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Today's Top Stories:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is advising GOP leadership, floats jail time for 1/6 committee members
"This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels," GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who sits on the committee, said.

RICH,
VIDEO OF THE DAY: GOP Sen. Joni Ernst falls on her face when asked how restricting voting makes it safer
Spoiler alert — it's not really about making voting "safer."

Republicans contend with WORST CASE scenario in Wisconsin
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Not looking good...

US weighs troop deployment near Ukraine, orders embassy families out
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin briefed President Biden about US options for responding if Russia invades Ukraine, while the State Department ordered family members of embassy employees in Kyiv to leave and authorized nonemergency diplomatic employees in Ukraine to depart, as well.

Bill Barr spoke with 1/6 House committee about Trump White House plan to seize voting machines
House investigators interviewed the former attorney general about a draft executive order written by the Trump White House that would have called for State Sec. Mike Pompeo to seize voting machines and begin a special counsel investigation into the 2020 election.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invokes Nazi Germany in offensive anti-vaccine speech
At a rally against vaccine mandates in Washington, DC, RFK Jr. likened vaccine policies in the US to the actions of a totalitarian state, even suggesting Anne Frank was in a better situation when she was hiding from the Nazis.

Florida school district cancels professor’s civil rights lecture over critical race theory concerns
THIS is cancel culture.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, and Lauren Boebert's extremism costing them support from their voters
United Rural Democrats: New extremists in Congress are taking their districts for granted while delivering nothing for them. United Rural Democrats is organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!

Aerial surveys detect dozens of methane "super-emitters'" in Texas and New Mexico
Around 30 oil and gas facilities across the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico spewed large amounts of methane for three years, emitting the equivalent climate pollution from half a million cars, according to a report released on Monday.

Video shows Trump suffering his own "please clap" moment at Mar-a-Lago
Six years after Jeb Bush secured his place in meme history as the "please clap" guy, the same fate has befallen the 75-year-old ex-president.

Mary Trump says uncle will "stop protecting" Ivanka and "throw anybody under the bus" if he thinks it will benefit him
"Donald isn't playing the card that she's his child to protect her. He's doing that to protect himself because he knows she may indeed have potentially damning information," Mary Trump said.

Lesbian sues US Army and Air Force over boss’s demand she grow her hair and wear makeup
Tech. Sgt. Kristin M. Kingrey, a 14-year member of the West Virginia Air National Guard, is suing the Army and Air Force, claiming a senior male leader said she should grow her hair, wear makeup, "and ultimately appear more feminine," or prepare to face the negative professional consequences.