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An ex-soldier was sentenced to 45 years in prison for attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists and illegally transmitting national defense information, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

The National Rifle Association's CEO Wayne LaPierre Jr. took the stage at CPAC Friday to angrily attack an America he said had left his organization fighting for its very life.

Federal prosecutors are focusing their efforts on former President Donald Trump's top lawyer as a new strategy in their investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the probe into classified documents at Mar-a-Largo, The Washington Post reports.

Former Trump administration Secretary of Housing Ben Carson hit the podium at CPAC Friday to blast the "media and big tech telling us what we can say."

A federal judge presiding over the criminal case of a Jan. 6 protester is calling for access to surveillance tapes of the 2021 Capitol riot that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has announced he's turning over exclusively to Fox News.

More than 200 top U.S. economists warned congressional leaders Thursday that a failure to raise the debt ceiling would likely spark a devastating economic crisis, rattling global financial markets and killing jobs nationwide.

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) - Airline passengers who have long felt squished in cramped seats suffered a setback on Friday as a U.S. appeals court refused to order the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to adopt minimum requirements for seat size and spacing.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said an advocacy group, FlyersRights.org, had no right to force the FAA to adopt seating rules because it was not "clear and indisputable" that tight seating, while uncomfortable, was also dangerous. Читать дальше...

A man appointed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Disney oversight board has a history of making anti-LGBTQ comments, including a claim that tap water could be turning people gay, CNN reported.

A Navy SEAL who admitted to killing a Green Beret in Africa is hoping to reduce his 10-year sentence with help from one of Donald Trump's former lawyers.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley received what reporter Ben Jacobs described as a "tepid" response during her speech at the Conservative Action Political Conference on Friday.

Unimpressed House Democrats want to put Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) on the spot by making his three FBI "whistleblowers" face public questioning about the so-called "weaponization" of the law enforcement agency.

A white nationalist who openly admires Adolf Hitler wants to transform the Lutheran Church into a haven for fascists like himself, according to a report.

Right-wing podcaster and convicted criminal Steve Bannon on Friday vowed to take down Fox News during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

A new study recently published in BMC Neuroscience indicates that female brains respond differently to pictures of newborn infants as compared to male brains on average. Women’s brains tend to show more activity in areas related to facial recognition, attention, and empathy. This research may contribute to an understanding of male and female parenting differences and how to help men be more responsive to their infants. For infants to get their needs met, the caregivers around them must be able to understand their nonverbal signals. Читать дальше...

In a legal filing on Friday, attorneys for Donald Trump asked to exclude a video clip of the former president boasting that he could sexually assault women at will because he was famous from evidence in the trial related to the sexual assault of writer E. Jean Carroll.

While her predecessor used a dedicated election crimes division to investigate hundreds of bogus election fraud claims, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she will redirect the unit’s focus to prosecute election-related threats and protect voting rights.

MyPillow CEO and 2020 election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is on a crusade to stop U.S. elections to ban electronic voting and return to hand-counted paper ballots, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust-denying white nationalist who dined last year with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, was booted from the Conservative Political Action Conference when he tried to attend it on Friday.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin wrote off the Republican Party as a policy-free grievance caucus after watching this week's Conservative Political Action Conference.

Reflecting on his interview with former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) who left politics and quickly accepted a position as a board member of the Fox Corporation, conservative Charlie Sykes admitted that he is bothered by Ryan's belief that he is, and has been, doing important work behind the scenes to tamp down the worst excesses of Fox News personalities.

While Pence is expected to run in 2024, many see his chances as slim since he'll likely be up against the biggest stars the GOP has to offer. Early polls show him battling Nikki Haley for a distant third place behind Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. But, according to NY Mag's Ed Kilgore, Pence could get a significant push forward from evangelical voters.

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump is seeking a six-month delay in the New York attorney general's fraud case against him and his company, which if granted would likely push back any trial until deep into the 2024 presidential campaign.

In a Friday court filing, the former U.S. president, who is seeking another White House term, said "fundamental fairness and due process" justified delaying Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million case, including the scheduled Oct. Читать дальше...

According to one Arizona journalist who has followed Kari Lake's ascension from amiable TV personality to controversial candidate for the governorship, her worst fear is coming true.

A school committee member from Rhode Island has pleaded not guilty after being accused of hutting a cop while drunk, according to WJAR.

Some parents in New York are unhappy with the response of school officials to a series of TikTok videos depicting a shooting and making violent threats against Black students.