Melinda Davies, Author at News Addicts

30 Oct

Federal Judge Reimposes Trump ‘Gag Order’

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A federal judge has concurred with the government and denied President Donald Trump’s request to suspend the gag order pending appeals. In the Department of Justice’s federal election case accusing Trump of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a federal judge has reinstated a gag order she…

28 Oct

Federal Judge Finds That New York’s Rejection of Gun Licenses Violates the Constitution

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A federal judge has ruled that the New York City regulation that allow officials to deny people gun licenses based on their ‘moral character’ violates the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. District Court ruling comes in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down New York state’s restrictive gun…

28 Oct

Jack Smith Quietly Retreats from One Trump Investigation

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Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign as part of their investigation into whether his political and fund-raising operations committed any crimes. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office this week decided to effectively kill the subpoena to the Trump campaign followed…

28 Oct

Maine Massacre Suspect Found Dead After Extensive Manhunt

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The suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, massacre that murdered 18 people on Wednesday has been discovered to be dead, sources told NBC10 Boston Investigators on Friday evening. In the aftermath of the mass shootings at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling facility and the Schemengees Bar and Grille, Robert Card was the…

28 Oct

New Bank Records Blow Hole in Claim $200,000 Mystery Check was Biden ‘Loan’ Repayment

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The White House’s defense of the $200,000 payment Joe Biden received from his brother James Biden is not supported by the House Oversight Committee’s bank records. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White House Counsel Edward Siskel requesting financial documents to support…

25 Oct

McCarthy Staging Comeback as GOP Speaker, Floats Jim Jordan as ‘Assistant Speaker’

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Kevin McCarthy is staging a comeback, according to reports out of Capitol Hill. As reported by NBC News, McCarthy is pitching a plan to become Speaker again and make Rep. Jim Jordan, a Trump supporter, the “Assistant Speaker.” When asked why the idea was being brought up now, a GOP member said, “We’re desperate.” “While…

25 Oct

Mark Meadows Granted Immunity in 2020 Election Case Against Trump

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A new report says that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was given protection by Special Counsel Jack Smith in exchange for testifying in the federal case against former President Donald Trump for contesting the 2020 election. Trump supporters have long thought that Meadows was working with Smith, and some…

24 Oct

IRS Commissioner Grilled on Biden’s $200,000 Mystery Check

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The IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel was grilled on Capitol Hill on Tuesday on whether a $200,000 “loan” with low or no interest that wasn’t reported to the IRS might be a tax issue… for, hypothetically, the President of the United States. Rep. Virginia Foxx, Republican from North Carolina, pressed Werfel…

24 Oct

Tom Emmer Suddenly Drops Out of House Speaker Race

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Tom Emmer, the GOP’s pick to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, has dropped out of the race after Donald Trump opposed his candidacy. “It looked like he didn’t have the math… Just a few minutes ago, Emmer bolted out here with some of his colleagues, didn’t say a word to…

24 Oct

Tom Emmer Becomes GOP Candidate for Next Speaker of the House

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There is a new potential suitor to become the next Republican Speaker of the House: Rep. Tom Emmer. The GOP Majority Whip, a Congressman from Minnesota, has emerged to become the favorite candidate for Speaker to proceed to a House floor vote. Emmer steadily picked up support in multiple rounds…