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On June 6, Rep. Mo Brooks, now running for the U.S. Senate, revealed that a private investigator paid by Eric Swalwell entered his home without his permission and confronted his wife to serve Brooks with a lawsuit related to January 6. Brooks said that the entry was illegal, and slammed Swalwell for sending his team to his home. In a press release, Brooks’ officec now says “Tuesday, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Congressman Eric Swalwell teammate Christian Seklecki of Georgia for the Class A misdemeanor of 1st Degree Criminal Trespass. Christian Seklecki illegally entered Congressman Mo Brooks’...

The Chinese government recently rushed out two new laws in an effort to increase its control over data and to counter foreign sanctions. These new laws have exponentially increased the risks of doing business in China.The first new law Beijing enacted is about data security. The law claims that data collected by government entities and companies in critical sectors such as finance, telecommunications, and other areas are part of “core state data.” Therefore, this data should be treated as “a new type of state-owned asset, and its data rights belong to the state.” The language of what constitutes “core state...

The White House on Wednesday scrambled to explain what Joe Biden meant when he nodded affirmatively in response to a question about whether or not he could trust Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden briefly appeared with Putin for the press ahead of their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

It’s the first Hawaii hate crime case brought by the feds in 20 years, but U.S. Attorney Kenji Price is hoping to send a strong message about victimizing others because of their race or color. In 2013, Chris Kunzelman and his wife bought a house in Maui’s remote Kahakuloa village despite being warned that neighborhood residents “do not like white people.” Every time a non-Native Hawaiian had tried to view the house, Hawaiian residents from the deeply rooted village of approximately 150 people harassed and threatened them, scaring other potential buyers of the foreclosed property away, according to court documents....

Antivirus software creator John McAfee is fighting his extradition to the U.S. from Spain as American authorities look to bring him in on tax evasion charges. While speaking via video call from a Spanish prison on Tuesday, the 75-year-old millionaire argued the charges were politically motivated. McAfee was arrested in Barcelona in October for allegedly failing to report income made from promoting cryptocurrencies. However, he claimed the U.S. just wants to make an example out of him.

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) responded to people blaming him for business closures in California by saying that he takes “responsibility for trying to save as many lives as we possibly could” and that he thinks being the first to implement a stay-at-home order “put us in a position to recover faster than other economies.” NBC News National Correspondent Miguel Almaguer asked, “For those who blame you, what do you say to them?”

PORTLAND, Ore. — The indictment of a Portland police officer for excessive use of force is drawing reaction from those in the city's protest community. "The initial reaction is that it's good news," said Solamon Ibe, who's affiliated with the group Rose City Justice. "It is pretty big as far as the precedent that it has the potential to set for future cases that are similar." Ibe believes the decision by a grand jury is a direct result of relentless demonstrations. "I could not overstate the importance of this past year and the amount of just civil action and the...

A physician, two nurses, a professional athlete, a drug dealer and a lawyer who had nodded off in court. Teenagers, specifically a 14- and a 15-year-old. And a 7-year-old who got into a stash in her mother's purse. These are some of the types of people Dr. Christopher Colwell, the chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, has recently seen in the emergency room for medical issues related to fentanyl use and overdoses. "That's just in the last couple weeks," Colwell said. "It’s really remarkable because it runs the entire spectrum. This affects all walks of life,...

Live: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva

Eight people were killed, and nineteen others were wounded, in shootings Tuesday in Chicago, including a man who was found fatally shot in Lawndale on the West Side. About 10:15 p.m., officers found the 26-year-old laying on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street, with gunshot wounds to his head and abdomen, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Minutes prior, a 16-year-old boy who was killed, and a man who was wounded in a shooting in Gage Park on the Southwest Side. The teen and a 20-year-old man were walking about 10:10 p.m....

Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference to mark the June 15 reopening of the state after months of harsh lockdown protocols during the coronavirus pandemic with banners as a backdrop that read: “California Roars Back.”Newsom told reporters that the state is following the most recent guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but there are numerous caveats to the “fully reopened” plan.Here are some of the exceptions, as reported by an NBC affiliate in California.“As of June 15, California no longer requires physical distancing and allows full capacity for businesses. The state’s long-standing county...

