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In a two-page press release, Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Russ Diamond complained that he is being persecuted for refusing to wear a mask.

On Wednesday, at a speech in Midland, Texas, President Donald Trump railed against former Vice President Joe Biden for his "impossible" plan to neutralize carbon emissions by "2:30."

On Wednesday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters that "we're nowhere close to a deal" on the new round of coronavirus stimulus.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) got a little tongue-tied before the press when asked about Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).

In an op-ed published at The Washington Post this Wednesday, the paper's Editorial Board slammed Republicans and the White House for not being able to meet the needs of the American people struggling from the fallout of the coronavirus economy.

An MSNBC panel couldn't help but note how "pathetic" President Donald Trump is demanding that he be popular and as well-liked as Dr. Anthony Fauci is in his daily press conference Tuesday.

During tense questioning of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to get the executive to pledge that he will not allow the platform to act in a biased way against conservatives -- a notion that Pichai assured Jordan has no merit.

Professor Jason Johnson told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that he's glad Democrats are building their own version of The Lincoln Project to highlight corruption in Congress. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was first among them to have his integrity questioned after a series of stock sales that scored him a major payout.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (photo) is requiring all DoD personnel, including military, civilian and on-site contractors, to complete a course that refers to protestors and even journalists as “adversaries,” Politico reports. In defending the term, a Pentagon spokesperson went on to refer to protestors and journalists as a “threat.”

Writing in The Guardian this Wednesday, Adam Gabbatt reports that while Trump won narrow victory in 2016 with the help of college-educated white women, there are signs he's losing that support in a number of crucial swing states.

On July 22, a group of legal experts and prominent attorneys in Washington, D.C. filed a letter of complaint against Attorney General William Barr, accusing him of acting unethically in service of President Donald Trump and failing to honor the rule of law. That letter, attorney Paul Rosenzweig stresses in a USA Today op-ed published on July 28, was perfectly justified — as Barr has shown a pattern of dishonesty.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing this Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) rattled off a list of examples that he claims proves social media and search platforms are censoring conservative content. At one point during Jordan's rant, he made a unanimous consent request to introduce a new witness, which was immediately shut down by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI).

Body camera footage released by the Evansville Police Department shows officers pointing guns at a pregnant Black woman who was sitting in her car eating ice cream.