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It has been a year since President Donald Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol and attempted to assassinate Vice President Mike Pence.

While the FBI said that they've arrested 725 people they linked to the attack, there are still 350 more that the FBI has identified that are still at large.

It was just a week ago that anti-vaxxer Christopher Key said that he would start performing citizens' arrests on Americans, including elected officials like Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D).

"I am the vaccine police,” Key said on Clay Clark’s daily show, according to the Daily Beast. “We have shut down pharmacists. We have shut down boards of education. And we will be arresting the governor of Louisiana on February the 7th if he does not stand down and not vaccinate the children of Louisiana."

The rupture of a sewage line resulted in 7 million gallons of raw, untreated sewage being dumped into flood-control waterways in Los Angeles County. The incident first happened on Thursday afternoon, closing beaches and sending disgusting smells across the area.

The New York Times reported that a concrete pipe about 48 inches in diameter collapsed in Carson, California. It then leaked out of a manhole on 212th Street throughout most of Thursday evening and through Friday.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took to Twitter on New Year's Day to speak on behalf of the long-dead Founding Fathers.

According to the far-right Republican, those who shaped the United States government would be "horrified" by today's America.

As the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is approaching, officials are concerned that "threat actors" could use it as an opportunity for another kind of attack.

CNN.com reported on an intelligence assessment issued this week to state and local officials, which warned that because election conspiracies persist, right-wing activists could result to further violence.

The latest rant from Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is causing a stir as she rants about the entirety of American democracy being brought down by COVID testing.

In a Twitter thread that discussed life before COVID and after COVID, Greene claimed that people are being forced into testing when there's nothing wrong with them. She neglected to note that the only reason someone would have to be tested if they weren't sick is that they haven't been vaccinated and want to do international travel or work as a healthcare staffer or for a large corporation mandating vaccines for those who don't have religious objections.

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance explained that Rudy Giuliani's colleague, Bernard Kerik, submitted documents to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Some of those documents, however, he's attempting to claim "executive privilege" on.

Speaking to MSNBC on Saturday, Vance explained that someone who never worked in the White House can't claim executive privilege. It's the same tactic that Steve Bannon attempted and it not only didn't work, he was indicted by the Justice Department for criminal contempt.

Speaking to MSNBC on Saturday, Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell warned that the coming weeks of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol seems to incriminate the White House.

He explained that over the past several weeks, more and more information had been submitted that will implicate former President Donald Trump and his staff.

Thus far, two courts have ruled that former President Donald Trump cannot block the documents subpoenaed by the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol -- but that hasn't stopped him from appealing the case of the Supreme Court.

In a rare 44-page legal filing from the Jan. 6 committee, the committee cited previous rulings rejecting Trump's pleas, and also cited past precedent set by Nixon v. The United States, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a president can't withhold documents in a criminal investigation.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr was reportedly served a summons on Thursday at his home in the pricy Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia.

The summons requires that Barr respond to a suit brought by Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen regarding the alleged violation of his First Amendment rights in 2020.

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee (D) was scheduled to deliver an address and take questions Thursday, but the event was crashed by anti-mask and anti-vaccine protesters who refused to leave.

NBC10's Katie Davis posted photos of the event, which was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. EST, prior to the governor's arrival.

Conspiracy theories have exploded since the invention of QAnon. From the Pizzagate lie to believing in the Lizard People, some of the bizarre conspiracies have a long history, but 2021 also saw some new ideas or a spin on old classics.

Here are the 2021 conspiracy theories that Facebook users eagerly spread that normal people find extremely confusing.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made news this week after she began promoting secession, which she has coined as a "national divorce." But another part of her statement is being ignored that advocated for restrictions on Democrats voting, but not for Republicans.

According to Greene, there should be a "waiting period" for Democrats before they can vote in a new state when they move. Ironically, such a "waiting period" would be longer than for a mass shooter to purchase an automatic weapon for their attack.