The U.S. Army initially rejected calls from the District of Columbia for assistance ahead of the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the deadly Capitol insurrection.

An internal draft memo obtained by the Washington Post shows Army leadership was reluctant to provide National Guard or other troops to assist police with traffic or crowd management unless more than 100,000 demonstrators were expected, and gave other excuses for denying the request.

Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) allegedly used campaign funds to promote his new book, a violation of federal la, a new report says.

According to The Daily Beast, the concerns stem from Cruz's usage of campaign funds to run ads on Facebook as a way of promoting his new book, "One Vote Away: How A Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History." From September to October of 2020, Cruz allegedly ran a total of 17 ads on his official Facebook political candidate page to raise awareness about the new book.

"Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade insists that no one has ever minimized the brutality of slavery, and to prove his point, he says in 6th grade he watched the groundbreaking mini-series "Roots."

"Yeah, I don't know about your school – schools – but no one ever ducked the brutality of slavery. I remember in 6th grade watching 'Roots' and seeing that in display. Go watch it back, no soft pedaling that it was evil, it was wrong, nobody ever saw peddled that part of our past. But it doesn't mean what they launched with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, didn't change the world as we know it, and lives as we live it."