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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct blood-testing company Theranos, has filed a clemency petition with the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney seeking early release from prison, according to SFist. The petition status is listed as pending, according to KRON4.Holmes was sentenced in late 2022 to 11 years in federal prison after being convicted of defrauding investors in Theranos. Her sentence was reduced to nine years for g

A Republican state lawmaker who had faced criticism for calling Muslims “savages” and making a series of other Islamophobic comments pushed forward his legislation urging Congress to designate the country’s largest Muslim advocacy group a terrorist organization.The measure from Rep. John Gillette, R-Kingman, will have no practical effect. But if it passes, it would be a statement of the legislature’s beliefs. House Concurrent Memorial 2002 urges the president and Congress to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relat

When it comes to governing style, Atlantic assistant editor Marc Novicoff says President Donald Trump loosely qualifies as a certain kind of “dictator,” and it isn’t even the best version.“President Trump prosecutes his political opponents; deports immigrants … to foreign prisons without due process; solicits tribute payments from corporations and foreign governments; deploys soldiers to American cities that are not, in fact, in civil-war-level chaos; and puts his name and image on government buildings that quite obviously don’t belong to him,” said Novicof

After President Donald Trump attacked Canada and its prime minister, Mark Carney, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, some Republicans are urging the United States' neighbor to not listen to the president. As Semafor reported Wednesday, Trump made repeated comments denigrating Canada and its leader, saying Canada "should be grateful" to the U.S. for getting "a lot of freebies." He also asserted that Canada "lives because of the United States." The president's comments came on the heels of Carney's speech in which he lamented "

MS NOW producer Steve Benen points out that the White House recently claimed Minneapolis mother Renee Good, was a “deranged lunatic” who was engaged in “domestic terrorism” when she was fatally shot in the face by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross.But during his “mind-numbing White House press conference Tuesday,” Benen said President Donald Trump did an about-face, claiming he “felt terribly” about what happened.

Federal agents operating in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area are now under heightened scrutiny from the community over their detaining of children, according to a new report.Minneapolis-based NBC affiliate KARE reported Wednesday that five year-old Liam Ramos and his father are now likely being held in a federal detention facility in Texas after being apprehended at their home in Minnesota earlier this week. Ramos was reportedly detained while on his way home from preschoo

A Michigan mayor is now directly calling out President Donald Trump's administration over its heavy-handed treatment of both U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.The Detroit News reported Wednesday that Sterling Heights Mayor Michael C. Taylor — a former Republican who is now a registered independent – used part of a city council meeting to denounce the Trump administration for "terrorizing"

Conservative attorney George Conway — who is running for Congress in New York as a Democrat — is now calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked to remove President Donald Trump from power.In a Wednesday interview with former CNN host Jim Acosta on his Substack channel, Conway called Trump's recent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland "the most embarrassing moment we have ever seen for the United States of America." He

Bulwark Podcaster Tim Miller and “False Flag” Newsletter writer Will Sommer joined forces to tear down a recent video showing MAGA influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, Nick Fuentes, Braden Peters (known as “Clavicular”), Myron Gaines (real name Amrou Fudl), Justin Waller and Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy (known as “Sneako”) posting a group club visit in Florida’s South Beach.“The boys went out on the town. I mean, it's the ‘Hangover 4’ — these are the lea

Scammers are taking advantage of President Donald Trump's MAGA base by selling them products without ever actually fulfilling their orders. That's according to a Wednesday article by Jezebel's Jim Vorel, who wrote that numerous products marketed to pro-Trump conservatives are frequently accused by those same customers of ignoring them after taking their money. Vorel focused mostly on customer reviews for MAGA-branded alcoholic beverages, though he noted that scammers targeting MAGA customers do so through a variety of products."Here’s the thing about grifters in this mold: They truly don’t care who they’re stealin