Law & Crime reports: Mike Lindell has suffered another self-inflicted loss in long-running litigation over the $5 million he owes to an engineer who proved that data the Minnesota pillow magnate claimed was definitive proof of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election was nothing of the sort. A federal magistrate judge in the North Star State on Monday said …

Courthouse News reports: Louisiana officials asked the Fifth Circuit Tuesday to overturn a lower court finding that the state’s congressional map illegally dilutes the Black vote and must be redrawn. In 2022, the Louisiana Legislature drew a new congressional map that included only one majority Black district. A group of Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations sued, arguing the …

“They don’t need to be 51st state. They can just be a territory. They can be snowy Puerto Ricans. It’s fine. We can control them, but they don’t have any vote. Maybe we could go further. Maybe we could just use them as a tax base. You know? They’ll be like the Helots of our civilization. How about that? “Someone …

Florida Playbook reports: Time is running short for Gov. Ron Desantis’ first big decision of 2025 — picking Marco Rubio’s replacement in the Senate. Asked on Tuesday if he’s made up his mind, the governor said he still has not decided who he will appoint to replace Rubio. But all signs point to him leaning toward Florida Attorney General Ashley …

Mediate reports: President-elect Donald Trump considered tapping Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo as his vice-presidential pick for the 2024 election, according to a new book from Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt. According to Isenstadt’s upcoming book, titled Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, Trump was “dead serious” about the idea, even presenting the case to his team. The …

Politico reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to publicly release special counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing evidence that Donald Trump criminally conspired to subvert the 2020 election and disenfranchise millions of voters. But Garland will withhold from public release a second volume of the report describing Smith’s second case against Trump for amassing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after leaving …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in what would be a serious breach of journalism ethics. The report, which Fox said it plans to investigate, comes from the forthcoming book “Revenge: The …

“I used to love the idea of gobbling up Canada. Vast energy reserves, doubling our geography, we’d never lose another Winter Olympics. But do we really want to add that many liberals to our population? “I’d still like to add stars to our flag and Canada does seem ripe for the picking. Maybe we just take Saskatchewan and Alberta, because …

NBC News reports: Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity, among broader changes it made to its moderation policies and practices Tuesday. The company’s new guidelines prohibit insults about someone’s intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, …

The Hill reports: President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing on Friday on 34 New York felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump’s emergency application asks the court to prevent the prosecution from moving ahead until his appeals implicating presidential immunity are resolved. “This Court should enter an immediate stay of further proceedings in the New York …

The Washington Post reports: Meta will dismantle its extensive fact-checking program in the United States, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday, ending a practice that has sought to limit the spread of falsehoods on its platforms but has been assailed as censorship in conservative circles. Zuckerberg acknowledged the changes are a “trade-off” that will allow more “bad stuff” to circulate …

“I mean, honestly, I didn’t see a single negative. They’re 100% interested in the idea being liberated from Denmark. I mean, we had crowds waving as we were landing. “For what I was able to see and experience, and again, these are people that feel they’ve been exploited, they have not been treated well by Denmark, they are prevented from …

CTV News reports: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada is not to blame for America’s economic woes and instead is pointing the finger at China for shipping and distributing “cheap parts” through Mexico. “I’ve talked to so many governors, and congresspeople, and senators and never once did they say Canada is the problem,” he said during a interview on Monday …

The New York Post reports: An Arizona tattoo artist is under fire for inking a 9-year-old girl with an American flag — but he insists he actually helped her out and doesn’t support kids getting tats. The co-owner of Black Onyx Empire Tattoo — who goes by Sosa — shared an Instagram post saying the girl rolled into his Yuma …

CNN reports: The Massachusetts State Police were called to Boston’s Logan International Airport Tuesday evening after a JetBlue passenger opened an aircraft door, deploying the emergency slide, the police and airline told CNN. At around 7:30 p.m., authorities responded to JetBlue flight 161 after a passenger “who wanted to deplane opened an aircraft door suddenly and without warning,” police said …

“Donald Trump promised to be a fair president to all Americans and to protect them whether they like it or not. But the liberal fringe is convinced that Trump is out to get them. So now hard left, gay activists are strapping up and embracing the amendment liberals love to hate, the Second. They’re joining groups like the Socialist Rifle …

ABC News reports: Disgraced former Congressman George Santos made $400,000 selling personalized videos on Cameo, federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Tuesday. The disclosure came as they opposed Santos’ efforts to delay his sentencing on Feb. 7. Prosecutors argued against a delay, saying “the numerous victims of Santos’s criminal schemes, and the community writ large have a strong collective …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Matt Gaetz, the former U.S. representative turned conservative cable host, may not be done with politics. Weeks after the release of a congressional report on sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz, the former U.S. representative told the Tampa Bay Times he’s “starting to think about running for governor” in 2026. Chief among Gaetz’s stated policy concerns? …

Reuters reports: The European Union will not let other nations attack its sovereign borders, France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, responding to comments by US President-elect Donald Trump on taking over Greenland. Trump declined on Monday to rule out military or economic action as part of his avowed desire to have the US take control of Greenland, as well as …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: Tens of thousands of residents in the western Los Angeles area were under mandatory evacuation orders Tuesday evening as a wind-driven wildfire exploded in size and swept through communities in the Pacific Palisades. The Palisades Fire was first reported around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of North Piedra Morada Drive. By evening, the …