The trial for two of the defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, is scheduled to begin Oct. 23.

The first thing I noticed at the latest stop on the ReAwaken America Tour in Las Vegas in mid-August was that the T-shirts are getting nastier. “Size Matters” blared one man’s shirt over enlarged images of bullets of various calibers. “It’s RINO Season,” read another, with an image of Trump carrying a long gun. Another man’s T-shirt featured dozens of white male soldiers and the words “Diversity is Destruction” across the bottom. There was the old standby, “God, Guns, and Trump.” And then there was “BLITZKRIEG.” Launched in 2021, the ReAwaken America Tour is where truth and irony go to die in the face of megachurch-size portions of paranoia. It’s the kind of place where people tell you with a straight face, “Don’t let them microchip you.” Clay Clark, a conspiracist who has made his name pushing horse-drug cures for Covid, got the roving series of conferences going during the pandemic, and they have taken on a life of their own. Partners in the project include Mike Flynn, the disgraced former national security adviser, and election fraud funder Mike Lindell. Eric Trump is a frequent guest speaker, and Robert Kennedy Jr. delivered presentations at several ReAwaken America events before launching his run for president. Among the guest speakers in Las Vegas were Alex Jones, the infamous purveyor of the most heinous conspiracies; Shari Tenpenny, identified by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as one of the top 12 most influential Covid deniers; the actor and election-lie promoter Roseanne Barr, and a slew of demon-haunted “spirit warriors” from the Christian nationalist movement. The Las Vegas conference was the third such event I attended in person, and it was by a significant measure the most bloodthirsty. The rhetoric coming from the podium was even more violent than the slogans on the T-shirts.

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The House prosecutors failed to call a star witness and battled with the defense attorneys over allegations the suspended attorney general had been bribed by Nate Paul.

Researchers say the animal, which was found in Brazil, looked like the two species, but behaved in a strange way akin to both

Sean Penn is speaking out over Will Smith’s Oscars slap and Hollywood’s response to it. “I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once. He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so fucking good in ‘King Richard,'” Penn said in a recent Variety cover story. “So why the fuck did you just spit on yourself and everybody else with this stupid fucking thing? Why did I go to fucking jail for what you just did? And you’re still sitting there? Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?” (Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a man.)

Republicans are targeting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she indicted former President Donald Trump and his allies this month for allegedly working to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Georgia state Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch, a Republican, said the legislature is poised to hold hearings to determine if Willis is using “her position in a political manner” and whether her office is being “weaponized against Republican candidates running for office” following a two-year-long investigation into the former president and other Republican defendants. “We believe she is definitely tainted,” Gooch said. “She’s politicizing this, and we want to make sure these people get a fair trial and a fair shake.”

Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer.

Coffee City (pop. 250) leaders voted unanimously to fire Chief of Police JohnJay Portillo and to deactivate the entire department (50 officers) until a new chief could be hired.

As child poverty increases and child-care funding expires, the status of children says much about our political priorities. When the U.S. Census Bureau released its updated Supplemental Poverty Measure on Tuesday, it showed that child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. Record inflation was a major reason but perhaps not the largest. When Congress allowed the expanded Child Tax Credit to expire, that was “particularly damaging to child poverty,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. More damage is coming. On September 30, expanded funding for child care provided by the American Rescue Plan Act will expire. Without swift intervention, 3.2 million children “could lose their child-care spots,” the Century Foundation reported in June. Some 70,000 child-care programs will probably close, leaving parents and children with fewer options for quality care. Parents will have to reduce their work hours or leave the workforce altogether, which will cost them about $9 billion in lost earnings, the report added. The people we have elected could make different choices, and sometimes they have. Amid the death and grief inflicted by COVID, we glimpsed more humane possibilities. Stimulus payments helped keep families afloat, and the expanded Child Tax Credit drove a sharp reduction in child poverty. Child-care funding propped up a vital sector, keeping workers employed and children in care. But these measures were temporary, which might have prevented the formation of a constituency for them. Perhaps more meaningfully, they had powerful enemies. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, reportedly believed parents would use Child Tax Credit payments on drugs. He later killed an attempt to extend the program, and children are suffering for it. Republicans, meanwhile, have nothing better to offer. They too oppose a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit.

It took two public “trials,” faked documents, and plenty of embarrassment, but it seems American neo-Nazis are done with the“Boneface hype.” With his face covered in tattoos that give him the look of Marvel comic book character Red Skull, Kent “Boneface” McLellan is a hard man to miss, and was recently heavily featured in the national U.S. media as he became the face of a neo-Nazi rally in Florida. McLellan has been active for years in the American far-right scene but over the last year, he vaulted to the forefront of the U.S. neo-Nazi movement as his fellow racists swooned over his wild stories about fighting with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, an infamous fighting group with neo-Nazi ties. But when he was asked to speak Ukrainian things fell apart. The neo-Nazi said he knew how to speak it and attempted to get some sentances out but, according to a person listening who knows Ukrainian, he was just saying random words and making vaguely Slavic noises.

Is the Mario Tennis Star an athletic genius or the most annoying character on Earth?

The universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say.

Unity's new "Runtime Fee" will kick in after developers cross specific revenue and install thresholds.

Apparently nobody told Brian Moniz, the childhood friend. “No, I don’t think he’s ever been engaged,” he said when I spoke to him in August. As for any current girlfriend, Moniz said: “I am not aware of anyone at this time.”

To staff their agricultural properties, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and other tycoons are using a controversial visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking.

If the FDA follows through on the panel’s recommendations, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and other drugmakers could be required to pull their oral medications containing phenylephrine from store shelves.

Authorities confirmed that 69 adult crocodiles and 6 juveniles had gone missing from a commercial farm in the southern province of Guangdong after a rainstorm.

Remember the fake movie teasers in between Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 'Grindhouse' movies? Now Eli Roth is making one into a reality.

The author explains how the concept of the doppelgänger can help us understand our uncanny political moment, where “millions of people have given themselves over to fantasy.”