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Bannon released after serving 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress

(AP) — Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning. He later resumed his podcast, saying he was focused on helping Trump win back the presidency. A jury convicted Bannon in 2022 of refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.

CNN bans conservative writer after ‘beeper’ comment to Muslim commentator

NEW YORK (AP) — A prime-time CNN discussion that went off the rails led to a conservative writer being thrown off the air and banned from the network. Author Ryan Gidursky was participating in a panel discussion on “News Night” with commentator Mehdi Hasan that devolved into a discussion about anti-Semitism. Gidursky told Hasan that “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” a reference to the September attack where pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded. “Did you just say I should die?” Hasan responded. After a commercial break, Gidursky was gone and CNN said he wouldn’t be back.

‘Halloween comet’ breaks apart after flying close to the sun

(AP) — NASA says a recently discovered comet has broken apart as it approached the sun. The space agency said Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet broke into chunks this week. Astronomers have been tracking the comet since it was discovered in September by a telescope in Hawaii. It’s thought to be part of a family of comets that pass incredibly close to the sun. Comets are cosmic snowballs of dust and ice that circle the sun. Occasionally, comets can make their way into the inner solar system.

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial. A San Francisco jury in June found David DePape guilty of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder. Before issuing the sentence Tuesday, Judge Harry Dorfman dismissed arguments from DePape’s attorneys that he be granted a new trial for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi, who was 82 years old at the time. In May, DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the federal trial.

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