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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) predicted he would be chairman of a committee "in a couple of years" after being indicted on 13 counts, including wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds.

After pleading not guilty to the charges in New York on Wednesday, Santos told reporters that he was being targeted by a "witch hunt." But the lawmaker said that he tried to have a positive attitude.

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said former President Donald Trump would likely fail while appealing the verdict in his civil rape trial.

Moments after Trump was found to have sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll, Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked Turley to reflect on the former president's plan for appeal.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell made public comments after being ordered to pay a man $5 million for debunking his claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Last month, an arbitration panel said Lindell must pay $5 million to a software engineer who debunked the election claims. Lindell had offered a reward to anyone who could prove him wrong as part of his 2021 Cyber Symposium.

Right-wing broadcaster Steve Bannon came out in support of President Joe Biden's plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans Tuesday.

On his War Room podcast, Bannon suggested that tax hikes proposed during Biden's 2020 campaign could be the answer to raising the debt ceiling.

Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) compared President Joe Biden's family to The Sopranos, a television series about a fictional crime family.

During an interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo and Alford teased Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) Wednesday press conference about Biden family business dealings.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) quickly blamed mental health after a gunman killed eight at a Texas mall Saturday, but he downplayed the suspect's ties to white supremacy.

During an interview on Fox News, host Brian Kilmeade asked Abbott about reports that the alleged shooter at the Allen Premium Outlets had links to white supremacy and neo-Nazism.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended his support for former President Donald Trump despite ongoing legal battles.

During Giuliani's Sunday WABC radio program, the former mayor acknowledged Trump was "not a saint."

According to close associates of ousted Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, the conservative network can expect an onslaught of attacks now that the dust has settled over his firing.

Axios founder Mike Allen is reporting that Carlson is planning to go to war with his former employers and that it is going to get ugly very soon.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, worried on Sunday that the Department of Justice might indict Hunter Biden on gun charges before a press conference could expose his alleged corruption.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Comer said he gave the FBI until Wednesday to release documents about Biden.

Fox News host Shannon Bream confronted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) about "loose and dangerous" gun laws in his state.

Following a mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Bream spoke to Abbott about support for gun control legislation.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested marijuana and fatherlessness were to blame for a deadly mall shooting in Texas.

During an interview about the shooting in Allen, Republican congressional candidate Tre Pennie called for strengthening background checks for gun purchases.

Lawyers for Fox Corp. have sent a cease and desist letter to media watchdog Media Matters for America, asking them to stop releasing never-before-seen footage of recently fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson making controversial comments off air , Newsweek reported.

"FOX demands that Media Matters cease and desist from distribution, publication, and misuse of Fox's misappropriated proprietary footage, which you are now on notice was unlawfully obtained. We reserve all rights and remedies," the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corporation wrote in a letter to Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters for America.