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More than 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war. Now, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud finds a new generation of journalists who are stepping in, young and untrained but determined to report human stories.
Published On 16 Apr 2026
Many concluded quite some time ago that Ja Morant needs a change of scenery, and according to a new report, the Memphis Grizzlies star came to that same conclusion many months ago.
Morant, who was selected second overall by Memphis in the 2019 NBA Draft, has had a tumultuous past few seasons playing for the Grizzlies, to put things mildly.
In 2023, he was suspended not once, but twice, for flashing a gun on Instagram Live on separate occasions just two months apart. Later that year, he was sued over an altercation he had during a pickup game with a 17-year-old in 2022 in which the NBA star confirmed he threw the first punch to “protect himself.”
Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (12) looks to pass as he is defended by Charlotte Hornets forward Moussa Diabate (14). (Sam Sharpe-Imagn Images)
On top of the off-court issues, Morant has battled a slew of injuries and hasn’t played more than 50 regular-season games since the 2022-23 NBA season. The 26-year-old only appeared in 20 games for Memphis during the 2025-26 campaign.
The Ja Morant experience in Memphis – both with the franchise and the city – has been largely awful for multiple years at this point, and reportedly reached his tipping point earlier this season.
According to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon and Michael C. Wright, Morant let players around the NBA and some of his former coaches know that “he isn’t playing for Memphis anymore,” according to sources they spoke with. Morant is currently in the midst of a $197 million contract that runs through the 2027-28 season.
Ja Morant #12 of the Memphis Grizzlies and LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers look on during the game on January 20, 2023 at Crypto.Com Arena in Los Angeles, California. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
As for what exactly pushed Morant to the point where sources are telling reporters that he was letting folks around him know that he’s done with Memphis? Well, that’s where things get even more interesting, and petty.
According to the report, Morant still hasn’t gotten over the one-game team suspension he served in November. For those who haven’t checked a calendar recently, we’re in the month of April now.
Morant was suspended by the Grizzlies for one game for “conduct detrimental to the team.” It came after Morant and head coach Tuomas Iisalo, who was in his first full season as a head coach, had a bit of a clash following a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Morant shot 3-for-14 from the field during the loss, and reportedly had bigger issues with Iisalo’s substitution patterns than his own performance.
Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (12) celebrates with teammates in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
The writing has long been on the wall that it is time for Morant and Memphis to split. Whether it be amicable or not, both parties involved need a complete reset.
The obvious yet rather tricky next step for the Grizzlies to make that reset happen is to find a suitor around the league for a player with a massive contract who has made a legitimate habit of not working.
Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.
Anthropic quietly updated its support page on identity verification for Claude users this week to indicate that it’s rolling the process out on a case-by-case basis. According to the help page, Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for “a few use cases,” and users “might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.”
In short, expect to be suddenly asked for verification at any time, for pretty much any reason Anthropic can come up with.
“Identity verification helps us prevent abuse, enforce our usage policies, and comply with legal obligations,” the company said in its new support language.
In order to further assuage user fears over the privacy of their data, Anthropic notes that it won’t use any identity data to train its models, is only going to collect “the minimum information required to verify your identity,” and won’t share identity data with anyone other than Persona and Anthropic itself, except where legally required to respond to valid legal process.
You may recognize the name Persona Identities if you follow privacy news.
Discord previously chose Persona as its age verification partner when the social discussion platform announced plans to enact a verification system similar to Anthropic’s. But a security researcher reported exposure of Persona’s front end on a government server, then speculated that this was part of a broader government surveillance scheme. Persona convincinglydenied those allegations in discussions with The Register, but the uproar was enough for Discord to delay its plans to implement age checks. It also cast Persona over the edge for ostensibly unrelated reasons.
This time around, discussion was quick to establish displeasure with Persona’s involvement in Anthropic’s identity verification plans, with some on Reddit saying they planned to cancel their subscriptions.
Others pointed to the February personal account of an individual who dug into Persona after finding out they were LinkedIn’s identity verification partner. As that blog post pointed out, Persona lists a number of subprocessors that help it with various parts of its identity verification process, including AWS, Confluent, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, and even potentially Anthropic, among others.
Anthropic claims on the help page that Persona is the one collecting selfie images and snapshots of identity documents for verification, and that it exercises tight controls over how Persona is able to handle it and what it can do with it.
