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Anna Paulina Luna, who is hoping to win Florida’s 13th District, which is being vacated by Democrat Charlie Crist as he runs for governor, will be at the event along with Trump on December 7. Tickets for the private reception at the resort in Palm Beach will cost $1,000. The money will be donated to the APL Victory Fund, a fundraising committee consisting of Luna’s official campaign fundraising account and the APL PAC, Florida Politics reported....

The political journalist was caught on camera this weekend angrily responding to someone who reportedly called him Fredo, a reference to Fredo Corleone, the son of mob boss Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. In the classic movie series, Fredo is a womanizing character who often misspeaks. “Punk-ss btches from the right call me Fredo,” said Cuomo in the video that was uploaded to a conservative YouTube channel and later deleted....

Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, gave her testimony during a last-minute hearing Tuesday afternoon, where she recounted her experiences in the White House during the days around the January 6 riot. She made several bombshell revelations about how Trump and the White House responded to the violent riot, when a group of his supporters sought to pressure Congress to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election based on unfounded claims of voter fraud....

Thiem recently visited the island of Sylt in Germany, and going by his casual outfit, he seems to be getting some much-needed rest and relaxation before he picks up his racket again. The 28-year-old is currently recovering from a right wrist injury, which he suffered during his second-round match at the Mallorca Championships a couple of months ago. Apart from being an elite tennis player, Dominic Thiem also happens to be a staunch supporter of several environmental causes....

The fight will mark Cruz’s return to the octagon for the first time since his loss to Henry Cejudo. Whereas, for Kenney, this will be his first non-title bout in more than six years. The fight is expected to take place on March 6, 2021, the date for the UFC 259 PPV. As things stand though, a location or venue has not been revealed for the UFC 259 card....

The lawsuit, which the voting systems company filed Monday against Lindell and MyPillow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges Lindell marketed his products toward consumers who were already engaging with election-related conspiracy theories involving Dominion. The lawsuit further alleges that Lindell promoted offer codes linked to or inspired by those theories to boost his company’s sales. “MyPillow’s defamatory marketing campaign—with promo codes like “FightforTrump,” “45,” “Proof,” and “QAnon”—has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases,” the lawsuit alleges....

At the end of the day, it was about ways in which we can deal with issues of inequity and these huge disparities, not just between black and white as it was during the civil war, but white and indigenous peoples, white, black, Latinxs and so forth. Many groups are literally underrepresented in our public sphere in the present day, so that’s really what it’s about. Removing statues is a start, it would not necessarily have been my primary focus, but people have zeroed in on it because it’s such a public emblem of something that they’re trying to change....

The administration announced Tuesday that the president will visit the Kingdom in mid-July, presumably to make nice with the country’s cold-blooded autocrats. While the agenda will surely be crowded, there is only one reason for this trip, and that is a desperate gambit to convince Riyadh to increase its oil production to reduce historically high gas prices that have Americans in a sour mood just months before the 2022 midterm elections....

Trump became the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met Kim at the border town of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. “Stepping across that line is a great honor,” Trump said. “Great progress has been made, great friendships have been made and this has been, in particular, a great friendship.” The meeting came after months of stalled talks on North Korean denuclearization and sanctions relief....

In motions filed Wednesday by Evers’ attorneys, Trump and La Crosse County Republican Party Chairman William Feehan were asked to pay a total of $250,000 for cases brought to federal court in the wake of the presidential contest: $144,000 from Trump and $106,000 from Feehan. The governor’s legal team deemed the litigation “meritless” and argued in court documents that it was “built on inscrutable conspiracy theories.” “Although Trump’s claims were bereft of legal or factual basis, the stakes were immense....

“Hope the RINOs are happy,” Trump wrote in a Tuesday statement criticizing the law. RINO is an initialism for Republicans in Name Only. The initialism is an insult for GOP members who allegedly don’t represent the political party’s values. Georgia’s new election law limits absentee ballots and early voting, restricts ballot drop boxes and imposes tough new voter ID requirements. It also allows for the Republican-controlled State Election Board to take over any county election boards that it deems problematic....

On Thursday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office indicted the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, on tax-related charges following a three-year investigation, conducted alongside New York Attorney General Letitia James, which grew out of the hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump dismissed the charges in his opening remarks at the “Save America” rally in Sarasota, Florida, on the eve of Independence Day—the second campaign-style rally held by the ex-president since he left the White House in January....

“He’s as critical a witness as anybody,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told Newsweek. “We just didn’t know it quite as explicitly as we know now.” Pompeo has long been a key figure in the Ukraine scandal, having been a participant in the infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. But new evidence suggests that the secretary of state was more deeply entrenched in the scheme than previously thought....

The in-person event marks Trump’s first election engagement outside the White House since he tested positive for the new coronavirus less than two weeks ago. It scheduled to take place at Orlando Sanford International Airport, with the president’s remarks slated to begin at 7 p.m. ET. Those interested in attending the rally can register through his campaign’s website and may arrive as early as 4 p.m., when doors open....

In the closing days of the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump is jetting around the country at a breakneck pace as he attempts another come-from-behind victory. He will headline events in Michigan, Southeast Florida and Western Pennsylvania. He’ll rally his supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Rome, Georgia; and Opa-locka, Florida. He’s scheduled to visit eight states and as many as 16 counties, making his case for re-election from Friday through Monday, according to his campaign website....

Trump has now joined a growing list of world leaders who are confirmed to have contracted the disease. The president—who downplayed the severity of the virus in public early in the pandemic despite knowing how dangerous it was—is 74 years old, his age putting him at greater risk of potentially deadly complications. Indeed, Trump is the oldest world leader so far to have a confirmed coronavirus infection. While the overall survival rate for COVID-19 remains high, older patients—particularly men—are at higher risk of death from the virus....

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, published Monday, Trump Jr. put rumors to bed about a looming Senate run but even if he doesn’t seek to hold office, the former president’s eldest son has no plans to leave politics. He told the newspaper he’ll continue to build on his father’s campaign that focused on “hard-working men and women.” Former President Donald Trump’s namesake was his father’s fiercest defender while he was in office and has taken a similar path as his dad with regard to social media....

On Tuesday the Democrat-controlled committee announced it will release the former president’s tax returns within days, and said they had not been properly audited during his time in the White House. A report into six years of Trump’s tax affairs was also released by the committee, showing how his tax burden was reduced by claiming large annual losses. Trump controversially refused to release his tax returns when running for the presidency in 2016, or during his time in the White House....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of an impeachment inquiry on September 24 following whistleblower allegations that claim Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a potential political rival. A July phone call, the summary transcript of which was released by the White House last week, reveals Trump discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Aid to the Ukraine was held up around the time of the phone call....