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Demonstrations by the trucker convoy were reported on I-395, I-695 and 1-295 causing massive traffic jams. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) closed the areas in order to keep traffic moving, but motorists were urged to consider pausing travel plans, Alert DC posted on Twitter. The “People’s Convoy” is a group of truckers and other motorists objecting to COVID-19 policies that made its way from California to Washington D.C. to protest the remaining mandates....

However, now Microsoft has several studios under one roof which have worked on the Fallout series or its progenitor series, Wasteland, in different capacities. Between 2018 and 2020 Microsoft acquired inXile Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, and Bethesda Game Studios. Now, the Fallout series has been presented with a unique opportunity to return to its roots in a way that many fans of the first two games will likely welcome with open arms....

Later this summer, a British actress named Emma Campbell Webster will publish “Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure,” an interactive fiction game with you as the main character (“Difficult as it is, you give up Colonel Brandon and return home to Longbourne …”). Your mission is “to marry both prudently and for love.” And in August—speaking of creating your own Jane Austen adventure—the film “Becoming Jane” invents an Elizabeth/Darcy-esque love affair between 20-year-old Jane (“an emerging writer,” the press packet calls her), played by Anne Hathaway, and a rebellious young lawyer (James McAvoy)....

Even while Trump slammed Democratic leadership, he took time to acknowledge the war in Ukraine. The former president said Putin’s “appalling” attack was an “atrocity,” and that it would have never happened if the 2020 election was “not rigged.” This comes just days after Trump called Putin’s attack “genius.” Meanwhile, Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a “brave man who did absolutely nothing wrong” while staying in his country to help defend his countrymen who were under attack, and he also called the Russian attack “appalling....

“Black Americans have never had a better champion than President Trump,” Katrina Pierson, Senior Advisor at Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. wrote in a statement emailed to Newsweek. “The Black Voices for Trump coalition will be a national effort to mobilize and empower Black Americans who support President Trump to help get the message of ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’ into communities across America.” The Black Voices for Trump Coalition initiative will be launched at the Georgia World Congress Center, a convention center in Atlanta, on Friday at 3 p....

However, Trump provided complete funding for some states and partial funding for many others, leaving some governors upset over what they perceive as potentially politicized funding decisions by the White House. But while most states will only receive 75 percent of the funding to pay for the National Guard, effectively requiring states to pay the remaining 25 percent, Florida and Texas—two Republican-led red states which both supported Trump in the 2016 election—will have 100 percent of their National Guard funding covered by the Trump administration....

The administration recently finished an interagency review of new regulations which, if enacted, would transfer responsibility for firearms export licensing from the State Department to the Department of Commerce, according to a State Department official. Firearms manufactured domestically and sold abroad which don’t serve an “inherently military” function may soon fall under the purview of the Commerce Department. The review of the forthcoming export regulations took place over several years and involved both the Departments of State and Commerce, as well as the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Justice....

Included within the guidelines is the recommendation that nursing home staff should be tested for coronavirus on a weekly basis while virus screening should be administered every day. Visitors should not be allowed into a nursing home until there have been no reported positive cases for a consecutive four weeks. Long-term care facilities have been known to be coronavirus hotspots due to the rapidity of community spread and the prevalence of other illnesses inhabited by residents of the homes....

“No, I don’t think there’s systemic racism,” O’Brien said during an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “I think 99.9 percent of our law enforcement officers are great Americans and many of them are African American, Hispanic, Asian. They’re working the toughest neighborhoods, they’ve got the hardest jobs to do in this country. I think they’re amazing, great Americans, and they’re my heroes. But you know what, there are some bad apples in there....

Appearing on Fox News this morning, the administration official said the unofficial slate of electors would vote to confirm Trump the victor of the presidential election, so those results could later be sent to Congress. Miller also made the oft-repeated and baseless claim that the election results were “fraudulent” and that Trump was the winner of the 2020 contest. Speaking to Fox & Friends, the senior adviser said: “As we speak, today, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote, and we’re going to send those results up to Congress....

