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Rudy Giuliani suffers fresh humiliation — he's suspended from practicing law in DC too

Rudy Giuliani was suspended from practicing law in New York last month after several complaints about the rampant dishonesty he deployed in his failed quest to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Now he's being suspended from Washington, D.C. too.

While investigating the complaints and Giuliani's previous actions, the New York Bar Association suspended him.

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Every person in Maryland who died from COVID-19 was unvaccinated: report

The Washington Post cited shocking data released by the state of Maryland that revealed every person who died from COVID-19 there last month wasn't vaccinated.

"But even as the total number of cases is down, the risk remains for those who are unvaccinated," said the report. "In addition to the more than 100 reported coronavirus deaths in June, Marylanders who haven't gotten inoculated made up 95 percent of the 2,385 new coronavirus cases and 93 percent of the 6,707 new coronavirus hospitalizations the state saw that month."

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GOP leader deletes tweet attacking Biden for being 'soft' on Russian hacking after Republican Party hacked

Huffington Post reporter Jennifer Bendery noticed Tuesday that Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has deleted a tweet that criticized President Joe Biden for being "soft" on Russia and Vladimir Putin.

ProPublica and the Sunlight Foundation built Politwoops, which monitors deleted tweets by elected officials, noting that McCarthy deleted the tweet after having it up about 20 minutes.

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Kevin McCarthy ridiculed for claim Democrats should change their name if they're serious about racism

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is being ridiculed after a Fox News appearance in which he said that if Democrats were really serious about racism, they'd change their name.

According to McCarthy, the party "Democrat" was used by many racists during the Civil War. Today, the Republican Party is harbor to racists.

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Mike Lindell made an insane election conspiracy diagram that has to be seen to be believed

Former Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn posted a photo of himself with Mike Lindell and others at an event on Tuesday only to prompt questions about what was behind him.

The men stood in front of a whiteboard that had a photo of Donald Trump's head, floating in the middle. A series of lines, arrows, photos, names and a list of random thoughts swirled around it.

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Trump is going to sue Twitter and Facebook for banning him: NYT's Haberman

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman is reporting that former President Donald Trump intends to sue Twitter and Facebook for banning him.

Trump on Tuesday night teased a major announcement that he will be making on Wednesday -- but Haberman revealed that the major announcement will be about lawsuits he's bringing against social media giants who booted him off in the wake of the deadly riots he incited at the United States Capitol building.

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Trump golfing buddy arrested after groping his own dental patient — then unwittingly admitting it to cops

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a close friend and golfing buddy of former President Donald Trump has been arrested.

Albert Hazzouri Jr., a 65-year-old dentist who attempted to use his relationship with Trump to lobby dental regulations, was arrested last week and officially charged with misdemeanor indecent assault. According to the court documents, he is accused of groping one of his female patients after a dental procedure, said a piece first reported by the Times-Tribune in Scranton.

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Black student takes his own life after hospital refuses to help him during mental health crisis

A 20-year-old college athlete went to the hospital in the middle of a mental health crisis -- but instead of receiving care, he was shown the door and was later found dead in a lake, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

Last spring, Samwel Uko posted a Snapchat video begging his friends for help. He was in the lobby of a hospital in Regina in Canada, just a few hours north of the Montana line.

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Mike Lindell: Biden wants to inject 'Mark of the Beast' vaccine into as many Americans as he can before Trump's reinstatement

The White House announced that the next step in working to get more people vaccinated is going door to door to convince people and dispel myths.

That sent Steve Bannon and Mike Lindell into the stratosphere of paranoia.

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Fox News contributor admits US women's soccer team didn't disrespect WW II vet — but blames them anyway

Fox News spent the day after Independence Day attacking the U.S. Women's Soccer team by claiming that they turned away in protest from a World War II veteran who was playing the "National Anthem" on his harmonica.

The problem, however, is that it never happened.

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New Jersey man swears his racial slurs in viral video weren't racist after 150 protesters show up at his house

A neighborhood squabble went nuts when a New Jersey racist attacked his neighbor, challenging him, "come see me" to discuss. Then all hell broke loose on Sunday.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday that as many as 150 people showed up outside Edward Cagney Mathews's home yelling at him until police ultimately arrived.

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Ivanka Trump is the next place the district attorney will likely look: Former federal prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne told MSNBC viewers Monday that the next person that the Manhattan District Attorney's office will likely look to is Ivanka Trump.

It's a comment that Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio also made Sunday, saying that the Trump daughter made some of the same moves that CFO Allen Weisselberg made when allegedly dodging paying his taxes and getting off-the-books benefits.

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'We are an army for everything that Jesus has purchased for us': Lauren Boebert at Freedom rally

Wearing her usual holstered firearm U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Independence Day injected a heavy dose of Christian nationalism into her speech in Mesa County, Colorado. Rep. Boebert said that she sees her constituents as "an army for everything that Jesus has purchased for us and our children, and our children's children."

The QAnon-supporting far right Christian conservative was just back from her trip to a Trump rally in Sarasota, Florida, where the former president called her out by name, helping to fuel her brand.

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