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Since his tumultuous takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has made an unabashed turn to the right politically, defying the orthodoxy that Silicon Valley is a citadel of well-heeled liberals beholden to Democrats.

Long considered non-identifiable ideologically, Musk's politics are now hardline right wing as he uses his platform (now called X) to stoke the themes cherished by Fox News, conservative talk radio and far right movements across the West.

Joe Biden said Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the war in Gaza was "hurting Israel more than helping Israel" in an interview aired Saturday, as the US leader's impatience with his Israeli counterpart grows increasingly visible.

With Gaza's humanitarian crisis growing more dire and Biden's left flank in uproar, the US president made contradictory remarks as to the question of a "red line" over Israel's threatened offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza.

The top U.S. congressional Republican on Sunday demanded an apology from Joe Biden over the murder of an American student for which an undocumented migrant was arrested -- a case helping to put immigration squarely at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign.

The president "is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none," House speaker Mike Johnson said on X, the former Twitter. He said the alleged killer "is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley."

Former President Donald Trump demanded that charges be dropped against him and co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case.

The former president and 18 others were charged in Fulton County with racketeering for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, resulting in four guilty pleas already.

President Vladimir Putin has no doubt he will secure another term in Russia's election. The vote that leaves him in suspense, and could do more to change his policies, will occur eight months later in the United States.

Putin has publicly said he prefers US President Joe Biden to his predecessor and aspiring successor Donald Trump, a remark widely interpreted to mean exactly the opposite, as the former KGB man hopes his notoriety will boost the Republican mogul.

TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans have condemned a fundraiser Friday night where attendees paid to kick and beat an effigy of President Joe Biden, distancing themselves from extremists who have seized control of the party.

The Biden-bashing antics were part of a Kansas GOP event in Johnson County, where rocker Ted Nugent and disgraced former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline were the main attractions.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo suggested that Democrats with facial tattoos could be undocumented immigrants.

During a Sunday interview with Lara Trump, Bartiromo noted that Attorney General Merrick Garland intended to oppose voter IDs.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on Rep. Katie Britt (R-AL) to explain herself after repeating a misleading story about sex trafficking by immigrants.

In her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, Britt told a decades-old story about a woman's sexual abuse that happened under George W. Bush's administration.

On Sunday morning the panel on CNN' "Inside Politics" pounced on Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for her smear of President Joe Biden by linking him to a victim of sex trafficking which occurred 20 years before he became president.

With Britt's spokesperson finally coming clean, CNN host Manu Raju shared a clip of Britt's overwrought storytelling before telling his panel, "... the incident did not happen during the Biden administration or even in the United States, but actually in Mexico."

"So this was supposed to be a shining moment for Britt, someone who is being elevated in the Republican ranks given this huge opportunity," he continued. "She's faced enormous criticism for her delivery, but now this passage was not true the way she presented it. What's the fallout?"

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"I mean, the story itself that she told is not inaccurate," correspondent Melanie Zanona contributed. "What's dishonest is the way she tried to link into the Biden administration, the way she tried to link it to something that was happening in the United States."

"And it was just such an unforced error for her in addition to picking the kitchen table as the setting, in addition to the delivery which was widely criticized and mocked, "she continued. "And this is just the risk of doing the rebuttal. These are notoriously tricky. You're going from watching the president in this room with hundreds of people — there's a lot of energy to watching someone deliver a straight to camera alone in a room and we've seen how this has tripped up past politicians including rising stars."

"It looked like it's happened to her as well," she added. "I mean, I would say I don't think this means her end is here because in the future of the Republican party, she still has a very long career ahead of her, but it's embarrassing."

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As expected, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) got the Saturday Night Live treatment for her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address with actress Scarlett Johansson nailing the Alabama Republican's over-the-top storytelling and wild mood swings.

Introducing herself with, "My name is Katie Britt and I have the honor of serving the great people of Alabama. But tonight I’ll be auditioning for the part of ‘Scary mom.’ I’ll be performing an original monologue called ‘This country is hell,'” Johansson’s Britt added, "You see, I’m not just a senator, I’m a wife, a mother and the craziest b---h in the Target parking lot — worried about the future of our children. And this is why I have invited you into this strange and empty kitchen because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitchens.”