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The Florida Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ highly effective if controversial congressional map. The ongoing dispute threw the boundaries of multiple North Florida congressional districts redrawn by DeSantis and his advisers in doubt. At issue was their decision to eliminate a plurality Black district that stretched from Tallahassee to Jacksonville. An appeals court will now decide the legal challenge to the DeSantis-backed map. Reading between the lines, the development means that the new district boundaries are probably set in stone until the next congressional apportionment following the 2030 census. It also means that…

The Justice Department has charged Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Trump, with two counts of contempt of Congress. The indictment carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. It follows Navarro’s decision to ignore subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. As The New York Times reports: Prosecutors say that Mr. Navarro, 72, was issued a subpoena by the House committee on Feb. 9, but failed to appear for a deposition or provide documents to congressional investigators. The indictment charges him with two counts of contempt that each carry a maximum sentence…

According to a new report, U.S. intelligence is convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1532417863407001600 The report also stated that Putin survived an assassination attempt in March, less than one month after Russia invaded Ukraine. One intelligence officer told Newsweek, “The jockeying inside the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone sensing that the end is near.” The officer added that while Putin’s grip on power remains strong, it is “no longer absolute.” As Newsweek reports: Vladimir Putin’s health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the…

In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled against a Texas law that would have impeded social media companies from moderating content. The majority included justices from the high court’s liberal and conservative blocs. The unlikely coalition included Stephen Breyer, John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor and Trump appointees Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. The minority was equally diverse, albeit smaller, as Mediate reports: Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Elena Kagan, and Clarence Thomas dissented.HB 20 vowed to protect “Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms.” It was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) last September. In a press release covering the signing ceremony,…

No state is perhaps as politically divided as Pennsylvania. Conventional wisdom suggests the quality of the candidate the Republicans choose to run for the Keystone State’s Senate open seat this fall will play a significant role in the GOP’s eventual victory or defeat. (RELATED: The Biggest Takeaways From the Most Important Primary Night So Far) The contest between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick has gone down to the wire. Oz, a celebrity surgeon supported by President Trump, leads McCormick, a former George W. Bush administration official and ex-hedge fund CEO, by a fraction of a percentage point. With a…

A jury has found Hillary Clinton-linked campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI. The announcement comes after one day of jury deliberations. The verdict is a stinging rebuke to Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation. Durham’s prosecutors alleged Sussmann lied to the FBI when he reached out to the FBI’s then-General Counsel Jim Baker with unverified information linking Trump to a Kremlin-affiliated Russian bank in the fall of 2016. The purported link involving Trump was later debunked. Despite Sussmann reportedly telling Baker “I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company,” the…

President Biden has told reporters that there’s “no rational basis” for owning a 9mm handgun. Biden’s remarks came after meeting with the families of the victims in the Robb Elementary School shooting. Recalling a separate occasion at a trauma center in New York, the president explained that doctors told him a .22-caliber round would lodge in the lung. Biden then claimed the doctors told him that a 9mm bullet “blows the lung out of the body.” WATCH: https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1531306086917189633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1531306086917189633%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-claims-a-9mm-bullet-blows-the-lung-out-of-the-body-and-people-couldnt-own-cannons-in-1776 Fox News has more on the president’s remarks: “So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis…

Police arrested Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Saturday night. The arrest followed a traffic stop in Napa County, California. After pulling Mr. Pelosi over, the officer discovered he had been driving under the influence. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1531025251106275328 Mr. Pelosi was booked into the Napa County Correction Department early Sunday and released later that morning. TMZ was the first media outlet to report the story. Fox News has more on the preliminary details: Paul Pelosi, 82, has been married to Nancy since 1963.A spokesperson for Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she would not be commenting on the “private” matter.”The…

Despite a mountain of research suggesting hateful rhetoric leads to violence, YouTuber Ethan Klein impulsively told his legion of fans that “someone should bomb that building” where the NRA is holding its annual meeting. Klein’s YouTube channel, H3 Podcast, has 2.96 million subscribers. As Twitchy reports: It’s funny how some people, like the Robb Elementary School shooter, can fly under the radar for years and then get his hands on thousands of dollars of rifles and ammo, and be practically absolved of the massacre that happened at his hands. Then there are others, whom we would assume would be all…

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw admitted Uvalde police reacted far too slowly to Tuesday’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. “With a bit of a hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision it was the wrong decision, period,” McCraw told reporters Friday while attempting to deflect blame away from himself. Most disturbingly, McCraw explained how students called 9-1-1 multiple times from the classroom where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos unleashed his reign of terror. By the time the classroom was breached Ramos had murdered 19 children and two adults. The Daily Caller reports: McCraw’s…