Elektrek reports: Elon Musk appears to be backing out from abiding by the results of a Twitter poll voting him out as head of the social media platform. Musk first responded “interesting” to a comment by Kim Dotcom suggesting that the “deep state” rigged the poll with bots. He then responded the same thing to a theory that the number …

The New York Daily News reports: Two people were arrested Monday for breaking into a New York City Council member’s apartment building as crazed anti-LGBTQ activists targeted the pol, police said. The individuals, said to be furious over a recent drag story time session at a Manhattan library, targeted Councilman Erik Bottcher’s home and office, according to cops. The group …

The Daily Beast reports: The increasingly hostile MAGA-world battle over whether or not to back Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for Speaker of the House has led to a falling out between onetime BFFs Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). At Turning Point USA’s winter student conference on Monday, Boebert said that her support for McCarthy isn’t …

Variety reports: Amber Heard will pay Johnny Depp $1 million to settle their long-running legal battle, in which each accused the other of domestic violence. The sum is a significant reduction from the $8.35 million she was ordered to pay after a six-week trial in Virginia earlier this year. The payment is expected to come from her insurance carrier. In …

USA Today reports: A jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault in his Los Angeles trial Monday, piling on to legal woes for the disgraced film producer as he continues to face repercussions from sexual assault allegations that kickstarted the #MeToo movement. After deliberating for nine days spanning more than two weeks, the jury reached the verdict at the second criminal trial …

Politico reports: The Jan. 6 select committee’s last — and most important — act won’t happen in a hearing room. It will come when one of the panel’s last, beleaguered staffers hits the “publish” button on its collection of evidence compiled over 18 months of investigation, material that still remains almost entirely secret. The committee is sitting on a stockpile …

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday issued a terse response to the House Select Jan. 6 Committee’s decision to refer criminal charges against former President Trump to the Department of Justice. “The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day. Beyond that, I don’t have any immediate observations,” McConnell said in a statement reacting …

“We have to subpoena and get access to the entire 14,000 hours of the January 6th. No more — no more of this stuff that’s been kind of edited and cropped and out where they can — they, they have a narrative that they’re trying to craft that has gotta go away. “Christopher Wray will say, ‘Thank you, I’ll have …

Semafor reports: The summary of the final report from the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol revealed the total number of weapons the Secret Service seized even before a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building. The weapons, confiscated from the 28,000 spectators who passed through metal detectors to see Trump’s speech on the …

NPR reports: A leading New York Republican says accusations that GOP Congressman-elect George Santos (R-NY) faked much of his biography are “serious.” “I believe that George Santos deserves an opportunity to address the claims detailed in the article,” said Joseph Cairo Jr., the influential chairman of Nassau County’s Republican committee. He referred to a story in the New York Times …

Rupert Murdoch’s Page Six reports: We’re told Carlson invited heavyweight legend Mike Tyson to stay at his home before the champ appeared on his Fox Nation streaming show “Tucker Carlson Today.” But insiders say that Tyson thought he’d have to turn down the hospitable offer because he has a heavy weed habit and didn’t want to impertinently hotbox Carlson’s tastefully …

Baltimore’s CBS affiliate reports: The Delaware Department of Justice is looking for more victims in the prosecution of a Sussex County pastor charged with soliciting child pornography. The DOJ says 62-year-old Leonard Eley, was indicted on Nov. 28 on one count of Sexual Solicitation of a Minor, two counts of Possession of Child Pornography, and one count of Theft by …

Semafor reports: “Ron to the Rescue,” founded by Republican strategist John Thomas, emerged just after the midterms with an ad declaring that “America needs Ron DeSantis” and pitching his success as Joe Biden’s failure to keep a good state down. According to Thomas, the super PAC will likely focus on “exploit[ing] some of the former president’s vulnerabilities” on topics like …

The Washington Post reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol voted Monday to send to Justice Department prosecutors a recommendation that the former president be charged with four crimes: inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to make a false …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Zoe Lofgren revealed on Monday that the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot obtained evidence Trump and associates linked to him tried to influence witnesses by offering potential employment. She also claimed one witness was told by a lawyer who would not reveal who was paying for his services that she could tell the committee she …

From Rep. Liz Cheney’s opening statement today: In the eyes of many in the world, this every four-year ceremony that we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. Every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. January 6, 2021, was the first time one American president refused his constitutional duty to transfer …

The New York Times reports: Lamor Whitehead, a flashy Brooklyn pastor who was the victim of a brazen armed robbery last summer, was charged on Monday with fraud, extortion and lying to federal authorities. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Mr. Whitehead solicited money from victims, including a retired parishioner, through threats or false promises of enriching them, then kept the …

CBS News reports: New audio files show that retired Lt. General Michael Flynn repeatedly invoked his right against self-incrimination when pressed over his efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election. CBS obtained audio from the former Trump national security advisor’s deposition to the January 6th Committee as part of their investigation into the storming of the …

The Associated Press reports: The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will make its final public presentation Monday about the unprecedented effort by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election he lost in 2020. The committee has called it an “attempted coup” that warrants criminal prosecution from the Justice Department. Monday’s meeting will be the committee’s 11th …

“I wrote this in my book, that how many times Adam Schiff said that there was evidence of collusion with Russia. Two and a half years we listen to Adam Schiff talk about evidence that he had seen that that was never there. “But let me be very clear about this point. Congress has no formal role in Justice Department …