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Law & Crime reports: A federal appeals court on Friday suspended attorney and activist Larry Klayman — the founder of conservative legal organization Judicial Watch — for representing clients on both sides of the same legal dispute with clear conflict of interest implications. In a harshly worded 13-page opinion penned by Judge David S. Tatel, the U.S. Court of Appeals …

CNN reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci labeled the theory that former US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield shared with CNN that the novel coronavirus spread earlier and “escaped” from a lab in China as just “an opinion.” “Obviously, there are a number of theories,” said Fauci, during a White House Covid-19 Response Team briefing on Friday. …

So this actually happened in real life: Senator Ted Cruz joined a delegation of fellow Republican members of Congress by visiting immigration facilities at the Southern US border. The media-friendly tour is designed to bring attention to the situation at the border, and score some political hit points against President Joe Biden. Cruz took it a step further but posting …

Axios reports: Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told CNN on Friday that he believes the coronavirus “escaped” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it was spreading as early as September or October of 2019 — though he stressed that it was his “opinion.” It’s a stunning assertion by the man who led the U.S. government’s public health agency …

From the YouTube description: Well-known conspiracy theorist and far-right radio show host Alex Jones visited Yale on Monday to film a video about senior society Skull and Bones. Jones believes that Bones was founded by the CIA and is responsible for the Great Recession. He got into arguments with several students about his views. As you’ll see, the students heckled …

Mediaite reports: “If Joe Biden tries to nuke the filibuster in order to cram down gun control in complete contravention to the constitution of the United States … good luck!” Shapiro exclaimed before claiming that citizens of Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida will resort to violence if the federal government intervenes with their gun rights. “You wanna exacerbate conflict to …

CNN reports: Right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell is claiming in a new court filing that reasonable people wouldn’t have believed as fact her assertions of fraud after the 2020 presidential election. The election infrastructure company Dominion Voting Systems sued Powell for defamation after she pushed lawsuits and made appearances in conservative media on behalf of then-President Donald Trump to sow doubt …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Monica Levinson, producer of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, said the film’s infamous Rudy Giuliani scene was even more harrowing for the filmmakers after the former mayor left the hotel room. The film features a scene in which Giuliani goes to the hotel bedroom with Maria Bakalova after an interview, appearing to expect sexual relations. Giuliani has denied that’s …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: While a takedown to the floor wasn’t necessary, police body camera video of a maskless woman being arrested for the second time in six days showed her in the middle of a recitation of her “rights” inside an Office Depot store in Texas City. However, much like her previous arrest at a Bank of America …

“Biden, not only do I think is a terrible president in these last few months, it’s just terrible for talk radio. I think Biden is a disaster for the country and his ideas are an atrocity. “But he’s boring. He’s just boring. It’s going to be a challenge. It is. It’s going to be a challenge. I’ll tell you that …

“President Trump has never conceded, he never agreed to anything, he never stepped away, never conceded. He basically stepped aside momentarily while things are being sorted out. “He stepped aside, he never conceded, and the last defense is the military. Actually, the military is in control right now and they’ve already made their determination. “Now it’s about execution. Now it’s …

“Patrick was a great winner of souls. And he is — I can tell you — he is in heaven. I have seen his mansion. And because Jesus also has a sense of humor, he built Patrick’s mansion in a field of five-foot-tall shamrocks. I saw him in heaven, and so he’s got all these shamrocks that sing to him …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A woman accused of resisting a Galveston police officer earlier this month after being asked to leave a bank over her refusal to wear a face mask has been arrested again. Terry Lynn Wright, 65, was taken into custody Wednesday by Texas City police at an Office Depot, just six days after her arrest on …

Mediaite reports: “I do believe there will be a teleprompter there, which he can just turn on when you need the set response. That would not surprise me at all,” Varney said, implying that a teleprompter could instantly answer questions live for the president. Varney went on to predict that a Biden staffer would be at the press conference to …

Forbes reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in a letter to Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin and Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, alleged a “dangerous and troubling trend” of National Guard troops being used to “harass members of Congress and their staff.” Greene specifically accused San Nicolas of using more than two dozen National Guard troops to …

“I have seen the tears in your eyes at how essential walking into the church doors — fellowship with one another, encouragement of one another, hope with one another — because isolation is a tool of war. “That is a tool of the enemy of war. And covering your mouth? That is what the enemy wants to do. That’s what …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that former Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz had joined his legal team to take on Dominion Voting Systems. “It’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, we’re going after Dominion… for free speech,” Lindell said Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom Pandemic podcast. “Alan Dershowitz told me that this …

Reuters reports: Tesla Inc added “Technoking of Tesla” to billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk’s list of official titles on Monday in a formal regulatory filing that also named finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn “Master of Coin”. The electric-car maker did not elaborate on the reasons for the cryptic new titles in a pair of statements that also said President of Automotive …

The Washington Post reports: Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of doubts expressed by U.S. users about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to identify the medical attitudes of millions of Americans, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The research is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of ideas that contribute …

Metro Weekly reports: A three-judge panel on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Vimeo is immune under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 Internet law dealing with private blocking and screening of potentially offensive material. As a result, the company cannot be sued for removing videos that violated its policies regarding what type of …