President Donald Trump spoke Tuesday at the House Republican retreat in Washington, D.C., and reiterated his long-held and widely debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Trump made the remarks on the fifth anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was fueled by his claims of voter fraud as rioters tried to stop the certification of the election.

Trump spoke in his typical “weave” style, moving seamlessly from one topic to the other. Before addressing allegations of voter fraud, Trump repeated his attack on former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen.

“You can’t give it to an autopen. And you can always tell an autopen. One thing, it has two little tiny dots. You know that? Two little dots. Do you know what that’s from? Two pins. They go bing, pow, bong, pow. They’re wonderful things. But you’ve got to sign it, and the law is you have to sign. If somebody’s telling… The autopen person, he has to be authorized by the president of the United States. Well, he wasn’t,” Trump said, adding:

The guy barely knew the president. “How many times did you speak to the president?” Right? He said two. And they just spoke about the weather. It was like this. But he was never authorized to sign. And I think it’s what, 95% of the things were signed by autopen. You can tell because the autopen is a nice plain signature and his signature is a mess. The only thing he signed, which is nice, was Hunter’s pardon. No, that’s the only thing that we could find that he signed. Most of it he didn’t sign. So somebody’s sending papers to sign, and he wasn’t the president.

Trump then pivoted to the election, “First of all, the election was rigged. You want to have voter ID. You want to insist on it. You want to insist on it, can you imagine, in California, they not only don’t have voter ID, but if an official at the voting booths—which they don’t, by the way, because it’s all mail—if an officer, a voting official, even asks somebody for voter ID.” Trump continued:

“Sir, we’d like to see your identification. Do you come from our country?” They put him in jail for tampering with the election. Okay? We got to straighten this out before it gets too crazy. California’s more corrupt than any place. California is more corrupt than Minnesota, and I won Minnesota. Well, Tom’s gone.

I think so. Well, it can’t be. Proportionately, probably nothing’s more corrupt, right? We got to win software. Yeah, right. He says you got to win. I’ll tell you what, I did great there three times. I was surprised three times that those elections are corrupt. They got you one time too, but I heard. A long time ago, but they got you. But they got to straighten those out. But we have to have voter ID.

And you know, when you confront a Democrat about voter ID, like in a debate or something, I said it a couple of times with Biden, and he just won. They’re very embarrassed when we say, “We want voter ID.” Voter identification. The only reason somebody doesn’t want that is because they want to cheat. Our elections are crooked as hell.

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Though the Kindle Scribe received an overhaul in December 2025, the 2024 model remains an attractive digital notebook. The 2024 Kindle Scribe is an upgraded version of Amazon's oversized e-reader designed for note-taking, offering some nice improvements over the 2022 original. Those upgrades don't come cheap, however, with prices on the 2024 Kindle Scribe starting at $399.99 (still a lot less than the new-for-2025 version, which starts at $499.99).

Right now, the 64GB version of the 2024 Scribe is a lot cheaper: It's discounted to $309.99 (originally $419.99), the lowest price this reader has seen since its release, according to price-tracking tools, and a great opportunity to snatch one for a bargain.

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That said, if you already have the 2022 version, there is no compelling reason to upgrade—the main difference is that the 2024 version comes with the Premium Pen instead of the Basic Pen stylus, while the tablet itself is shorter, narrower, and slimmer, but not by much (you can even still use the same case). The new screen also has texture, which will add some resistance when you're writing on it, for a more natural feel. The gap between the screen and the outer casing is also smaller. But that's where the differences end.

Otherwise, you'll get the same book format compatibility, the same 15.3 oz weight, the same glare-free 300 ppi front-lit display screen, and the same 12-week battery life. Both tablets run the same software. Still, if you don't own a Scribe at all and are considering getting one, the 2024 version is a good choice at the current price point—it's 44% cheaper than the new 2025 model.

CNN’s Elie Honig described the prison Nicolás Maduro is being held in as a “hellhole” after the erstwhile Venezuelan dictator appeared in court on Monday.

After anchor Dana Bash noted that the judge overseeing Maduro’s case had set the next court date for March 17, more than two months from now, Honig observed that it will be enough “time for the parties to start to go through that discovery of the evidence, to file their motions,” and suggested that Maduro may seek a transfer.

