ABC News reports: Visa and Mastercard paused their decision to start categorizing purchases at gun shops, a significant win for conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates who felt that tracking gun shop purchases would inadvertently discriminate against legal firearms purchases. The decision is, at the same time, also a defeat for gun control groups. There had been hope that categorizing …

CNN reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence made his most blistering comments yet about former President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol during remarks Saturday evening at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC. Pence rebuked Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack, saying he was “wrong” for claiming Pence …

Deadline Hollywood reports: The biggest bank failure since the financial crisis more than 15 years ago has hit streaming giant Roku. In an SEC filing Friday, the company disclosed that 26% of its cash was held at Silicon Valley Bank, and the funds were “largely uninsured.” The 16th largest bank in the U.S., with more than $200 billion in assets, …

Variety reports: A new single, “Justice for All,” featuring former President Donald Trump, from the J6 Prison Choir, reached No. 1 on iTunes’ top songs on March 11. The J6 Prison Choir is comprised of a group of men who were convicted after their participation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The song includes the …

“We were all home and there were people with long guns on the front lawn, right outside the gate. You could hear it, the vitriol and the ugliness. “The threats started spilling over to my husband’s office and his staff was worried and he was worried that his patients might be in danger and he decided to look into selling …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump and the New York author who claims he raped her in the 1990s may get an anonymous jury at their upcoming defamation trial — an unusual scenario for a civil case with high-profile litigants. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Saturday issued an order asking Trump and Carroll to respond by March 17 …

The Associated Press reports: A former Idaho legislative intern is suing a lawmaker who was convicted of raping her and one of his colleagues for publicly releasing the teen’s identity and launching a campaign of harassment against her. The young woman, who uses the pseudonym “Jane Doe” in the federal lawsuit, was just 19 when she reported that then-Rep. Aaron …

From the Justice Department: A Michigan man was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with illegally possessing firearms after having been committed to a mental institution and while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. The man came to the attention of the FBI after he made numerous threats over YouTube …

Newsweek reports: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have thought he was mocking those he has railed against when posing with a handmade snowflake. However, its hidden message showed that he was the subject of the joke. In an image that has gone viral, the Republican seemed unaware of the word “fascist” that appeared in the framed gift handed to him …

Raw Story reports: Anderson Cooper slammed Donald Trump’s former senior campaign legal adviser Colorado attorney Jenna Ellis on Friday for completely contradicting within hours her own admission that she had lied when she claimed the 2020 election was rigged. In an agreement with legal authorities, Ellis accepted that she had “through her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Some in the Fake News are falsely stating that Ron DeSanctimonious’ book is doing as well as ‘LETTERS TO TRUMP,’ my new book. This is FAKE NEWS in that LETTERS doesn’t even come out until April 25th. Ron has groups buying his book in order to inflate sales and, in fact, on the first …

The Lafayette Courier & Journal reports: On Friday, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York convicted former Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer on insider trading charges. These charges were filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission based on allegations that Buyer had used insider information to purchase stock in Navigant Consulting and Sprint Corp. before their acquisitions …

Via press release from the United States Air Force: President of the United States Joe Biden selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing for the 21st century. While accounting for the VC-25B’s larger 747-8i aircraft, the VC-25B livery …

The Geauga Maple Leaf reports: Dennis W. Laferty, a pastor at Thompson United Methodist Church in Thompson Township, is accused of sexual battery against one or more minors. Laferty, 37, who lives in a home Trustees of Thompson Methodist Church own at 6724 Madison Road, is facing multiple felony counts. Laferty was charged with five counts of third-degree felony sexual …

Mediaite reports: “Tucker Carlson has kind of been caught with his pants down,” Eric Bolling told Sebastian Gorka on Friday’s edition of The Balance on Newsmax. “What are your thoughts on Tucker’s pandering?” “These text messages do not look good for either Fox or for Tucker,” Gorka replied. “Why would Tucker Carlson want to ignore a Republican with an incredible …

“He’s owned by the Chinese Communist Party. What are you talking about? Tesla, the only thing of real value is Tesla. He uses it for margin loans. He sells the stock. The Shanghai joint venture is a hundred percent controlled by the CCP. This is why he never goes after the CCP. This is why he always backs off. This …

“Just like FTX, all the geniuses told you to buy SVB, even when it was on the brink of total collapse. What explains that? Surely something does, we don’t know really know at this point. Hopefully we will someday. “What we can say tonight is that SVB, like the scammers at FTX, had quite the public relations department. Yes, because …

The New York Times reports: A former New York City police officer was convicted this week of several crimes for her role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, during which, prosecutors said, she pushed against and slapped the arms of police officers, all while yelling and wielding a tambourine. A federal jury in Washington, D.C., found the retired …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Floridians who are raped would need to show evidence of that crime if they want an exception under the proposed six-week abortion ban, a requirement that advocates say would traumatize victims of sexual violence even more. Victims of rape or incest would have to provide a copy of a restraining order, police report, medical record or …

Billboard Magazine reports: Cyndi Lauper and The B-52s have joined a rising chorus of voices speaking out against new laws being passed by Republicans targeting the trans community and seeking to ban drag artists. “Equality for everybody, or nobody’s really equal,” longtime LGBTQ ally Lauper said. “This is how Hitler started. Just weeding everybody out.” Hitler’s Nazi Germany tagged gay …