White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked only one question about the January 6 Capitol riot on Wednesday — and it was a wild one.

During Wednesday’s briefing, Leavitt closed things out with a question on whether the administration will be seeking an investigation into the death of 34-year-old Georgia woman Rosanne Boyland, a Capitol rioter who died on January 6, 2021 from acute amphetamine intoxication, according to the Washington, D.C. medical examiner.

Cara Castronuova, the White House correspondent for Lindell TV, pushed a conspiracy theory about Boyland, suggesting Boyland was “brutally beaten” by a Capitol police officer. Castronuova also blasted the “mainstream media” for pushing the “big lie” that the Capitol riot was an “insurrection.”

Footage appeared to show a collapsed Boyland being trampled by the large crowd at the Capitol, according to video reviewed and released by The New York Times.

Some have taken to social media to argue that Boyland was actually killed by Capitol Police, and Castronuova went as far as naming the officer caught up in the Boyland conspiracy theories.

Check out the full exchange below:

CARA CASTRONUOVA: Karoline, yesterday was the five-year anniversary of January 6th, but Democrats and mainstream media continue to push that big lie that it was an insurrection and that police officers died that day. The reality is that four Trump supporters died on January 6, and two women were killed by January 6 police. Everybody knows Ashley Babbitt was shot in cold blood by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, but there was another woman, her name was Roseanne Boyland from Georgia, and she was pepper-balled, gassed, and ultimately brutally beaten with a stick by January 6 police officer Lila Morris. The Biden administration and mainstream media lied and told Americans Roseanne Boylan died of a drug overdose on Capitol steps. Her family is now asking for an investigation. Is the administration aware of the circumstances of her death and will there be an investigation finally?

KAROLINE LEAVITT: Well, for investigation, I will have to defer you to either the FBI or the Department of Justice, and I’m sorry to have to do that. But with respect to all of the facts that you just laid out, the White House relished the opportunity yesterday to actually create a new website to share the facts with the American public, but also all those in this room. We knew the media would be covering January 6th quite a bit because they think it’s something that the American people are still believing their lies on. They think it is something that still helps their case against this president. Obviously not, or else he wouldn’t have been re-elected in an overwhelming fashion in November of last year. And so I would encourage everyone to take a look at the website, it’s quite well done.

Castronuova and Leavitt’s exchange occurred one day after the White House launched a wild new website offering a revisionist history of the Capitol riot on its fifth anniversary.

Watch above via Fox News.

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At CES 2026, Swedish furniture giant Ikea showed off its new Kallsup Bluetooth speaker, which will cost just $10 in the U.S. Normally, I'd be skeptical of any speaker this cheap, but the Kallsup grabbed my attention for a few reasons—chief among them that Ikea says you can chain up to 100 of them together to create the multi-speaker setup of your dreams. That aside, the hardware seems pretty basic: The speaker has a USB-C port at the back, and two buttons up top (play/pause, and pair).

Chaining together Bluetooth speakers is nothing new, but this is the first time I'm seeing the ability to pair as many as 100 of them. The only reason this use case is even remotely plausible is the pricing: As reported by The Verge, the Kallsup Bluetooth speaker will be priced at $10 in the U.S. and €5 (roughly $6) in Europe, which means you can buy 10 of them for the same price as one HomePod mini. The Verge also says that once you pair one of them to your phone (the company promises Bluetooth 5.3 support), you can add more to the chain with a two-button sequence.

Design-wise, the speakers are cubical and colorful, which I'm a fan of (at the moment, Ikea is showing them off in white, green, and pink). But how do they sound? Well, Gizmodo says that while they are loud, they don't deliver much in the way of bass. I'd love to get a couple to judge for myself before committing to chaining a few dozen of them together, but I definitely admire Ikea's big swing here. That said, while CES is the place to grab attention with out-there ideas, and I am struggling to find a use case for chaining 100 Bluetooth speakers together. Maybe if you're an amusement park owner and you want the cheapest possible audio setup for a haunted house? Likely most people will be content with a more reasonable number of them, spread around the house.

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.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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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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The original Kindle Scribe came out in 2022; that version is currently $349.99 for a used 64GB model with the Premium Pen, which puts how good a deal this is in perspective—you can get the three-years-newer model for less.

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.