Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was handed a $12,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission for illegally fundraising for Stop Socialism Now PAC in 2020, according to a conciliation agreement signed last month and made publicly available on Friday.

The lawmaker appeared in an advertisement for the super PAC asking supporters for donations to finance the Georgia Senate runoff elections in January 2021 and shared the clip on her accounts on Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter.

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A controversial Republican congressman known for his 2020 election denial and anti-abortion stances is retiring this month to take a plum gig as the president of Youngstown State University in Ohio.

Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) submitted his resignation letter to both Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) Tuesday, while informing them both that he planned to end his term Jan. 21 and take up his position at the university the very next day.

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A United States appeals court denied on Thursday Donald Trump’s request to pause his upcoming defamation trial in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

Last week, the former president’s attorneys asked the court to delay the case for up to 90 days, asserting that they needed more time to consider whether to approach the U.S. Supreme Court after their presidential immunity claim was shot down.

Trump argued that he couldn’t be sued for remarks he made in 2019 about Carroll and her sexual

Ron DeSantis made a baffling claim in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this week, insisting that Donald Trump’s indictments gave him an advantage in the GOP primary.

The Florida governor’s assertion was in response to a question from chief political correspondent David Brody, who asked whether he had any regrets over how he was running his campaign.

DeSantis, who remained fixated on Trump, insisted the former president’s charges “distorted the primary.”

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Bill Ackman has toned down his vitriol toward former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism after Business Insider reported on Friday that his wife, Neri Oxman, copied portions of Wikipedia articles and scholarly documents in her doctoral dissertation at MIT. In a long-winded, 5,139-word post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night, Ackman wrote that it is “a near certainty that authors will miss some quotation marks and fail to properly cite or provide attribution for another aut

Florida’s attorney general launched an investigation Tuesday into potential “anticompetitive conduct” by the College Football Playoff’s selection committee after the Florida State Seminoles were left out of the postseason tournament, despite having a 13-0 season and winning the ACC Championship, a Power 5 conference.

The CFP announced earlier this month that it had filled the final slots in the four-university competition with Texas and Alabama, two teams that had lost once.

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A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit over the state’s six-week abortion ban has learned her embryo no longer has a heartbeat, her legal team said Tuesday.

The plaintiff, who is identified as Jane Doe, is eight weeks pregnant, and, according to court documents, “decided that the best course of action for herself and her family is to terminate the pregnancy.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, one of the groups representing Doe, filed the lawsuit on Friday, asking for a

A prominent University of Pennsylvania donor is clawing back a $100 million contribution over the school’s response to an alleged increase in on-campus antisemitism since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel—and its president’s heavily condemned Tuesday testimony before Congress.

UPenn alum Ross Stevens, the CEO and founder of the financial service firm Stone Ridge Asset Management, announced the sizable gift in December 2017, which was intended to build a center for finance innovation, Axios reporte

Following an investigation by the Israel Defense Forces into its killing of three hostages during a rescue mission in the Shejaiya area in Gaza on Dec. 15, the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Herzi Halevi, said on Thursday that it “failed in its mission to rescue” them and “the entire chain of command feels responsible.”

The report reads, “An IDF soldier fired toward three figures, identified as threats, and hit two of the hostages who were killed. The third figure fled.”

The fighters were the

The Israeli army has suspended a group of reserve duty soldiers who went viral for laughing, smoking hookah, and eating snacks in front of detained and blindfolded Palestinians in Jenin, a city in the West Bank.

“I never imagined Jenin like this, what do I say?” one soldier says to the camera, according to a translation by Anadolu Agency. “Show them what I have here.” The camera then pans to the group of Palestinians sitting on the floor silently.

Later on, another soldier asks each of his col

Ukraine reportedly attacked two Russian airfields on Tuesday with long-range ballistic missiles covertly sent from the United States in recent days.

The country’s special forces said they destroyed nine Russian helicopters, an anti-aircraft missile system, and a warehouse filled with ammunition in eastern Ukraine, according to the BBC. Dozens of Russian troops were injured or killed in what Ukraine dubbed “Operation Dragonfly.”

Ukraine’s military communication department made an announcement o

Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization that advocates for human rights, said Thursday that it had concluded Israel used white phosphorus during military operations in Lebanon and Gaza this week.

In a statement, HRW said it had verified videos from Oct. 10 and 11 showing “multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border” in addition to interviewing two witnesses to the Gaza attack.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) responded condescendingly to a challenge by a Capitol Hill journalist on the merits of his investigation into the business dealings of Joe Biden and his family.

The House Oversight Committee chairman talked to reporters on Wednesday, criticizing the president’s son, Hunter Biden, for refusing a closed-door deposition.

Comer, who had previously turned down Biden’s proposal for public testimony, asserted: “The president hasn’t been honest about his associations with these

A senior writer at Deadspin was slammed online by a young football fan’s mom on Monday after he claimed the boy was “doubling up on the racism” against Black and Native American communities by wearing a headdress and painting his face red and black at a Kansas City Chiefs game.

The reporter, Carron Phillips, wrote an article on Monday morning headlined, “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress.” The screenshot used was a side view of the boy

Salman Al Bashir, a journalist for Palestine TV, gave a heart-breaking on-air report after news broke that his fellow correspondent, Mohammad Abu Hatab, was killed on Thursday along with 11 members of his family in southern Gaza, in what the Palestinian Authority-run network deemed an Israeli airstrike.

Abu Hatab, 49, had been reporting from outside Nasser Hospital on Thursday about Israeli airstrikes on neighborhoods in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. He was killed just half an hour lat

A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday afternoon that Israel was responsible for bombing Gaza’s largest refugee camp.

The airstrike on the Jabalia camp killed at least 50 civilians, a medical official and Palestinian authorities said, according to Al Jazeera.

Lt. Col. Richard Hecht was unrepentant, however, telling Blitzer: “There was a very senior Hamas commander in that area. Sadly, he was hiding, again, as they do behind civilians.”

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The only Aurora police officer convicted among the three charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months and four years of probation in Adams County Jail on Friday afternoon.

On Oct. 12, 2023, a jury convicted now-former cop Randy Roedema of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault for his actions leading up to the 23-year-old’s death. Roedema was one of the five first responders indicted in the case, including fellow Aurora officers Nathan Woodyard and Jaso

The three Tacoma, Washington police officers charged in the death of Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who died in March 2020 after saying, “I can’t breathe” while handcuffed and hogtied, were all found not guilty on Thursday.

According to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office, Ellis died of hypoxia, a deficiency of oxygen, which caused his fatal respiratory arrest.

Police said they ran into Ellis while he was walking home and witnessed him pounding on a woman’s car window and trying

A Florida member of the Proud Boys was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack, despite claiming he was trying to help police officers when he hurled a “heavy rock-like object” at a Capitol building door.

According to CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane, the judge called Anthony Sargent’s defense “laughable,” saying he pushed an officer into the mob to prevent him from arresting another rioter and twice shoved police away from the Capitol as they attempted to fall b

A 28-year-old man has been charged in the murder of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy declared on Wednesday.

Worthy accused the suspect, who has been identified as Michael Manuel Jackson-Bolanos, of homicide, home invasion, and lying to police officers but said there was no evidence that he knew Woll or that the murder was a hate crime.

On Sunday, Jackson-Bolanos became the second suspect to be detained. Investigators had announced they were questioning