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Justin Costello, who earned national publicity as one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Criminals for securities fraud, which included pretending to be an injured Special Forces Iraq veteran, has pleaded guilty to a single count of securities fraud three months after an FBI SWAT team arrested him in rural southern California.

Two far-right social media influencers were arrested in 2021 after working online to suppress votes targeting people of color in 2016. Things aren't going well in court for them, however.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) accepted large, albeit as-of-now unspecified, sums of money into his gubernatorial inauguration fund from several corporations that he has publicly trashed for being "woke," and, in some cases, even used state policy to punish, according to The Washington Post.

The food you're eating does not have aborted fetal remains in it -- but if it does, Texas Republican state Sen. Bob Hall wants you to know about it.

Police in Ohio are investigating a video showing a Butler Township Police officer striking a woman in the face as they struggled with her during an arrest, Dayton247Now reports.

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) were previously traveling the country together, raising money while calling out moderate Republicans they said didn't support the MAGA agenda and thus were RINOs (Republicans in name only).

Bishops of the Church of England said Wednesday they will continue to refuse to perform same-sex marriages, reaffirming that “holy matrimony is between one man and one woman for life.” The announcement comes after a six-year period of “listening, learning and discernment” on issues related to sexuality, relationships and marriage. Under the proposals, which will be discussed in detail next month during the church’s national assembly, bishops urge all congregations to welcome same-sex couples “unreservedly... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Hip-hop mogul Snoop Dogg and groundbreaking Latin music superstar Gloria Estefan highlight a diverse list of new inductees to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. They’re part of a seven-member 2023 class that also includes Harlem-born R&B producer Teddy Riley, Electric Light Orchestra co-founder Jeff Lynne and Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter Sade, organizers announced Wednesday. Liz Rose, who frequently collaborates with Taylor Swift, and Glen Ballard, who contributed to popular Michael Jackson and Alanis Morissette songs... Читать дальше...

Rep. Paul Gosar's campaign fired one of its fundraisers for failing to provide information in a timely manner — and now it's asking federal regulators for forgiveness for failing to properly disclose some of its campaign money.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team is reportedly focusing on former President Donald Trump's motives for taking classified material related to the probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Republicans are speculating whether Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., might retire from Congress and shrink Speaker Kevin McCarthy's, R-Calif., narrow margins after losing the Ways and Means chairmanship, Puck's Tara Palmeri reported.

Rodric Hurdle-Bradford is a longtime journalist who has covered the state capital beats in Arizona, California, Missouri and Nevada. He has also served as Convention Beat Reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Business Press publication. A proud graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Hurdle-Bradford has earned writing awards from the National Journalism Education Association and Washington Journalism Education Association.

Mariama Todd has held a variety of finance and operations positions in the media and tech industries at Future Plc, Integral Ad Science(IAS), The Economist and DotDash Meredith Corporation. She most recently served as Director of Finance at OkayMedia Inc, a privately held digital media company comprising two brands: OkayPlayer.com and Okayafrica.

Former President Donald Trump has spent much of Wednesday ranting about his scandal involving the White House documents and classified materials that were found at his Mar-a-Lago resort. One of the claims being questioned by experts is the idea that Trump kept the folders with classified information on them as a "keepsake."

Almost a century ago, German physicist Werner Heisenberg realized the laws of quantum mechanics placed some fundamental limits on how accurately we can measure certain properties of microscopic objects.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has become well-known for his efforts to incite culture wars and influence the politics of education across Florida as he considers running in the 2024 presidential election.

WASHINGTON — Republican Christine O'Donnell is perhaps best known for her 2010 U.S. Senate campaign ad proclaiming to Delaware voters, "I'm not a witch," after videos leaked of her talking about dabbling in witchcraft.

As with weeds in a garden, it is a challenge to fully get rid of cancer cells in the body once they arise. They have a relentless need to continuously expand, even when they are significantly cut back by therapy or surgery. Even a few cancer cells can give rise to new colonies that will eventually outgrow their borders and deplete their local resources. They also tend to wander into places where they are not welcome, creating metastatic colonies at distant sites that can be even more difficult to detect and eliminate. Читать дальше...

Florida's GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing a bill that would permanently ban COVID-19 mitigation measures in his state, NBC News reports.

Among the lawmakers named to key congressional committees this week was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who got a plum spot on the Homeland Security Committee. It was something that led to frustration from those disturbed by Greene's years of conspiracies around the Sept. 11 attacks.

Missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe's husband allegedly used his son's iPad to search “How long before a body starts to smell?” “10 ways to dispose of a body if you really need to,” “How long does DNA last,” “How to clean blood from wooden floors,” and whether a body can be identified from “broken teeth," the Daily Beast reports.

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera blasted a San Francisco proposal that would pay out up to $5 million per person as reparations for slavery.

At 8:36 PM on January 6, 2021, Facebook publicly announced it was imposing a 24-hour block on then-President Donald Trump, following the deadly riot and insurrection on Capitol Hill. The following day Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, citing the “use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government,” announced the social media giant had banned Trump “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”

The White House criticized House Republican leadership over their reinstatement of two controversial members, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), to assignments on the House Oversight Committee, in a statement released to NBC News on Wednesday.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is likely to ruffle former President Donald Trump's feathers with the release of his new book.