He posted a video on TikTok, and shared it Friday on Twitter, commenting on her remarks about the bill. At one point during her speech, Hartzler started crying as she called for her fellow Republicans to oppose the bill which provides legal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages nationwide. “Today, a United States congresswoman, my Aunt Vicky, started crying because gay people like me can get married,” Andrew Hartzler said in the TikTok video, which then cuts to a clip showing the Republican representative crying while she says, “I hope and pray that my colleagues find the courage to join me in opposing this misguided and this dangerous bill....

Cupp made the comments on her Saturday evening show S.E. Cupp Unfiltered. Despite identifying as a Republican, Cupp has regularly criticized Donald Trump and his administration, as well as Republicans who have continued to support the president. Her remarks this weekend came in response to Republicans’ reaction to the impeachment inquiry against the president. “You can’t hide from history,” the CNN host noted at the beginning of the segment. She went on to explain that GOP lawmakers had largely defended the president over the past few months, as they dismissed the allegations against him....

Tina Barton, the city clerk for Rochester Hills, Michigan, further said she was “disturbed” by the unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud from Republicans that appeared to be aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the presidential contest. McDaniel, who earlier in the day held a press conference with Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox, claimed that on Wednesday night, they “found 2,000 ballots that had been given to Democrats but were Republican ballots due to a clerical error, and this took place in Rochester Hills....

David Weigel, of The Washington Post, was the first to spot that the page had been removed with the web address redirecting to a 404 error page featuring the quip: “It looks like you’re as lost as Biden is.” The Guardian’s congressional reporter Hugo Lowell later confirmed the webpage’s removal after successfully tracking down the now-deleted page via The Wayback Machine digital archive. Featured as part of a section titled “President Trump Is Bringing Peace In The Middle East,” the page described how the former U....

“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” the Iowa Republican said at an event with a group of conservatives in Des Moines, the Des Moines Register reported. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that....

Recently elected GOP state senator-elect Wendy Rogers was responding to the removal of Lee’s statue from the U.S. Capitol, where it had stood in the so-called Crypt since 1909. The move followed calls from Virginia’s Democratic governor, who asked that the U.S. Capitol remove the confederate statue from government property. But this prompted several GOP lawmakers, including Rogers, to condemn it in comparison to modern Democrats. Despite Lee having committed treason by joining the confederate forces against the United States during the Civil War, Rogers claimed the late general loved the U....

Scott, a Republican, has been a vocal critic of Trump for years and said previously that he did not vote for Trump in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Associated Press. During a coronavirus news briefing in Vermont on Friday, one reporter asked Scott if he has decided which of the two presidential candidates he will support in the wake of the Democratic National Convention. The convention was held as a mostly virtual event earlier this week and concluded on Thursday night with former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepting his party’s nomination....

Donna Johnson, 31, said she’d written to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in April this year about getting a disability allowance for her daughter, Rosabella. But she was left feeling physically sick when she opened a letter from the agency that read: “I am sorry to hear that Miss Rosabella Johnson has died.” The freaked-out mom-of-four, who had recently lost an uncle, then dashed upstairs to cradle her precious baby girl and check if she was still OK....

“Governor Ralph Northam today issued Executive Order Sixty-Two, allowing specific localities in Northern Virginia to delay entering Phase One of the ‘Forward Virginia’ plan to ease restrictions on certain business operations that were put in place in response to the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19,” Northam’s office said in a press release. During a recent press conference, Northam noted that Virginia as a whole may enter phase one of reopening on May 15, but his executive order allowed areas in northern Virginia to “delay implementation of Phase One until midnight on Thursday, May 28....

During a press conference, Pierluisi said: “Those who come from outside must come to comply with the law, because otherwise they are exposing themselves to situations such as the one that occurred, which is very regrettable.” Pierluisi’s comments come shortly after Puerto Rican police identified Tariq Quadir Loat, a 24-year-old tourist from Wilmington, Delaware, as the individual found dead in La Perla. According to the Associated Press, Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said that Loat and a friend, who was identified as James Jackson, purchased unspecified drugs on Saturday....

