Australian officials imposed strict new stay-at-home orders Saturday across New
South Wales, including Sydney, ordering shops and households alike to close
their doors due to a spike in new COVID-19 cases.
Rep. Paul Gosar was slammed on social media for sharing a snapshot that seemed
to show the Arizona Republican wearing a bracelet honoring Ashli Babbitt, the
U.S. Capitol invader shot and killed by police.
Daniel Everette Hale, a former U.S. Air Force analyst, was sentenced to nearly
four years in prison Tuesday for admittedly leaking classified material to the
news media about the Pentagon’s drone program.
The city of Riverside, California, announced the cancellation of a rally
featuring Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida less
than 24 hours before it was set to start Saturday.
L. Lin Wood, a lawyer hoping to overturn former President Trump’s election loss,
has been ordered by a federal judge to explain why he should go unpunished after
sharing video from a recent court hearing.
Two men from California have been charged in federal court with plotting to blow
up the state Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento in what prosecutors say
would have constituted a terrorist attack.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger criticized the current state of the vast
online encyclopedia he started in a recent interview, casting doubt on whether
it can be trusted to provide unbiased information.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian
Institution to renovate the National Air and Space Museum and open a new
education center next door.
Foo Fighters will no longer perform Saturday at The Forum in southern
California, postponing the concert due to what the band called a “confirmed
COVID-19 case within the Foo Fighter organization.”
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has created a task force to weigh
potentially renaming local roadways that currently honor Confederate Army Gens.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
REvil, a Russian-based hacking group held responsible for several recent major
ransomware attacks, has raised questions regarding its whereabouts by abruptly
vanishing from the internet this week.
Nicholas J. Fuentes, a far-right activist known for leading the so-called
“Groyper” movement, has been banned from Twitter for what the social media
company said were repeated violations of its rules.
A former bank in Sesser, Illinois, a small town roughly 300 miles south of
Chicago, is set to become the site of the state’s first legal “cannabis
consumption lounge” when it opens its doors this weekend.
The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, announced Friday it will finally remove
its monuments to two former Confederate Army generals, Robert E. Lee and Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson, starting Saturday.
Sen. Rand Paul said he will seek to repeal the requirement that airline
passengers and crew wear face masks on planes once lawmakers reconvene on
Capitol Hill after their current summer recess concludes.
Republicans in Florida, the state with the most residents to face charges for
the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, plan to rally Saturday for the release of
all defendants currently held on related counts.
Britain’s High Court has agreed to let the Biden administration appeal a
decision handed down by a lower court in January that blocked efforts by the
U.S. to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine convicted in Russia of espionage, will request
that he finish serving his prison sentence in another country, two of his
lawyers reportedly told Russian media Wednesday.