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The House Oversight Committee voted to recommend holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas related to the Jeffrey Epstein probe. The committee’s recommendation now goes to the full House for a vote, where the Republican majority seems inclined to vote yes. It is then up to the Trump Justice Department to decide if it will pursue a grand jury indictment against the Clintons, according to CBS News. The committee subpoenaed both Clintons after several photos of the former president on Epstein’s private island surfaced. In a January 13 letter to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the Clintons said they have reason to believe the subpoenas are “legally invalid” and that they “tried to give [Comer] the little information [they] have.” “We’ve done so because Mr. Epstein’s crimes were horrific,” the statement read, adding that “There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics.” Congress passed the “Epstein Files Transparency Act” in November by nearly unanimous margins in both chambers, and it was then signed into law by President Donald Trump. Democrats have argued that the pace of the files’ release has been too slow. In a lengthy markup hearing on Wednesday, there was a debate about the specifics of “acceptable terms,” as Comer phrased it, including whether or not there should be a recorded transcript of the Clintons’ depositions. “They have had five months to comply with this,” Comer said, noting the negotiations with the Clintons’ attorneys. “We expect to hear from Bill Clinton, he is not above the law,” he later said. Prior to the hearing, Comer wrote on social media that “the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer.” “The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment,” the Kentucky congressman added. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking member of the committee, argued that the “Clintons have not objected to a transcript.” “Let’s talk to President Clinton, and let’s get a transcript of it, let’s have the committee there and the staff there and move forward,” the California Democrat added. “They did object to a transcript Mr. Garcia, they did object to a transcript, they’re just now changing because they see that public opinion is not on their side,” Comer responded. Democrats on the committee said that the decision to hold the possibility of holding the Clintons in contempt is political targeting, arguing that the same standard was not honored for other subpoenas issued. “Attorney General Pam Bondi has violated the subpoena issued by this committee; we should be holding her in contempt to remain fair and to remain transparent, and so I ask that you do that if you want to be fair and care about justice for the victims here,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) said during the hearing. Comer responded, saying that ‘They have turned documents over,” and noted multiple times in the hearing that Bondi is expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, where she could be asked about the Epstein files process. Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) proposed an amendment to hold Bondi in civil contempt, saying she’s not against the effort to hold the Clintons “accountable” but argued that the contempt effort was being “fast-tracked.” Rep. Dave Min (D-CA) suggested civil enforcement of the subpoena instead, which Comer pushed back on, citing insight from legal counsel. “If this committee wants to be taken seriously, we would be addressing all the bad actors in this investigation, not cherry-picking them for political points. The Justice Department needs to be held accountable for their non-compliance and their lack of transparency,” Lee said. The amendments proposed by the Democrats ultimately failed to pass. Nine Democrats voted with Republicans to hold Bill Clinton in contempt. Three voted to hold Hillary Clinton in contempt. The Clintons did not respond to a request for comment.

To the surprise of no one, Disney’s live-action version of “Snow White” was nominated for the internet’s most notorious film awards in 2026. The massive flop was nominated in six categories for the annual Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), making it the most nominated film alongside Ice Cube’s “War of the Worlds.” Both films were nominated for “Worst Picture.”  “A slow-paced unnecessary re-imagining of a classic, filled with drawn-out musical numbers, dopey CGI dwarfs, and enough mediocrity to leave the audience in a very unhappy place,” the press release said of the nomination. Somehow, activist actress Rachel Zegler managed to avoid being nominated for worst actress, despite many critics blaming her performances both on and off screen for contributing to the disaster. Besides Worst Picture, “Snow White” was nominated in the categories of Worst Remake, Supporting Actors, Screen Combo, Director, and Screenplay. “Snow White” made just over $206 million worldwide, meaning it did not recoup its massive production budget. It has a 39% critics’ score and 69% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The New York Times said of the film: “Neither good enough to admire nor bad enough to joyfully skewer; its mediocrity is among its biggest bummers.” “Presumably one of the reasons to bring actors into remakes of animated classics would be to add a warm-blooded pulse to these characters. Zegler manages that, but everyone else in ‘Snow White’ — mortal or CGI — is as stiff as could be,” said a critic from The Associated Press. One of the main issues was Zegler, who played the lead, not only insulting Trump voters but also disparaging the source material for the movie she was starring in. During a 2022 expo, Zegler called Prince Charming a “stalker,” as The Daily Wire previously reported.  “I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird! Weird. So we didn’t do that this time,” she said at the time. “We have a different approach to, what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story, just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude,” she added. “It’s one of those things that I think everyone’s going to have their assumptions about what it’s going to be, but it’s really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.” At another point, Zegler said, “[Snow White is] not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” Zegler said in the clip. “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.” The Razzies were founded in 1981. Nominations are determined by a group of more than 1,200 voters, and anyone who pays the annual $40 fee or the lifetime membership fee of $500 can count themselves among the voting panel. As always, the “winners” will be announced on the night before the Academy Awards, which this year falls on March 14. 