“We’re one nation under God. We’re not one nation under Twitter, we’re not one nation under Big Media or under central government. We’re trying to have media, Big Tech control our lives—the government control our lives—and we need to not move away from God, we need to move closer to God,” Unanue said during an interview with Fox & Friends. “They want to cancel God, they want to cancel our speech, they want to cancel our culture, our history, our liberty....

Even here, though, few scandals can match the current one stirred up by the weekly paper News of the World against Max Mosley, the British president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA, after its French acronym). Over the past two weeks, the Sunday mass-circulation tabloid published claims that Mosley took part in a Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes, some dressed as prisoners and at least one as a prison guard....

Taking to the internet to find some takes on his situation, the man explained in a post that can be read here: “What you are about to read is a recent cause of emotional distress for me.” The 63-year-old, using the handle u/guiltygran, explained that: “I took advantage of better times, financially speaking, and managed to get enough money to save, have a good retirement and leave a good inheritance for my children....

The Real Sociedad midfielder, who spent three years playing alongside the Portugal star at the Santiago Bernabeu, was asked for a musical slant on the debate over the world’s best player. While Ronaldo would have to be “something heavy metal”, Granero believes Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is best compared to reggaeton - a fusion genre that emerged in Latin America in the 1990s. “Cristiano would be, for instance, AC/DC - something heavy metal,” he told AS TV at his annual ‘Pirate Dinner’ charity event....

Either way, no one’s going to complain. “Troy” is a fun, energizing piece of summer entertainment, even if it doesn’t have the depth or the sustained intensity of “Gladiator.” The story, as Homer proved, does not lend itself to paraphrase, but here goes. The movie opens with the Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) making off with Helen, the queen of Sparta (Diane Kruger). Enraged, Sparta’s King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) urges his brother, King Agamemnon of the Mycenaens (Brian Cox in a robustly evil turn), to help him unite all the tribes of Greece, lay siege to Troy and recover his queen so he can kill her with his own hands....

Greece qualified for this year’s European baseball championship, to be held in Hoofddorp in September, but time is running out for the Greeks to secure their place, and a GoFundMe page is set up to help raise the money to keep the dream alive. In 2014, as part of an effort to downsize the government and climb out of an economic abyss, Greece folded its federations for baseball and a few other sports under the umbrella of the national gymnastics federation....

Run by the state’s Division of Emergency Management, Texas officials say that these rides are free, safe and voluntary. And Abbott says that the asylum seekers should be welcomed in the Big Apple. “In addition to Washington, D.C., New York City is the ideal destination for these migrants, who can receive the abundance of city services and housing that Mayor Eric Adams has boasted about within the sanctuary city,” Governor Abbott’s office said in a statement published on August 5, after a bus with the first group of migrants reached Adams’ city....

In a statement to news outlets, Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze defended the move to transport dozens of migrants from Texas to outside the home of Vice President Kamala Harris on the night of Christmas Eve. The migrants, some of whom were children or dressed in just T-shirts, were eventually sent to a nearby shelter for assistance. It is widely believed that Abbott, who along with other Republican governors such as Florida’s Ron DeSantis, has been sending migrants to Democratic-led cities for months, was behind the Christmas stunt....

A Tuesday letter sent from Abbott to the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), saw the Republican governor demand that the agency look into parents who have supported gender-affirming procedures for their children. The letter read that reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers and hormone treatments violated state law and amounted to “child abuse,” adding that doctors, nurses, and teachers held a responsibility to report parents who violate this law....

Brian Pattie, who runs Biffle’s No. 16 team for Roush Fenway Racing, drew severe punishment for penalties assessed against his car. In fact, they were the stiffest of the many violations found after the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. MORE: Lug nut rules violations for Allmendinger, Kurt Busch | What’s ahead at Pocono On Wednesday, Pattie was ordered to miss races this week at Pocono and the following at Michigan. He also was fined $50,000....