“We set the rules for how it’s used and how long it’s kept,” Anthropic states. “Persona is contractually limited in how they can use your data: only to provide and support verification and to improve their ability to prevent fraud.” Anthropic also made multiple mentions of being able to set its own retention period on the data of Claude users processed by Persona, but failed to state what that period is.
The larger point? When new information is gathered, it often goes through a whole chain of providers. If any one of those providers has sneaky intentions or lax data security practices, that information may end up in hands you never expected it to. When all you maybe wanted to do was write some new code faster or ask a chatbot for relationship advice.
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The last 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule have been kind to a number of British political figures – from the Tory peer David Frost to Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin and James Orr.
All benefited from largesse extended by the self-styled “illiberal democracy” established by the Hungarian leader’s ruling Fidesz party, which took a particular liking for those on the harder right of British conservatism.
But while Budapest channelled millions each year to thinktanks and individuals associated with the populist right, the overwhelming defeat of Orbán this week now threatens to bring that support across Europe to a shuddering halt.
Change looms too elsewhere, including for Hungary’s ambassador Ferenc Kumin, who has long been close to Orbán, and for media operations set up by his supporters, such as Remix News. It pumps out English-language coverage skewed towards amplifying hard-right, anti-immigration narratives of life in Britain.
Frank Furedi, the British-Hungarian sociologist and former Marxist who has emerged as a leading ideological figure for the new right, said: “We expect steps to be taken to try to deprive certain institutions of the funding they previously had and I think in some cases there will be attempts to close them down.”
MCC Brussels, the thinktank Furedi heads, has been almost entirely funded since its establishment in 2022 by a grant from Mathias Corvinus Collegium, the conservative Hungarian educational institution funded by Orbán’s government.
The Collegium’s shares in the lucrative Hungarian energy company MOL, which sources the bulk of its oil from Russia, mean that MCC Brussels and other outposts stand accused of effectively running on Russian oil.
British beneficiaries of MCC include the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF), which was set up in the name of the late British rightwing philosopher. It has received more than half a million pounds since 2023 from MCC, amounting to more than 90% of its total funding.
The board of the RSLF, which describes itself as being at the centre of an international network of institutions and scholars dedicated to furthering the philosophical and cultural achievements of the west, includes the former minister and influential brexiter Michael Gove, as well as Orr, one of Nigel Farage’s chief advisers.
Orr, a socially conservative Cambridge University academic, is a key figure in the broader network that has evolved during Orbán’s rule, and is listed by MCC itself as one of its International guests.
Others associated with MCC include Goodwin, Reform’s losing Gorton and Denton byelection candidate and one of the Hungarian organisation’s “visiting fellows”. Such figures are paid between €5,000 and €10,000 (£4,350 and £8,700) per month, according to leaked documents obtained by Direkt36, a Hungarian investigative outlet. Reform has denied Goodwin was paid €10,000 a month
Goodwin was the speaker at an event at MCC Scruton – a cafe and event space attached to the MCC – on the day after voters ousted Orbán. It was, by accounts from some of the 18 people who attended, a sombre affair.
Other British figures have received funding from the Danube Institute, a Budapest thinktank founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former speechwriter John O’Sullivan. Tens of thousands of pounds were provided for tasks in return for being featured “regularly or at least twice a month” in British media,” according to the Hungarian watchdog Atlatszo. Lord Frost was a visiting fellow until November last year.
On the basis of remarks this week by Hungary’s prime minister elect, Péter Magyar, those in Britain and elsewhere who have counted on support from Budapest will have to look elsewhere. “I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” he told a press conference, railing against the “mixing of party financing with government spending”.
Furedi said: “If we’re deprived of our existing stream of funding, then we’ll just have to go out with a cap and raise money and find new ways of operating that are more economical, maybe have a leaner organisation. People are going to want to maintain their work and not just go up to fight.” He insisted his organisation always had “total autonomy”.
Such funding might come from corporate sources, or even further afield.
Marietta van der Tol, an assistant research professor at Cambridge and close observer of Hungary in recent times, said: “There is the possibility that those thinktanks and others beyond Hungary could look to the US. Its new national security strategy talked about cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.
“It’s not really clear yet who Péter Magyar is or what he wants. He’s a conservative who has come from Fidesz but he has talked about the transformation of the institutions, the economy, the media. Hungarians want regime change. Either way, those who have benefited from Orbán’s support are clearly worried.”
