Marjorie Taylor Greene

Last week, Fox News' Tucker Carlson made a frequently cited claim used to defend the perpetrators of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol: that none of them were carrying guns. "Just to be clear on terms, an insurrection is when people with guns try to overthrow the government," said Carlson. "Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one."

But on Monday, writing for the fact-checking outfit PolitiFact, Samantha Putterman demolished this claim, giving it a rating of False.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told her supporters on Monday that while there are "lots" of security cameras protecting the U.S. Capitol you "can't see" the video of the January 6 insurrection.

"Third day on the job, the Capitol gets breached, then they blame me and President Trump and many other Republican members of Congress for doing it," Greene told a Right Side Broadcasting host on Monday (video below).

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) took a few shots at fellow House members Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), over reports that some unnamed GOP lawmakers asked Donald Trump for pardons after the Jan 6th riot at the Capitol building.

Speaking with host Dana Bash, Ocasio Cortez was first asked about the first prime-time Jan 6th House hearing on the insurrection before she was asked about calling out the two lawmakers, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), over their connection to the events of Jan 6th on Twitter.

One of the most vocal supporters of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Rome, Georgia was the feature of a lengthy profile published online by The Washington Post on Saturday evening.

Reporter Stephanie McCrummen, who was part of the newspaper's team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Roy Moore's sex scandals, profiled Angela Rubino.

Amid seemingly intractable legislative inertia after the latest of thousands of U.S. mass shootings, youth-led activists are set to reprise the 2018 March for Our Lives protest against gun violence and congressional inaction with events in Washington, D.C. and hundreds of cities and towns in the United States and abroad this Saturday, June 11.

Swiftly organized in the wake of last month's mass murder of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and the racist massacre of 10 people at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, the second iteration of March for Our Lives is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, including at least 50,000 to the main protest at the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

"Ok, we know Scott Perry. Who were the other members of Congress who asked Trump for a pardon?"

"We look forward to all participants in this insurrection being held accountable."

With gun control under debate and monkeypox in the headlines, Americans are facing a barrage of new twists on years-old misinformation in their social media feeds.

Accurate news stories about mass shootings have attracted eyeballs but algorithms have also spurred baseless conspiracy theories from trolls who want to push lies to attract traffic. And thousands have unwittingly shared them on Facebook, Twitter and other sites.

On Thursday, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Supreme Court has issued an emergency order allowing Pennsylvania election officials to count a set of disputed mail-in ballots that lacked a date written on the outside envelope.

The order was 6 to 3, with far-right Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissenting.

Authorities in Maryland scrambled on Thursday to respond to a mass shooting in Smithsfield.

At least three people were killed and a Maryland state trooper was wounded in the shooting, ABC 7 News reported. "A Maryland State Police trooper located the man, at which time the suspect shot at the trooper, striking him in the shoulder, a source told 7News. The trooper returned fire striking the subject, the source said."

With the first hearing held by the Jan. 6 committee set to air tonight, reports say it will feature "never-before-seen recordings and documents" related to the Capitol riot, Axios reports.

Two new eyewitnesses, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and British documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who was documenting the far-right group Proud Boys at the time, will be featured at the hearing.

Republicans let controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia take to the House floor on Thursday to give a prebuttal to the prime-time hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In her speech, Greene voiced her sympathy for those jailed for participating in Donald Trump's failed coup attempt, calling them "political prisoners of war."

The House GOP is already mounting a counter-programming campaign designed to undermine the credibility of the January 6 hearings, even before they've begun.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, accused the panel investigating the Capitol riot of "altering evidence and lying to the American people about it."

On Wednesday, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) proposed a new conspiracy theory about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to CNN reporter Melanie Zanona.

Specifically, Nehls — himself a former sheriff — claimed that the movements of the National Guard on that day suggest that Capitol Police secretly wanted the attack on the Capitol. "I think the Capitol Police didn't have the National Guard here because maybe they just wanted it to happen," he said.