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The New York Daily News reports: Former Queens Republican Party district leader Philip Grillo, who’s running for George Santos‘ job in Congress has been found guilty for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Grillo, 49, was caught on video inside and outside the U.S. Capitol as the Donald Trump-inspired horde flooded the halls of Congress to overturn the results …

The Washington Post reports: It took about 15 minutes before former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was able to speak during the fourth Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday — but once he did, he held nothing back. Christie called out the other three candidates onstage for being too hesitant to criticize former president Donald Trump. He slammed Florida Gov. Ron …

“We really do need to ban TikTok once and for all, and let me tell you why. For every 30 minutes that someone watches TikTok every day, they become 17% more anti-Semitic, more pro-Hamas based on doing that. “We now know that 50% of adults 18 to 25 think that Hamas was warranted in what they did with Israel. That’s …

NBC News reports: During the fourth Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, citing his time serving in the Middle East, referred to the clothing worn by Al Qaeda as “man dresses.” DeSantis was answering a question at the debate, hosted by NewsNation, about his past remarks that he’d authorize shooting drug smugglers coming across the southern …

“They broke our elections on purpose, OK? COVID was designed to break our elections. That was the purpose — they had mail-in balloting all set up already. The drop boxes. Do you think that stuff, like, happened by accident? “These were pre-planned. This was designed. Voting should be hard. I know this is gonna get me in trouble, of saying …

Variety reports: While the LGTBQ rights movement has made tremendous strides since that first rock was thrown at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969, there are still many areas of the U.S. where the queer community doesn’t feel safe. In the new Hulu documentary, “We Live Here: The Midwest,” director Melina Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller …

CNN reports: The Republican-led House Ethics Committee has reached out to at least one witness as part of its investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz to schedule an interview in the coming weeks, the latest sign that the once dormant probe remains open. One formal request went out last week, the day before the House voted to expel former Rep. …

The Messenger reports: “The only potential harm that exists here is the risk of violence against Justice Engoron’s staff if this Court grants a writ of prohibition,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s attorney David Nocenti wrote in a 15-page appellate filing, in boldface text. Engoron questions why Trump’s lawyers would fight so strenuously against such a narrow order. The …

The New York Times reports: Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year. The failed vote highlighted waning support in the United States for continuing to fund …

The Daily Beast reports: Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler appears to have departed her role at the conservative Leadership Institute, which removed her name from its website in wake of a three-way sex scandal and criminal probe involving her husband. On Wednesday, political news website Florida’s Voice cited reports that Bridget Ziegler had stepped down. Ziegeler and the Leadership …