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The first criminal trial stemming from the January 6 assault on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters began on Wednesday, a case that will be closely watched for its bearing on future prosecutions.

Guy Reffitt, 49, an oil industry worker from Texas, is accused of bringing a gun to Washington, battling police officers, impeding an official proceeding and other offenses.

Tuesday night as President Joe Biden talked about U.S. war dead and the dangerous health effects soldiers face while on the battlefield, Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert shouted, "13 of them," in an apparent reference to the 13 service members who died during the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan last year.

Biden ignored Boebert’s comments, going on to say, “One of those soldiers was my son, Major Beau Biden. I don’t know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near was the cause of his brain cancer, and disease of so many other troops. But I am committed to find out everything we can.”

Oligarchs from Russia and other former Soviet states have money stashed in real estate holdings all over the U.S., despite legislation aimed at stopping kleptocrats and other criminals from hiding and laundering their assets behind anonymous shell companies.

At least $2.3 billion has been laundered through U.S. real estate in the past five years, with millions more flowing through art, jewelry and yachts, but a 2020 law now requires companies to self-report to the Treasury Department the names of the assets' true owners, reported NBC News.

The women of "The View" were furious with the lack of respect that Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) showed during the State of the Union address Tuesday evening.

In an analysis of President Joe Biden's speech, the women brought up the veterans he discussed and his efforts to help them after years of them begging for key cancer treatments as a result of the burn pits.

Governor Ron DeSantis is once again mud-slinging while refusing to take concrete steps to address the problems in his own backyard.

The Florida Republican is refusing to divest the Sunshine state of $300 million in Russian-owned companies – investments it controls – while attacking President Joe Biden on Ukraine and Russia, as The New York Daily News reports.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the launch on Wednesday of a task force to pursue "corrupt Russian oligarchs" and violators of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

"The Justice Department will use all of its authorities to seize the assets of individuals and entities who violate these sanctions," Garland said in a statement announcing the launch of "Task Force KleptoCapture."

Former president Donald Trump appears to have already lost interest in his newly-released social media app, according to a report from Axios.

Since he was banned from mainstream social platforms for spreading misinformation, Trump desperately has tried to establish a new digital presence on his own. It hasn't gone well. For instance, 45office.com flamed out shortly after its launch and doesn't appear to have been updated in nine months.

Former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs reacted to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address by suggesting that it could have been written by Nazis.

The morning after Biden's speech, Dobbs shared his thoughts on Steve Bannon's conservative podcast.

Donald Trump groused about President Joe Biden tapping the strategic oil reserves, but he once did the same thing for the same reason.

The current president ordered the release of 30 million barrels of oil from the government's reserves to help blunt rising gas prices, which have shot even higher after Russia's attack on Ukraine raised energy costs worldwide, and the twice-impeached former president criticized Biden's reasoning.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wasn't part of the Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address, but she tried to be. In her own SOTU response video, she ranted against everything President Joe Biden stands for, Newsweek reported.

Republicans have been criticized as the "party of no," for the past two Democratic presidents, columnist Nicholas Goldberg noted in the Los Angeles Times. Greene brought that to a whole new level Tuesday night after the big speech. While many Republicans gave Biden standing ovations over bipartisan initiatives and cheers for America, Greene struggled to find anything she liked. Instead, she sought to rant against Democrats in a 30-minute, conspiracy-laden, word-salad for the Right Side Broadcasting Network.

There's a reason Vladimir Putin waited until Donald Trump left office to invade Ukraine, and it's not what conservatives are saying about it.

The Russian president has been planning the war on his neighbor for years, and foreign policy expert Jessica Pisano explained in a column for Politico why Putin launched the invasion after Trump lost his re-election campaign.

On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "Way Too Early with Jonathan Lemire," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) heckling President Joe Biden as he discussed the death of his son Beau from military exposure to burn pits.

"Jen, one of the headlines that emerged from the speech last night was a pair of Republican House members who chose to heckle President Biden as he was speaking about his late son Beau," said Lemire. "Do you have any response to what they said?"