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The week in extremism: New news about two conspiracy theorists and one former president.

Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook victims

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million to people who suffered from his false claim that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

Cody Godwin, USA TODAY

Conspiracy theorist and huckster Alex Jones has been ordered by a Connecticut court to pay almost abillion dollars to people who suffered from his lies. Meanwhile, another notorious conspiracy theorist, the founder of the extremist gang the Proud Boys will appear at an event atPenn State Universitylater this month. And there was a pretty explosive Jan. 6 committee hearing, too.

It's the week in extremism.

It was a bad week for Jones, who has made aliving by lying to his audience andfeeding Americans a steady stream of conspiracy theories and propaganda via his platform "Infowars." In the second civil case he has faced this year, Jones was ordered to payalmost $1 billion to victims who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook massacre.

Next: Jones still faces a third trial in Texas.

Gavin McInnes, the right-wing provocateur who founded the extremist street gang the Proud Boys, is set to appear at an event at Penn State University later this month. Students at the university are not impressed and have launched a petition to have the event canceled.

More: They joined the Wisconsin Proud Boys looking for brotherhood. They found racism, bullying and antisemitism.

Leader? McInnes has recently shown signshe is taking a more active role in the Proud Boys again, posting on Telegram about the group.

Thursday's meeting of the house select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection was a wild one. The headline is that the committee voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump for questioning. But plenty of other revelations came out of the meeting, including:

What now? It was the last scheduled meeting of the committee. Trump will almost certainly fight the subpoena in court.

We're monitoring last night's shooting spree in Raleigh, N.C. which left five people dead including a police officer.

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