A federal judge has found the warden of a D.C. jail and the director of the D.C. Department of Corrections in contempt of court Wednesday and called for an investigation by the Department of Justice to determine whether the jail has violated the civil rights of Jan. 6 defendants. Reagan appointee U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington ruled Wednesday:

"For the reasons stated in open court, it is adjudged that the Warden of the D.C. jail Wanda Patten and Director of the D.C. Department of Corrections Quincy Booth are in civil contempt of court. The Clerk of the Court is ordered to transmit a copy of this order to the Attorney General of the United States for appropriate inquiry into potential civil rights violations of Jan. 6 defendants, as exemplified in this case.

"I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abused. I don't know if it's because he's a January 6th defendant or not, but I find this matter should be referred to the attorney general of the United States for a civil rights investigation into whether the D.C. Department of Corrections is violating the civil rights of January 6th defendants ... in this and maybe other cases."

Christopher Worrell, the defendant in the specific case who is being charged with several felonies related to the January 6th riot, is being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has contracted the coronavirus while in jail. Worrell broke his hand in jail in May and was recommended to have surgery in June but in August his lawyers say jail officials have not addressed the injury and have only provided Tylenol and other anti-inflammatories.

The judge's ruling in Worrell's case comes after he found there was more than an "inexcusable" delay of jail officials turning over medical documents.

Gabby Petito died by strangulation, a Wyoming coroner announced Tuesday. The grim details come as authorities continue to search for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, who was traveling with her before she died.

Dr. Brent Blue, the Teton County coroner, said the manner of death is still considered a homicide, backing initial autopsy results that were released last month. He did not comment on who may be responsible for her death and said he could not comment on how his team determined she died by strangulation.

The 22-year-old was reported missing and found on September 19 after she and Laundrie embarked on a cross-country road trip earlier this summer. Laundrie returned to Florida on September 1 without Petito, 10 days before her mother reported her missing.

Get ready to pay sharply higher bills for heating this winter, along with seemingly everything else.

With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter.

Nearly half the homes in the U.S. use natural gas for heat, and they could pay an average $746 this winter, 30% more than a year ago. Those in the Midwest could get particularly pinched, with bills up an estimated 49%, and this could be the most expensive winter for natural-gas heated homes since 2008-2009.

The second-most used heating source for homes is electricity, making up 41% of the country, and those households could see a more modest 6% increase to $1,268. Homes using heating oil, which make up 4% of the country, could see a 43% increase — more than $500 — to $1,734. The sharpest increases are likely for homes that use propane, which account for 5% of U.S. households.

A federal judge in Texas ordered United Airlines to temporarily halt its plan to put unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave if they have requested an exemption from the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

United Airlines announced Aug. 6 that the Chicago-based airline was requiring all 67,000 of its U.S.-based employees to be vaccinated. At the time, the airline said about 90% of pilots and 80% of flight attendants had already been vaccinated.

But for the small portion of employees that refused to get a coronavirus vaccine and requested either a medical or religious exemption from United, the company said it would place those workers on unpaid leave.

Six employees filed a federal lawsuit over this policy arguing unpaid leave is not a reasonable accommodation, but rather an adverse employment action.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman responded to that lawsuit Tuesday by ordering a temporary restraining order on United to hold off on removing any worker requesting those exemptions from the payroll. That's just until he can hear arguments in the case at a later date.

If you've ever watched Ben Shapiro's podcast, or any Daily Wire content in general, it's painfully obvious that the organization is heavily funded by a company called ExpressVPN. There is paid material that Shapiro reads on the air to advertise the service, watermarks with the ExpressVPN logo applied to all his podcasts, and a unique Ben Shapiro discount for the product.

Shapiro even goes as far as promoting a text advertisement for the VPN service at the very top of every video description on YouTube, reading: "The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today at https://expressvpn.com/benshapiroshow." But will those running the internet security company actually protect your privacy?

