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A damning new report from The New York Times this week revealed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house displayed an upside-down flag — a popular symbol used by MAGA election conspiracy theorists — right around the time that the Supreme Court decided against taking up a Pennsylvania-based challenge to the 2020 presidential election, over Alito's own objections.

After the New York Times reported on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flying an upside-down flag following the January 6 insurrection, one top Senate Democrat is calling his ability to fairly adjudicate January 6 cases into question.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) just admitted that his latest moves against Attorney General Merrick Garland are a purely partisan exercise, wrote Steve Benen for MSNBC's MaddowBlog.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) "has been bullied into submission," said MSNBC producer Steve Benen in a Friday column.

Rep. Lauren Boebert isn't sure if former President Donald Trump is napping or communicating with his maker during his criminal hush money trial, but after her visit to the New York City courtroom Thursday, there is one thing the Colorado Republican knows for sure.

Trump supporters believe Michael Cohen dropped a bombshell on the stand that could get Donald Trump off the hook in his hush money trial — but some experts aren't so sure.

A new ad from the center-left Third Way group pokes fun at Donald Trump's legal travails and tries to prod him into taking the stand at his hush money trial.

Former President Donald Trump fought a hard battle to appear at his son Barron's graduation day Friday amid a hush money trial. Thanks to a hat, how Melania feels about that choice is anyone's guess.

Justice Samuel Alito on Friday appeared to compound concerns over the bombshell New York Times report revealing a flag associated with the January 6 insurrection and the "Stop the Steal" movement was flying at his house just before President Joe Biden was inaugurated and while the Supreme Court was reviewing a 2020 election case.

CNN on Friday aired surveillance video footage showing rapper and producer Sean "Diddy" Combs brutally beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway.

The Peruvian government is under fire from LGBTQ+ groups which have called a protest Friday against a new decree listing transsexualism as a "mental disorder."

Doctors operated on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico again on Friday, two days after the attempt on his life, government and hospital officials said.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday got into a heated spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) — but on Friday morning she tried to disown any blame she may be receiving for the congressional drama.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is asking a court to impose a "very long" sentence of the conspiracy theorist who broke into her home and brutally attacked her elderly husband.

Michigan state Rep. Matt Hall, an election denier and now House minority leader, placed more than $2,200 in bets a day on an online gambling website, according to a new report.

Dustin Maybee stopped letting his little girl accompany him to his coop because the starving chickens he'd refused to let Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' state workers smother to death were starting to eat each other, according to a new report.

The chaos that erupted in the House Oversight Committee on Thursday evening left the co-hosts at "The View" debating whether Republicans in Congress have finally gone too far.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito told a Fox News host that his wife displayed an upside-down American flag outside their home following a January 2021 confrontation with a neighbor.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett's (D-TX) solo track dropped Friday morning in a music video co-starring a befuddled Rep. James Comer.

A symbol of Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" movement, which culminated in his January 6, 2021 rally and the insurrection that followed, was flown over the home of Justice Samuel Alito just days before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and as the U.S. Supreme Court was reviewing a 2020 election case. Now, calls are mounting for Justice Alito's ouster.

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Video games are big business. The value of the global market is pushing the US$200 billion mark (£158 billion): bigger than the music industry and Hollywood combined. But the gaming industry has also been facing challenges. The market is shrinking from its peak at the height of the pandemic, and there has been a rash of layoffs and studio closures.

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy after being told he must pay a judgment of $148 million after he was found to have defamed two election workers in Georgia.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria buried U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito for displaying a MAGA symbol outside his home in the days between the Jan. 6 insurrection and president Joe Biden's inauguration.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) chaotic insult-lobbing in the House of Representatives Thursday night led to additional insult-lobbing by a Democratic colleague on Friday morning.