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When asked whether he'll be able to prove whether President Joe Biden participated in a bribery scheme, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) said he wasn't sure . Mediaite reports "Comer issued a statement accusing President Biden of having 'lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son's business dealings and was not involved' but did not cite specifics from the testimony beyond the existence of the phone calls and the actions of Hunter Biden to promote 'the brand' of his connection to his father." Fox News host Sean Hannity interviewed the Kentucky lawmaker and United States Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) about the matter during Monday night's segment of Hannity . READ MORE: 'Simply no merit': Ex-Giuliani/Trump associate urges Comer to drop Hunter Biden probe Hannity said, "I tell you, and this is why the Republicans have one half of one house. The government, one branch of go...

Angus Cloud, cast member of the HBO teen drama series Euphoria, died on Monday at age 25 just days after the death of his father, his family said in a statement. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/KF3T8C7 via sinceretalk

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) was briefly detained by law enforcement after a bizarre incident in which he tried to intervene at a medical emergency at a rodeo, reported The Daily Beast on Monday. "A spokesperson for Jackson confirmed the incident took place during a concert at the White Deer Rodeo on Saturday night on the outskirts of Amarillo. They described a 'very loud and chaotic environment' in which Jackson was taken into custody — but never arrested — and quickly released once the situation was explained," reported Matt Young. "The incident began after Jackson was 'summoned by someone in the crowd to assist a 15-year-old girl who was having a medical emergency nearby,' his office said." Prior to being elected to Congress, Jackson — a fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump — served as a White House doctor to multiple presidents and came under controversy after he was accused of drinking on the job and prolifically dispensing dru...

Ed Rollins, a longtime GOP consultant and strategist, believes Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is standing in the way of achieving a successful 2024 presidential campaign, Rolling Stone reports. Rolling Stone Senior Political Reporter Aswan Suebsang on Monday tweeted screenshots from his and fellow Rolling Stone reporter Adam Rawnsley's new report, in which the pair interviewed Rollins. Suebsang and Rawnsley report : Last year, longtime Republican strategist Ed Rollins was leading the Ready for Ron PAC , and announcing his plans to help DeSantis — then an undeclared 2024 candidate — take on Trump in the primary. A longtime Trump supporter, Rollins wanted to turn the page on the twice-impeached former president, and he thought DeSantis was the candidate to do it. But in just a few months, that hope vanished. Today, Rollins says he is 'not involved' anymore in the pro-DeSantis efforts. READ MORE: Rupert Murdoch unimpressed with 'loser' Ron DeSantis...

U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), the only member of Congress to sit through Monday’s entire closed-door testimony from House Republicans’ witness in their investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, says President Biden and his son had frequent phone calls to support each other when Beau Biden was dying of cancer. Republicans have baselessly grabbed onto the claim, made by Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer, as supposed proof of criminal activity by President Joe Biden. U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, Republican of Texas, Monday afternoon: — (@) Congressman Jackson was the White House Physician during the time then-Vice President Biden’s son was dying and would have known about the family tragedy. Beau Biden, President Biden’s oldest son and the former Attorney General of Delaware, died of cancer in 2015. His death, is believed to be the result of the “burn pits” the U.S. Military used during the Iraq War. Congressman Goldman (photo), who is also an attorney...

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan denied a state Republican Party lawsuit Monday alleging the city of Milwaukee partnered with voting rights initiative "Milwaukee Votes 2022" to promote midterm voter turnout, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Per the report , "after Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson made comments about" the program, "and referenced door-to-door canvassing funded by the 'private sector,'" the Wisconsin GOP and Republican voter Elizabeth Burke sued the city. Dugan noted in her decision that the GOP lawsuit offered "no facts plausibly showing that any political campaign was unduly influenced by the voting initiative," and "courts in other jurisdictions have addressed and rejected similar arguments." READ MORE: 'No way in hell': Wisconsin Republicans turn on Trump as poll shows him crashing She wrote, "Ultimately, Plaintiffs complain that people with different political views will lawfully e...

Saturday's Rugby Championship outing at Ellis Park between the Springboks and Argentina was seen from a glass-half-full perspective by the respective coaches Jacques Nienaber and Michael Cheika. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/dVsmJSZ via sinceretalk

The partner of a man allegedly tortured to death by the Sizokuthola television crew, including presenter Xolani Khumalo, is losing faith in the police. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/AxLKgkY via sinceretalk

George Conway, a Washington Post columnist, lawyer, and ex-husband to former President Donald Trump's White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway, shut down the idea that the indicted 2024 White House hopeful could beat the most recent Mar-a-Lago evidence against him. Regarding the three additional charges Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith hit Trump with earlier this week, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Conway about "what stood out" to him. The Post columnist replied, "I mean, everything stands out to me and they have him dead to rights. They had him dead to rights back when they executed the search warrant, and they came up with those documents. I mean, there is literally a smoking arsenal here. I mean, people are making a big deal about what we saw in the superseding indictment yesterday, but the fact of the matter is, it's just icing on a very, very large cake of mind-bogglingly inculpatory evidence against Donald Trump. I mean, he...

