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David Chipman, who was selected by Joe Biden to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, made a slew of terrifying comments about how he would lead the agency. During his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate, Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz got Chipman to admit that he supports a ban on one of the most popular guns sold in the United States. “With respect to the AR-15, I support a ban, as has been presented in a Senate bill and supported by the president,” David Chipman told Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Then, later in the hearing,...

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin has dismissed a temporary restraining order aimed at pausing the Arizona Senate's recount of 2.1 million 2020 election ballots. Martin said the plaintiffs (Democrats) failed to show enough evidence that there would be harm to voters due to the audit procedures currently being used. “I will share with you all, I am not yet persuaded that there has been a showing that the rights of the voters in Maricopa County are being protected,” Martin said.

A newly declassified report shows the FBI sifted through troves of Americans' communications collected by the National Security Agency without a warrant before the Jan. 6 protests to identify "far-right extremists." Despite previous warnings that the government was violating the Constitution, the report reveals how the FBI continues to use warrantless searches for routine criminal cases A newly declassified report shows that the FBI pursued extremists in November that would fit the profile of future Capitol rioters by tapping into a National Security Agency database that trawls and records Americans' communications.

Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy has become a thorn in the side of the often inept-looking White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Doocy got under Psaki’s skin again with a question about Biden flip-flopping, and rather than getting a straight answer from her, he got snark. Doocy referred to an earlier question by another reporter who asked “The President’s Commission on expanding the Supreme Court is out. We know he’s going to wait for the results. What is the President’s view on the — of the calls for Justice Breyer to step down?” Psaki responded to that question...