Donald Trump has risked violating his gag order to talk about all of the trial witnesses except one -- former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. "Donald Trump went after [Michael] Cohen, he went Cohen in the opening, on social media, but he's silent. It's almost like he's endorsing Pecker and that's terrible for him," trial lawyer Michael Popok said on the LegalAF podcast. "He hasn't done a darn thing to tear down Pecker. Pecker is dumping willingly on Donald Trump and supporting the entire case."
Baltimore has sued the operators of the container ship that hit and destroyed one of the US city's main bridges last month, killing six people. read more
After he spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok, Donald Trump's abrupt effort to defend the Chinese-owned app late last week caught many in Washington by surprise. But for people who've been watching Trump's TikTok policies closely, it was part of a pattern: Changing course when an interested billionaire donor was in the mix.
"I hated that dog," [Kristi] Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself "untrainable," "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with" and "less than worthless ... as a hunting dog ... At that moment, I realized I had to put her down."
Chipotle says its employees can choose chicken once again. Last week, the chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein for their work meals to preserve the company's supply of chicken. read more
Quinta Jurecic: The explanation below is not meant as an endorsement of Bragg's legal theory, which has faced a wide array of criticism--some of it more careful than others. Trump has raised various challenges to the charges against him, all of which have failed so far but which he will likely raise on appeal if he is convicted. My goal here is just to set out the mechanics of the case as Bragg is prosecuting it. read more
Boeing's new spaceship has been cleared for its first-ever crewed liftoff. read more
From the outset, Justice Alito, along with several other conservatives on the bench, was highly skeptical of the government's indictment of former President Donald Trump for his role in fomenting the Jan. 6 insurrection, going so far as to suggest not only that Trump may be immune from prosecution but also that the federal fraud conspiracy law he is charged with violating may not be valid, either. read more
The Canton Police Department on Wednesday released body camera footage showing the death of 53-year-old East Canton resident Frank E. Tyson while in police custody, including his last words of "I can't breathe." read more
Josh Marshall: We are where we should know we are. The Roberts Court is a corrupt institution which operates in concert with and on behalf of the Republican Party and to an ambiguous degree right-wing anti-regulatory ideology. If we believe in a different set of policies or even democratic self-governance we will have to succeed at that with the Supreme Court acting as a consistent adversary. read more
As protesters chanted "Blood on your hands" at Tennessee House Republicans on Tuesday after they passed a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed. read more
The identity thief allegedly stole the identity of the victim more than three decades ago when both worked at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque, New Mexico. read more
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern: There will be no more self-soothing after this. read more
The Onion has sold to a new Chicago-based firm called Global Tetrahedron, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced Thursday, TheWrap has learned. read more
Stephen A. Crockett Jr. - For forty years Clarence Thomas has been an albatross for Black people, an arbiter of "do as I say, not as I do" politics, a mime whose silence on the bench has been deafening. And, he's been all the things he claims to hate about Black people: He's a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations and a minstrel show. read more
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