“A couple things just to follow up on: the health and medical issues are important here,” he continued. “The MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in particular, are infamously horrible at handling inmate health problems. I had to deal with this, wrestle with this all the time. Whether those injuries, however serious they are, One of the goals of people in this situation is to get the heck out of the MDC because it is horrible.  So, there’s a way-, there’s a prison about 90 minutes north of the city in I think Orange County called Otisville, which is much better than the MDC. It’s within driving distance of Manhattan. And so there is a move that I’ve seen lawyers make where they’re trying to get their clients out of the hellhole that is the MDC, and into the still horrible, but less hellacious facility up at Otisville. There’s better medical care there. So we’ll see then. Look, the Bureau of Prisons has an obligation to take care of prisoner health and safety, and is really historically quite poor at it. But again, in this case, they better be on top of it.”

Watch above via CNN.

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Hisense is all about TVs at this year's CES—specifically, how those TVs display color. If the company's keynote is any indication, Hisense is extremely invested in leading the charge in color reproduction. Though its tagline this year is "Innovating a Brighter Life," the pitch is less on how bright their TVs are, and more on how true to life their colors are, especially when it comes to accurately displaying the filmmakers' original intent. Will consumers buy a TV because their favorite movie looks a bit more how the director intended it to be? I'm not sure. But that's largely the idea behind Hisense's new RGB MiniLED Evo.

RGB MiniLED Evo

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Hisense's biggest announcement of the day is its RGB MiniLED Evo. This iteration of the company's RGB MiniLED technology comes with three key upgrades: First, there's the "Chromagic" precision backlight. The company says this technology helps avoid color bleeding and tint shifting when watching content. It also boosts the colors offered by existing RGB MiniLED technology: Hisense says this new standard can display 110% of the BT.2020 color gamut with four-primary colors (red, green, blue, and sky blue, or cyan), while RGB MiniLED can achieve 100% BT.2020 with the standard three primary colors. The company says Evo also comes with AI-powered RGB color dimming with "134 bit precision."

Second, RGB MiniLED Evo has a "Hi-View AI engine," to sync color across the TV's backlight. This engine comes with a three-core RISC CPU and a 2TOPS NPU for AI processing. Hisense claims the chip provides a 40% boost in computing performance, a 70% improvement in scenario recognition computing power, and 100% upgrade in scenario adaption computing capability. The company says the RGB MiniLED Evo can help display shows and movies as the original creators intended them to look. Hisense compared it to OLED, which it says displays content with too little brightness, and QD MiniLED, which it says compromises the color by being too bright.

Hisense's RGB MiniLED—not necessarily just Evo—also supposedly cuts down on blue light. Hisense says its new display tech emits 60% "less harmful" blue light than QD OLED, though the science doesn't necessarily support the claims that blue light is any worse for you than other light colors. The company also says RGB MiniLED is 30% more energy-efficient than QD OLED, though it didn't include any references to back up those claims in the keynote. Finally, Evo comes with an AI calibration feature, which Hisense touts as a way for users to turn their TVs into professional reference monitors.

The company says RGB MiniLED evo is coming to its product lineup, including the U8, UX, U9, and U7 series, this year.

Other Hisense announcements at CES 2026

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While the RGB MiniLED Evo was undoubtedly Hisense's biggest announcement this year, the company also ran through some other news at the keynote. First, there's the XR10, a new projector that can reach up to 300 inches. It comes with liquid cooling, lens shift supporting a 4K projection, and 6,000 lumens of brightness.

The company also announced the MXS MicroLED TV, which can scale up to 163 inches. Despite devoting only a moment to the TV, company says the MXS won an CES 2026 Innovation Award. Hisense also made some announcements about its TV OS, including features like weather, calendar, and integrations with other smart home devices. But perhaps most notably, Hisense announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring both Copilot and Xbox Cloud Gaming to its TVs. That's pretty big news.

Finally, if you're both a Hisense and a FIFA fan, you can buy products from the "Hisense Elite Collection," which are designed specifically for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. I'm not sure how big that crossover is, nor do I think I'd buy a TV because it was made for one soccer event, but it was part of Hisense's announcement.

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Bone conduction headphones are ideal for activities where it is vital to your safety to hear your surroundings. That's because they use a technology that sends audio vibrations through to the inner ear while leaving your ear canals open. Shokz is one of the best brands—if not the best brand—making bone conduction headphones right now; at the high end of Shokz's offerings is the OpenRun Pro 2, which I got to review and put to the test. But the OpenRun Pro are also quality headphones and are currently discounted to $109.95 (originally $179.95), the lowest price they've been, according to price-tracking tools.

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If you've never used bone conduction headphones, they're worth a try, and the Shokz OpenPro are a great introduction. The technology has come a long way since their early days. The major downside of the way they work has been that the bass doesn't sound as good as their in-ear counterparts. The OpenRun Pro is designed to compensate for some of that—you won't get the same thumpy bass you'd get from regular headphones, but it'll be the best you can get from any other bone conduction headphones.

