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The far-right network Newsmax struggled to come up with a list of Black conservatives Wednesday during a report about Black conservatives.

The list of those included were former Sheriff David Clarke, Herman Cain, Ben Shapiro and Ben Carson. Herman Cain died in 2020 of COVID-19 and Ben Shapiro is white.

Energy and commodities writer Javier Blas at Bloomberg News revealed that, this week, the United States hit an all-time record of crude and refined oil products it is exporting.

Only twice in history has the number jumped above 10 million barrels per day and this week captured one of those days, setting the record.

The new Republican buzzword to attack Democrats isn't "liberal" or "socialist" -- now the worst thing the GOP thinks is that a person is "woke." The GOP's shift appears to be a problem for the Pennsylvania Senate campaign of David McCormick.

The former undersecretary for the Treasury under President George W. Bush proclaimed in his campaign ad: “I’m running for the U.S. Senate to fight the woke mob hijacking America’s future." But as Vice News found, it wasn't that long ago that McCormick had his own "woke" agenda.

By Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune

April 20, 2022

US President Joe Biden seems increasingly determined to keep the "terrorist" designation on Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which Tehran is demanding be removed before it returns to a deal on curbing its nuclear program.

"Each side is just hoping that the other would blink first," Ali Vaez, an Iran expert from the International Crisis Group, a conflict-prevention think tank, told AFP.

A few weeks after the revelation that White House documents turned over to the panel probing the attack on the U.S. Capitol contains a seven-hour-and-37-minute gap in call logs, a pair of U.S. groups on Monday called for an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump "willfully mutilated and destroyed critical records of his presidency before leaving office."

Building on a February 8 letter — sent before the call logs were shared last month with the U.S. House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and National Security Archive again wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got testy with local news station News Channel 9 this week when she was asked if supporting an insurrection should disqualify someone from serving in public office.

Greene is currently facing a legal challenge to her eligibility to run for reelection based on her efforts to block the certification of President Joe Biden's victory on January 6, 2021.

Oregon gained a new House seat after the 2020 census, which offers Democrats one of their clearest pickup opportunities anywhere in the nation. But this week, Democratic candidates in the new district — along with progressive and Latino members of Congress — condemned a super PAC affiliated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leading national Democrats for trying to pick favorites in a rare competitive primary.

Six of the nine Democratic candidates running in Oregon's 6th congressional district issued a joint statement on Tuesday slamming House Majority PAC over a $1 million ad buy promoting Carrick Flynn, a little-known first-time candidate who has already received about $5 million in backing from cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried.