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A man who refused to wear a protective face mask at a North Carolina Walmart has accused the store's manager of being racist against white people.

Video shared on Twitter by @davenewworld_2 shows the man arguing with police after he was asked to leave the store.

"Because I'm white, she asked me to leave the property," the man says....

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade complained on Tuesday after co-host Steve Doocy speculated that President Donald Trump could face "murder charges" after he leaves office.

During a segment about the deadly Capitol Hill insurrection, Kilmeade reported that Trump has admitted that some of his actions "played a role" in the failed coup attempt.

Doocy revealed that attorneys close to Trump have warned him not to pardon himself because he could face civil lawsuits from the families of the deceased. ...

According to a report from Politico's Sarah Ferris, the Capitol attending physician has warned lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that they need to be tested for COVID-19 after they were forced to go into hiding as a mob of far-right supporters of Donald Trump stormed the halls of Congress.

According to the memo, there is a possibility that they were exposed to the deadly coronavirus when they were penned up as Capitol police battled with the invaders after the president encouraged them to march on Congress.

The memo from Dr. Brian P. Monahan states, "During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection."

You can see the memo below:

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Alice Mayn runs Lily's Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary, a sanctuary in the small California city of Petaluma for large breed dogs over the age of seven. Recently, she encountered a COVID-19 situation that directly involved her organization's mission. She was contacted by a 58-year-old former construction worker, John Crowe, who had three large dogs that he could no longer take care of because he was suffering from financial troubles due to the pandemic.

This article first appeared in Salon

"He had a hunting lodge up in the mountains in California and he'd go off to his business because of it," Mayn recalled. "And it had to move down to the Bay Area, and he had three dogs that he'd had their whole lives since they were puppies." They included two Labrador retrievers and one hound mix, between the ages of seven, nine and 11. He surrendered them to Mayn's sanctuary. ...

In a scorching piece for the Daily Beast, a former senior aide to first lady Melania Trump said the wife of Donald Trump wasted her four years in the White House by failing to use her bully pulpit to do anything other than to try and build up her image.

According to Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the first lady stood by while the Trump administration ripped children from the arms of their immigrant parents, botched the COVID-19 crisis and remained silent while her husband encouraged a violent assault on the halls of Congress.

Apologizing for her time serving Melania Trump, and reflecting on Wednesday's shocking attack on Congress, Winston Wolkoff wrote, "Every single MAGA mob rioter who stormed the U.S. Capitol did so 'at the direction of, and in coordination with' President Trump, and it was an assault on human life and our great democracy. Unfortunately, our president and first lady have little, if any, regard for either."...

A speaker at a pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. encouraged mask-free protesters to hug each other while bragging that it was a "mass-spreader event" on Tuesday.

The so-called "Prayer to Save America" protest was part of a larger "Stop the Steal" effort to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss.

"Turn the person next to him and give him a hug, someone you don't know," the speaker said. "Go hug somebody. Go ahead and spread it out, mass spreader. It's a mass-spreader event! It's a mass-spreader event! It's a mass-spreader event!"...