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Trump family suffers another legal defeat as they try to hide infamous 'Apprentice' outtakes

A team of attorneys will finally view the guarded outtakes of former President Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice. The case involves questions about whether Trump and his family knowingly pulled people into investing in a scam.

Due to years of corruption in the 1950's, game show laws require that cameras continue rolling even during breaks. The Daily Beast reported that Tuesday U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield ordered MGM studio that the footage must be made available at a secure location for investigators to review.

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Legal analysts recall how Ahmaud Arbery's murderers almost weren't  brought to trial due to prosecutorial misconduct

Three Georgia men were found guilty Wednesday by a jury in Georgia for the death of Ahmaud Arbery.

Travis McMichael, 35; was found guilty on all charges. Travis's father, Gregory McMichael, 65; was found guilty on all but one charge. William "Roddie" Bryan, 51, was found guilty on six of nine charges.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene hired Lin Wood as her lawyer — now she’s trashing him: texts reveal

New Yorker reporter Charles Bethea posted some of his text messages with Marjorie Taylor Greene to his social media on Wednesday.

According to the screen captures, the Georgia congresswoman had hired Lin Wood to be her lawyer just before the election in 2020. Now, however, Wood is her enemy.

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Chick-fil-a executive appears to have been manipulated by Russian spy Maria Butina: report

The fallout from Russian spy Maria Butina continues even as she's been deported back to her home country. The Young Turks penned a new revelation amid part of an ongoing report about the Fellowship Foundation, sometimes referred to as "The Family," the secretive group hosting the National Prayer Breakfast.

One of Butina's first events, as she began her work in the United States, was the notorious breakfast, which is nonpartisan, but run by the far-right.

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Police searching for white man who hurled a bottle of motor oil at Black Seattle reverend

Rev. Harriett Walden has long been an activist in Seattle for police accountability and social justice. Late Tuesday, she called a news conference to speak out against the dramatic increase in hate crime. She began by talking about her own experience walking downtown last week, The Seattle Times reported.

She described crossing the street around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. A white man who was stopped at the light shouted racist slurs at her. He inched his car closer and closer to her, making her think that he was going to try and hit her. But the grandmother kept walking. She was then struck in the back by a bottle of motor oil.

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Veteran who infiltrated Three Percenters says leaders asked if he was ready to kill

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, an Army veteran who infiltrated the Three Percenters militia described what he uncovered.

Kristofer Goldsmith, CEO of Sparverius, said that his goal has been to make militia groups "so paranoid that they can't function."

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Jan 6 committee subpoenas Oath Keepers and Proud Boys

The House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol released another round of subpoenas Tuesday.

According to the request, the committee is calling on Proud Boys International, L.L.C., Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, the Oath Keepers, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, and Robert Patrick Lewis/1st Amendment Praetorian to hand over documents related to the Jan. 6 attack.

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Police leader of problematic Colorado station suspended after rant about diversity hires: We should hire 10% crackheads

The head of the Aurora Police Union was suspended after sending a letter complaining about diversity requirements for the police department, local CBS4 reported Tuesday.

Aurora has been fielding several scandals that has ushered in a series of changes to the department.

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Lin Wood goes off on Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn in Telegram rant about fraud and the occult

Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer captured a post on Telegram from lawyer Lin Wood, a loyalist of former President Donald Trump who launched many 2020 election lawsuits.

According to Wood, Fox News host Tucker Carlson allowed Kyle Rittenhouse to bash him during their special on the acquitted shooter of three. Wood then lashed out at attorney Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn for not defending him from the "false ambush attack against me."

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The Republican Party's Arizona 'audit' left Cyber Ninjas CEO $2 million in debt

The so-called "audit" of the 2020 election in Arizona uncovered more votes for President Joe Biden, but doing it also left the company doing the audit scrambling for money.

Vice News revealed Tuesday that Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan is $2 million in debt and they're not the only ones going broke.

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'The Pizzagate Massacre' film takes a conspiracy theory to the next level — and sends Trump fans into a rage

A filmmaker is fielding death threats after creating a low-budget satirical look at the "Pizzagate" conspiracy taken to the extreme. A review from Vice News describes The Pizzagate Massacre as an examination of interdimensional lizard people controlling humans from the basement of a pizza parlor.

The film is from John Valley, a filmmaker out of Austin, Texas, and paints protagonist Duncan Plump as "a long haired and serial-killer glasses-wearing militiaman," who "asks a friend to do research on the reporter. He wants to help, but he doesn't trust her yet," described Vice.

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Penn. Republican isn't the only candidate answering for domestic violence or sexual harassment allegations

Sean Parnell suspended his U.S. Senate campaign after his wife successfully got custody of their children. She testified that he had strangled her once so hard that she had to bite his hand. He also reportedly hit one of their children so hard that it left welts on the child's body.

But Parnell isn't the only Republican running for office that has a history of domestic violence, sexual assault or other ugly allegations.

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Kevin Spacey to pay $31 million after losing arbitration case with makers of 'House of Cards'

US actor Kevin Spacey faces a $31 million bill after losing his arbitration case with the production company behind 'House and Cards'

Los Angeles (AFP) - Disgraced US movie star Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to the production company that made the series "House of Cards" in which he starred until he was fired over allegations of sexual harassment, according to legal documents made public Monday. 

MRC, the production company that made the popular tale of political intrigue that was broadcast on Netflix, had sought damages for lost revenue attributed to Spacey’s abrupt exit after allegations of harassment and sexual abuse emerged.

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