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Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock also was there, calling on candidates to join Trump on stage, as can be heard in a video of the event posted to Facebook.

The video begins with DePerno praising Trump before the former president made his remarks. DePerno also highlighted that if elected he will help “restore Michigan back to a constitutional republic.”

On Friday, the Des Moines Register reported that officials at the Democratic National Committee are proposing reforms to the presidential primary process that, if adopted, could strip Iowa of its guaranteed first-on-the-calendar spot — potentially ending a tradition that is a huge moneymaker for the Midwestern state but that is increasingly criticized as flawed.

"A draft resolution, obtained and corroborated by the Des Moines Register, would set new criteria for early-voting states that favor primaries over caucuses and diversity over tradition," reported Brianne Pfannenstiel. "If the proposal advances, it would upend the party's presidential nominating calendar by requiring states to apply to hold their nominating contests before the rest of the country and expanding the number of early voting states to as many as five. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, which currently lead off the process, would not necessarily be given preferential consideration over other states that apply."

There were no great expectations when former Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake was confirmed by his former Senate colleagues to take the position as U.S. ambassador to Turkey. He had no previous track record as a diplomat and had never even set foot in the country. His selection for the position by President Joe Biden surprised many.

In his September 2021 confirmation hearing, Flake’s former colleagues warned him he might have a tough job in the Turkish capital of Ankara. But that was months before Vladimir Putin would decide to invade Ukraine, instantly making Flake’s already complicated job even more difficult. Today, as the Daily Beast reports, Ambassador Flake is playing a critical role in guiding the United States' relationship with a sometimes confounding ally.

Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support. It’s a unique find because “squishy” animals tend to degrade quickly after death and therefore rarely make good fossils.

We don’t know when this unusual fossil was discovered, but in 1988 it was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. It would sit largely ignored for more than 30 years until American palaeontologists Christopher Whalen and Neil Landman decided to study it.

It used to be rare for mail-in ballots to be thrown out in Texas, but thanks to the GOP's new voter suppression law, more than 27,000 of them were flagged for rejection during the state's recent primary election, according to a new analysis published Wednesday by The Associated Press.

For Texans who cast ballots by mail, the initial rejection rate was 17% across 120 counties, based on preliminary figures reported by election officials after votes were counted in the state's March 1 primary. Although Texas has 254 counties, the vast majority of the nearly three million people who participated in the nation's first primary of 2022 reside in the 120 counties that provided early data.

Bill Barr's reputation restoration tour is not going well, as he undermines what little credibility he once might have had. On Thursday the disgraced former Trump Attorney General told Fox News Joe Biden, who is 79, is too old to be president, but he would vote for Donald Trump, who will be 78 in 2024.

Barr, who is 71, repeatedly has come under fire in recent days for similar remarks surrounding his dogged insistence that despite Trump having displayed a “detachment from reality that was stunning to me,” having “lied about the election,” and “threatened democracy,” yet insisting that he would vote for him for president against anyone running on the Democratic ticket.

Then-White House advisor Jared Kushner doubted the "big lie" of election fraud his father-in-law, Donald Trump, has been pushing since he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

Kushner's thoughts were reported in a new Daily Beast deep-dive titled, "These Two Lawyers Breathed Life Into Trump's Big Lie, but Did They Even Believe It?"

On Fox News Thursday, co-anchor Geraldo Rivera tore into his colleagues for accusing Democrats of deliberately forcing oil prices higher — and reminded them to look to oil company profits if they want to know where higher gas prices are going.

"I don't care if you blame Putin, the oil companies, or Joe Biden," said Rivera. "What I really don't like is the partisan divide, and I've never particularly heard oil fat cats who are reaping record profits being — their virtue extolled quite as eloquently as it has been here. I think the notion that we want, that the Democrats want intentionally high oil prices to make the country go green is preposterous."

After watching the aftermath of bombs falling on a children's hospital, one would assume that any partisan squabble would have come to an end in Washington. According to one Daily Beast report, there's no such luck.

A small group of Republican lawmakers attempted to tie any Ukraine funding passed by Congress to military action on the U.S.-Mexico border. So, while some are squabbling over the continuing budget resolution adding to the deficit, others want to spend ever more on performative action over immigration. It's just another in a long line of Republicans on the wrong side of the issue.