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A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that Michael Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser, has sought damaging information on elected officials in a number of states, with the apparent goal of blackmailing them into supporting conspiratorial election audits meant to reinforce Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Everett Stern, a businessman who owns a private intelligence firm called Tactical Rabbit and is running for the open U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, held a press conference Saturday to share his purported findings, later tweeting out a link to the video of his remarks titled, "Everett Stern Releases New Evidence of Ongoing Domestic Terror Threat Links to General Michael T. Flynn."

US President Joe Biden on Monday apologized to world leaders for his predecessor Donald Trump's withdrawal from a global climate accord and said fighting the crisis should be seen as an economic opportunity.

In a reference to Trump, who withdrew from the Paris climate deal on world action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Biden told the COP26 summit in Glasgow that he was sorry.

Fox News host Harris Faulkner led her audience to believe that President Joe Biden could send parents who protest at school board meetings to Guantanamo Bay as punishment.

The claim was made as Faulkner was interviewing Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Monday.

A new report reveals that, while Vice President Mike Pence hid in the bowels of the Capitol out of fear for his life on Jan. 6, President Donald Trump's lawyer castigated him for not helping the administration illegitimately stay in power. Eastman's logic was straightforward: If Pence had helped Trump pull off his coup, the angry mob assembled by the president would not have turned to violence.

"The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened," John Eastman, who represented Trump at the time, wrote to Pence aide Greg Jacobs, according to a report by The Washington Post. Eastman sent his email while Pence, Jacobs and many other public officials were under guard from rioters who had been egged on by Trump to "never concede," "show strength," "fight" and show "our Republicans" how to display the "pride and boldness that they need to take back our country." As the rioters laid waste to the Capitol, some called for Pence to be executed.

On Monday, POLITICO reported that Southwest Airlines has opened an investigation after reports that a pilot said "Let's Go Brandon" over the intercom during a flight from Houston to Albuquerque last Friday.

"The airline said in a statement it would 'address the situation directly with any Employee involved while continuing to remind all Employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable. Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job serving our Customers, and one Employee's individual perspective should not be interpreted as the viewpoint of Southwest and its collective 54,000 Employees,'" said the report.

The first woman and first person of color to become US vice president, Kamala Harris made history on November 3, 2020. But a year later, she is still trying to figure out what part to play in a role that is by definition thankless.

President Joe Biden, by teaming up with the 57-year-old former California senator, sent a clear message to an electoral base eager for more diverse representation in power.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed more than 120 world leaders to historic climate talks in Glasgow Monday with the stark warning: "It's one minute to midnight, and we need to act now."

Global heads of state and government were convening for a two-day summit at the start of the UN's COP26 climate conference, with US President Joe Biden set to jet in from separate G20 talks in Rome.

“My employment was terminated because I declined a medical procedure after an otherwise stellar performance in my role for nearly two years," she said. “Because I have chosen to forego an experimental pharmaceutical, I am no longer valuable to my previous organization, my community or the state of Kansas."

While working at a federally qualified health center in Topeka, Smith contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. She continued to work four hours a day from home despite being ill.

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne on Sunday wrote a column begging Democrats to not just pass their agenda through Congress, but to then pivot to proudly telling the American public about what they've achieved.

In the column, titled "Take the win, Democrats, and don't look back," Dionne cautions Democrats against having a defeatist attitude after the party has spent months fighting amongst itself to hammer out agreements on President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" agenda.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Sunday blamed President Joe Biden after he said that his mother has "struggled" to buy food.

Scott made the remarks on Fox News while slamming the Biden administration for rising inflation.