The following is an edited transcript from The Michael Knowles Show. * * * What is the broader, deeper vision of the World Economic Forum? Bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari actually sums it up quite well. Harari is close to Klaus Schwab who, of course, was the longtime head of the World Economic Forum. Harari has effectively become the “court intellectual” of the WEF, and he has been unusually candid about what he thinks the future holds. Harari has said openly that as we look into the future, the world is going to be run by artificial intelligence. Anything involving language — up to and including the Bible and religion itself — is going to be taken over by AI. In his own words, Harari explains it this way: Yuval Noah Harari speaking at the World Economic Forum just said that AI will soon take control of the Bible, and all the words written in it. The Bible absolutely accepts that challenge. Game on. “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth,… pic.twitter.com/rA8S6YpQcT — Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) January 20, 2026 Credit: @NowTheEndBegins/X.com I’ve thought about Yuval Harari for a while now, and he could not make himself seem more villainous if he tried. He leans into it. He’s auditioning to be the Bond villain. He presents himself as the herald of the end times. Now, to be fair, he’s not totally wrong about the influence of AI. AI has crept into all of our lives in one way or another. And we even cooperate with it constantly. In that sense, he’s right. But he gets the fundamental things wrong. First of all, he says Jews refer to themselves as “the people of the book.” That’s a half-truth. Some people say it today, but Jews did not originate that phrase. Do you know where “people of the book” actually comes from? It comes from Islam. It’s a phrase from the Qur’an, used to refer to Jews and Christians in an attempt to present Islam as part of that same tradition. “People of the book” is a Muslim term that Jews — and some Protestants — later appropriated. But when you really get down to it, setting Islam aside entirely, Judaism and Christianity are not fundamentally religions of the book. They are religions of sacrifice. It is true that since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., Jews gather and conduct religious services in synagogues. But before that, Judaism was a religion of Temple sacrifice. Christianity, crucially, is also a religion of sacrifice. The centerpiece of Christian worship is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: the Blessed Sacrament, Christ in the Holy Eucharist — body, blood, soul, and divinity. None of this diminishes the importance of Scripture. But Pope John Paul II corrected this misunderstanding beautifully when he said that Christianity is not the religion of a book. It is the religion of the Word of God. We are the people of the Word. Yes, we have Holy Scripture — inerrant and authored by God — but the center point is the Word Himself: the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Once you understand that, Harari’s statement becomes even more jarring. He says that anything involving language, anything involving words, will be taken over and conquered by AI. But if the religion that animates our civilization is the religion of the Word — “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” — then what Harari is really saying is that AI is going to conquer God. WATCH: The Michael Knowles Show Harari is a smart guy, so he may be aware that this is exactly what he’s saying, even if he doesn’t state it explicitly. And if he’s not aware of it, that somehow makes it even worse. The belief that AI will conquer God is what a lot of liberal, humanist, materialist, and atheist globalists actually believe. This isn’t the product of a few years or even a few decades. It’s the culmination of centuries of liberal thought. They intend to make their own god, and AI will be that god. They will worship it. It’s no different from the Old Testament, where pagans worshipped dumb idols that God repeatedly warned them not to worship, lest they become dumb themselves. And that’s exactly what’s happened. That’s why all these fancy elites, who went to elite schools, who have lots of money and impressive jobs, seem so dumb. That’s why someone like Yuval Harari, who probably has a very high IQ and has read an enormous number of books, ends up saying things that sound so profoundly foolish. And that’s why you end up needing a guy like Trump to barge in and tell them.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was denied entry into the official headquarters for the U.S. delegation in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, his press office said on Wednesday. The governor, a nemesis of President Donald Trump, was scheduled to speak to the media outlet Fortune for an event sponsored by the USA House in Davos, but wasn’t allowed inside the venue, POLITICO reported. USA House, which is set up in a 19th-century church, has been recognized by the United States as the official headquarters for U.S. delegates in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum. “Under pressure from the White House and State Department, USA House (a church acting as the official US pavilion) is now denying entry to @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom to speak with media after Fortune — the official media partner — invited him to speak,” Newsom’s press office wrote on X. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told The Daily Wire, “No one in Davos knows who third-rate governor Newscum is or why he is frolicking around Switzerland instead of fixing the many problems he created in California.” Newsom has been in Davos during the World Economic Forum this week, where he has spoken to the media and bashed President Trump. Trump mentioned Newsom during his World Economic Forum speech as the governor looked on. The president was touting his record on cracking down on crime when he added, “We will help the people of California … I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin’s a good guy, and if he needed it, I would do it in a heartbeat. We did help them a lot in Los Angeles early in my term when they had some problems.” After Trump delivered a speech to world leaders on Wednesday, Newsom called the speech “remarkably boring” and “remarkably insignificant.” On Tuesday, the California governor ripped world leaders for what he viewed as actions appeasing Trump. “It’s time to stand tall and firm,” Newsom said. “I’ve seen this in the United States. The supine Congress playing both sides. … It’s time to have principle. It’s time to stand tall and strong.” “I can’t take this complicity — people rolling over,” he added. “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. Nobel Prizes that are being given away. I mean, it’s just pathetic and I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage, I mean, at least from an American perspective. It’s embarrassing.” Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, have spoken to audiences gathered at the USA House in the Swiss Alps town this week. Earlier on Wednesday, Bessent ripped Newsom while speaking at an event, saying, “I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he’s not speaking because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America.”

Andrew Klavan’s latest work of nonfiction has been nominated for a prestigious award from the Mystery Writers of America. “The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness” has been nominated for a 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biography. The New York Times bestseller is a gripping examination of evil, art, the mind, and faith. This is the sixth Edgar nomination for Klavan, a prolific mystery writer known for his Cameron Winter series. Klavan, who has two Edgar Awards under his belt, announced this latest nomination on X with characteristic humility. Wow, here’s a shocker. “Kingdom of Cain” has been nominated for an Edgar Award in the category of criticism and biography. My sixth nomination with two wins. Really gratifying.https://t.co/mBsqwOwAJ6 — Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) January 20, 2026 “My sixth nomination with two wins. Really gratifying,” he added. The nomination and potential win add to Klavan’s long list of accolades as a prolific novelist, critic, and cultural commentator, as well as his work as host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. “The Kingdom Of Cain” centers on three infamous murders from history and explores how acts of darkness have inspired works of literature that grapple with morality, suffering, and the presence of God. Through these case studies, Klavan weaves together literary criticism and theological reflection, arguing that even humanity’s most brutal moments can point toward transcendent truth.  “My subject is murder and the imagination,” Klavan writes in the book. “My premise is that murder is evil. My belief is that God is love, and love is the source of joy.” “If, then, I enter the literature of darkness, I do it with a sure and certain faith in the reality of light, not light in a future heaven but light in this world of sin and suffering, not light in the world to come but light in this world of present darkness, including the darkness of murder,” he adds. Klavan expounded on those themes in a May interview with Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham, during which he explained why Christians should not be afraid to engage with such sinister topics as murder. “What good does it do anybody to write about the world as it’s not?” Klavan asks, noting that “Every honest story, every true story, has God.” “Whether you believe or not, if you tell a true story, if you tell the truth about life, God will be there.” “The Kingdom of Cain” is available on Amazon, and you can purchase signed copies of the bestselling book at the Daily Wire Shop. The 80th Annual Edgar Awards will be celebrated on April 29, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.