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A former Virginia police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. CBS News reports Jacob Fracker, 30, a former Rocky Mount, Virginia police officer who was fired after his arrest, pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress that was held on Jan. 6 to certify […]
Kamala Harris is making history, once again. The vice president will be the first woman to assume a temporary transfer of power from President Joe Biden while he’s under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, CNN reports. It’s typical for the VP to take over presidential powers during an operation like this. Biden visited Walter Reed Medical […]
Haim Eshed, former director of Israel’s security space program, claimed in a recent interview that aliens have chosen to remain hidden because “humanity is not ready yet.” According to the Jewish Press, Eshed made these revelations(?) in 7 Days, the Shabbat edition of Yedioth Aharonoth, a daily newspaper in Tel Aviv, and took his assertions a […]
Politico reports that Congress plans on raising the minimum age for the purchase of tobacco to 21 as part of a $1.4 trillion spending bill that must be passed by December 20 to avoid a government shutdown. The bipartisan support that this legislation has received is likely in response to the 52 deaths in the United States stemming from the use […]
The U.S. Department of State has issued a warning to the Swedish government over the treatment of ASAP Rocky. The Testing artist was arrested earlier this month. “There are certainly some facts about the arrest and detention that raise concerns,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement, per Politico. “We expect all governments, including Sweden, to treat American citizens […]
Nancy Pelosi is asking the Capitol Police to take extra care protecting House Rep. Ilhan Omar after Donald Trump shared a tweet playing Omar’s recent comments about the formation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations over video of the September 11 attacks. Trump’s video featured a short clip of the freshman congresswoman saying the words […]
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