×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A jury ruled Friday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting after spending years spreading lies that the shooting didn’t happen. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before coming to its first decision Thursday that Jones must pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages. On Friday, jurors again deliberated for less than a day when deciding further punitive damages against Jones of more than $40 million.AdvertisementAlong with...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A jury ruled Friday that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $45.2 million to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting after spending years spreading lies that the shooting didn’t happen. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before coming to its first decision Thursday that Jones must pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages. On Friday, jurors again deliberated for less than a day when deciding further punitive damages against Jones of more than $40 million.AdvertisementAlong with...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.A small-time city councilman in Texas has joined a nationwide chorus of Republican politicians encouraging the violent insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leaving five people dead. On social media, Martin Holsome published multiple images of a noose, apparently referencing the siege. On Jan. 7, he captioned one: “Starting in Washington, DC...” On Jan. 15, he posted the same image of a...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.A small-time city councilman in Texas has joined a nationwide chorus of Republican politicians encouraging the violent insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leaving five people dead. On social media, Martin Holsome published multiple images of a noose, apparently referencing the siege. On Jan. 7, he captioned one: “Starting in Washington, DC...” On Jan. 15, he posted the same image of a...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.On Tuesday, Atlantic writer Graeme Wood published a piece titled in which he invoked Juggalos ― the affectionate name for fans of ICP ― in his commentary about the Trump administration, which he referred to as “the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse.”Wood wrote:At noon tomorrow, our four-year experiment in being governed by the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse will finally end. It...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.On Tuesday, Atlantic writer Graeme Wood published a piece titled in which he invoked Juggalos ― the affectionate name for fans of ICP ― in his commentary about the Trump administration, which he referred to as “the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse.”Wood wrote:At noon tomorrow, our four-year experiment in being governed by the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse will finally end. It...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Crime. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.As federal authorities continue to meticulously comb through hours of videos and hundreds of photos from last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, one woman who attended handed her identity to the on a silver platter.Texas real estate agent Jennifer Leigh Ryan was arrested Friday for her role in the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill that left five people dead, including a police officer. In filed the day of...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Crime. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.As federal authorities continue to meticulously comb through hours of videos and hundreds of photos from last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, one woman who attended handed her identity to the on a silver platter.Texas real estate agent Jennifer Leigh Ryan was arrested Friday for her role in the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill that left five people dead, including a police officer. In filed the day of...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Demonstrators as part of a “Million MAGA March” swarmed Washington, D.C., on Saturday in a show of support for , whose loss to President-elect was determined exactly a week ago.The protest didn’t quite live up to its name, however.A supporters ― many of them unmasked ― did show up to Freedom Plaza in a show of solidarity with the president, who has spent the last week desperately seeking to overturn the...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Demonstrators as part of a “Million MAGA March” swarmed Washington, D.C., on Saturday in a show of support for , whose loss to President-elect was determined exactly a week ago.The protest didn’t quite live up to its name, however.A supporters ― many of them unmasked ― did show up to Freedom Plaza in a show of solidarity with the president, who has spent the last week desperately seeking to overturn the...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Texas  asked the state’s Supreme Court to throw out more than 100,000 ballots that have already been cast just days before the next U.S.A by two GOP candidates and a Republican member of the Texas House asked the Texas Supreme Court to throw out drive-thru ballots, arguing such voting was illegal. The case is currently being handled by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Texas  asked the state’s Supreme Court to throw out more than 100,000 ballots that have already been cast just days before the next U.S.A by two GOP candidates and a Republican member of the Texas House asked the Texas Supreme Court to throw out drive-thru ballots, arguing such voting was illegal. The case is currently being handled by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.The upcoming debate between South Carolina’s candidates was canceled after Republican incumbent Sen. declined to take a coronavirus test.Democratic challenger asked that Graham take the test before their second debate after news broke that Graham had been in close proximity to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who announced last week that he tested positive for the coronavirus.of the Senate Judiciary Committee that...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.The upcoming debate between South Carolina’s candidates was canceled after Republican incumbent Sen. declined to take a coronavirus test.Democratic challenger asked that Graham take the test before their second debate after news broke that Graham had been in close proximity to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who announced last week that he tested positive for the coronavirus.of the Senate Judiciary Committee that...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.A federal prosecutor wrote a letter expressing his opposition to Attorney General , who he said “brought shame” to the Department of Justice.“While I am a federal prosecutor, I am writing to express my own views, clearly not those of the department, on a matter that should concern all citizens: the unprecedented politicization of the office of the attorney general,” said James D. Herbert, assistant U.S....…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.A federal prosecutor wrote a letter expressing his opposition to Attorney General , who he said “brought shame” to the Department of Justice.“While I am a federal prosecutor, I am writing to express my own views, clearly not those of the department, on a matter that should concern all citizens: the unprecedented politicization of the office of the attorney general,” said James D. Herbert, assistant U.S....WW…