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One woman died on an Alaska mayor's property. Then another. No one has ever been charged.

KOTZEBUE, Alaska — On a subzero Monday morning in March 2020, police found another woman dead at the ex-mayor’s property.

Two years earlier, the body of 25-year-old Jennifer Kirk lay curled at the foot of a bed, a rifle on the floor, strangulation marks on her neck and a bullet hole beneath her chin. City police swiftly closed the case, declaring it a suicide.

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Donald Trump flagged for possibly breaking the law with firearm sale: report

Donald Trump could have just broken the law with the sale of a firearm purportedly from Mar-a-Lago, according to a news report.

Trump, who was previously flagged for a similar incident in September when he said on camera he would buy a golden Glock with his face on it, is now under fire in connection with a separate gun auction.

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Ivanka's fraud trial memory lapse claims undercut by former Trump White House official

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Stephanie Grisham stated she was highly skeptical that Ivanka Trump suddenly has the memory lapses she kept invoking when she testified in Judge Arthur Engorons's courtroom last Wednesday.

According to the former Donald Trump communications official, that is not the Ivanka she knew when they both worked in the Trump White House.

Pressed by host Alex Witt, "I know that your work with Melania [Trump] puts you in really perhaps the best position of former staffers to understand the family dynamic. So would you say this went according to expectation?"

"Yeah, I mean obviously, she [Ivanka] tried to get out of doing it many, many times stating that it was the middle of a school week and that was an undue hardship for her," Grisham replied. "Once she got there, she was poised, she answered things, you know, in the way that she does."

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"I don't buy that she doesn't recall things," she then asserted. "Ivanka Trump is a very, very smart woman and has an amazing memory. I used to actually always marvel about that when I worked with her."

"So the talking about not recalling kind of rang a little not true to me," Grisham told the host. "But her behavior was exactly the opposite of her father's and that is what I saw the entire time I was with them."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at Speaker Johnson for crushing her impeachment dreams

On Saturday afternoon, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raged at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for pouring cold water on ramping up the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

The newly elected Speaker already has his hands full working out an acceptable budget proposal with his caucus as a government shutdown looms and, in comments made this week, he stated he hasn't seen enough solid evidence to proceed with an impeachment.

Linking to a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that quotes Johnson reportedly stating, "There is insufficient evidence at the moment to initiate formal impeachment proceedings," Taylor Greene, who was a strong supporter of ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), lashed out.

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'An unserious person': Nancy Mace's GOP colleagues are furious over her 'flip-flops'

Rep. Nancey Mace (R-SC) who was elected to the House of Representatives as a mostly moderate conservative only to turn into a cheerleader for Donald Trump, is increasingly infuriating her GOP House colleagues who are growing fed up with her antics and her habit of publically taking one position only to cast it aside when it comes time to vote.

In interviews with the Washington Post, Mace was bashed by multiple GOP lawmakers with one telling reporters, "Let’s be clear, Nancy Mace, it’s been a long time since she’s done anything productive to move forward this broader team," and another stating, "Unserious people get found out here very quickly. She’s an unserious person.”

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Trump 'has nowhere to turn' as D.C. trial defense headed for failure: ex-prosecutor

Following a request to Donald Trump from Judge Tanya Chutkan over whether he will use the "advice of counsel" defense in his Washington D.C. trial related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, one former prosecutor claimed it won't fly and the former president will have painted himself into a corner if he attempts it.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner claimed the judge is putting the former president and his legal team in a difficult position.

"Here is the problem, Katie," he began. "One of Donald Trump's lead attorneys, Rudy Giuliani was investigated by [special counsel] Jack Smith to see if he was intoxicated during the time he was giving legal advice to Donald Trump on and around January 6th. Guess what? There is no advice of drunk counsel defense."

"But even worse, Donald Trump, in an interview with, I believe, [NBC's] Kristen Welker said, 'You know what? I did not really rely on my lawyers. I relied on my own instincts.' Guess what? There is no reliance on your own instincts' defense."

"I hope he goes with that one because his instincts are often corrupt if not criminal," he quipped before continuing, "But here's the most dramatic problem for Trump: his counsel, his lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman are his charged co-conspirators and co-defendants in the Georgia RICO case and, the one thing I can tell our viewers is there is no such thing as an advice of co-conspirator defense."

"Donald Trump has nowhere to turn on this one," he pronounced.

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Trump is prepared to unleash the 'crazies' on the country: Rick Wilson

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former GOP campaign consultant and current Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson raised the red flag that a re-elected Donald Trump will plunge the country into chaos if he is re-elected in 2024.

Speaking with the host, Wilson noted the former president's recent comments where he suggested he could use the government to go after his political enemies.

According to Wilson, voters who fear Trump should take him at his word.

"He is going to use the power of the state," Wilson explained. "All my libertarian friends should be paying attention: the power of the state to achieve his personal, political vengeance on people who he believes have wronged him."

