Billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, who strongly backed Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign, announced that he has not only pulled his support from the former California congressman but is leaving the Democratic Party […]

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The real pain from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz hasn’t even hit us yet. All over the world, countries are running down their strategic energy reserves, and the last tankers that left the Persian Gulf before the war started will be arriving at their destinations this month. After that, things are going to start getting really crazy unless we get some sort of a miracle and the Strait of Hormuz is quickly reopened. The shortages that we have seen so far are nothing compared to what could be coming, and as you will see below, we are being warned that one of the largest food producing nations on the entire planet may soon be forced to ration fuel.

According to the Washington Post, less than 10 ships a day have been traveling through the Strait of Hormuz…

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains constrained a week after the United States and Iran said they would facilitate vessel passage under a two-week ceasefire agreement. Instead, tensions have escalated. After Iran said ships must coordinate with its forces — and, in some cases, pay a toll — President Donald Trump called the demands “extortion” and announced Sunday that the United States would block ships entering or exiting Iranian ports, adding pressure to an already fragile truce.

But even as Washington seeks to squeeze Iran economically, Tehran retains a powerful advantage: geography. Over six weeks of conflict, Iran has halted virtually all traffic in the strait by laying mines, according to its military forces, and exploiting the vulnerability created by its terrain. Even under a U.S. blockade, these factors allow Iran to continue exerting influence over who crosses — and at what risk.

That risk, more than any formal closure, is what is keeping ships away. According to data from Kpler, only nine vessels have crossed the strait daily on average since the ceasefire, compared with the prewar traffic of more than 130 ships. “De facto, the ceasefire has done absolutely nothing to change the situation [in the strait]. None whatsoever,” said Lars Jensen of Vespucci Maritime, a container shipping consultancy based in Copenhagen.

Now that the U.S. Navy is conducting a blockade of Iranian ports, no vessels will be traveling to or from Iran, and the level of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz will go down even more.

Both sides are expecting the other to give in.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is really suffering.

For example, a lack of fuel has created an unprecedented crisis for the nation of Australia…

In the film Mad Max, an oil shortage leaves Australian society teetering on the brink of total collapse.

In real-life, things aren’t quite that dystopian yet Down Under. But with barely a month of stockpiled diesel left and hundreds of forecourts running dry, the anxiety is palpable.

Australia has one of the highest per-capita rates of diesel consumption in the world but it relies almost entirely on imports to meet that demand. There are two domestic refineries producing petrol but up to 90pc of that is imported, too.

If the conflict in the Middle East is resolved very soon, Australia will come through this okay.

But if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for an extended period of time, Australia will find itself in all sorts of trouble, because it only has about a month of fuel left before rationing will become necessary…

The country has 38 days’ worth of petrol left in reserve before reaching critical levels, at which point rationing would need to kick in. For diesel, it’s 31 days and for jet fuel, just 28.

For truckers and farmers in particular, the supply crunch feels near-existential.

Without enough diesel, Australia’s trucking industry will come to a standstill.

Even worse, Australia’s farmers won’t be able to plant their crops if they can’t get the fuel that they need.

And that is really bad news for the entire planet, because Australia is the world’s “fifth-largest producer of wheat and second-largest grower of barley”…

In a country that is the fifth-largest producer of wheat and second-largest grower of barley, McIntyre warns that “most farmers will need to decide before Anzac Day [April 25] whether they will plant a crop this year”.

Mathew Munro, the chief executive of the Australian Trucking Association, sounds equally alarmed. He recently described the situation for the country’s 60,000 trucking businesses as “an emergency”.

Yet again, we see another mention of wheat and barley in the news.

As I have discussed in previous articles, wheat production and barley production are both going to be way down all over the globe in 2026 because we are not getting nitrogen fertilizer from the Middle East into the hands of farmers throughout the northern hemisphere that desperately need it.

Nitrogen fertilizer is the primary reason why we were able to grow the population of the globe to 8 billion people.

