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An attack on a senior citizen in Central Park appeared to be motivated by antisemitism as the attacker screamed "Kanye 2024," a reference to the rapper now known as "Ye," who has come out as a Nazi.

The Washington Post reported that the older man was walking through the park at about 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday when someone hit him from behind. The older man fell to the ground, chipped a tooth and broke his hand, law enforcement said in a statement. The attacker used "numerous" antisemitic phrases while attacking him before fleeing on a bike with a sign reading "Hungry Disabled."

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election is set to be published on Dec. 21, before the Republicans take over Congress. Speaking about the likely fallout, former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor said that those who don't believe in the attack likely won't even go to the website.

For those that do, however, and the findings that are finally revealed, not much action will be possible with Republicans taking over Congress in January.

Former President Donald Trump announced on his social media site that he was going to make a big announcement this week. It comes after he already made a big announcement that he was running in 2024, but failed to get any real traction. While it's unclear whether he'll be announcing again, his announcement about a big announcement has already drawn ridicule that he might start announcing every week.

Writing for Politico, National Review editor Rich Lowry, an anti-Trump conservative, called the early announcement just another example of Trump's "flagrant political misjudgment." If Trump was announcing to show his strength it hasn't worked. In fact, Lowry thinks it's been the opposite, calling him "weak."

Former President Donald Trump is still linked to a class action lawsuit against ACN Opportunity, LLC, which operates under the name American Communications Network. According to the accusations, the ACN company was a pyramid scheme that broke state and federal laws around "racketeering and conspiracy to racketeer."

Law & Crime reported that the lawsuit began six years ago, citing ads showing the Trump family promoting the scheme on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. Judge Lorna Schofield set the date for the trial for Jan. 29, 2024, just as the presidential campaigns are getting started. The plaintiff's attorney had asked for a trial that would happen prior to the election season. But it was ignored.

President Donald Trump is working the phones trying to help get Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) elected as the next Speaker of the House. McCarthy currently has five members that oppose him, which isn't enough to get him into the spot. So, he's got Trump dialing for votes among far-right MAGA caucus members.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Trump is giving his best efforts. Punchbowl News co-founder Anna Palmer told MSNBC that it isn't working.

Internal investigations around complaints against Boston police found enough evidence to uphold suspensions, but it turns out those officers were re-certified anyway.

"The names of 18 officers who were investigated internally — 10 of whom had complaints sustained — are included in the list of 8,228 certified officers, whose last names begin with letters A through H," reported GBH News.

President Joe Biden spoke at the White House about dignity and respect for all people, including LGBTQ couples and interracial couples, both of whom were legally prevented from marrying. Biden signed the marriage legalization bill on Tuesday, saying simply that marriage is about love and it was just that simple.

"The other guys say, you know, the respect for marriage, respect for marriage. You want people to get married. People are getting married and now you want to decide who they can marry. Back up. Back up," said co-host Whoopi Goldberg during Wednesday's opener for "The View."

Club Q shooting survivor Michael Anderson appeared before the House Reform and Oversight Committee to shame the lawmakers that continue to allow weapons of war to circulate throughout the U.S. nearly unregulated. Meanwhile, Republicans are promoting anti-LGBTQ hate.

Like many LGBTQ people, he grew up in a religious world where conservative voices told him he was wrong and something to reject. Places like gay bars and clubs helped him embrace his identity without the self-hate promoted by religious institutions and conservative voices.

In March 2022 Congress passed another defense spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. The reason was that they'd already reached more than half of their annual budget of $1.5 trillion. The United States spends about as much on defense as the combined total of China, India, the UK, Russia, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia combined, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute calculated.

The financial inequality has left most countries in a position that there's no possibility of going up against the U.S. in a traditional war space. About 15 years ago, then-senior military adviser Thomas P.M. Barnett penned in his book The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century that the battlespace in the future of war won't always be the traditional war to which Americans are accustomed.

A cache of text messages from Mark Meadows between the 2020 election and through the Jan. 6 attack on Congress revealed at least 34 conversations with members of Congress. At least one of those revealed Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) telling Meadows that the only way Trump could maintain power was to declare martial law.

But did Norman sincerely believe that Trump had won the 2020 election?

WASHINGTON — Republican House officials gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on a chilly Tuesday to call for the impeachment of the Secretary of Homeland Security. Their justification for the impeachment, they explained, is his alleged failure to control the border.

"His conduct is not incompetent," said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). "It's not negligent. It's willful and intentional."

Two additional classified documents were discovered in a storage unit used by former President Donald Trump last week, leading the House Reform and Oversight Committee to wonder if there was more that should be examined.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday, that Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to the National Archives suggesting that they take a gander inside the former president's collection of stuff where the documents were hidden.