"This is not America, to quote David Bowie," he continued. "This is something much darker and much different and much more dangerous. We have to pay attention to it, we have to listen to it."

"If he's back he's going to cause enormous damage in this country to individuals, groups, political opponents at every level and every scale," he added. "The people around him this time will not be restrained by grown-ups or adults or establishment Washington types. It going to all be the crazies. They are going to go absolutely wild with this guy, and he's going to let them do it."

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'Broken doll' Ivanka buried for covering for Donald Trump's crimes

In a brutal column for the New York Times, the author of “The Trump Women: Part of the Deal,” buried Ivanka Trump for willingly covering for the crimes of her father and looking the other way in her drive for power and popularity.

According to author Nina Burleigh, Donald Trump's elder daughter has spent her life in "awe" of her father and, "Aware of her father’s expectations about women within camera frame of him, she styled herself to doll-like perfection."

However, as Burleigh notes, Ivanka walked away from her father since the Jan. 6 insurrection that she watched with him from inside a tent close by to the riot — only to return to the fold this past week when she testified in the $250 million financial fraud trial taking place in a Manhattan courtroom.

In an interview with the columnist, Alexandra Wrage, founder of business corruption watchdog Trace, said of Ivanka Trump, "I don’t think there is any way Ivanka could have operated in these circles for as long as she has, in the shadow of her father, with these thuggish characters, and not have had questions about the qualities of her business partners.”

Using that as a leaping off point, Burleigh wrote, "She was the female future of the Trump brand, raised in the gilded tower Dad built, with a taste for power and power chairs, and he gave her that, the West Wing office and the woman stuff as her charge. She offered him elegance and old money diction and bulletproof resistance to humiliation. And for cognitive dissonance, no one better: She tweeted support for Time’s Up when the time came. Sometimes he even listened to her. She — or her tears anyway — may very well have helped extract the public apology for the 'Access Hollywood' tape."

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Questions raised about the origins of Stefanik's Trump trial letter

On Friday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) formally filed an ethics complaint against Judge Arthur Engoron in support of Donald Trump who, along with his Trump Organization, is under siege in a $250 million financial fraud trial.

While some legal analysts think the complaint will go nowhere because it is not grounded in the law, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin claims that may be true, but it will cast a cloud over the trial and its outcome possibly long after it has concluded.

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Judge throws out most GOP lawsuits over Texas county's election results

Harris County’s 2022 election results were upheld by a judge Thursday night, who also threw out all but one remaining lawsuit from Republican candidates against the county, saying in his ruling that there were not enough disputed votes to merit a new election.

“The court has found many mistakes and violations of the Election Code by the Harris County Elections Administration Office and other election officials,” wrote Judge David Peeples, a retired judge from San Antonio who presided over the case. “But the court holds that not enough votes were put in doubt to justify voiding the election for the189th District Court and ordering a new one.”

Republican candidate Erin Lunceford filed a lawsuit last December asking for a new election in the 189th judicial district court race after she lost to Democrat Tamika Craft by 2,743 votes. She argued that people were unable to vote after about 20 voting locations ran out of ballot paper and a variety of difficulties that resulted in polls being kept open an extra hour.

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'QAnon Shaman' files paperwork to run for political office in Arizona: report

The man who became the face of the Jan. 6 riot is ready to rule.

Jacob Chansley, aka "QAnon Shaman," entered the Capitol building back in 2021 clad in fur pelts and horned headdress at the dais where Vice President Mike Pence had moments before been presiding at the certification of the 2020 election.

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Former fire captain again denied jobless benefits over incendiary Facebook comments

A former captain with the Des Moines Fire Department has again been denied jobless benefits after being fired for online comments suggesting a colleague had an interest in gay pornography.

State records indicate David Bernal last worked for the city on June 16, 2023, when he was fired. He had worked for the Fire Department for more than 30 years. The records indicate that in 2021, while serving as a captain, Bernal was demoted from that position to the position of fire engineer due to a series of actions the city found to be in violation of the policies dealing with ethics, violence prevention and business conduct.

At the time, Bernal was given a “last chance warning” as part of his discipline. The warning stated in part that “it is important for you to understand that any further violation of the City of Des Moines workplace policies, including of any type of retaliation towards any members of the fire department, or the City of Des Moines, will subject you to immediate termination.”

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Tree theft: Why an uncommon crime is on the rise in Iowa

People stealing trees from public and private land in Iowa is an infrequent but growing occurrence, according to state conservation officers.

The crimes range considerably in their scope and sophistication, and the value of the heists can be lucrative. Some of the culprits might haul their looted timber with ramshackle trailers. Others might have full-on logging rigs.

Some of the thefts happen out in the open, such as when a company is contracted to harvest timber from a certain area but oversteps its bounds to cut down a valuable-looking tree on an adjacent property. A prime black walnut trunk can fetch upwards of $10,000.

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