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The congressional investigation into Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has entered a new phase, reportedly making contact with several new witnesses in recent weeks as it probes allegations of sexual misconduct, drug use, and public corruption by the MAGA Republican.

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released the transcript of the testimony of Kevin Morris, a friend of and attorney for Hunter Biden, and his statements undercut everything Republicans have said about the embattled first son.

A day after Ron DeSantis exhausted his bid for the White House and endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency, the Florida governor nixed a Republican effort to line Trump’s legal fund from within his state.

Donald Trump didn’t shy away from several Qanon chants that erupted throughout the last leg of his New Hampshire campaign on Monday.

This was always going to be a big year for Barbie and Oppenheimer, which got 13 and 8 nominations respectively. But the full list of nominations, released this morning, also gives love to Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, nominated in 11 categories, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, nominated in 10. The winners will be announced on March 10. Until then, here are some of the main contenders, and how we covered them:

Barbie was conspicuously absent from certain Oscar categories when the award nominations were announced Tuesday, and people are furious.

Elon Musk, who has used social media to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, is now arguing that had social media existed at the time of the Holocaust, it could have prevented the tragedy.

Donald Trump took the road less traveled on Monday, opting to use sounds and shapes rather than words to explain what he had in mind for America’s military.

The perennial complaint about mainstream media coverage of presidential elections is that it too often gets bogged down in the horse-race muck—endless discussions of approval ratings, head-to-head polls between front-runner candidates, and the public’s opinions on hot-button issues. On those rare occasions when policy is discussed, the media treats it as if we had a parliamentary system that would allow a candidate to seamlessly implement their agenda if elected. This style of political journalism might generate engagement... Читать дальше...

Aside from a handful of running jokes involving pudding and boot lifts, the most durable legacy of the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign, which ended on Sunday, will be its relentless demonization of queer and trans people. DeSantis and his staff made scapegoating LGBTQ people—portrayed as threats to children and to the nation itself—a dominant message in a race there was little doubt the Florida governor would lose. This assault on LGBTQ people’s rights and safety will outlast his relatively brief and failed run for the White House. Читать дальше...

When it comes to Donald Trump’s legal travails, there are two general schools of thought among Democrats. In one, a jury’s finding that Trump is liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll—and his pending trials for many alleged crimes—largely confirms what voters have already concluded about him, rendering these things far less important to voters than more pressing “kitchen table” issues.

House Republicans are getting increasingly frustrated at their caucus’s inability to draft laws and enact change, with some very publicly complaining about their party’s lack of accomplishments.