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Less than one month after being sworn into office as Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares has been caught up in a scandal over Trump's "big lie" of election fraud.

"A top deputy overseeing election issues for Virginia’s new Republican attorney general resigned Thursday after The Washington Post questioned the office about Facebook posts she had made praising Jan. 6, 2021, rioters and falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Former deputy attorney general Monique Miles also espoused unfounded conspiracy theories about voter fraud and election interference in more than a dozen Facebook comments that spanned months," the newspaper reported. "Four people who interacted with Miles on Facebook confirmed the authenticity of the posts."

A pair of legal experts ripped apart Sen. Josh Hawley's court challenge of Donald Trump's election loss as a "colossal example of bad lawyering."

The Missouri Republican challenged Pennsylvania's "no excuse" mail-in voting on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to delay congressional certification of the election, but legal experts Alan and Bruce Howard wrote a column for the Kansas City Star showing that Hawley's effort was doomed from the start.

When outgoing NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg returns home to head Norway's central bank later this year the western alliance will need a new champion, and for the first time she is expected to be a woman.

For seven decades the powerful military coalition has been led by a series of western European men and now many observers expect the 30-strong group to choose a woman -- and perhaps a face from further east.

As the GOP tries to get the country to focus on President Joe Biden's sagging approval ratings, former President Donald Trump is still focused on settling scores from the last election cycle, according to an analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza.

According to Cillizza, when it comes to the political endorsement game, Trump is "eating his own," and is renewing his attacks on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying he "does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters. He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history."

Donald Trump's fixation on his fantasies about the 2020 election are wearing thin, one Arizona columnist argued on Thursday.

E.J. Montini, columnist at the Arizona Republic, noted Trump "couldn’t wait to jump on a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that said in part that the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” is 'contributing to the current heightened threat environment.' Meaning, domestic terrorism."

A Wisconsin legislator described by one conservative columnist as the Republican Party's "craziest" is poised to run for governor.

State Rep. Timothy Ramthun (R-Campbellsport), who has alleged ties to QAnon conspiracists, has already been endorsed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and is running on a platform of election scrutiny after working to undo Donald Trump's election loss in his state, reported the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and conservative columnist Charlie Sykes was alarmed.

Film star Angelina Jolie was back on Capitol Hill Wednesday pleading with US lawmakers to immediately pass measures to combat domestic violence.

At a press briefing in the US Capitol, Jolie expressed support for renewing legislation that would provide victims of such abuse with medical and legal assistance, as well as support to children who have been exposed to violence in the home.

Her shopping cart is overflowing with food, but there is no trace of steak.

"Too expensive," said Lisa, a 48-year-old mother, as she left a Giant supermarket in Washington.

Opponents of bigotry and censorship are raising their voices in protest after Florida's GOP-controlled Senate Education Committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would effectively prohibit teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in primary grades or at any level "in a manner that is not age-appropriate."

"It is always appropriate for kids to talk about themselves, their experiences, and their family. These are not taboo subjects, but banning them makes them seem so."

In an interview with Elle Reeve aired on CNN's "OutFront" Wednesday evening, Keith Scott, a Georgia Trump supporter who was present at the Capitol during the attack on January 6, admitted that he had been sucked in by a "cult" with the Stop the Steal movement.

"I felt like a proud patriot on that day," said Scott. "It's not popular to say, but that's what I felt like. Then just some crazy fight scenes started happening."

A Michigan man who murdered his wife last year says QAnon members sent him messages on his tablet device saying she was a CIA asset involved in a sex-trafficking ring.

Troy Burke, 45, also told investigators he had a “neuro-link” implanted in his brain that allowed other people to read his thoughts, according to a report from the Morning Sun.

MyPIllow CEO Mike Lindell, who earlier on Wednesday hyped up a dead-on-arrival election decertification effort in Arizona, mused about hacking into Fox News and forcing the network to air his election conspiracy theories.

While talking about his latest futile efforts to get former President Donald Trump "reinstated" back into the White House, Lindell complained that Fox News is still refusing to air his false claims about the election being stolen from Trump.