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Far-right figure and former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, at least according to a new report, used a credit card connected with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign to buy an internet domain for the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s latest presidential election effort. Yiannopoulos was then reportedly reimbursed for thousands of dollars above the actual […]
Toronto residents living near the intersection of King Street West and Strachan Avenue are complaining about a lingering foul stench. “It smells like sewage,” said Ann Riness, who lives nearby, to a CBC Toronto reporter. “It’s definitely tough to live here. You have to keep your windows closed on a bad day.” The longtime resident […]
Manny Pacquiao announced Wednesday that he’s retiring from boxing at the age of 42. The now-former boxer will be focusing his time on politics. Pacquiao also announced last week that he will be running for president in the 2022 Philippine elections. “I am a fighter and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring. In […]
Gavin Newsom soundly defeated efforts to recall him and will remain the Governor of California, according to projections from NBC News, the Associated Press, and CNN. The Republican-backed campaign failed to garner the 50 percent of votes needed to remove Newsom from his position. Around 1.5 million Californians signed the petition that initiated the recall vote. Of the votes counted […]
For some reason, Jimmy Kimmel gave Mike Lindell—MyPillow founder and sued conspiracy theorist—time on his show Wednesday night. At the top of the 18-minute interview, Lindell briefly discussed his experience with crack addiction. About three minutes into the discussion, Kimmel jokingly ran through Lindell’s life story, concluding with, “And then you fell in love with […]
On Friday, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over claims that Dominion helped rig the 2020 election. The Associated Press reports that Dominion has argued the right-wing cable news channel targeted the company with a series of misleading or straight-up false claims of election fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden. […]
Joe Biden is eyeing a second term in the White House. During his first formal press conference of his presidency on Thursday, POTUS was asked if he intends to run for re-election in 2024. Biden, 78, became the oldest president in history when he took office back in January. Many have questioned whether he would pursue reelection […]
According to a new poll released on Sunday, a not quite majority (but still significant number) of Republican voters would follow former President Donald Trump if he were to branch off from the party and do his own thing. Specifically, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll stated that 46 percent of GOP voters said they’d follow Trump, compared […]
A Texas man who participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol took an unsurprisingly terrible approach to try preventing family members from snitching on his participation. According to court documents, Guy Reffitt threatened to shoot his daughter and son if they told the authorities. Reffitt allegedly leveled the threat while arguing with his kids […]
In the aftermath of the violent riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol last week, Hallmark Cards has asked that a pair of Republican Senators, namely Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Roger Marshall (Kan.), return the four-figure donations that it made to them. That’s kind of a weird sentence. As first reported in the political newsletter […]