And without sufficient quantities of nitrogen fertilizer each growing season, there is no possible way that we will be able to continue to feed 8 billion people.

If the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened, 6 to 9 months from now we will be facing a global shortage of food of epic proportions.

The Trump administration is convinced that a naval blockade will be so painful that it will force the Iranians to give in.

According to U.S. Central Command, during the first 24 hours “no ships made it past the U.S. blockade”…

No ships will be arriving at Iranian ports, and no ships will be leaving.

This will cut off the flow of oil revenue to the regime, and it will also cause excruciating shortages of gasoline and diesel because Iran does not possess sufficient refining capacity to produce what they need domestically…

Within 10 to 14 days, Iran won’t be able to store oil and will have permanent long term damage to oil wells for extracting oil. Oil wells perform poorly after you stop the flowing process.

Iran exports oil, but it also imports gasoline and diesel. Iran lacks the ability to refine enough of their own oil into gasoline and diesel. So very soon Iran will be running out of fuel everywhere.

Meanwhile, this naval blockade is deeply upsetting the Chinese.

Most people do not realize this, but normally over half of the energy that China uses travels through the Strait of Hormuz…

More than half of China’s energy comes through the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies.

“Such actions will only intensify contradictions, exacerbate tensions, undermine the already fragile ceasefire, and further jeopardize the security of navigation through the strait,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters Tuesday of the U.S. blockade. “This is dangerous and irresponsible behavior.”

For the moment, the Chinese are fine because they were wise enough to stockpile absolutely enormous reserves.

But if we get a few months down the road and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, the Chinese are going to start to panic.

If push comes to shove, I believe that the Chinese Navy would start escorting tankers to ports in Iran.

At that point, the Trump administration would have a major decision to make.

Let’s hope that it never comes to that.

Let’s hope that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is resolved very rapidly.

But at this stage there is no end to this crisis in sight, and that is really bad news for the entire world.

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An illegal alien gang member, previously deported from the United States, was found living in Duval County, Florida, after law enforcement began a manhunt for him, as he is wanted in his native Jamaica for murder.

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” with Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. 

JACK FOWLER: Well, you were talking about not being pottymouth, so we’re gonna talk about some pottymouth people here, Victor.  

This is Donald Trump, well, there’s some podcasters infamous for being pottymouth. So here’s a headline: “Trump goes off on nut jobs Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones over Iran war criticism.” 

I think this is from the New York Post. “President Trump lashed out at four Right-wing critics of the Iran war.” This was Thursday, two days ago, from when we’re talking, describing them as nut jobs and losers who will say anything for attention.  

“’I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state-sponsored terror, to have a nuclear weapon, because they have one thing in common: low IQs.’”  

He’s writing this on Truth Social: “’They’re stupid people. They know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it too.’ The president raged.” 

I know it. 

“’Look at the past, look at the record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did.’” Mamma mia … 

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I don’t know about Alex, I don’t know Alex Jones. I’ve only met Candace Owens once, but I’ve been on Tucker’s show quite a lot and I’ve been on Megyn’s show quite a lot. They’re not low-IQ people. 

But what I don’t understand about them is this, and I like them both personally. I don’t know what precipitated this. I see Tucker had a little earlier turnabout, because on the bombing last summer, he said it was gonna cause World War III.  

But we learned afterward that he’s been calling Trump various times. He was back on good terms.  

So when this other strike hit, they got very, very angry. And Megyn gave a long excursus that she was sick. She had expletive—man, that I watched that clip. It was “f” this and “sh” this, but she was very angry at Trump’s existential threat to civilization.  

But I think, because they’re intelligent people, and Tucker said it was, what, satanic or something on Easter to do that. 

No one of their caliber would believe that Trump was going to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran. And we know that is true because he said help was on the way to the Iranian people.  

And as I said with Sami, if you go back, all of our wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, the Serbian misadventure, the Libyan fiasco, we hit dual-use targets. We took out civilian ships, port facilities in Libya. We bombed the grid into zero blackouts in Belgrade. One and a half [million] people, no electricity.  

