to run the show, The Daily Beast reports.

Defense attorneys for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh are asking a judge to allow them to access more of his funds in order to fund an appeal of his convictions, WIS News reported.

The Los Angeles Fire Department has kept on its staff firefighters who committed domestic violence, solicited a prostitute on duty, and committed a battery on a law enforcement officer, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been accused of "illegally spending $60,000 on campaign calls and texts in the run-up to November's midterm election," according to a new report from Newsweek.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers in his criminal hush money case on Thursday said they would request to move his case to federal court — as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a judge to bar him from publicly discussing evidence in the case. Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan he planned to file the request later Thursday. By law, a defendant has 31 days from being arraigned on criminal charges to make such a request. If it is rejected,... Читать дальше...

A legal expert believes the conviction of four members of the Proud Boys, including the far-right group’s leader, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, of seditious conspiracy over a plot to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election, has implications for the former president.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose said it’s important to make it a lot harder for voters to amend the Ohio Constitution because we need to keep powerful out-of-state special interests from meddling with the state’s foundational document.

Laura Loomer – the anti-Muslim activist that former President Donald Trump wanted to hire last month – took to Truth Social Thursday to condemn the seditious conspiracy convictions of four members of the Proud Boys in connection to the January 6 insurrection.

The GOP-controlled Florida Senate on Thursday confirmed Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo for another term as the state’s top doctor, though all Democrats in the Senate voted against Ladapo.

Waving a copy of the Ten Commandments and a 17th-century textbook, amateur historian David Barton recently argued that Christianity has always formed the basis of American morality and thus is essential to Texas classrooms.

An Alabama police officer was arrested this Wednesday on charges that he planted evidence, AL.com reported.

NEW YORK — Christina Aguilera is celebrating Pride in the Big Apple. Heritage of Pride — the volunteer-directed group behind the official NYC Pride roster of events — said Wednesday the global music superstar will headline this year’s Pride Island, the traditional dance party and fundraiser that closes LGBTQ Pride festivities in New York City each June. This year, the rainbow-powered party heads to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, a massive warehouse complex in Sunset Park, on the South Brooklyn waterfront. Читать дальше...

A decision by CNN host Donald Trump for a town hall next week -- despite his efforts to lead an insurrection -- is drawing scrutiny from New Republic analyst Alex Shephard who claimed the press needs to be cautious about giving a forum to the former president who appears to be increasingly "unhinged."

“Star Wars” actress Carrie Fisher was “the perfect person in the perfect role,” co-star Mark Hamill said ahead of her posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. Fisher, who portrayed the rebellious Princess Leia in six “Star Wars” films, is being honored Thursday with a Hollywood star. The ceremony falls on “Star Wars Day,” or May the Fourth. “She was as far from a damsel in distress as you could get,” Hamill told Variety in an interview published Thursday. “She was in charge of her own rescue. Читать дальше...

An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years.

By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally.

Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such as ChatGPT capturing the public's fancy, sparking a rush among companies... Читать дальше...

British musician Ed Sheeran was found not liable for copyright violations in the lawsuit from Marvin Gaye’s estate Thursday.

Three masked teens boarded a school bus in Maryland this Monday and tried to shoot a 14-year-old student who was on the bus in the head, but the gun misfired, ABC7 reported.

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis says some of the people advising Donald Trump are "terrified" of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launching a 2024 bid for the White House, Newsweek reported.

Democrat-supporting activists have accused the Donald Trump-aligned Conservative Partnership Institute of operating as an arm of the Republican Party and is now demanding the Internal Revenue Service revoke its tax-exempt status.