FBI Director Kash Patel personally ordered local prosecutors to cease investigating the death of Renee Good because he feared it would contradict President Donald Trump's version of the killing, a New York Times report claimed Saturday. The order came from Patel and other senior officials who worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation " by using a warrant obtained on that basis " would contradict Trump's claim that Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer" who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been "pressured" into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned. The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office"despite universally terrible reviews. According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets. "People are scared," Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film. He told Business Insider. "They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that's not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you."
After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10"1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state's 11 U.S. House districts toward their party. The proposed congressional map leaves several of Virginia's largest districts visually intact while concentrating most of its changes in Northern and central Virginia. The new plan preserves the broad outlines of some existing districts but redistributes how the population is grouped across much of the state. The 9th District remains a single, expansive district in the state's far southwestern corner. The Eastern Shore"based 2nd District is also preserved, maintaining a clear coastal anchor on the map.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an unfounded claim on Wednesday that the keto diet can cure schizophrenia. read more
The State Department told American citizens to "leave Iran now" on Feb. 6, as negotiators for both countries met in Oman amid President Donald Trump's recent threats of military action. read more
Bronco Nagurski is still dead.
As dead as the USFL.
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