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During a hearing held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Surveillance, Fox News commentator and retired DEA agent Derek Maltz gave an impassioned speech on the influx of fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. from various drug cartels operating on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) sock-puppet Twitter account, "BasedMikeLee," was suspended on Wednesday by Twitter after he used the account to lash out against Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for not releasing U.S. Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis from prison.

By Nathan Layne

(Reuters) -The lead state prosecutor said on Wednesday that only Richard "Alex" Murdaugh could have killed his wife and son, telling the jury that the now-disbarred South Carolina lawyer was "living a lie" and sought to use the murders to cover his tracks.

In his closing argument, Creighton Waters said the evidence given during more than a month of testimony, including of Murdaugh's presence at the crime scene minutes before the killings on June 7, 2021, and his lies in its aftermath... Читать дальше...

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) suggested that he would seek contempt of Congress charges against Hunter Biden if the president's son does not comply with Republican demands for testimony, a deposition, or interviews.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) attacked Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during the Senate Oversight Committee hearing regarding attacks on so-called "crisis pregnancy centers," which use false information to talk women out of having abortions.

NEW YORK — A Jewish graduate of Columbia University was gunned down while visiting Israel for a friend’s wedding, and two Palestinian suspects were arrested Wednesday in the killing. Elan Ganeles, 27, of West Hartford, Connecticut, was shot to death Monday while driving on a highway near the Dead Sea — the lone fatality in a shooting spree that set off a manhunt for the killers, according to Israeli leaders. The two arrested men are suspected of involvement in the killing, according to Israeli officials... Читать дальше...

The Biden administration on Tuesday sued two corporations behind a petrochemical plant in Louisiana, arguing that the facility poses "unacceptably high cancer risks" to the low-income and predominantly Black residents of nearby communities and demanding significant cuts in toxic pollution.

The sixth annual One Planet Summit begins on Wednesday, with the fate of forests at the top of the agenda. Politicians, scientists and NGOs will meet in Libreville, Gabon, to discuss the future of rainforests in the Congo basin, Southeast Asia and the Amazon basin – and whether countries in the Global North should finance the preservation of the Earth’s “green lungs”.

Arkansas students are asking Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to stop invoking their school to justify her conservative political aims.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A standoff continues after three Kansas City police officers were shot and injured Tuesday night while executing a search warrant on the east side of the city, according to Independence police. As of 11:30 a.m. local time, around 14 hours into the standoff, Sgt. Andy Bell, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol’s Troop A, said the house where the shooting occurred has not yet been cleared, but that tactical teams from the highway patrol and Kansas City police are “doing... Читать дальше...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke out in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday about some of the questions that Republicans have posed throughout the hearing that parrot false conspiracy theories.

A Nevada man who allegedly accelerated his car towards a Black family in what police say was a racially motivated incident is now facing new charges in relation to a threat to kill Black people in a mass shooting, 8NewsNow reported.

A senior aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently met with the mother of the late Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, whose death at the hands of a Capitol Police officer has made her a martyr among election-denying Trump supporters.

A man protesting Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's (R) stance on drag queens was detained by police on Wednesday after he interrupted an event.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began shouting at Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during a Senate Oversight hearing. Among the things Cruz was angry about was that the Department of Justice was not in the process of prosecuting protesters who went to Brett Kavanaugh's home and posted information about the Supreme Court justice's location.

Legal experts are blasting the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a bombshell Washington Post exclusive report reveals some FBI agents were “afraid” to raid Mar-a-Lago and some wanted to simply shut down the criminal investigation, delaying for months the retrieval of classified documents that Donald Trump had unlawfully retained and refusal to return.

In 2011, researchers observed a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales, now called tread-water feeding or trap-feeding. It was thought to be a new technique developed by specific whale communities.

A white supremacist who plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters and killed a woman during the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally has been fined for misconduct in prison.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t all that angry with capitalism.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Wednesday couldn't help but give a shoutout to colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) one day after she insisted on being referred to as an "ultra-MAGA" Republican.

A Michigan GOP lawmaker who attended the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and who denies the results of the 2020 election has been appointed an executive member of the Michigan House Republicans’ campaign committee, the Michigan Advance reported.

A spokesman for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a profane response when asked to comment on a misleading claim the congresswoman made online.

As former President Donald Trump competes with challengers for the 2024 presidential election, including a possible run by his former ally Gov. Ron DeSantis, he is "trapped" into a strategy of endorsing more and more extreme positions by the very factors that allowed him to take over the Republican Party, wrote Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times on Wednesday.

The Colorado Republican Party is electing a new chairperson later this month, and a report from the Colorado Sun claims that some in the party are fearing a "disastrous" election denier winning the vote.

A protester was arrested at the Oklahoma State Capitol Tuesday after the House voted to ban minors and adults from using insurance to undergo “gender transition procedures," News4 reported.