BREAKING: Josh Duggar Indicted For Allegedly Receiving And Possessing Child Porn

Josh Duggar, the oldest child of the family featured in the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting,” has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Arkansas for allegedly receiving and possessing child pornography.

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Giuliani Hunt For Dirt Provided Bonanza For Ukrainians With Axes To Grind

Manhattan federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani reportedly have a bizarre episode in their crosshairs: the firing of former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

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Gaetz To Yell His Way Through Scandal By Kicking Up Dirt Within GOP Amid Sex Trafficking Probe

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) plans to burst back onto the scene with guns blazing through a public crusade to take down “RINOs” (“Republicans In Name Only”), along with Democrats, as the feds investigate him for alleged sex trafficking.

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Former Reality Star And Scion Of Famed Evangelical Family Josh Duggar Arrested

Josh Duggar, the oldest child of the sprawling fundamentalist Christian family that starred in TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Arkansas. 

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Yeah The Daily Beast Got The Underage Sex Bombshell, But About That Pardon Shopping…

The access apparently made all the difference.

After firing off a few pleading texts to President Donald Trump’s confidante Roger Stone, alleged child sex trafficker Joel Greenberg reportedly managed to nab a spot on a list of potential pardon recipients that reached the Trump White House. 

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The Russian Nesting Doll of Giuliani’s Corruption

I had worried that federal prosecutors might be forced to whittle the fullness of Rudy Giuliani’s criminal conduct down to a technical violation of failure to report lobbying on behalf of a foreign entity. But reports this morning suggest his legal peril may go well beyond that. Federal investigators seem to be looking at his decision to work with Russian spies to damage Joe Biden and spread disinformation about his family and seek the ouster of the US Ambassador to Ukraine as part of the extortion plot that eventually got Trump impeached.

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Counties At Highest Risk For COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates

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As the U.S. rushes to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus, most counties with the sickest residents are lagging behind and making only incremental progress reaching their most vulnerable populations.

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Updated: FBI Prepared Briefing To Warn Giuliani He Was Target Of Russia Disinfo Campaign, Report Says

Update (May 3, 2021): The Washington Post and New York Times and NBC have walked back their reports stating that then-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani received a warning from the FBI advising him that Russia was using him as a conduit in its disinformation campaign against Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, whose business dealings in Ukraine were central to Trumpland’s efforts to take down Biden. The defensive briefing was prepared for Giuliani, NBC now reports, but was not ultimately delivered.

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Lieu Calls For Gaetz Removal From Committee After Bombshell New Report

A Democratic congressman is calling on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to remove Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) from the House Judiciary Committee over “an untenable conflict of interest,” citing a Daily Beast report that includes a confession letter allegedly written by Joel Greenberg claiming that he and Gaetz paid for sex with multiple women including an underage teenage girl.

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