Johnny Depp claims ex-wife Amber Heard had an affair with Elon Musk and received 'late night' visits from the Tesla founder while the actor was away filming

Johnny Depp has accused Amber Heard of starting a relationship with Elon Musk just a month after they married in 2015.

Depp's claims stem from a $50million defamation lawsuit that he filed against his ex-wife after she accused him of domestic violence, a claim that Depp says is 'an elaborate hoax'.

In the lawsuit obtained by People, the actor alleged that Heard, 32, would receive 'late night' visits from Musk while Depp was out of the country filming.

Depp also claims that the Tesla founder was allowed into the couple's Los Angeles home on the same night Heard 'presented her battered face to the public'.

Heard and Depp separated in May 2016.

According to People, a representative for Musk claims that 'Elon and Amber didn’t start seeing each other until May 2016'.

'Their relationship didn’t become romantic until some time later,' the representative said.

Heard’s attorney, Eric M. George said in a statement to the magazine: 'This frivolous action is just the latest of Johnny Depp’s repeated efforts to silence Amber Heard.

Full article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6766339/Johnny-Depp-claims-ex-wife-Amber-Heard-affair-Elon-Musk.html

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What is the House Freedom Caucus, and who’s in it?

Short article when the Freedom Caucus was started

Amid all the coverage of House Republicans’ unruly efforts to select a speaker who can command broad support from their fractious ranks, one name keeps coming up: the House Freedom Caucus. But what, exactly, is the House Freedom Caucus?

Pew Research Center has confirmed the identities of 36 Freedom Caucus members through representatives’ public statements, their comments to the media or their offices’ direct responses. A handful of other House members who reportedly belong to the group could not be confirmed. (The communications director for Rep. Darrell Issa of California, for example, said he could neither confirm nor deny Issa’s membership in the caucus.)

Ideologically speaking, they’re among the most conservative of House Republicans, though not all are on the rightmost end of the spectrum.

To quantify this, we used a dataset called DW-NOMINATE, first developed by political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal in the early 1980s and refined and updated since. In simplified form, DW-NOMINATE assigns each representative a score ranging from -1 (most liberal) to +1 (most conservative) based on roll-call votes.

The 36 identified Freedom Caucus members had an average score of +0.659, more than a third higher than the average score for all other House GOP members (+0.455); the least conservative Freedom Caucus member (Steve Pearce of New Mexico) is still more conservative than the average non-Freedom Caucus House Republican.

Freedom Caucus Members Have Less Seniority Than Other Republicans

Freedom Caucus members also have spent decidedly less time in the House. Of the 36 identified members, 26 (72%) were first elected in 2010 or later, compared with 54% of other House Republicans.

But in many other ways, the Freedom Caucus looks much like the rest of the House GOP. Of the members we were able to identify, there is only one woman (Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming) and one ethnic or racial minority (Raúl Labrador of Idaho, who is Hispanic). They’re a bit younger, with an average age of 54 (as opposed to 56 for the rest of the House Republicans), and somewhat more likely to come from the South (56% versus 45%) or the West (22% versus 16%). (Related: Freedom Caucus districts look much like other GOP-held districts)

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/20/house-freedom-caucus-what-is-it-and-whos-in-it/