We destroyed every bridge on the Danube. First Gulf War, Saddam didn’t have any infrastructure. TV, radio, power, fuel, you name it, we wiped it out. 

So Trump never has done that. He’s taken out one bridge, and the reason he hasn’t done that, last time he went, he bombed for 24 hours, is he thinks he wants a dividend of this campaign to end and be a revolt of the people. He said that.  

So when he said their civilization is going to end, it was a sloppy use of nouns. What he meant was this radical Shia Islamic regime culture, civilization is gonna be ended. The civilization that has been imposed on the Persian people. That’s what he meant. He should have said that. 

FOWLER: Yeah. 

HANSON: But what he does shows you what he means. Megyn and Tucker would’ve had a good case if this prior four weeks he had been hitting power plants, he’d been hitting schools, he’d been hitting water plants, he’d been hitting solar, all of that. And then he said, “I’m gonna just take it out.”  

But he hadn’t. He didn’t want to because he’s on the side of the Iranian people. The 93 million people, that he feels are enslaved by this corrupt, theocratic, interloping civilization, that was a hiatus and interruption in Persian history. 

OK. So I don’t understand that. So that means to me that they weren’t angry about the MAGA, but Trump never said he wasn’t going to use force. I was on Megyn’s show shortly after the summer bombing, and she thought that was great, and she was correct. It was, to nullify, at that point, what we thought were all of its nuclear potential.  

And then when you look at what he’s done, [Qasem] Soleimani, [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, bombed ISIS, took out Wagner Group, got rid of [Nicolas] Maduro, bombed last summer and bombed … they all have one thing in common. This is longer.  

And what’s the thing in common? Except for Maduro, there’s no boots on the ground. There’s no door-to-door fighting in Fallujah, on the enemy’s terms. There’s no Helmand Province going into villages and never know who’s gonna shoot you, friend or foe or green on green or whatever we wanna call it. Soldiers in the Afghan army shooting us. 

There’s none of that. It’s an air campaign. And yes, it is now getting close to 40 days, if not beyond. But that’s not a war. That’s not 20 years in Afghanistan. That’s not eight in Iraq. That’s not even 72 days in Serbia.  

It’s about what the first Gulf War, I think, was, 42. So they know it’s not a forever or endless war. 

It’s a Jacksonian preemptive deterrent act so that these nuclear— they don’t have nuclear-tipped missiles pointed at the West.  

And as we said before, they’re not sending billions of dollars to these ring of fire or Arab terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Hamas. And they’re not killing Americans as they’ve done for 47 years. 

FOWLER: Right. 

HANSON: And they’re not trying to assassinate presidents and secretaries of states. So it was long overdue.  

But what I’m getting at, finally, is, they know that.  

So then my next question to them is what’s the alternative? Now we’re having midterms and we’re gonna have a presidential election. So you’re not going to vote for this man because he used force in a way that contradicts, in your belief, the bans on forever wars. 

So you are going to turn over, by your absence or your lack of advocacy, you are going to see the Democrats win to punish Trump? To punish MAGA? 

So all the things that you fought for, Tucker, Megyn, Alex Jones, I guess, even Candace, closed border, we’ve deported over a half million people, in just a year and a half, and another million and a half have self-deported. Crime is at an all-time low. He’s rebuilding the military.  

We’re the greatest producer of gas and oil in history. He’s the first president that’s brave enough to take on DEI, and he’s doing a great job. He’s the first person to take on the insanity in higher education. 

So what I’m getting at is he’s done 85% of what they want. That’s Megyn’s agenda. That’s Tucker’s agenda. That’s Candace’s agenda. But on this one topic, it’s so egregious, apparently, it not only nullifies all of that other, but from what I understand, they’re gone now. They’re off. They’re done. 

And what’s gonna happen is you’re going to get a Kamala-type candidate or her, and the alternative is DEI in-your-face. Revenge DEI. Revenge open borders. Revenge illegal immigration. Revenge DEI in the military. Revenge an Afghan skedaddle. Two-theater wars. Da da da da da da. I don’t get it. 

