Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have become key players in the early planning for a second Trump administration's transition team, and would focus on vetting potential officials and staffers for ideology and loyalty, campaign aides and close allies to their father tell Axios. read more
A growing number of international bodies are demanding an independent probe into mass graves recently discovered at multiple Gaza hospitals that were raided by Israeli troops revealing hundreds more Palestinian deaths as Israel's military offensive in the besieged enclave surpasses 200 days. read more
Chalk up another win for the Biden administration. Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if flights are canceled or significantly altered under new US Department of Transportation rules, a significant change for consumers that could drive up costs across the industry. read more
Thursday's argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime. read more
Doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a woman who was too sick for a "traditional" organ transplant on Wednesday. read more
While protesters lit a bonfire and torches, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker called to the war cabinet minister: 'Benny, come out and explain the goal of a ground invasion of Rafah. What's the plan, to endanger the hostages?' read more
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."
Kashmir Hill: This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since. read more
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
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