The resolution, posted on Friday, was signed by 26 representatives “declaring the results of statewide electoral contests in the 2020 General Election to be in dispute,” despite Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar’s Tuesday certification of the results, signed by Governor Tom Wolf, confirming President-elect Joe Biden as the winner. A similar resolution was signed by four GOP state senators. Republicans control both the state Senate and House of Representatives, but leaders for each have said they had no plans to overturn the results and award the Keystone State’s 20 electoral votes to President Donald Trump....

Biden doubled down on his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in a White House statement earlier today, blaming the Trump administration for signing a deal with the Taliban that left them “in the strongest position militarily since 2001.” “When I became President, I faced a choice—follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies’ forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict,” the president said, reiterating his long-standing reasoning for the decision to withdraw U....

Attorney Alan Dershowitz told the conservative media outlet Newsmax on Saturday that the investigation has a “long, long road” to travel before it could impact the president. “You’d have to prove complicity by quote, ’the big man,’” Dershowitz said. “It’s not enough for ’the big man’ to be mentioned in an email. There have to be emails from the person who was the target or the subject of the investigation....

Stone, a longtime adviser of Trump, was convicted last year on seven felony charges, including witness tampering, lying to Congress, and obstructing a proceeding. A self-described “dirty trickster” going back to the Nixon administration, Stone was due to report to a Georgia federal prison to serve a 40-month sentence — before the president granted the commutation. On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted: “Do RINO’S Pat Toomey & Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, & Company illegally spying on my campaign?...

Putin recognized two rebel regions—Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic—as independent on Monday and announced the mobilization of military forces to the area for a “peacekeeping” mission. Western leaders lambasted the move as an attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and slapped sanctions on Russia, a punishment many believe won’t be enough of a deterrent for the Russian leader. Trump told Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on Tuesday that this “never would have happened” if he was president, but said when he was watching the news unfold, he thought “this is genius....

Citing anonymous sources, The Washington Post reported that Trump is planning to divert the significant sum sometime this year. If the president does move forward with the plan, he will have diverted five times the amount that Congress had initially authorized him to spend on his border wall initiative this year in the 2020 budget, according to The Post. Responding to the report, Democrats and detractors struck out at the plans, with Democratic Sen....

In the wake of the January 6 riot, Cheney and Kinzinger, Republicans who represent Wyoming and Illinois respectively, emerged as two of the leading anti-Trump voices within the GOP, both voting to impeach him and serving on the congressional committee investigating the riot. They have also become lightning rods for Trump-aligned candidates’ criticism, including Budd, who has received the endorsement of the former president in his Senate bid in North Carolina....

According to a White House official, the order was prompted by discussions among a number of large meat producers regarding plans to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in their facilities by shutting down as much of 80 percent of their processing plants. This would leave roughly 20 percent of the meat processing plants in the country to feed the entire U.S. population. “We’re gonna sign an executive order today, I believe, and that’ll solve any liability problems, where they have certain liability problems, and we’ll be in very good shape....

Attorney William Consovoy made the remarks while being questioned by judges in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case concerning a subpoena for Trump’s financial records and tax returns. The subpoena was issued as part of an investigation into the Trump Organization by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Trump’s legal team has argued throughout the case that anyone who serves as president of the United States “enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind” while in office....

The stage and screen star’s youngest daughter, Amblin executive Katie Fiala, told The Hollywood Reporter that her mother passed away on Monday at her home in Thousand Oaks, California. London-born Hitchcock, who portrayed Barbara Morton in the 1951 classic film Strangers on a Train—directed by her father—was also the daughter of film screenwriter Alma Reville, Alfred Hitchcock’s wife of 54 years. As news circulated of Patricia Hitchcock’s death, a host of well-wishers took to Twitter to share tributes....