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A recent ruling by a German court at first glance could be seen as a victory for freedom of speech. But on closer inspection, it shows why so-called visibility filtering—artificially restricting the reach of online content rather than removing it outright—is the future, and indeed increasingly the present, of online censorship.

As reported by the German alternative media Nius in February, a court in Wiesbaden acquitted defendant Sebastian W. of the charge of having “insulted” Germany’s then-Economics Minister Robert Habeck. (“Insult” is a crime in German law.) In a July 2024 tweet, Sebastian W. referred to the German minister as a “traitor.” Under Section 188 of the German Criminal Code, which is commonly known in Germany as the lèse-majesté law, the penalties for insulting a public official are greater than those for insulting an ordinary citizen.

In another highly publicized case also involving Habeck, German retiree Stefan Niehoff had his home raided in November 2024 merely for having retweeted an obviously satirical tweet that jokingly referred to Habeck as a “professional moron.” (On the Niehoff case, see here, here, and here.)

Much of the ostensible “hate speech” prosecuted under German law consists not, say, of speech considered to be racist, sexist, or homophobic, but merely of personal insults. Hence, much of the speech that German sources reported to online platforms under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the E.U.’s flagship online censorship law, undoubtedly consists of such insults as well. The activities of the German organization HateAid, which enjoys the status of an officially certified “trusted flagger” of illegal content under the DSA, make this clear.

Under the DSA, European sources may flag any online content in any language posted anywhere in the world. A German organization like HateAid may not only flag German content for removal—it can also target Americans.

Thin-Skinned

The tweet for which Sebastian W. was charged was ironically part of a larger discussion of insult complaints, which included reference to HateAid.

The main tweet, which was titled “Urgent Warning and a Couple of Tips on Insult Complaints,” began as follows:

The business model of some politicians and suchlike is to bring charges against you, even without incurring any risk thanks to foundations [sic] like HateAid. Thus, politicians use our tax money to bring charges against us without incurring any risk, great.

To this, Sebastian W. replied, “Let’s see what networking can accomplish.” He then referred to a lawyer who is known to have represented Habeck and who, Sebastian W. said, is present on X with three different accounts to “case-hunt.” “Absolutely block,” he continued, “anyone who knows other hack lawyers of other traitors can share, for the purpose of blocking, under the comment.”

Sebastian W. appears not to have been charged for the description of the lawyer, but only for alluding to Habeck as a “traitor.” Why was he acquitted? Section 188 protects public officials only against “insults” on the condition that the “act”—that is, the insult—is such as to “substantially impede” the performance of the official’s public duties.

As Sebastien W.’s lawyer, Melina Schwendenmann, explained to Nius, the court found that while his tweet did indeed constitute an insult of a public official, it did not satisfy the stated condition given its limited reach. The reply had been viewed merely 1,245 times. The court found that this was not sufficient reach to impede the performance of Habeck’s public duties, and hence to justify a conviction.

Et Tu?

The ruling is highly significant for the application of the DSA, which requires online platforms to remove illegal speech, at least in the jurisdiction where it is illegal. (Given the complexities and costs involved in tailoring content moderation to different markets, this requirement can often result in global takedowns.) But the law also explicitly permits platforms to meet their DSA obligations not by removing content outright, but by restricting its visibility and hence reach.

This idea was popularized by Elon Musk in November 2022 when, shortly after completing his acquisition of Twitter, he announced a new policy of “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” But long before Musk adopted it, European Commission officials were already using the freedom-of-speech-is-not-freedom-of-reach mantra to try to reconcile the obvious censorship the DSA requires with the freedom of expression that is, after all, guaranteed by the E.U.’s own Charter of Fundamental Rights. (See Věra Jourová’s December 2021 remarks to Politico, where the E.C.’s then-vice-president for values and transparency uses the same expression.)

