The Associated Press reports: “I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,” Nikki Haley told the Associated Press at a press conference. “That’s something that we’ll have a conversation about at some point if that decision is something that has to be made.” Haley, a former South Carolina governor considered a potential …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: Long before COVID, a plan was hatched to steal your freedom. COVID was the springboard to get people to give up freedom for “safety.” Now dark forces are pushing the greatest crackdown on freedom yet – it comes straight from Communist China under the guise of a “vaccine passport” to restrict travel …

NBC News reports: The NCAA Board of Governors released a statement Monday that it will not host championships in places that discriminate against transgender athletes. “The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports. This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition,” the statement read in …

Knoxville’s ABC News affiliate reports: Police say multiple shooting victims, including an officer, are reported at a Knoxville, Tennessee high school. A tweet Monday afternoon by the city’s police department stated “multiple agencies are on the scene of a shooting at Austin-East Magnet.” A Knoxville Police Department officer is among the “multiple gunshot victims.” The clips below are live. Multiple …

The Detroit Free Press reports: Ted Nugent, the aging rocker with Michigan roots who performed at campaign events for former President Donald Trump, has raised a question about the COVID-19 pandemic that possibly nobody else had considered. “Why weren’t we shut down for COVID one through 18?” asked Nugent, 72, in an interview shared to his Facebook page, in which …

Stars & Stripes reports: President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Christine Wormuth to be the next Army secretary, making her the first woman to hold that position, according to a news report Monday. Her nomination is the first of the three service secretaries positions that need to be filled by the Biden administration. Wormuth is the director of the …

Changing America reports: Domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States have skyrocketed to the highest rates recorded in a quarter-century, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). CSIS, a nonpartisan nonprofit that specializes in national security issues, has been monitoring extremism since 1994. There have been 267 plots …

Politico reports: The Florida county tax collector was five days away from a federal indictment for sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old — the same one Gaetz is now being investigated over — so Greenberg reached out to mutual friends on Aug. 14 last year and tried to enlist them in his defense, according to a WhatsApp chat. He fumed that …

Minneapolis’s ABC News reports: FBI special agents arrested Jonah Westbury, 26, of Lindstrom, on Friday. According to the statement of facts linked to his arrest, the FBI received tips from two separate people within days of the riot in Washington, D.C. The day after the attack, one person who said they went to high school with the suspect told the …

The Daily Beast reports: A Florida woman sent videos to her incarcerated spouse in which she threatened to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a complaint filed in South Florida federal court. “If I see you in the street, I’m gonna kill your ass Kamala Harris,” Niviane Petit Phelps of Miami Gardens allegedly said in one. “I’m going to …

The Fort Worth Weekly reports: Dozens gathered outside Fort Worth City Hall this afternoon in anticipation of a “White Lives Matter” rally, one of many occurring on the same day in nearly four dozen cities across the country. There was no significant violence and no arrests were made, but several accusations of assault flew from both sides. One came from …

The Associated Press reports: Police in a Minneapolis suburb where a Black man was fatally shot during a traffic stop say the officer who fired intended to use a Taser, not a handgun. Police Chief Tim Gannon described the shooting as “an accidental discharge.” The man identified by relatives as 20-year-old Daunte Wright died Sunday in Brooklyn Center, a city …

Raw Story reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell may soon be on the hook for more than $1 billion thanks to a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion – but that’s not stopping him from trying to take on one of the world’s most powerful tech companies. During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s show, Lindell revealed that he’s creating a website called …

Axios reports: The National Republican Senatorial Committee named former President Trump as the inaugural recipient of its “Champion for Freedom” award on Monday. The award from Senate Republicans’ campaign arm was presented the same weekend that Trump tore into Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at a Republican event at Mar-a-Lago, calling the Senate GOP leader a “dumb son of a b*tch” …

The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) escalated his feud with the federal government’s leading infectious disease expert on Monday, calling Anothony Fauci a “petty tyrant” for suggesting Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus should not eat or drink indoors. “Fauci continues to ignore 100 years of vaccine science,” Paul wrote in a tweet Monday morning. “His only real theme is …

Tampa’s Fox News affiliate reports: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is optimistic that cruises can resume by mid-summer, as operators struggle to stay afloat one year after sailing was shut down due to coronavirus concerns. “Well, the bottom line is safety… I can’t wait for us all to be on the move …

The New York Times reports: Will Smith and the director Antoine Fuqua said on Monday that they were pulling their upcoming film production “Emancipation” out of Georgia because of the state’s new voting law, which has been denounced by activists as an effort to make voting harder for the state’s Black population. The slavery-era drama, which is being produced and …

“The church, we are so neutered. We are. We are so neutered. We are so effeminate. Jesus wasn’t a wimp,. He was a tough guy. He was a man. OK? He was a man. “When they were selling in his father’s house, he went and he braided a whip. Now, that takes time. He’s braiding a whip, and he’s like, …

The Washington Post reports: President Biden is preparing to nominate Tucson police chief Chris Magnus to be commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, selecting a critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policies to run the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency as it contends with the biggest increase in migrants arriving at the southwest border in two decades. Read …

The Associated Press reports: La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent late last week, with officials worried about the lives of those who have refused to evacuate. Experts called it a “huge explosion” that generated …