Ryan Nichols, who plead guilty in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol and was later pardoned by President Trump, was charged with threateningly displaying a handgun to a person with whom he was arguing in a church parking lot, The Guardian reports.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) “will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas of many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme,” the Denver Post reports.

“The commutation will reduce Peters’ original sentence of nearly nine years, which was thrown out last month, to about 4.5 years, Polis said in an interview Friday. His decision will make her parole-eligible for release from prison beginning June 1.”

New York Times: “Mr. Polis said he believed that Ms. Peters, a nonviolent first-time offender, had received too harsh a sentence because of her embrace of conspiracy theories about Mr. Trump’s 2020 election loss.”

“The FBI has begun interviewing current and former CIA employees as part of the Department ​of Justice’s investigation into ex-CIA director John Brennan over his role in an intelligence finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help Donald Trump,” Reuters reports.

Fired former acting FBI chief Brian Driscoll told CNN that Kash Patel tied his job security as a career agent to helping purge FBI agents linked to criminal probes of Donald Trump.

Patel told Driscoll “the FBI tried to put the president in jail and he hasn’t forgotten it.”

ABC News: Kash Patel set to testify on Capitol Hill amid controversies.

Playbook: “His testimony comes as Patel’s favorability tanks, with one recent poll by the Democratic-leaning group Impact Research showing his net favorability at -11 overall, including -25 among independents in swing districts.”

“White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges that include trying to assassinate President Donald Trump,” CNBC reports.

A hacker stole more than $3,000 from Sen. Cory Booker’s reelection committee, NOTUS reports.

Physical assaults against Jewish people in the U.S. last year reached the highest levels since 1979, Axios reports.

ProPublica: “To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs into the prison, gang members distributing them inside and bank records showing the money flowing.”

“Then the agents discovered something unusual.”

“Leaders of the prison gang known as Los Tiburones, or the Sharks, were selling drugs to inmates not only for money, but for their votes. Specifically, votes for now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, investigators found.”

Washington Post: “Pennsylvania’s governor is trying to figure out who will pay to improve safety at his personal residence. Baltimore’s mayor is being questioned over a $160,000 SUV with enhanced security features. And Minnesota legislators are considering a new security unit for elected officials that would cost millions each year.”

“Even before the attempted attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner last weekend, a spate of political violence and a rising number of threats had rattled state and local officials asking what should be done to protect those in public office.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Sunday appeared to abandon a plan to appeal an adverse ruling in her attempts to criminally investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, CNBC reports.

Former Rep. David Rivera (R-FL), a political mentor to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was convicted Friday for his role in a secret $50 million campaign to lobby officials in Washington on behalf of the Venezuelan government, the Washington Post reports.

“Rubio testified before the jury early in the trial — the first time in more than four decades that a sitting Cabinet secretary has served as a witness in a criminal trial.”

“The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said she will issue more charges against the alleged shooter at a press dinner gala over the weekend,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Pirro: “There will be many more charges. We’re waiting for the official ballistics test, but at the same time, we filed papers in court this morning for the detention hearing today indicating that this defendant was calculated. He was premeditated. He had every intention of killing the president and anyone who got in his way.”

Wall Street Journal: “An Ivy League grad. An aspiring engineer who scored 1530 out of 1600 on his SAT. A 4.0 high-school student with a prestigious college scholarship. And now, a Caltech grad.”

“America’s growing rogue’s gallery of high-profile alleged violent attackers is notable for a glaring reason: In a shift from recent decades, they are young men who have excelled in academics, at times at the highest levels.”

Dan Bongino, the former deputy director of the FBI, told Sean Hannity that he would occasionally spread false information to identify “snakes” within the agency that he believed were leaking to the media.

Bongino said he decided to “start messing with people” offering “innocuous” details about his whereabouts and schedule to flush out supposed leakers.