In theory, visibility filtering or reach restriction is supposed to be reserved for speech that is not per se illegal, but is still deemed socially harmful. Hence, it would be illegal under the DSA itself for platforms to allow it to proliferate. Such “legal but harmful” speech essentially refers to alleged mis- or disinformation. The suppression of “illegal hate speech” and “harmful disinformation” represent the two main pillars of the DSA’s censorship system.

But the ruling of the Wiesbaden court shows that reach restriction, given the above-mentioned condition, can in fact make otherwise illegal speech legal by eliminating the harm, or ostensible harm, entailed by its wide dissemination. As we have seen, this applies to Section 188 of the German Criminal Code regarding insulting public officials.

It also applies, however, to Section 130, Germany’s “incitement” law that prohibits “hate speech” in the more usual sense. This is because Section 130 also involves what we could call a “publicity condition.” Incitement is illegal only on the condition that it occurs in such a way as to represent a threat to public order. Incitement that falls on deaf ears, so to speak, represents no such threat. Ensuring that such speech is not heard, or is at most only barely audible, is precisely what artificial reach restriction is designed to bring about.

Censorship, 2026 Style

The American public debate about online censorship remains almost entirely mired in the assumption that such censorship essentially involves content removal and account suspensions. But this is a very 2020 assumption that no longer corresponds to the reality of online censorship.

Major platforms’ regulatory submissions to the E.U. show that visibility-filtering is already the predominant mode of censorship they use to remain in compliance with the DSA. For instance, data included in X’s April 2024 DSA Transparency Report shows that the platform took action on 226,350 items of content reported to it under the DSA during roughly the prior five months, with 40,331 being globally deleted and 62,802 geo-blocked in the E.U. This means, however, that 123,217 items, or nearly 55%, “merely” had their reach restricted in keeping with the FOSNR (Freedom of Speech, Not Reach) enforcement philosophy that is also touted in the report.

Unfortunately, these aggregate figures were not included in X’s subsequent DSA transparency reports, making it more difficult, if not impossible, to infer the exact extent of visibility filtering in the platform’s DSA enforcement mix.

But other platforms are not so mysterious about the extent of their visibility filtering. Meta’s August 2025 DSA Transparency Report for Facebook shows that its response to alleged misinformation consisted almost exclusively of visibility filtering, or what Meta—and, incidentally, also the DSA—describes as “demotion.” This report explains that demotion “refers to an action that we may take to reduce the distribution of content.” Nearly nine million items of content containing alleged misinformation had their distribution restricted during the six-month reporting period. For what it is worth, Meta claims to have had all such restricted content fact-checked.

Following a change in reporting requirements, the most recent set of DSA transparency reports now essentially consists of raw spreadsheet data presented according to a standard template. The data for X suggests that the proportion of visibility filtering in the platform’s DSA enforcement mix has, if anything, increased since mid-2024. But deciphering that data would require an article in its own right.

However worthy their intentions, American defenders of free speech who continue to focus on content removal and account suspensions are missing the plot about the online censorship regime that has coalesced under the pressure of the E.U.’s Digital Services Act. Content removal and account suspensions were censorship 1.0, while 2.0 is visibility filtering.

In an August 2023 interview with CNBC, then-X CEO Linda Yaccarino spoke of content that she famously termed “lawful but awful”—a dumbed-down version of the E.U.’s “legal but harmful”—and cheerfully admitted that the platform would make such content “extraordinarily difficult to see.” But what, after all, is the difference between “extraordinarily difficult to see” and invisible? The line is a thin one indeed.

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Embattled NFL insider Diana Russini has resigned from The Athletic after an investigation into pictures of her and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel canoodling at an exclusive Arizona resort last week.

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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is distancing himself from his radical left-wing record to appeal to moderate voters in Georgia as he eyes re-election.

On his campaign website, Ossoff lists political issues that are overwhelmingly bipartisan, such as lowering housing costs, expanding veteran assistance, and protecting Social Security.

He does not mention any of the issues he once championed, such as gun control, climate change, and anti-voter ID legislation.

Additionally, the website does not list any of Ossoff’s current endorsements. He has been endorsed by controversial gun control advocacy groups, Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Action Fund, and partisan coalitions such as Forward Blue.

