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A hemp deal that Rep. James Comer (R-KY) could hail as a win for Kentucky ended in a swiftly buried Chinese pot bust, according to a new report.

The Daily Beast Tuesday revealed a sweeping expose about the House Oversight Committee chair — known for lobbing accusations against President Joe Biden's son Hunter over ties to a Chinese energy company — and his snafus importing Chinese hemp while running for the governorship of his state.

An obscure group of religious zealots known as the New Apostolic Reformation represent the greatest threat to Democracy that America has never heard of, according to a new report.

The Southern Poverty Law Center released Tuesday its annual "Year In Hate And Extremism" and beyond recording the "highest number" of anti-LGBTQ+ and white nationalist groups ever recorded —595 hate groups and 835 antigovernment extremist groups in America — it spotlighted the NAR as a "growing movement within charismatic churches" quietly erupting stateside.

Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump went off the rails rapidly in a rambling interview delivered on the far-right cable network Newsmax on Tuesday night, threatening to throw former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in jail.

The footage was first flagged by Public Notice's Aaron Rupar, and Meidas Touch's Acyn Torabi.

Another Proud Boys member pleaded guilty to engaging in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot this week in a case that revealed his disturbing words before mounting the attack.

Freedom Vy, 39, of Southwest Philadelphia pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally entering a restricted area — a misdemeanor, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of staff abuse.

According to Politico, multiple aides have filed complaints accusing Spartz of erratic behavior that includes drastically slashing staffers' pay, and communicating in fits of "complete and total rage" — and two of her senior aides, chief of staff Patrick Slowinski and communications director Michael Stevens, resigned on Tuesday, after only being in those roles since May and January, respectively.

Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump's ability to reclaim the power he lost in 2020 relies almost entirely on the Supreme Court's potential willingness to "kneecap the effort" to hold him accountable, a new analysis contends.

Philip Bump wrote for the Washington Post Tuesday a lengthy exploration of the many ways Trump's teams are relying on the Supreme Court to save them from criminal prosecution.

The Republican Party committed a bizarre mistake this week in advertising their upcoming national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where one of their websites swapped out the skyline of Milwaukee for that of Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese metropolis previously known as Saigon.

Democratic National Committee rapid response director Alex Floyd was quick to pound them with mockery over it in a statement.

The CEO of former president and convicted felon Donald Trump's eponymous media company has flagged "severe" anomalies he believes warrant an official probe, according to a new report.

Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes sent a letter to Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman stating he had coaxed Congress to seek a formal probe into the matter by Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), according to Reuters.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, already under scrutiny for her series of decisions tilting the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in former President Donald Trump's favor, took the highly unusual step of allowing three right-wing lawyers who filed amicus briefs to give oral arguments in a hearing about whether to throw the entire case out on June 21.

Legal experts have reacted with disgust over Cannon's decision over how to conduct this hearing — and the general public on social media took notice as well.

One legal expert says a surprising person should want Judge Juan Merchan to lift his gag order against the newly convicted former President Donald Trump.

Elliot Williams, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, appeared on CNN's "The Situation Room" to argue Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should not challenge Trump's new demand to have his gag order lifted.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will allow a number of outside parties with ties to a right-wing organization to give arguments during a hearing later this month on whether to throw out former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

According to Lawfare's Anna Bower, Cannon is allowing a trio of attorneys who filed amici — Josh Blackman, Gene Schaerr, and Matthew Seligman — to participate in oral arguments at "the hearing on Defendant Trump's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on the Unlawful Appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith." The hearing will take place on June 21.

Wisconsin and Vietnam may not have a lot in common, but the Republican Party struggled to tell them apart when designing the 2024 convention website, according to a new report.

Boston Globe reporter Sam Brodey was looking up information on the convention website and couldn't help but notice that the skyline photo of Milwaukee didn't look like Milwaukee.