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Arsenio Hall and Jay Leno are more than just comedians.
The pair, who became friends while hosting competing late-night shows in the 1990s, once saved an elderly couple whose house caught on fire, according to Hall.
“There was a night when I’m at Jay Leno’s house after we come from working at the Comedy Store,” Hall told NPR’s “Fresh Air” recently. “And we’re standing in his yard, and he’s showing me stuff about his yard. He had a new house and a pool. And we see down the street there’s smoke coming from a house.”
He said that Leno asked his wife to call 911.
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Comedian Arsenio Hall said that he and Jay Leno once saved a couple whose house was on fire. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)
“Jay and I run out the front door and sprint to the burning house,” Hall wrote about the incident in his new book “Arsenio: A Memoir,” according to People.
He continued, “He presses the doorbell and I pound on the door. No one answers. In tandem, we kick the door and break it down.”
Hall wrote that they found the couple asleep in a back bedroom.
“‘You wake them up,’ I say to Jay. ‘They need to see you first, not a random Black guy standing over them,'” the “Arsenio Hall Show” host remembered. “We wake them up and lead them out of their house. A few minutes later, sirens wail and firefighters arrive.”
The comedian joked with NPR that he didn’t know anything about the couple, but thought they “might have a different reaction to Jay saying, ‘Hey, it’s Jay Leno, wake up.’ You know?” rather than him.
Hall wrote that firefighters were able to save most of the couple’s home.
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Arsenio Hall and Jay Leno are seen together in 1990. (Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection/Getty Images)
Then, he wrote, the firefighters began to clap for the comedians, making him a little uncomfortable with the praise, “but the crazy thought does occur to me, ‘Tonight Jay Leno and I saved two lives.’”
He told NPR that he’d forgotten about the story before he started researching his life for his memoir.
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Hall also told NPR that he first met Leno at a Chicago comedy club, where Leno told him he should try to make it in Los Angeles, “because you’ll never know if you have it unless you go out there. You don’t want to be a big fish in a little pond.”
Leno gave him his number and told him to call him when he arrived on the West Coast.
Arsenio Hall, seen here with Jay Leno in 1999, calls him his “big brother.” (Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)
“So he was like a big brother figure to me because he was already famous,” Hall admitted to NPR. “And Jay and I have been to hell and back. We’ve been big brother, little brother. We’ve been competitors dogging each other in the press. And now we’re back to being partners on the road doing an act called Kings of Late Night.”
In an interview on Conan O’Brien’s podcast on March 31, Hall described their relationship as “brothers.”
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“And we fought too, me and Jay. We’re like Cain and Abel,” Hall admitted.
“Sometimes it sounds amazing and hard to believe, but I think I’ve just been blessed with an incredible life,” he reminisced, “which is why I was so cool after quitting the show with going home and chilling.”
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire starting at 21:00 GMT on Thursday, said US President Donald Trump, who spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. Al Jazeera correspondent Obaida Hitto, reporting from Tyre, says the situation remains “quite intense”.
Published On 16 Apr 2026
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Dr. Sheila Nazarian, a plastic surgeon who fled Iran as a child, warns of the escalating human rights crisis in Iran, where four more protesters face death sentences, including the first woman. She highlights over 650 executions in three months and criticizes American politicians for their perceived inaction, stressing the humanitarian nature of the issue.
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Dr. Sheila Nazarian said Wednesday on “America’s Newsroom” that actress Elizabeth Banks and other public figures are ignoring what she described as ongoing human rights abuses against women in Iran, including executions tied to recent protests.
“This Elizabeth Banks sitting comfy in a little cushy couch on a podcast with her hair slicked back talking about how could anyone vote for Donald Trump,” Nazarian said. “You claim to be a feminist. You claim to be a humanitarian. Where are you when the women need you? You’re a fake. You’re a hypocrite.”
Nazarian’s remarks came after Banks said she does not “understand” the 53% of White women who voted for President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I don’t understand the 53% of White ladies that didn’t vote for Kamala. What were you thinking?” Banks said in a “Bustle” podcast episode.
