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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirmed that she is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Riley Roberts: “We got engaged last month in my family’s hometown in Puerto Rico."https://trib.al/Eio6ktR 

Artgel “Jun” Anabo, the co-owner of Oakland's cherished Filipino restaurant Lucky Three Seven, was shot and killed in front of his 11-year-old son.https://trib.al/oIKFXgr 

“It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command," Rep. Madison Cawthorn wrote in a typo-riddled Instagram post less than 48 hours after his shocking defeat in North Carolina’s primary election.https://trib.al/Oi76rcW 

It’s the end of a delightfully chaotic era. The CW has announced that 'Riverdale,' for a while the network’s tent-pole series, will end after its seventh season next year.https://trib.al/vxbOgJb 

Less than 48 hours after his shocking defeat, Rep. Madison Cawthorn took to Instagram to post a defiant, vengeful, and typo-riddled message promising a “Dark MAGA” comeback: “The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end."https://trib.al/Cl0MTIb 

The bipartisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk about the purpose of, and participants in, a Capitol tour he led the day before the riot.https://trib.al/HwUKT7e 

“He was just a jealous man, controlling,” Ellen Barkin said. “Controlling. Asking me, 'Where are you going? Who are you meeting with?'”https://trib.al/6wsTzLU 

The so-called “People’s Convoy” now seeks a rematch against the Washington D.C. area. This time around, the increasingly violent truckers, claim they will stealthily ambush the nation’s capital on Thursday afternoon.https://trib.al/dWQYLk5 

Freudian slip much?https://trib.al/0qOVlUy 

Ellen Barkin said that Johnny Depp's behavior during their brief relationship in the 90s often changed when he was drinking or on drugs, including one instance in which he allegedly “tossed” a bottle in her direction during a “fight."https://trib.al/F7JnNKU 

Matt Schlapp, the head of the influential CPAC, has suggested the racist “great replacement theory” could be solved by banning abortion.https://trib.al/gspfr3X 

John Stockton, former Utah Jazz star and NBA Hall of Famer, wrote to a federal judge to advocate for a Utah woman who attended the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.https://trib.al/RTCXMNO 

By the time the dust settles, Democrats could be stuck with one of two unprecedented, uncomfortable internal party battles, thanks to a pileup of three incumbent lawmakers in the counties directly north of New York City.https://trib.al/bvRPo3m 

Tina Peters’ team claimed it was “physically impossible” for Mesa County clerks to upload certain batches of 2020 election ballots so quickly. The cameras showed otherwise.https://trib.al/qENNart 

Twitter executives say they aren’t playing Elon Musk’s games. At a company town hall on Thursday, the execs told employees they will not renegotiate the price of his $44 billion takeover agreement, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Beast.https://trib.al/10fuItr 

Get yourself a drone that can do it allhttps://trib.al/MK3Ar6z 

“I think it’s interesting that Elon Musk thinks that the Democratic Party is the party of hate when the Republican Party produced a failed insurrection on Jan. 6,” Democratic political adviser Kristal Knight said.https://trib.al/a2QprQF 

An unarmed 13-year-old was shot by Chicago police officers on Wednesday night after they fled a vehicle cops said was involved in a carjacking.https://trib.al/QOuqu6M 

While discussing Elon Musk’s latest assertion about the Democratic party, liberal political adviser Kristal Knight called out Fox News for peddling the 'Great Replacement Theory’: “These are all remnants of the Republican Party. That's the party of hate.”https://trib.al/m9JV8P5