Public Interest South Africa has described the attendance of the second-in-command of SAPS Crime Intelligence at the EFF's lavish gala dinner as shameful and a slap in the face of South Africans grappling with widespread crime. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/hZfKIOV via sinceretalk

The Automobile Association has flagged the repeated hikes to diesel prices as "most concerning". from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/pSjwMLK via sinceretalk

Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber confirmed halfback Grant Williams may have a two-week break while Kurt-Lee Arendse needs to shake off an injury sustained against Argentina on Saturday. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/NBPe0f3 via sinceretalk

Live by Design is a weekly News24 column by Dr Helena Dolny and Mapi Mhlangu on mortality and the conversations around it. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/mEOZUYP via sinceretalk

At the EFF’s 10th anniversary celebration, Julius Malema criticised Panyaza Lesufi, Sars officials and President Cyril Ramaphosa. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/uCa85Ln via sinceretalk

Proteas goal shooter Ine-Marí Venter shook off her tears to deliver a standout performance for the hosts at the Netball World Cup opener in Cape Town. from News24 Top Stories https://ift.tt/c0ivk8N via sinceretalk

Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz, during a recent appearance in Iowa , drew stark comparisons between his state and the Republican-led home of the first presidential primary. While Minnesota enshrined abortion as a "fundamental right" earlier this year, Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed a restrictive 6-week abortion ban into law earlier this month. Additionally, in January, Reynolds " signed into law a bill that bars transgender females from participating in girls' high school and college sports," while Minnesota passed a law in March declaring the state a "refuge" for trans people seeking gender-affirming care. READ MORE: 'Stupid, ridiculous self-righteous crap': Iowa grandma scorches Republicans’ six-week abortion ban "I'm not afraid to say, I don't know if you can get much different," the Democratic leader said during his speech. "Talking about restricting reproductive freedoms and we'...

Conspiracy theorist and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., took to social media to criticize President Joe Biden's administration for denying the candidate protection from the United States Secret Service, Politico reports . The presidential hopeful tweeted Friday , "Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me. Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: 'I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.' Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats." Add...

At least two lawmakers on Friday hit back at Samuel Alito over the Supreme Court justice’s suggestion that that the nation’s highest court is above congressional scrutiny. “What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn’t apply to him. Too bad!” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted after Alito was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article suggesting that Congress has no oversight role over the Supreme Court. “Corruption and abuse of power must be stopped, no matter the source. In fact, the court should be *most* subject to scrutiny, bc it is unelected & life appointed.” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Ca.) tweeted : “Dear Justice Alito: You’re on the Supreme Court in part because Congress expanded the Court to 9 Justices.” “Congress can impeach Justices and can in many cases strip the Court of jurisdiction. Congress has always regulated you and will continue to do so. You are not above the law.” Alito said to the WSJ in comments that inspired t...

Timothy Heaphy, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher who served as the lead investigator for the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday's edition of Deadline White House that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's case against former President Donald Trump in the plot to overturn the 2020 election is akin to a winning card hand. "Tim, we've had so many chances to talk to you lately, but the very first time I talked to you, and I mentioned this last week, I asked you if Jack Smith is able to pierce through some of the few places where the Committee wasn't able to go, would they find more evidence consistent with what you'd found," Wallace recalled. "And it was your belief that they would, that behind the closed door of the [John] Eastmans and the [ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows was not exculpatory evidence, it ap...

When I was young, I dated a girl who, on reflection, was a classic malignant narcissist. She went from loving me to, when I ended the relationship, stalking and threatening me with both social and physical violence. This may well be what America has in store as Trump descends into a legal hell of his own criminal creation, particularly when he’s facing real jail time; if he’s rejected by the GOP primary voters; or if he’s the nominee and loses the election while still facing jail time. It’s called “narcissistic collapse.” He’s already using the language of narcissistic collapse, priming his cult followers to experience rage and act out revenge fantasies on his behalf in a clear call to stochastic terrorism. When he spoke at Waco on the March 25th anniversary of another hard-right martyrdom, the Branch Davidian siege, he said : “[Our] enemies are desperate to stop us,” and “our opponents have done everything they can to crush our spirit and to break our will. But,” he added, “th...

When then-President Donald Trump visited Erie, Pa., five years ago, he racked up a $35,000 city public safety bill at the MAGA rally. Trump’s campaign never paid it. This weekend, Trump will be back in town for another rally that'll necessitate a huge police presence. But this time, Erie’s municipal government plans to be more aggressive . That means billing Trump’s campaign upfront — instead of after the fact — for the July 29 rally taking place at the Erie Insurance Arena. Erie will invoice Trump’s campaign in advance for the overtime costs associated with extra security from the Erie Police Department, the City of Erie told Raw Story in a statement. “The City has a duty – and will continue – to provide security for our residents, visitors, businesses and anyone who holds a public event in the City, regardless of whether they reimburse the City for unusual coverage costs, or not. But the organizers of any event of the magnitude of Saturday’s planned rally that requires an...

