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Marjorie Taylor Greene flips out on her GOP colleague after he praises the destruction of Russia’s military

On Wednesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) got into a public feud with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she attacked the idea that the U.S. has an obligation to defend Ukraine against Russian invasion.

The argument began after Crenshaw replied to a right-wing account attacking him for voting on the bipartisan $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, which among other things supplies weapons and economic assistance to the war-torn country, and funding to address global food shortages caused by the disruption of Ukraine's agriculture industry.

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Biden waives executive privilege on 23,000 emails and attachments sought by Jan 6 committee: report

The Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol will receive a huge new set of documents from Donald Trump's White House.

"President Biden has authorized the National Archives and Records Administration to hand over an eighth tranche of presidential records from the Trump White House to the House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol," The Washington Post reported Wednesday. "The National Archives has already turned over hundreds of pages of documents to the committee, and the latest set contains approximately 23,000 emails and attachments."

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New documents reveal Oath Keepers' bizarre plot to have Trump blackmail Congress

The overlap between followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory and believers in Donald Trump's debunked conspiracy theory of election fraud is on full display in a transcript of an Oath Keepers conference call that was introduced as evidence by federal prosecutors.

"An extended transcript of a GoToMeeting teleconference held by militia founder Stewart Rhodes on Nov. 9. 2020 — shortly after Trump’s election loss and in the buildup to the Jan. 6 insurrection — has been made public as an exhibit in federal court," Tim Dickinson reported for Rolling Stone magazine. "The document, details of which have not previously been reported, pulls back the curtain on the Oath Keepers’ internal communications, revealing that militia leaders spoke openly of using physical force to keep Trump in office, and suggesting the events of Jan. 6 could have turned out far bloodier than they did."

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Inflation slowed in April but prices for many goods rising

US inflation slowed in April, according to new data Wednesday, but Americans continue to see their wallets empty faster when they buy groceries and pay the rent.

President Joe Biden has gone on the offensive, blaming the price spike on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and announcing a series of steps he hopes will ease the pain.

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Trump lawyer John Eastman has set a 'strategic booby trap' to steal 2024 election: Jamie Raskin

Newly revealed emails indicate that former Trump lawyer John Eastman has already laid out a scheme for stealing the 2024 election, according to a political columnist, and the former president's loyalists are already jockeying for position to help carry it out.

The House select committee has obtained new emails that show Eastman pressing Pennsylvania GOP legislators to cast doubt over their state's vote totals and then certify a slate of Trump electors, and the Washington Post reported that the communications reveal the plot to steal the last election was even more nefarious than previously understood.

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Mark Meadows complains Biden's inflation plan will 'help the American people' by lowering costs

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows this week blasted President Joe Biden's plan to fight inflation by lowering costs for Americans.

During a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, Meadows complained about reports that the Biden administration could lift Trump-era tariffs on China to lower costs for Americans.

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US inflation may have peaked, but pain continues

US lawmakers voted Tuesday to send a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, as Washington warned that Russia was likely girding for a long conflict with its neighbor.

The defense, humanitarian and economic funding passed the House of Representatives by 368 votes to 57, with the two parties' leaders having already reached an agreement on the details. It will likely pass the Senate by the end of the week or next week.

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Biden tangles with Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott: ‘I think the man has a problem’

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pledged Tuesday to make a fight against inflation his top domestic priority while rebuking Republican economic proposals he said miss the mark — zeroing in on Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott.

The president’s remarks at the White House came after Scott earlier in the day called on Biden to resign because, he said, the chief executive is “unwell, unfit for office, incoherent, incapacitated and confused.”

“I think the man has a problem,” Biden retorted after told by a reporter about Scott’s broadside.

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Biden considers executive orders, new funds for abortion

By Nandita Bose

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is considering executive orders and other measures to increase access and funding for women if the U.S. Supreme Court votes to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, officials and sources with knowledge of the matter said.

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John Eastman wanted to throw out absentee votes — to give 'cover' to fake electors scheme: report

Politico obtained over 50 pages of email correspondence sent one of the attorneys seeking to help Donald Trump stay in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.

"Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020, as Trump pressured GOP lawmakers to subvert his defeat," Politico reported late Tuesday evening. "This recalculation, he posited in an exchange with one GOP state lawmaker, 'would help provide some cover' for Republicans to replace Joe Biden’s electors from the state with a slate of pro-Trump electors, part of a last-ditch bid to overturn the election results."

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US takes first step to approve $40 bn in Ukraine aid

US President Joe Biden signed the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 into law earlier this week

Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers voted Tuesday to send a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, as Washington warned that Russia was likely girding for a long conflict with its neighbor.

The defense, humanitarian and economic funding passed the House of Representatives by 368 votes to 57, with the two parties' leaders having already reached an agreement on the details. It will likely pass the Senate by the end of the week or next week.

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Senators rebuke U.S. trade chief over lack of consultation

By David Lawder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A contingent of six U.S. senators led by Democrats on Tuesday chastised U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai about her handling of negotiations on COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rights, saying she had failed to consult them.

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West Virginia election results should have Biden rethinking his strategy: analysis

Donald Trump's endorsed candidate winning a Tuesday primary between two incumbent Republican congressmen should result in President Joe Biden rethinking his entire governing philosophy, according to an analysis published by The Washington Post.

Following the 2020 Census, West Virginia lost one of its three congressional districts during reapportionment. That resulted in two incumbent congressmen — David McKinley and Alex Mooney — facing off against each other.

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