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Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) tweeted a video compilation from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress

Among the things included in the video were questions to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump about the draft of a speech that former President Donald Trump would give on Jan. 7 to help stave off his Cabinet secretaries from invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

Stephen Lopez was among those arrested and charged along with the "Central Park Five" when he was a teenager. He's now 48 years old and he has finally been exonerated, Vice News reported.

Lopez was the only one who never appealed his case after being found guilty of first-degree robbery and the beating of a jogger in Central Park in 1989. It was the same night that Trisha Meili was found raped and beaten into a coma in Central Park, which resulted in the false incarcerations of the Black and Hispanic teens.

Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali penned an extensive expose on how the Republican Party is able to manipulate their voter into believing lies and acting out on their behalf.

It's been mere weeks since the Republican Party decided to go all-in on attacking a 10-year-old who'd been raped and impregnated. The girl was forced to go to Indiana because she was three days over the six-week cutoff date for Ohio abortions. Attorney General Dave Yost doubted the rape ever happened, on national television saying that he'd never heard of a police report or a rape kit being done.

John Oliver came back from the summer break to walk Americans through inflation and explain what the cause actually was while politicians on both sides are blaming each other.

The "Last Week Tonight" host began with the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, which drove up demand and killed the supply chain. He illustrated this by showing a large frog statue with its legs spread, and painted with "a hand-applied emerald Verde patina."

John Oliver came back from a short break on Sunday for "Last Week Tonight," with his own addition to the mockery of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) as he was running from the Capitol attackers on Jan. 6, 2021.

He noted that among the attacks he appreciated the most was former Washington Officier Michael Fanone called Hawley a "b*tch" who "ran like a b*tch."

Sometime over the past two days the sunflowers that were planted and growing outside of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. were ripped from the ground and left sitting on the sidewalk.

Benjamin Wittes tweeted about it after seeing the handiwork of he and a group of pro-Ukraine friends who planted the floral symbol of the country under attack by Russia.

Ashli Babbitt's mother spoke to Rudy Giuliani on his podcast, released on Sunday, and claimed that her daughter is treated worse than a Black woman in America.

Aside from the racist claim, Babbitt joined a crowd of attackers in breaking through the windows and doors of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, marched through the halls of the Capitol, then directly to the outer office of the Speaker of the House, where she helped break out the glass with a Capitol Police officer standing with his gun drawn. She chose to go through the window anyway.

The Washington Post got details from a web meeting between anti-choice groups across the country who are looking to what's next after the Supreme Court was able to destroy Roe v. Wade with the decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

The groups explained that they don't want to be seen as taking a "victory lap" after pushing to take away healthcare privacy rights around reproductive freedoms.

A Pennsylvania man tried an unusual strategy for avoiding punishment after taking part in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol: He called the FBI hotline using just part of his name.

It didn’t work out so well for Samuel Fontanez Rodriguez, 33, of Emmaus, PA. Rodriguez was arrested Friday on charges of illegal entry, disorderly conduct and parading at the Capitol.

Former presidential candidate Evan McMullin appears to have pulled to within striking distance of Utah Sen. Mike Lee in his effort to unseat the Trump-loving two-term incumbent, according to recent reports.

McMullin, who received 21.5 percent of Utah’s presidential vote when he ran as an independent in 2016, trailed Lee by just five percent in the latest poll conducted by the Deseret News and the Hinckley Institute of Politics, a nonpartisan institute at the University of Utah. The poll showed Lee leading by 41 to 36 percent, with the remainder going to other independent candidates or decided.

CNN's Jim Acosta took a shot at former President Donald Trump after it was announced he was returning to Washington, D.C. for the first time since he famously flew out in the early dawn of Jan. 20, 2021.

Marc Lotter, who works at the pro-Trump nonprofit organization, spoke to Acosta on Sunday, claiming that no one cares about the public hearings of the House Select Committee and the attack on Jan. 6. While the committee has drawn millions in ratings, the number of people watching it live on television as it's unfolding is lower than those who generally vote in an election. The majority of Americans se the hearings after, clips from the hearing, evidence from the hearings or coverage for the days that follow aren't included in those rating numbers. It's likely why public opinion has turned against Trump and favors the House Select Committee.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overthrow the election has moved closer to subpoenaing Ginni Thomas, co-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed on Sunday.

More evidence has been presented about the political relationships that Thomas along with her husband, Justice Clarence Thomas, have with special interest groups that control the judicial options handed to Republican lawmakers.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election held its eighth hearing Thursday evening, in what some have described as a kind of "season finale, not a series finale."

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) told Raw Story that there will likely be more coming from the committee after the August recess and that there are "a variety of people" whom she wants to hear from as more evidence is turned over to the committee. She noted that there are some things that the committee hasn't even been able to focus on.