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Jared Kushner spent his final days in the White House traveling to the Middle East and after leaving, he has worked his contacts there to capture investors for his "investment" fund.

According to the New York Times, a panel screening investments for the Saudis couldn't quite figure out why they should give Kushner $2 billion for his fund. There are previously undisclosed documents showing questions the Saudis had with Affinity Partners.

Two men pretending to be Homeland Security agents were arrested this week after being caught and manipulating Secret Service agents and other law enforcement by giving them gifts, free apartments, and other things. Now it's being revealed that someone tipped the men off that they were about to be raided.

According to the Daily Beast, federal prosecutor Matthew Graves wrote in a Sunday filing that investigators are still discovering more information about the efforts by the two men. It's still unknown why the men were manipulating law enforcement and their ultimate end game. One of the people that they targeted with free gifts was tasked with working on first lady Dr. Jill Biden's protection detail.

Former Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy came up with what was heralded as a genius solution to funding public schools. The conversation has taken off among conservatives who have been triggered over the past year by schools teaching about Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and other Civil Rights leaders.

Duffy's solution is to let children decide.

CNN's Jim Acosta revived an old moniker of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday when he referred to the Republican leader as "cocaine Mitch."

The nickname came from his former Republican primary opponent Don Blankenship, who quoted a 2014 article in The Nation magazine talking about 40 kilograms of cocaine that was found on a cargo ship owned by McConnell's wife's family. McConnell made jokes about it and sold t-shirts saying "Cocaine Mitch." It's still unclear why it's funny, however.

Google's email server, GMail was more likely to block Republican fundraising emails in the 2020 election, reported Axios, citing a study from North Carolina State University.

According to a new report, both parties saw a lot of restrictions on fundraising efforts ahead of the election. Democratic campaigns were more likely to be marked as spam on Yahoo and Outlook (and the Microsoft suite), where GMail tagged Republicans.

The irate guests pulling hair, throwing punches and curses on Jerry Springer's show was a staple of the 1990s. But according to the notorious host, that's the kind of person that former President Donald Trump is.

Speaking to Dean Obeidallah for his show this week the former television host explained that Trump is remarkably similar to those who joined his daily shows to air grievances with family or friends who stole girlfriends, boyfriends or husbands. The difference between those guests and Trump is that his guests were smart enough to know that they shouldn't run for president.

Activists have challenged whether Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) can run for reelection after his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election and overthrow the result for President Donald Trump. Now Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are getting the same challenge.

The argument is that a clause in the 14th Amendment stops “insurrectionists” from running for Congress. In the case of Cawthorn, U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II claimed that The Amnesty Act of 1872 eliminated the section of the law by declaring "all political disabilities imposed by the third section" of the 14th Amendment were "hereby removed from all persons whomsoever." The problem that Cawthorn, and now Gosar and Biggs, will likely face is that there can't be an amendment to the Constitution by a law alone.

Last week, Washington, D.C. activist Lauren Handy was arrested after police conducted a search of her home and found five fetuses. It was revealed Wednesday that the group she was working with had as many as 115 fetuses they say they recovered from an abortion clinic. Now, Vice News is reporting that anti-abortion groups are coming to their defense.

Anti-abortion activists believe that a fetus is "alive" even if it can't live outside of the womb. At their press conference, the group boasted about stealing fetuses from a medical waste disposal truck driver they said they convinced to let them have the boxes. The company, Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services, denies any such incident took place.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is asking the court to begin issuing fines to former President Donald Trump while he delays producing documents subpoenaed by the court.

James on Thursday asked a court to hold Trump in contempt for refusing to comply with a court order to produce the documents.

The New York Times expose on Ginni Thomas, wife to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, revealed that among other things, Mrs. Thomas would have lunches with President Donald Trump at the White House. Speaking to "The View" on Thursday, former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham said that the staff would always scramble when they found out that she was coming because they knew that afterward, heads were going to roll.

"I think the more important thing is — what I do know is that at that time we would all be scrambling to do damage control knowing that once she left he would be telling us who needed to be fired, who was a Never Trumper in the White House or the administration, who was in the deep state because she would come with a list of people who should be fired," said Grisham.

Former President Donald Trump was caught taking 15 large boxes of documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House, it was reported in February. The National Archives sent a team to Palm Beach, Florida to collect the truck-load of information it discovered was missing last summer.

What was uncovered, however, is that Trump didn't just take any old documents, many of them were reportedly top-secret and classified information relating to national security.

In his recent interview with the Washington Post, former President Donald Trump blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Mayor Muriel Bowser for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge," Trump said in the Post interview. "I hated seeing it. I hated seeing it. And I said, ‘It’s got to be taken care of,’ and I assumed they were taking care of it."

With Elon Musk's recent $3 billion purchase of Twitter stocks, some supporters of former President Donald Trump think that the Tesla CEO will bring back their favorite suspended account, The List observed after the announcement.

@RealDonaldTrump has been suspended since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol left police officers wounded and fighting for their lives. A key point of Twitter's terms of service is that the platform cannot be used to advocate violence, which it determined Trump was doing with his tweets.