GOP House Oversight and Judiciary chairmen will get Justice Department documents on ‘key decisions' in 2016

Capitol police are scrambling to keep pace with a surge of violent treats against lawmakers.

Five years ago, in 2016, the department investigated 902 threats, but those threats increased dramatically during the presidency of Donald Trump to 5,206 in 2018 and 8,613 last year -- and total threats are on pace to double this year, reported the Los Angeles Times.

Bill Gates's nonprofit group Breakthrough Energy announced Monday that it has raised more than $1 billion from seven major companies, including ArcelorMittal and General Motors, to fund clean energy development.

Early participants in the initiative, dubbed "Catalyst," also include American Airlines, Bank of America, BlackRock, Boston Consulting Group and Microsoft.

Thomas Renz became a licensed attorney just before the start of the pandemic. Now, he's making a name for himself as a spreader of misinformation about COVID-19, one of his claims being that people are dying from the COVID-19 vaccine.

As The Washington Post points out, Renz has been at the head of federal lawsuits in six states challenging shutdowns, mask mandates and vaccines while claiming that the threat from the virus is exaggerated.