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It has been less than a month since a Florida student body president was prevented from saying he was gay in his commencement address.

In Ohio, however, a different commencement speaker was given a platform to voice his opposition to LGBT marriage on the basis that it's against "biblical principles," the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Legal experts attempted to explain the finding in the defamation cases between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Depp started the legal efforts when he sued Heard for her allegations. In response to his allegations, she then countersued.

The jury found for Depp in each charge, but on Heard's allegations, the court found that attacks by Depp's spokesperson in the DailyMail were defamatory to Heard. Those allegations against Depp weren't addressed in the trial by the Depp team.

Two Ohio grandparents are behind bars after being charged with participating in long-standing abuse against their daughter's step-children.

According to Fox 11, the boy was mistreated to such a severe degree that the muscles in his legs have atrophied due to starvation.

Lawfare blog editor Ben Wittes did an analysis about the recent failure of special counsel John Durham to meet any of the aims outlined as part of his appointment as an investigator. After three years and millions of dollars, Durham lost his only case in the probe, against a lawyer from the firm hired by Hillary Clinton.

Wittes explained that it didn't come as a shock to most legal experts because, "the case was fundamentally about displacing the conventional worldview associated with the Trump scandals and establishing the respectability of the insurgent Trumpist counter-narrative…as with the effort to convict [lawyer Michael] Sussmann, Durham has failed."

"The View" co-hosts began their Wednesday show with a super-cut of Republican claims that the causes of mass shootings have nothing to do with guns.

According to the clips of GOP officials and Fox hosts, mass shootings have to do with a lack of prayer in schools, critical race theory, cross-dressing, so-called "wokeness," and cannabis.

U.S. District Court Judge David Carter said in March that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" tried to obstruct Congress as part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election.

“Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” Carter wrote in a ruling that approved the public release of more than 100 emails that Trump's legal adviser, John Eastman, sent to craft a legal argument for stopping the certification of the election.

Gov. Brian Kemp made it through a Republican primary, despite efforts by former President Donald Trump to replace him with a more loyal, GOP candidate.

In the week since the primary election, Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams has gone full force into the general election.

The Daily Beast posted a video of a man posing as a police officer who claimed that people of color are taking jobs from white people. He's also said that he can no longer be a Christian because of Black people.

“You ruined my life, my entire legacy of being a Christian,” the man said in a video filmed by a spa owner.

The world doesn't have the military size and resources that the United States does, so when it comes to seizing Russian yachts parked in other countries or other international assets it can be costly and difficult. The New York Times is now reporting that the White House is now talking about seizing not just property from oligarchs, but a large chunk of the Russian economy.

Two large yachts, the Halo and the Garçon are tied to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the Financial Times reported earlier this year. Those yachts have been sitting in Jolly Harbour in Antigua, which is still a member of the British Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. But the UK hasn't made any moves to enforce sanctions on the yachts stashed at Antigua's shores.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced on Tuesday that her investigation into Georgia election fraud would seek testimony from Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, CNN reported, citing the court documents.

Carr was among those that former President Donald Trump called in his pressure to get Republican officials to change the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia.

Former President Donald Trump's special counsel John Durham has spent three years trying to sink members of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for supposedly trying to frame Trump over his connections to Russia.

On Tuesday, after under seven hours of deliberation, the jury concluded that the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann was not guilty of lying to the FBI when he turned over information that they discovered.

A discussion about the AR-15 on "The View" resulted in all of the co-hosts agreeing that automatic rifles and other weapons of war must be banned in the United States.

The conversation was part of the ongoing debate over how to stop mass shootings in the United States, or at the very least, limit the death rate. There are only nine states with so-called "red flag" laws, which allow law enforcement to remove weapons from those exhibiting unsafe behaviors. Limiting the death rate, meanwhile, would mean stopping high-power, rapid-fire weapons, which the National Rifle Association has claimed Americans need.

Peter Navarro, a former economic adviser to Donald Trump, claimed that he was subpoenaed by a grand jury that's investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

It's the first indication that the Justice Department is taking significant legal steps to act over the information obtained by the House Select Committee beyond just pursuing charges against the Capitol rioters.