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Donald Trump was told off on just the second day of his hush-money trial by Judge Juan Merchan for speaking out loud in court.

Donald Trump’s “bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all” philosophy may have just given his attorneys another headache.

In the year of our lord 2024, the Confederate States of America are still being honored in Mississippi. 

Senator Tom Cotton is doubling down on his calls for mass violence against protesters, suggesting online that the proper way for fellow citizens to handle a group of people peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights is to physically assault them.

Speaking outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Donald Trump left everyone confused when he attempted to explain the Battle of Gettysburg, praised (and invented a quote from) Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and generally had no idea what he was talking about.

Congressman Jim Jordan wanted revenge on behalf of Donald Trump against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing the election interference charges against Trump for which he’s now standing trial in Manhattan.

Donald Trump’s lawyer is complaining that her client is being denied due process because he can’t attend all of his legal proceedings.

Donald Trump issued some fresh vitriol against Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday morning, clamoring once again for the gag order imposed on him to be removed, even though he seems to be willfully ignoring it anyway.

At the first of the “American Debates” series, co-sponsored by Bari Weiss–founded Substack newsletter The Free Press and the libertarian Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, a prerecorded introduction instructed the Dallas audience to locate the emergency exits. It also warned that some in the audience might find the discussion upsetting. In which case, the recording deadpanned, they should look for the exits too.

Tesla will reportedly lay off more than 10 percent of its global staff, according to the electric vehicle–centric news site Electrek. “There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” CEO Elon Musk wrote in an email to employees. “This will enable us to be lean, innovative and hungry for the next growth phase cycle.” Two top executives are leaving the company, as well, Bloomberg reported on Monday. One analyst told Yahoo News that the layoffs were an “ominous sign” of the cooling electric vehicle market. Читать дальше...

 In late September 2001, two weeks after 9/11, The Onion published one of its most memorable headlines: “American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.” “For nearly two full weeks,” the article reads, Americans had been “transfixed in front of their televisions, listening to shocked newscasters struggle to maintain their composure while describing events that would have been rejected by Hollywood producers as not believable enough for a Sylvester Stallone vehicle.” One “Irwin... Читать дальше...

Arizona’s near-total abortion ban—an 1864 law recently deemed enforceable by the state’s Supreme Court, though not yet in effect—is rightly considered one of the most extreme bans in the United States. It has none of the familiar weeks-based rules; none of the exceptions for rape and incest. And in the past week, it’s become the latest ban for Republicans to try to distance themselves from on the campaign trail.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign is expressing confidence that he’ll appear on the ballot in all the key swing states, inspiring fears among Democrats that he’ll boost Donald Trump. But now Kennedy faces a new foe: The Kennedy clan, which is taking urgent new steps to thwart his candidacy. We chatted with Jill Lawrence, a veteran journalist and author of a new piece for The Bulwark on this dynamic, who explains the remarkable role the Kennedys are poised to play in stopping RFK Jr. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump had a strange claim at the end of the first day of his hush-money trial: He said that the judge had barred him from attending his son’s high school graduation next month.

Donald Trump’s MAGA disciples were left fuming after the first day of his hush money criminal trial… but all their heat boiled down to one detail: that the GOP presidential nominee was being held to the same legal standards as every other private citizen.

Former Representative George Santos has raised $0 in his campaign to return to the House, and he says it’s for a good reason: to stop people from thinking he’s a grifter.