'Happy Independence Day': Analyst busts GOP senator on Russian TV consorting with grandson of Stalin confidante

The man who fired blanks in a Russian Jewish synagogue and cultural center in San Francisco faces hate crime charges, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

The man, who has been identified as 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin, carried out the attack last Friday. No one was hurt.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee were hoping for a dramatic clash with Twitter executives in their hearing today — but they failed to achieve it, tech policy reporter Rebecca Kern told POLITICO on Wednesday.

The hearing, which featured former Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde, Jim Baker and Yoel Roth, centered on the company's decision to suppress a New York Post story about emails on Hunter Biden's laptop, a decision that the company has freely admitted was a mistake. But Republican officials have gone further and insinuated, without any evidence, that the FBI or Joe Biden's presidential campaign put them up to it.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) was ridiculed for his response during the State of the Union Address in which he appeared aghast at the implication that he supported cuts to Social Security and Medicare.