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Special counsel Jack Smith is reportedly stepping up the pace of his investigation into former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election and his mishandling of classified information.

Republicans have complained that hiring more IRS agents means that more middle-class Americans will end up being audited. The IRS has instead said that they're struggling to go after the wealthiest taxpayers because it means a protracted legal battle and court fees.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is reportedly planning to announce her bid for the 2024 Republican party nomination soon and, according to a report from Politico, she may find the party that has been reshaped by Donald Trump won't welcome her with open arms.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told ABC News Sunday that there have been a few other balloons that have been found over the United States and Canada. They were all smaller than the first one, he explained.

According to the editor-in-chief for the conservative National Review, the events of the past week are a foreshadowing of the direction the Republican Party is headed and that it will guarantee President Joe Biden a second term.

Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH), a possible future Republican presidential candidate, struggled on Sunday to define the "woke cancel culture" he opposes.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaimie was gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida five years ago, said Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stands no chance of being the 2024 presidential candidate in 2024 once Americans see him in action.

On Saturday night, there was a flurry of discourse on Twitter over whether or not literal aliens are in the beginning stages of a possible invasion.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) speculated on Sunday that President Joe Biden allows China to send spy balloons because he and his son Hunter are corrupt.

Republican insiders are expressing concern about the ability of the new chairman of the House Oversight Committee to keep far-right members under control as they launch investigations into conspiracy theories aimed at the administration of President Joe Biden.

According to a key Republican Party campaign consultant with ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Donald Trump is a weakened presence within the party and his ugly attack on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) this past week is a sign he knows he's faltering.

ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY) if he would investigate Saudi funds provided to former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Appearing on MSNBC to discuss the subpoena given to former vice president Mike Pence by special counsel Jack Smith, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade claimed that the delay of Pence's testimony is slapped aside, he will be the key to proving Donald Trump conspired against the United States.

Reacting to a report that attorneys for Donald Trump will fight the subpoena given to former vice president Mike Pence by special counsel Jack Smith, a former federal prosecutor claimed the former president's battle on Pence's behalf is doomed to failure.

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) told a roomful of her constituents this weekend that she disagreed with the military waiting to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that was spotted over the American Northwest last week until it drifted out to sea.

Donald Trump's battle with the Department of Justice over sensitive government documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago continued last month with the former president receiving an unreported subpoena seeking a folder that was not previously turned over.

How does a Republican congressman from central Pennsylvania — who is currently facing a federal investigation after allegedly spitballing ideas for a "paperwork coup" on behalf of Donald Trump — wind up with a committee seat that could allow him to see open Justice Department files about himself? Meet Rep. Scott Perry, the retired Army National Guard brigadier general who is now one of the most powerful members of Congress. He didn't get there alone.

Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm to prove electoral fraud claims, but its work never saw the light of day after no evidence was found to support those claims, the Washington Post reported in an exclusive story today.

One of the most inspiring baseball stories ever told might not be suitable for Florida public school libraries under the rule of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

TOPEKA — Former Johnson County commissioner and 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Brown narrowly defeated Saturday a former Republican national committeewoman to earn a two-year term as the state GOP’s chairman.

The campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—a strident supporter of loosening gun regulations—tried to ban firearms at an election night event in Tampa last year and blame the city for the policy, The Washington Post said in a report published Friday that had critics on both sides of the political aisle calling the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate a hypocrite.

The prosecution has sharpened its focus in the Proud Boys sedition trial to show that the right-wing group was conspiring to use violence to overthrow the 2020 election, the New York Times reported today.

A stuffed toy known as Dr. Simi has become a wildly famous pop culture symbol in Mexico, often going viral thanks to people hurling it at famous musical artists on stage. And Vice.com wants to know why.

The new House Republican majority is already making good on its promise to deliver investigations – “a lot of them” – but it remains to be seen whether they’ll achieve the goal of politically damaging President Joe Biden, Vox reports.

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