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Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who for years disavowed any interest in serving in the U.S. Senate, has had a change of heart and announced a last-minute bid for Maryland's vacant Senate seat on Friday afternoon — hours before the filing deadline for candidates to enter the May 14 primary.

In an announcement video that lasted 2 minutes and 48 seconds, with Hogan directly addressing the camera, he cast his decision to run as a crusade to bring common sense and courtesy to the broken politics of Capitol Hill.

The House Ethics Committee is taking a major step in reviving an inquiry into Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) alleged dalliances with underage teens, reports the New York Times.

The Department of Justice previously conducted its own investigation and chose not to file charges, but that has not stopped the House committee for requesting all materials to do their own inquiry.

As the Times is reporting, the lawyer for the chief witness against the Florida Republican is now co-operating as the investigation ramps up.

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"Fritz Scheller, a lawyer for Mr. Gaetz’s former friend and political ally Joel Greenberg, said he provided documents to the committee that he said backed up his client’s claims that he witnessed Mr. Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old girl," the report states with attorney stating in an email, "Mr. Greenberg has and will cooperate with any congressional request.”

The report adds that Greenberg pleaded guilty to trafficking in 2021 and is currently serving a an 11-year prison sentence.

Highly acclaimed North Carolina chef Ashleigh Shanti, who owns a restaurant that celebrates Black history through its food and decor, says a group of racists shut off the power while customers were dining and left a racist sticker near the restaurant's entrance, the Citizen Times reported.

According to an Instagram post from this Tuesday, Shanti says her restaurant Good Hot Fish was attacked by a "group of racists" who defaced it with a sticker after cutting the power.

Judge Aileen Cannon Friday paused deadlines in a controversial order that special counsel Jack Smith had condemned as a “clear error” in former President Donald Trump’s classified document case, according to court records and reports.

Earlier this week, Cannon ordered Smith to deliver to her by Friday proposals for unredacted FBI interview witness reports that could appear on the public docket.

Georgia Republicans are out to punish Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and the scheme has the backing of Donald Trump ally Lt. Gov. Burt Jones – who could himself face charges for his own conduct following the 2020 election.

Jones has been using his influence as president of the state Senate to allow separate legislative investigations into how Willis has handled a backlog of criminal cases and spent taxpayer funds on the Trump prosecution, which the lieutenant governor dismisses as a political "circus," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, attorney Alina Habba's curious response to a letter from Judge Arthur Engoron over perjury allegations levied against Allen Weisselberg, the ex-chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, should be raising eyebrows.

At issue, she noted, is that the controversial Habba not only has Donald Trump as a client but also defended Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to 15 counts that included grand larceny, falsifying business records and criminal tax fraud.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson conducted a much-hyped interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week that mostly consisted of Putin lecturing Carlson about Russian history while barely letting him get a word in.

However, Financial Times Moscow Bureau Chief Max Seddon singled out one particular part of the interview that had to be particularly embarrassing for Carlson, which came when the Russian president mocked him for getting rejected to work at the CIA decades ago.

Poll workers are getting active shooter drills and emergency kits that include door barricades and tourniquets as threats of political violence mount and the 2024 presidential looms, according to a new report.

The Washington Post Friday released a disturbing new report about how voting operations across the nation are preparing to face potential violence this election year.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg dumped all over the special counsel Robert Hur for his report on President Joe Biden retaining government documents and questioned whether Hur is even aware he contradicted himself in his conclusions.

Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the Florida prosecutor bluntly called the report "sloppy."

"Joe, when I thought that this was such a political gift to candidate Donald Trump that he may have to list it as an in-kind campaign contribution," he joked. "Robert Hur's appointment as special counsel is another example of [Attorney General] Merrick Garland's determination to appear apolitical. That's why he kept on a Republican Trump appointed U.S.. attorney in David Weiss to investigate Hunter Biden. That's why he appointed a Republican Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in Robert Hur to investigate President Biden."

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'Merrick Garland didn't have to put all this extraneous stuff out there," Aronberg exclaimed. "How different is this than [Trump Attorney General] Bill Barr who refused to show the public the Mueller report and then issued that three-page memo that misled the public?"

"This investigation should have been relatively easy; there was full cooperation. The only reason they found out about the documents is Joe Biden told them about it — it's a sloppy report!' he exclaimed.

"Summary on page one says that there was willful retention and disclosure, but then on page 215 it says there's a shortage of evidence on these points: which is it?" he ranted. "The question to me is why did he do this? I think the reason is he was motivated to avoid David Weiss's fate. David Weiss is hated by his own party. I think that's why Robert Hur did this. It's Comey 2.0."

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One-time Republican New York Times columnist David Brooks said the Republican Party's decision to kill off its own immigration bill was "profoundly shocking" in a way that went beyond any previous GOP disasters.

In his latest column, Brooks said that the GOP's actions this week put a stake into whatever aspects of the GOP he still believed were admirable.

CNN "This Morning" co-host Phil Mattingly was on the receiving end of a fierce dressing down from Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) after he tried to equate the finding in special counsel Robert Hur's on documents President Joe Biden had in his home with the boxes of material found in Mar-a-Lago that Donald Trump refused to return until the FBI showed up.

During his appearance on CNN, Mattingly pressed Goldman — who served as lead majority counsel in Trump's first impeachment trial — on Hur's controversial report about Biden's "willful retention" of documents which received immediate pushback.

Many of Donald Trump's political allies have debased themselves for the former president, only to fall out of his good graces, but perhaps no one else has ever fallen so far as Mark Meadows.

The ex-president's final White House chief of staff joined the MAGA think tank Conservative Partnership Institute a week after Trump left office and enjoys a salary of just under $850,000, but New York Times reporter Robert Draper told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Meadows has been cast out of the Trump orbit as he faces Georgia racketeering charges and other legal perils.