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The House Ways and Means Committee is heading to Yukon, Oklahoma, to hold a "public" hearing in the Clydesdale barn at Bob Funk's Express Limousine Ranch. Funk's big barn at the top of the hill overlooking the hometown of Garth Brooks is for his fleet of Clydesdales, with accommodations better than some family homes.

The pricey horses are dressed in coats and matching leg warmers and enjoy life in an Amish-raised barn fully heated and cooled for their pleasure. This is the "event space" that Republicans are gathering to continue their attack against President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported Sunday.

One-time Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) earned some predictable criticism — and surprising praise — Sunday after he slammed an "embarrassing" GOP Florida bill demanding that bloggers writing about politicians register with the state.

"The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane," Gingrich tweeted. "It is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect. He should withdraw it immediately."

Non-lawyer and clean water crusader Erin Brockovich spoke to TMZ when arriving home at LAX from Ohio and sounded the alarm about residents being lied to in Ohio.

"Residents are very frustrated," she said. "They're very concerned. I just got a text from one of the residents who have private wells and they confirmed it's contaminated. But they weren't too concerned it was a high level."

First lady Dr. Jill Biden, in comments aired Sunday, shot down a call for "mandatory mental competency tests" for politicians over 75, calling it "ridiculous."

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Republican Nikki Haley first proposed such a test last month when she announced her presidential candidacy.

Standing at the edge of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate "Bloody Sunday," President Joe Biden attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) without even mentioning his name.

Addressing a crowd of Black leaders, Biden talked about the new movement to ban teaching of Civil Rights and speaking about Black leaders like Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harriet Tubman and censoring libraries.

The "Good Liars" comedy troupe was on hand at CPAC over the weekend to ask participants about Jan. 6 and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

"I think he literally said very clearly, be peaceful," said one woman saying Donald Trump had no responsibility for Jan. 6.

A new round of subpoenas went out over the past few weeks from the Justice Department that is causing some nervousness among those in Donald Trump's world, MSNBC noted during a discussion on Sunday.

Speaking to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, Yasmin Vossoughian asked about the advancement of the case under special counsel Jack Smith. One of the key pieces is that the attorneys are now becoming witnesses.

After less than three hours, the jury in the murder trial for Alex Murdaugh found him guilty of both murder charges as well weapons charges. When reading the verdict, the defendant's face was emotionless, something that legal experts found shocking.

"I was struck by the lack of emotion from Alex Murdaugh. He just sort of nodded his head, stared straight face," said CNN's Dianne Gallagher. "I wrote it down. He was shaking straight face as he listened to that, he didn't look back at his family or Buster his son. That's something we saw him do this entire trial. He had moments where he's incredibly emotional, shaking, crying, making sounds throughout this entire trial, and there was nothing there from them as he was found guilty of killing Maggie and Paul."

An Oregon man killed himself after the Washington County Sheriff's Office detective interviewed him about the 1983 death of his wife, The Oregonian reported Thursday.

Randal "Randy" McEvers was 70 years old when he passed away from a gunshot wound to the head on Feb. 8. His wife Nancy was found with a gunshot wound to her head when McEvers called 911. He told the deputies at the time that her gunshot was self-inflicted and refused to cooperate with the investigation any further.

A new bill proposed by a Republican state senator in Florida would require bloggers to register with the state if they write about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and other members of the government.

NBC's News Channel 8 wrote that Sen. Jason Brodeur's (R-Lake Mary) bill would impose fines on anyone who refuses to register to a maximum of $2,500. There would be an additional $25 each day the fee isn't paid.

The annual far-right conference CPAC is a ghost town, according to some photos of the conference space.

C-SPAN has been airing some of the panel discussions while showing crowd shots of the empty chairs. Reporters at the event have taken photos of not only the empty chairs, but the people who are on hand to watch the speeches are almost entirely elderly and white.

OXON HILL, Md. — Pillow magnate Mike Lindell was on hand at CPAC on Thursday, where he blasted Fox News in a conversation with reporters.

This week, court filings were released in the case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, revealing News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch aired 2020 election conspiracies mongers like Lindell for the money.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming absolute immunity from any accountability for the speech he made at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he called on the crowd to march to the Capitol.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election called witnesses that revealed Trump knew that his supporters were armed and told the Secret Service to remove the metal detectors because they weren't there to hurt him. Trump even made the call to the Secret Service from the podium to let people in, regardless of what they were carrying.