The World Health Organization is "highly compromised" and unfit to lead an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to former CDC head Robert Redfield."Clearly, they were incapable of compelling China to adhere to the treaty agreements that they have on global health, because they didn’t do that," Redfield told Fox News on Tuesday. "Clearly, they allowed China to define the group of scientists that could come and investigate. That’s not consistent with their role."In March, Redfield told CNN that he doesn't believe the natural origin theory which posits that COVID-19 jumped from a bat to a human through a...

Airbnb has a secretive team to keep disaster stays out of the press and gives staff blank checks to help rape victims and pay to clean up dismembered human remains, according to a report. The short-term property rental company, which went public in December, has spent an estimated $50 million every year on payouts to hosts and guests when things go wrong, according to Bloomberg Businessweek which interviewed several former members of the secretive safety team. The team - known as the 'black box' inside the firm - is made up of around 100 agents across cities including Dublin, Montreal...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on June 9 launched a nationwide campaign to prevent cross-border money laundering using virtual currencies (cryptocurrencies). This is the fifth time for such action and part of the CCP’s recent efforts to prevent capital flight and guard against financial risks. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), China’s central bank, said on June 1 that revisions to the Anti-Money Laundering Act were included in the legislative work plan of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and that it is soliciting public opinion before June 30. The statement stressed that revisions to the act are...

A Florida congressional candidate has obtained a stalking injunction against one of her likely opponents in the race, claiming he conspired with two other potential candidates to kill her. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Anna Paulina Luna, who is running in the Republican primary for the seat being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D) as he seeks the governor's mansion, obtained a temporary injunction against William Braddock, who has previously stated his plans on running against her. “I received information yesterday (at midnight) regarding a plan (with a timeline) to murder me made by William Braddock in an effort...

A team of armed carjackers in Houston allegedly targeted the wrong person and one ended up getting shot in the neck after a shoutout with the intended victim.The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that they believe the same armed carjackers had previously shot a victim in another incident earlier Tuesday. That victim, who is in his 50s, said he was approached at a 7-Eleven gas station by two or three males attempting to take his truck. When he fought back, they shot him in the abdomen. Police responded to another shooting scene only 30 minutes later and about five miles...

A court livestream captured the moment when convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein learned that he will be extradited from a New York prison to Los Angeles to stand another trial on multiple sexual assault charges. The 69-year-old disgraced film mogul buried his head into his hands soon after an Erie County judge made the ruling Tuesday, as seen on a court livestream. Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year sentence at the upstate New York Wende Correctional Facility on convictions of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act.

This horrifying reality is yet another unintended consequences of sweeping government pandemic lockdowns.. From mental health to drug overdoses, some of the most apparent unintended consequences from COVID-19 lockdowns and pandemic restrictions have finally garnered mainstream attention. However, the global fallout from lockdown orders on the world’s poorest has flown somewhat under the radar—and will make the aforementioned dire consequences look mild in comparison. A research organization dedicated to documenting the consequences of government pandemic interventions, Collateral Global, released a May analysis reviewing the research on how lockdowns will affect childrens’ prospects. The results are astounding. “The COVID-19 pandemic and...

Radical socialist Jeremy Corbyn called for the G7 nations — specifically singling out the United States — to recognise Palestine as a state and to impose an arms embargo on Israel. Speaking before thousands of anti-Israeli activists outside Number 10 Downing Street on Saturday, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn hailed the international protest movements against the Jewish state, saying that he hopes the mobs in America will force the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress to recognise Palestine as a state. “Our demands are very clear,” Corbyn told the crowd, saying: “The end of the occupation of the West...

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Trump, called on Americans living at the southern border to "arm up and get guns and be ready" in response to the influx of migrants arriving at the U.S. border. "I don't know what you tell the people that live at the southern border. I guess they better arm up and get guns and be ready, and maybe they're gonna have to take matters into their own hands," she said during an appearance on Fox's "Justice with Judge Jeanine" on Saturday.