Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who espoused the false conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to ballot fraud, was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county's voting system. read more
A Nevada Republican politician who ran unsuccessfully two years ago for state treasurer was found guilty Thursday of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery. A jury convicted Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker, of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported. The weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Nevada began last week.
Senator JD Vance repeated a tired Republican lie from 2020 -- that Donald Trump actually won the election, despite all evidence to the contrary -- and then doubled down on it during a recent recorded encounter. read more
A fight broke out between men selling memorabilia hours ahead of when former President Donald Trump was expected to take the stage at a rally in the Saginaw area in Michigan Thursday. At approximately 10:20 a.m. outside of the line of more than 1,000 attendees for the rally at the Ryder Center for Health and Physical Education Saginaw Valley State University's campus in University Center, a group of men who were selling Trump memorabilia got in a physical altercation where briefly two vendors stood above one vendor punching him in the head.
A Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday. A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner's Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday. A photo taken of the house on Tuesday showed a large U.S. flag hanging from the home's front window underneath the word "QAnon," the name of a far-right conspiracy theory that gained traction online after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump. read more
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