As the name implies, these are meant to be used on runs outdoors. They have an IP55 rating for dust- and water-resistance, are lightweight and comfortable, and, because of their design, can be worn with bicycle helmets and sunglasses.

You can use these as everyday headphones around the house, as well, since they can take calls; just be mindful that they don't block any sound. If you plan to use these in a location with a loud music or has a lot of ambient noise, you'll hear everything, so you might prefer taking regular headphones—but that will defeat the purpose of the "open ear" headphones.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was confronted by NBC’s Kristen Welker over her past comments comparing congressional masking mandates to Nazi Germany.

Greene joined Meet the Press– on the day before her final day in Congress– to discuss, among other topics, the recent conservative debate over white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his role in the Republican Party.

Fuentes, who blatantly espouses anti-Semitic rhetoric, skyrocketed into prominence in October after his controversial interview with Tucker Carlson. Greene was criticized in 2022 for her speech to the America First Political Action Conference, an event which was organized by Fuentes.

“In 2022, you did speak at a conference organized by Nick Fuentes. He’s a white nationalist. He recently said that Hitler is, quote, ‘Cool.’ Let me ask you about your perspective right now,” said Welker “Do you believe there is room in the Republican Party for Nick Fuentes and anyone who shares that ideology, that Hitler is cool?”

Greene pushed back, claiming she believed that all speech be protected, even if distasteful.

“Here’s my situation and here’s my belief on people’s speech. I will always defend the First Amendment and free speech, no matter what kind of speech it is. Even speech that I find abhorrent or I disagree with, because I think that makes us uniquely American,” she said.

She continued:

What concerns me is that when we move towards censorship, and we saw that happen during COVID, I myself had my own Twitter account permanently banned because I spoke out against FDA’s rushed approval of the COVID vaccines. And I spoke out against lockdowns and forced masking. And, you know, when I look at people saying that certain types of speech needs to be censored, and we have been hearing that lately, that raises great concern for me. So I think it’s something that we have to take seriously is as Americans, we don’t have to agree with each other and we certainly can disagree, but we should overwhelmingly agree that free speech must be protected.

Greene’s X account was suspended in 2022, after her fifth “strike” against the platform’s misinformation policies, due to a tweet falsely alleged “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.”

Greene’s account was not suspended over her repeated comments comparing Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the Nazis because of her mask rules for the House– or her comparison of logos marking vaccinated employees to the gold stars Jewish people were forced to wear in the Holocaust. Welker noted the congresswoman’s words, drawing a parallel between those claims and Fuentes’.

“Well, let me just, I mean, during COVID, you did compare lockdowns to the Holocaust,” said Welker. “I understand your point about free speech, but let me press you there, because Nick Fuentes has said on his podcast, quote, ‘Hitler was awesome. Hitler was–‘”

The congresswoman interjected, forcefully claiming that she had been misquoted.

“No, that’s a misquote. Kirsten, that’s a misquote. That’s a misquote. That’s not correct,” she said. “I compared vaccine cards, being forced to take a vaccine in order to be able to keep a job or buy or sell, or be able to be admitted to restaurants. I compared that. I was not comparing. The Holocaust was horrible. I’m not comparing anything to that.”

Later in the interview, Greene repeated her previous claim that she didn’t know Fuentes, and that she spoke at the conference “because it was largely attended by young Americans and I care about that generation.”

Watch above via Meet the Press.

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A baffled reporter shouted out after President Donald Trump spent 20 minutes rambling at a press conference on his strike and capture of President Nicolás Maduro, asking him to “explain” himself.

News broke after midnight Friday that the United States struck Venezuela’s capital of Caracas early Saturday morning, and at 4:21 AM, Trump announced on Truth Social that Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured and flown to the United States.

Trump spoke at a  press conference in Florida Saturday morning, during which he opened with a wandering opening statement that included the repeated claim that “we’re going to run the country.”

When he tossed to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a reporter tried to circle back to that claim:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We knocked out 97 percent. And those drugs mostly come from a place called Venezuela. We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.

So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to run the country until such time as we could do a safe, proper and judicous transition.

And it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about. We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States and want to go back to their country, it’s their homeland.

We can’t take a chance if somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind. Decades of that. We’re not going to let that happen.

We are there now, and what people don’t understand, but they understand as I say this, we’re there now. But we’re going to stay until such time as the proper transition can take place.

So we’re gonna stay until such time, we are gonna run it essentially until such a time as a proper transition can take place.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much.

REPORTER: Can you explain how the US will run Venezuela?

Watch above via Fox News.

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