Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) and several other Republicans on the panel pounced on the withdrawal’s outcome and Mr. Biden’s apparent rejection of the generals’ advice, questioning why Gen. Milley didn’t resign in protest. “It would be an incredible act of defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken,” Gen. Milley said. “This country doesn’t want generals figuring out what orders we’re going to accept and do.

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John Hinkley to be released:

A federal judge has approved the unconditional release next year of John Hinckley Jr., who wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington, D.C., hotel in a failed assassination attempt in 1981. Hinckley is now 66 years old and has been living outside a mental health facility for the past several years, a result of a gradual lightening of supervision. His lawyer said the "momentous event" of Hinckley's full release in June is both appropriate and required by the law.

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A New York jury convicted R. Kelly on all nine charges against him.

“Today’s guilty verdict forever brands R. Kelly as a predator who used his fame and fortune to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless for his own gratification,” Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, the acting U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, told a crowd of reporters and onlookers outside the federal courthouse on Monday.

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Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed bill to suspend the debt limit and avert a government shutdown from advancing in the Senate today. The move comes after Republicans had insisted that Democrats act alone to address the debt limit and leaves Congress without a clear plan to keep the government open with the threat of a potential shutdown looming by the end of the week.

 

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MOVIES THAT MAKE YOU LAUGH OR SMILE!

The Man who came to dinner

Knives Out

My Favorite Year

When Harry Met Sally

Some Like it Hot

Victor Victoria

Hairspray

Mama Mia

Tootsie

Blazing Saddles

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out Thursday at comments by the Archbishop of San Francisco, who said Catholics backing legislation to codify Roe v. Wade are supporting nothing more than “child sacrifice.”

“I’m Catholic. I come from a pro-life family, not active in that regard, different in their view of a woman’s right to choose,” said Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat. “And I am in my right to choose. I have five children.”

San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said of the bill, “This proposed legislation is nothing short of child sacrifice, and clearly in reaction, among other things, to the recently passed Texas Heartbeat bill.”

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A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort. The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.

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The U.S. special envoy for Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, has resigned his post in protest over the Biden administration’s decision to conduct large-scale deportations in response to a surge of Haitian migrants.

 

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The select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is issuing subpoenas to four current and former top aides to President Donald Trump: Mark Meadows, Kash Patel; former top White House adviser Steve Bannon; and longtime Trump social media chief Dan Scavino. It marks a turning point in the investigation as lawmakers begin homing in on Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results.

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