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Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly was hit with stinging criticism Saturday after she complained about Vice President Kamala Harris calling Donald Trump a criminal sexual predator fraudster.

Kelly, who previously came under fire for saying Harris was "unqualified" and slept her way to get "ahead," was responding to a report that Trump was privately calling Harris a b----. Earlier in the day, experts said the attack line wasn't likely to help the former president with women voters.

But for Trump ally Kelly, the reported comments by Trump were not a problem. ...

President Joe Biden snapped back at Donald Trump Thursday night after the former president made fun of the current on Truth Social.

Trump took to his own right-wing social media site to make fun of Biden's performance at a televised press conference.

"Crooked Joe begins his 'Big Boy' Press Conference with, 'I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.' Great job, Joe!" ...

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally to Donald Trump, was brutally fact-checked on Sunday after she claimed she "knows" that the former president won Georgia's election in 2020, which he lost to current president Joe Biden.

Greene was advertising a recent pro-Trump boating event in her home state when she made the comment.

"Yesterday’s enthusiasm for President Trump on Lake Allatoona was unmatched!!" she said Sunday. "I know he won Georgia in 2020, and after yesterday, I know he’s going to win Georgia again in 2024!" ...

Faced with mounting calls from within his own party to bow out and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to head up the ticket, President Joe Biden so far doesn't appear to be planning for an exit — and there's an important reason for that, wrote University of Pennsylvania psychologist Adam Grant for The New York Times.

Specifically, he wrote, Biden faces a psychological phenomenon known as "escalation of commitment to a losing course of action," or the idea that one tends to prefer doubling down because "it feels better to be a fighter than a quitter."

"One of the tragedies of the human condition is that we use our big brains not to make rational decisions, but rather to rationalize the decisions we’ve already made," wrote Grant — and this goes beyond politicians simply refusing to give up in the face of dimming odds. "We stick around too long in dead-end jobs. We stay in unhappy marriages even after friends have counseled us to leave. We stand by candidates even after they violate our principles."...

Donald Trump's private jet sat overnight next to a diplomatic aircraft for the Russian government at Washington Dulles International Airport, according to a reporter's photos.

Raw Story reported on Friday that Trump's private Boeing 757, sometimes referred to as "Trump Force One," was sitting next to the Russian government plane. Social media users reacted with jokes, but it was also noted that it was unclear exactly how this happened, and that it could easily have been a coincidence.

The next day, there was an update from the individual who released the initial photos, freelance reporter Andrew Leyden. ...

The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Friday overturning "Chevron deference" — a 40-year-old precedent that orders courts to defer to the expertise of agency employees when interpreting statute, which could make it easier for courts to strike down all manner of regulations across the entire federal government. Ironically, the original Chevron ruling was issued by conservative justices, to protect Ronald Reagan administration policymakers from being overruled by Jimmy Carter-appointed judges — but now with a far more Democratic-leaning administrative state, right-wing judges have been clamoring to take back power over the regulatory process for years.

The decision horrified many legal experts — and also renowned singer and actress Barbra Streisand, who took to X to condemn the ruling.

"The Supreme Court overruled 40 years of precedent and overturned the Chevron decision," wrote Streisand. "It makes judges and the Supreme Court the regulators of laws passed by Congress rather than the scientific expertise at federal agencies. This is not democracy but rule by judicial order. The only beneficiaries are big business and polluters."...