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Photo: Marco Bello (Getty Images)Readers hoping to receive up-to-date reporting on today’s legal flash between Trump lawyers and the Department of Justice will have to wait.02:5710 Horror Docs You Should Watch Part 2Yesterday 6:40PMReporters covering the Trump hearing Thursday claim the court shut off its Wifi to prevent reporters from live-tweeting and reporting the hearing. The court also reportedly banned texting, allegedly leaving reporters unable to communicate the hearing’s events in real time.Reuters DOJ reporter…

Donald Trump, white supremacist and active threat to the safety and security of the United States, on August 10, 2022 in New York City.Photo: James Devaney/GC Images (Getty Images)Donald Trump’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 got him banned from Twitter, which forced the former president to start his own social media company called Truth Social. And the U.S. Department of Justice must be incredibly thankful Trump still has a way to talk directly with the public, since the 45th president appeared to…

Donald Trump-owned social media site, Truth Social, has seen a big influx of interest and new users following last week’s widely-publicized FBI raid on the former president’s Florida home.Between July 31 and Aug 7, 2022 the app was downloaded fewer than 20,000 times. Yet last week, that number jumped up to more than 100,000 downloads, according to stats provided to Gizmodo by data.ai, a market analytics company, and first reported on by Vice.The platform has faced numerous technical issues from the very start, including…

Taking documents out of the White House automatically declassifies them...Screenshot: TwitterMike Davis, a Republican activist who bills himself online as the former Chief Counsel for Nominations at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, claims that Trump can declassify anything he wants and simply taking them out of the White House declassified the documents in his possession.“Before Attorney General Merrick Garland’s spin: The President of the…

Stardust turns 15 years old today.Image: ParamountAs I sat down to revisit Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel Stardust, a family friend who was visiting asked me a question. “What are you watching?” “Stardust.” “What’s that?” “This fantasy movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro.” “I’ve never heard of it.” “Henry Cavill is also in it and he fights Daredevil.” “Ben Affleck?”I found the conversation funny but also incredibly telling. That this friend didn’t know Stardust was not some anomaly. The…

Attorney Antonio Reynal, left, has had a very hard time since Wednesday after he accidentally handed over a trove of files to the Sandy Hook families’ lawyers.Photo: Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman (AP)Alex Jones, the mouthpiece of the unhinged conspiracy site InfoWars, has been called a liar in court. It really shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, the defamation trial itself is over him lying to his massive audience about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, claiming with full-throated zeal that the…

Buzz Aldrin aboard the lunar module “Eagle” on July 21, 1969 after leaving the Moon’s surface. He is wearing an in-flight jacket that went up for auction and sold over $2.7 million.Photo: -/AFP (Getty Images)Have you ever been to a garage sale where someone was selling sports trophies? Kinda tacky, right? Well, it’s not so much the same when an ex-astronaut does it, especially when it’s one of the original moon landing astronaut’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.That, and more items of near-legendary significance to lovers…

Photo: Anna Moneymaker (Getty Images)The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack gathered for its a seventh public hearing on Tuesday — this time to establish the existence of ties between the former president, Donald Trump, his closest advisors, and members of far-right militant groups who had gathered in Washington D.C. at his request to march on the Capitol. The committee, assembled publicly for the first time this month, asserted that, while violent organizations such as the Proud Boys and OathKeepers…

Dig way back into the recesses of your brain and you may recall something called a “Steve Bannon.” The Breitbart News guy. “Alt-right” racist extraordinaire. Former Trump Chief Strategist and advisor. Cursed countenance, with watery eyes that convey a haggard contempt. Still not ringing a bell? Well anyway, Bannon’s house got swatted. Nobody was hurt, but heavily armed police officers surrounded and swarmed his fancy Capitol Hill townhome on Friday afternoon, according to a report from the Washington Post. The police…