Tyler O’Neil, author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” wrote in a statement that the group “weaponizes its history of suing the Ku Klux Klan into bankruptcy to smear mainstream conservative and Christian groups as ‘hateful,’ and has faced numerous scandals, from defamation lawsuits and racial discrimination claims to accusations of union-busting. But critics’ largest complaint involves the way it raises money by exaggerating hate.”

Ossoff’s campaign image does not match his voting record. While in Congress, the freshman senator has voted for legislation aligned with Democratic priorities, such as stricter gun control measures, climate regulations, and efforts to oppose voter identification measures.

Gun Control

Ossoff has received support from gun-control advocacy groups such as Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, which celebrated his 2021 victory as creating a “gun sense majority” in the Senate.

“Jon Ossoff and Rev. (Raphael) Warnock’s victory over two staunch NRA allies has created a gun sense majority in the U.S. Senate and ushered in a new era for gun safety in Congress,” Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt wrote in a press release.

Ossoff has also expressed support for tighter gun laws, including “red flag” measures. In a PBS NewsHour compilation of senators’ responses after the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, Ossoff said, “We need to change. We have to reform our laws to keep weapons out of the hands of killers.”

Voter ID Requirement

Ossoff, who requires attendees to provide two forms of identification to enter his events, co-sponsored the Freedom to Vote Act in 2021, which would have allowed individuals to override state requirements that prevent non-citizens from voting in elections.

In 2024, he introduced similar legislation.

“This bill would empower voters to challenge in court any action taken by a state or local government that makes it harder to vote, and force that state or that locality to demonstrate that the restrictions serve some governmental purpose and are the least restrictive means of doing so,” he wrote in a press release.

States such as Florida, Texas, and Georgia currently mandate voters to prove their identity before entering a voting booth.

In 2026, Ossoff claimed the SAVE America Act, which Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced to expand those protections nationwide for federal elections, was a “bad faith bill.”

Climate Change

During his initial Senate campaign, Ossoff warned supporters that climate change posed a “dire threat” to health, the economy, and national security.

“The evidence is clear and has been clear for decades that if we don’t get greenhouse gas emissions under control and if we don’t decarbonize energy production, then climate change poses a dire threat to our health, to our economy and to our security,” he said.

Since taking office, he has consistently supported climate and environmental priorities aligned with Democratic leadership.

Once in the Senate, Ossoff voted to appropriate tax dollars to measures and programs that restricted carbon emissions.

For instance, in 2025, Ossoff voted against the Rescission of International Climate and Emergency Alert System Funding, which slashed over half a billion taxpayer dollars “to help other countries recover from climate-fueled disasters and build clean energy projects around the world,” according to the League of Conservation Voters.

Prior to the vote, Ossoff voted against a resolution that aimed to repeal the Federal Highway Administration’s rule setting a national performance management measure for greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2023, he voted against a measure to repeal “the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule to protect people’s retirement savings from all types of financial risk,” including “risks due to climate change,” the League of Conservation voters said.

High Stakes Senate Race

Ossoff’s race is already drawing major national attention and outside spending. The Cook Political Report recently moved the Georgia contest from “Toss Up” to “Lean Democrat,” citing a shifting national environment.

“With an increasingly sour national environment for Republicans, the Senate battlefield is shifting in Democrats’ favor,” Jessica Taylor, of the Cook Political Report, wrote on Monday.

Meanwhile, Republicans’ top Senate-aligned super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, has committed significant money to Georgia. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported an initial $44 million commitment aimed at defeating Ossoff.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the sudden resignation of California Representative Eric Swalwell over sexual assault charges, analysts speculated that there were now just 534 perverts remaining in the United States Congress.

Jessica McClure Morales, once known as "Baby Jessica" after being trapped in a well in 1987, was arrested Saturday and charged with assault.

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HOLLYWOOD, CA — It's a simple formula: take an already wildly popular franchise and then tweak it a bit to attract even more fans.