EXILED IRANIAN WARNS REGIME WAS ‘AGGRESSIVELY PATIENT THREAT WAITING TO POUNCE’ ON AMERICA
Saleh Mohammadi, left, an Iranian wrestling champion was reportedly executed over protest participation earlier this year. On right, a Tehran billboard showing Supreme Leaders Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei and newly appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed March 10, 2026. (The Foreign Desk/AFP via Getty Images)
Nazarian, a California-based plastic surgeon who fled Iran as a child, made the remarks during an interview with host Bill Hemmer, who cited reports from human rights groups that Iranian courts had sentenced four more people to death following January protests, including a woman.
The segment focused on both the treatment of women under Iran’s regime and broader reactions in the West. Nazarian framed the issue as a humanitarian crisis, criticizing what she characterized as selective outrage from prominent voices.
“This woman, Beta, is about to be gang-raped and publicly executed, and so are three more women,” Nazarian said. “They have been doing this to many young people every single day, one or two public executions.”
Nazarian described practices she attributed to the Iranian regime regarding female prisoners facing execution.
“In Iran, this regime, these Islamists, they believe that if a woman is killed and she’s a virgin, she goes to heaven,” she said. “So what they do is they will gang-rape her before they execute her.”
IRANIAN JOURNALIST URGES TRUMP TO ‘FINISH THE JOB,’ SAYS IRANIANS FEAR ‘WOUNDED REGIME’
Iranian women walk past a mural painting of Iranian flags in Tehran on Nov. 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
“They are killing young people every single day,” Nazarian said.
Nazarian also pointed to her family’s experience fleeing Iran, describing the risks they faced under the regime.
“My family escaped Iran on the back of a pickup truck while the Iranian border police was shooting at us,” she said. “They had two daughters. They could see this is no future for a girl in Iran.”
“Imagine there are millions of people in Iran who knew freedom 47 years ago, and they lost it,” Nazarian said.
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In a protest against the regime in Iran on Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Washington, D.C., Iranian American women march with their hair uncovered, refusing strict edicts of the Islamic Republic of Iran that force women to cover their hair. (Fox News Digital)
Hemmer asked about reports that much of Iran had been offline, while some elites retained internet access. Nazarian said her information from inside the country reflects fear of the regime.
“The only things that I’m hearing from Iran is that they don’t want the bombs to stop,” she said. “They are more afraid of this regime than they are of the targeted attacks.”
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Nazarian reiterated that the situation extends beyond geopolitics and should be viewed through the lens of human rights.
“Iran isn’t just a military war or peace in the Middle East or oil stabilization,” she said. “This is a humanitarian issue.”
It was perhaps inevitable that a braggadocious Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host would pluck a fake Bible verse from a violent Hollywood blockbuster and present it at a Pentagon prayer session to rally the troops for the “holy war” in Iran.
Certainly among a glut of stories swirling around Pete Hegseth this week, including articles of impeachment brought against him by a group of ambitious Democratic lawmakers, the bizarre allegation that the Bible-thumping Hegseth was passing off a fire-and-brimstone script by Quentin Tarantino, an Oscar-winning director, as the word of the Lord was far too compelling to ignore.
On Wednesday, at the latest of his new series of worship services at the Pentagon to bless the Iran war effort, Hegseth stood at a podium and delivered a prayer for search and rescue crews he said was based on a Bible passage in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel.
Yet, as so often in the upside-down world that is Donald Trump’s second term of office, all was not as it seemed. The prayer Hegseth used appeared instead to be a bastardized version of a speech by actor Samuel L Jackson in the movie Pulp Fiction.
According to some accounts of the event, Hegseth acknowledged only the Bible verse on which it was loosely based, Ezekiel 25:17, instead of Jackson’s oratory from the film that it more closely resembled.
Adding to the confusion was how a Hollywood movie snippet pledging “great vengeance” and “furious rebukes” from the heavens morphed into a prayer for the safety of military search and rescue crews that Hegseth was citing.
In its own helpful analysis of the situation, Newsweek presented all three passages of text: Ezekiel 25:17; Jackson’s dialog from Tarantino’s 1994 cult black comedy; and the words spoken by Hegseth on Wednesday, which he stated were from so-called prayer CSAR 2517 (combat search and rescue), was commonplace in military circles, and was read to crews that rescued an air force colonel from an Iranian mountain this month after his fighter jet was shot down.
The shortest passage is the Bible verse: “And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”
Both others are longer, more aligned to each other, and expand significantly on the original Bible text.