The association between Daily Wire and ExpressVPN is quite well known, but what is currently being kept very secret is the global hacking enterprise that took control of ExpressVPN just last month along with the international criminal intrigue surrounding the two Israelis who run the company — including a botched Russian assassination attempt on the company's billionaire majority stakeholder.

So, the Great New Normal Purge has begun ... right on cue, right by the numbers.

As we "paranoid conspiracy theorists" have been warning would happen for the past 18 months, people who refuse to convert to the new official ideology are now being segregated, stripped of their jobs, banned from attending schools, denied medical treatment, and otherwise persecuted.

Relentless official propaganda demonizing "the Unvaccinated" is being pumped out by the corporate and state media, government leaders, health officials, and shrieking fanatics on social media. "The Unvaccinated" are the new official "Untermenschen," an underclass of subhuman "others" the New Normal masses are being conditioned to hate.

You can see the hatred in the New Normals' eyes ...

Several people have been killed and more injured in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg by a man armed with a bow and arrow, local police have said, adding that the attacker had been arrested and appeared to have acted alone.

"We can unfortunately confirm that there are several injured and also unfortunately several killed in this episode," Øyvind Aas, the police chief in the town, about 80km west of the capital, Oslo, told a press conference on Tuesday night.

Aas said the man had been detained and "according to our information, is the only person implicated". He declined to comment on the number of casualties but said the attacks happened over "a large area" and involved multiple crime scenes.

In 100 years, politics as we know it will have degenerated into "humanless democracy," where decisions are made by machines instead of elected leaders, and countries will no longer need physical territory to exist in cyberspace.

That's the theory of Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, who penned an article called "Desolate Democracy and Other Political Wonders of 2121," in which he outlines his prediction for the evolution of politics and governments over the next century.

Surkov, once dubbed the Kremlin's 'grey cardinal,' held the post of Assistant to the President until February 2020 and has served under Putin in various capacities since 1999. His time in the Kremlin is best remembered by the cottage industry it spawned in the West, in which foreign commentators often portrayed him as the brains behind the entire operation.

In his latest piece, written for the publication Actual Comment, Surkov outlined his view of the world in the next 100 years. According to the former Kremlin aide, the coming century will see the "division" and "colonization" of cyberspace, while many wars are fought on the ground.

Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill that would effectively ban the sale of certain kinds of new common gas-powered machines as soon as 2024, including lawnmowers, leaf blowers, and chain saws.

As reported by The Sacramento Bee:

Assembly Bill 1346 directs the California Air Resources Board to phase out the sale of small off-road engines by 2024 or as soon as feasible, whichever comes later. The new law also directs the board to identify and make available, where feasible, funding for commercial rebates to go toward the purchase of electric equipment.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the legislation

"requires all newly sold small-motor equipment primarily used for landscaping to be zero-emission - essentially to be battery-operated or plug-in."

"New portable gas-powered generators also must be zero-emission by 2028, which also could be delayed at the discretion of the state agency."

The new law applies to any engine that produces less than 25 gross horsepower, including lawn mowers, weed trimmers, chain saws, golf carts, specialty vehicles, generators and pumps. It does not apply to on-road motor vehicles, off-road motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles or model airplanes, cars or boats."

Those who are against the measure have said it will create more difficulty for people who work in the landscaping and gardening businesses.

Chilling new text messages point to deadly collusion between police and organized crime in the infamous case of the missing Mexican students.

Transcripts of newly released text messages between a crime boss and a deputy police chief have finally lifted the lid on the mystery of 43 students who went missing one night in southwestern Mexico.

The messages indicate that the cops and the cartel worked together to capture, torture, and murder at least 38 of the 43 student teachers who went missing in September of 2014.

The students had made the deadly mistake of commandeering several buses in order to drive to Mexico City for a protest. It now seems clear that those buses were part of a drug-running operation that would carry a huge cargo of heroin across the U.S. border — and the students had accidentally stolen the load.