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Fox News was accused Wednesday of helping Donald Trump and his Republican allies downplay deeply unpopular policies.

House Democrats launched a task force last week to push back against the Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump presidency that's being drawn up by conservative groups led by the Heritage Foundation, whose leader then denounced the opposition as a smear campaign against the united effort to restore self-governance to everyday Americans," wrote author Sarah Posner for MSNBC.

A January 6 rioter was found guilty this week of beating an officer so hard with a flag pole that it snapped in half.

Utah resident Odin Meacham, 30, was convicted in D.C. Tuesday of "seven felonies: civil disorder; two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon; assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers; engaging in physical violence on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; disorderly conduct on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; and entering and remaining on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon," the Justice Department said in a statement.

District judge Aileen Cannon has issued ruling after ruling that seems to favor Donald Trump, but an analyst warned she's now got a chance to truly outrage skeptics.

The former president's attorneys filed a motion in February to disqualify special counsel Jack Smith, and Cannon not only agreed to hear oral arguments on the matter but waited nearly four months to hold that hearing in her Florida courtroom, wrote Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus.

Former President Donald Trump's love of tariffs got a blistering rebuke from an analyst Wednesday — as did their support from "lackeys" in the Republican Party.

Writing for The Dispatch, commentator Kevin D. Williamson explained that a recent comment by Republican National Committee spokesperson Anna Kelly left him wondering if she was "stupid or dishonest?"

A former U.S. Supreme Court clerk cast suspicion on the lengthy delay by justices in rendering a decision in Donald Trump's immunity case.

The justices agreed Feb. 28 to hear his appeal and scheduled oral arguments for late April, which is a fairly short interval for most cases but considerably longer than it took for the court to hear and then decide his challenge of a Colorado ruling removing him from the presidential primary ballot, which took less than a month, noted law professor Leah Litman in a column for the New York Times.

Millersville, a small city in Tennessee with a population of less than 10,000 people, found itself in turmoil recently after its newly hired assistant police chief was exposed as a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Local news station NewsChannel5 reports that Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor is facing the possibility of losing his job after the station revealed his past espousal of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that claims Hillary Clinton and other top officials in the Democratic Party secretly run a Satanic pedophile ring.

Donald Trump issued a test of Fox Corporation's loyalty by demanding the media company dump Paul Ryan from its board of directors.

The former House speaker declared Trump "unfit for office" earlier this month on Fox News, and he has previously written him off as an "authoritarian" and a "narcissist" — and the presumptive Republican nominee decided to seek revenge.

Steve Bannon is set to begin his sentence at Danbury minimum-security prison on July 1 after he was found in contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena during the Jan. 6 investigation. Critics of Bannon's, former FBI agent Peter Strzok and legal analyst Allison Gill, couldn't help but mock him.

Speaking on their "Cleanup on Aisle 45" podcast, Strzok began sifting through the items that Bannon can purchase at the prison commissary.

Arizona police knew a gang of local teenagers had assaulted more than 30 people before some of them were accused of beating to death 16-year-old Preston Lord last year at a Halloween party.

A report released by Gilbert police showed detectives had obtained social media posts in January 2023 showing the teenagers, who called themselves the "Gilbert Goons," bragging about attacks — which contradicts claims made by police chief Michael Soelberg, reported KPNX-TV.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for a political action committee supporting the Trump 2024 campaign, faced backlash on Wednesday after referring to migrants as "illegal people."

During a Wednesday interview with Newsmax, Leavitt made remarks about President Joe Biden's plan to allow some immigrants without legal status to apply for permanent residency.

A private investigator hired by a group of MAGA loyalists in Michigan has been granted immunity in the state's election interference case, court transcripts revealed.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and legal analyst Allison Gill spoke about the new information on their weekly podcast, "Cleanup on Aisle 45," noting that the development could be enough to nail two Donald Trump loyalists charged in the case.

Rasmussen Reports, a right-wing polling firm that was once regularly cited by former President Donald Trump because it showed his approval numbers higher than in more traditional polls, seems to have gone completely off the rails.

In an editorial published in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik notes that Rasmussen in recent months has gone far beyond its traditional partisan leanings and has gone all-in on anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and has been using its once-semi-reputable name as a pollster to push pseudo-scientific claims.