In Pulp Fiction, just before Jackson’s character, Jules Winnfield, executes a crooked business partner of his mob boss, he declares: “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”
Hegseth said he thought the military prayer he read “is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17”, and made no mention of Tarantino’s script, Jackson’s near-identical recital, or the movie role for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
“The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” he said.
“Blessed is he who, in the name of comradery and duty, shepherd the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign is Sandy One, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
The defense department did not immediately reply to an inquiry from the Guardian about the origin and content of Hegseth’s retelling.
Kingsley Wilson, a Pentagon spokesperson, did respond to earlier questions about the Democrats’ impeachment effort against Hegseth, telling multiple media outlets: “This is just another charade in an attempt to distract the American people from the major successes we have had here at the Department of War.”
Newsweek noted that the Bible passage was a condemnation of Philistines and the Cherethites, historic enemies of the Israelites, dating to the 5th century BC. Ezekiel, the Old Testament book in which it appears, focuses on a demonstrative prophet of the same name who engages in street theater to attract the attention of crowds to deliver his message.
In a Thursday morning press briefing on the progress of the Iran war, Hegseth, also skilled in performing to the masses from his days as a television host, again invoked the Bible in likening the media to Pharisees, a New Testament-era group often in conflict with Jesus Christ and his teachings.
“As the passage ends, the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him, how to destroy him,” Hegseth said, recalling a sermon he heard last weekend.
“I sat there in church and I thought: ‘Our press are just like these Pharisees. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn.’”
The defense secretary has loudly and repeatedly condemned the press for its reporting of the Iran war, and skepticism of Trump administration pronouncements from the White House and Pentagon that the ongoing six-week war is already won, and that Iran’s leaders were “begging for a deal” to end it, despite denials from Tehran.
Alluding to the media’s perceived “constant negativity”, Hegseth said: “Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.”
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Allegations of misconduct against an unnamed senator were sent to the Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., made the announcement on X Wednesday night, but the nature of the allegations and who they are against are unclear. Fox News Digital reached out for comment from Luna’s office but did not immediately hear back.
“[It] seems like the Senate has its own trash to take out,” Luna wrote. “[Senate Majority Leader John Thune] You need to look into the allegations against one of your Senators, it’s very disturbing. My chief will be contacting your chief.”
ANNA PAULINA LUNA SAYS SHE’S ‘VERY CONFIDENT’ VOTES ARE THERE TO EXPEL CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK
Former Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Reps. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., and Cory Mills, R-Fla., have all been hit with allegations of misconduct during their time in office. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Thune, R-S.D., confirmed that his office received the information Thursday morning.
“I don’t know what the particulars are about this,” Thune said. “I have not — all I know is that we referred it to the proper authorities, which, in this case, would be the Senate Ethics Committee.”
Fox News Digital reached out for comment from the Senate Ethics Committee but did not immediately hear back.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., spoke with reporters as he headed to the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., who chairs the ethics panel, declined to comment on Luna’s post and said, “I talk zero about ethics.”
When asked if lawmakers have strayed from the massive overhaul of sexual harassment reporting and accountability procedures passed in Congress in 2018, Lankford said, “No, none of that’s changed” on his ethics panel.
“We still do our work, as we always have,” he said.
Luna’s allegations come in the wake of a scandal that rocked the lower chamber and has again forced a reckoning in Congress over lawmakers and their conduct following the #MeToo movement that began in 2018.
Former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., resigned Tuesday from the House shortly after ending his gubernatorial campaign following a bombshell report from The San Francisco Chronicle that the ex-lawmaker allegedly sexually assaulted a former staffer.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna departed the U.S. Capitol following a series of House votes on March 5, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Since that report last week, five women have stepped forward and accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct and rape.
He has repeatedly denied the allegations and vowed to fight back against them.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who was close friends with Swalwell but has vehemently denied any knowledge of his alleged activities, said lawmakers need to go back and make the 2018 revamp of conduct and reporting rules “better.”
“Because clearly there’s holes in this, or number two, that we haven’t created an environment through the legislation to make women, especially staffers, feel that they could come and talk to somebody and not have any repercussions,” Gallego said.
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Swalwell is not the only lawmaker to exit after sexual misconduct allegations.
Former Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, also resigned from Congress on Tuesday after he admitted to having an affair with a former staffer who later died by setting herself on fire. However, he has not acknowledged a second allegation of sexual misconduct.