BlazeTV podcaster Steve Deace on Thursday threw a fit that former President Donald Trump's false narrative about the 2020 election has fallen apart and expressed outrage that Trump's erstwhile allies are abandoning the Big Lie. "We are going to the mattresses for these people," Deace sulked. "We are offering them more accommodation, more chances than we'd offer our own family members, for goodness sakes. And for what? To have Rudy Giuliani go down to Georgia and admit that he lied? Have Jason Miller tell the January 6th commission, 'Yeah. We all knew it was BS.' What? What is this?" Deace also for the second time in as many weeks designated Trump's Make America Great Again following as a "cult" — less than three months after he falsely alleged that Democrats "got away with rigging" the contest that Trump definitively lost to President Joe Biden. READ MORE: Ex-Trump friend: MAGA Republicans 'don’t care' that h...

Donny Deutsch, a former friend of ex-President Donald Trump, explained during an appearance on Wednesday's edition of Deadline White House that the biggest challenge facing President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is how to dissuade Trump-loyal Republicans that they should not vote for him in 2024. READ MORE: Trump’s post-election 'elite strike force' has been facing a 'legal reckoning': ex-federal prosecutor Although MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace pointed out that GOP moderates "may be doing some good for Joe Biden" by being in the "middle," Deutch believes that those constituents are too few in number to make a difference. "Yeah. We're, we're not gonna know. This is interesting as a former ad guy, and I say to myself, 'What would I do as an anti-Trump ad?'" Deutsch retorted. "And the obvious place you go — because you can't just dump on Trump — it's at this point it should..." Wallace jokingly...

Former New Jersey governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday that he sees signs that Donald Trump's final White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is cooperating with the United States Justice Department's investigation into Trump's failed effort to nullify the results of the 2020 election and remain in power. Earlier this month, Trump received a target letter from Smith notifying him that he is likely to be charged in connection with the January 6th, 2021 insurrection. Meadows is believed to have been present for everything on that fateful day, including what Trump did and did not do as his supporters stormed the Capitol and threatened to assassinate then-Vice President Mike Pence and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California). Yet Meadows has remained conspicuously off the grid in the weeks since special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump on thirty-seven counts for unlawfully retaining classif...

As the clock ticks toward a likely third criminal indictment of Donald Trump , the GOP has been working practically around the clock trying to distract from yet another major hit against their party’s unofficial 2024 presidential nominee, with the top-ranking Republican trotting out what is tantamount to going nuclear: threatening to impeach the President of the United States of America. For what? A years-old conspiracy theory that was debunked long ago . Speaker Kevin McCarthy , succumbing to far-right House extremists including Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Ralph Norman of South Carolina, this week repeatedly threatened to impeach President Biden, by claiming an “impeachment inquiry” is likely coming. But Congressman Norman says Republicans will definitely impeach Biden. “If there’s not accountability now for the highest officeholder in the land, when is it going to be?” asked Norman on Tuesday. The four-term U.S. Congressman is one of the wealthiest and most conservati...

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (R-California) invited lawmakers to a Tuesday night screening of a film that reviews described as antisemitic to help improve workplace morale on Capitol Hill. Since he obtained the gavel in January, McCarthy has struggled to herd fringe Republicans in the House whose constituencies are often populated by QAnon fans. A sizeable number of these congresspersons are staunch defenders of indicted former President Donald Trump and his debunked lies about the 2020 election. In addition to intra-GOP squabbling, deep partisan gullies between the two major parties regarding an exhaustive host of issues reliably lead to drama inside the chamber. McCarthy's olive branch is a presentation of Sound of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel, whom National Public Radio noted last week has "been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of e...

Weeks following the U.S. Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling, the U.S. Education Department has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's legacy admissions tradition, The New York Times reports. Per The Times , a group of lawyers representing three organizations — Chica Project, ACEDONE and the Greater Boston Latino Network — contend the legacy admissions practice "illegally discriminated against Black, Hispanic and Asian applicants in favor of wealthy students who were less qualified." According to the report, Harvard spokeswoman Nicole Rura said "the university was already reviewing the way it admits students to ensure it is in compliance with the law after" the Supreme Court's recent affirmative action ruling. READ MORE: Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites "Our review includes examination of a range of data and information, along with learnings from Harvard's efforts over the p...

Ex-Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Shaun Wiggins, who allegedly lured a young woman "into having ongoing sexual relations with him beginning in 2017 under the guise of teaching her to use her body 'as a weapon,' has gone missing , The Daily Beast exclusively reports. Per The Beast , "the alleged assaults" against the woman referred to as "Doe" in the suit, happened over her "14-month tenure at Soteryx, the firm Wiggins launched in 2016 ," but "Wiggins' promises to help" her "get hired by the CIA fell flat," eventually leading her to undergo "psychiatric care instead of realizing her dream career." In an earlier interview with the news outlet, Doe's lawyer Megan Goddard said, "I am grateful for the Adult Survivors Act, which has allowed so many survivors of sexual assault and abuse to hold their abusers accountable. Abusers should always be held responsible for the harm they inflict, but th...