Yahoo! News / Andrew RomanoPost-Indictment, Trump Surges to Largest Lead Over DeSantis
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — one of the first conducted after former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn
star — shows Trump surging to a lead. |
ABC
NewsIsraelis Continue Protest
Despite Suspension
Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting a controversial plan to revamp the country’s legal system, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspension of the changes earlier in the week. |
NPR / Juliana
KimDeath Toll Rises as
Storms Sweep Across South
At least 26 people were killed after a powerful storm system barreled through the South and Midwest, which comes just a week after one that left 25 people dead in western Mississippi and one person in Alabama. |
azcentral.com / Phil
BoasNashville Cops are
Heroes, But We Have a Shortage
Two Nashville police officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo worked their way quickly and methodically toward the shooter at Covenant School on Monday morning, showing valor uncommon in our world today. |
Associated Press / Michael
R. Sisak, Colleen Long and Will WeissertAP: Trump Facing At Least
One Felony
Former President Donald Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury. |
New York Times / Jonah E.
Bromwich, Ben Protess and William K. RashbaumHow Alvin Bragg
Resurrected the Case Against Trump
One year ago this week, the Manhattan DA’s investigation into Donald J. Trump appeared to be dead in the water, but amid a fierce backlash to his decision Mr. Bragg insisted that the investigation was not over. |
Cecil Whig / George F.
WillGeorge Will's Opening Day
Quiz
Take the annual baseball quiz on opening day, where a Pirates coach once managed a team “that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally,” but maybe you can do better. |
Dutch News / Senay
BoztasAmsterdam Sex Workers
Take to Streets - in Protest
To the beat of drums, 150 sex workers and supporters marched on Amsterdam’s city hall on Thursday in protest at changes to the red light district regulations, many wearing masks and chanting. |
Politico / Renato
MariottiWhat Trump Can Learn from
R. Kelly and Michael Avenatti
In Georgia, Fulton County DA Fani Willis appears poised to indict Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, while there are also steps looking into documents investigation and the the assault on the Capitol. |
The Tennessean / Micaela
A. WattsFederal Judge Blocks
Tennessee Drag Ban
A federal judge in Tennessee has issued a temporary restraining order against the impending "drag ban" after siding with Friends of George's, a Memphis-based LGBTQ theatre group that filed suit against the state. |
Vox / Dylan
ScottNarcan, the Opioid
Overdose Spray, Explained
A long-sought tool in the fight against America’s opioid crisis is becoming available later this year: Narcan, the nasal spray that can stop opioid overdoses as they are happening, will be sold over the counter. |
Mediaite / Zachary
LeemanFlagship CBS news program 60 Minutes tweeted a
promo of the upcoming Lesley Stahl interview with polarizing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and prompted a tidal wave of outrage in the process. |
CNBC / Spencer
KimballMillions Just Lost
Healthcare and Might Not Know It
U.S. states on Saturday will start to kick as many as 15 million people off Medicaid insurance, as an emergency safety net put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic comes to a gradual end. |
NBC News / Dareh Gregorian
and Adam ReissWho is Judge Juan
Merchan?
Donald Trump dismisses him as a hater, but Judge Juan Merchan, who's expected to preside over the former president's arraignment, is a veteran jurist with a reputation for being stern yet compassionate. |
TNR / Michael
TomaskyWhat Republicans Don't
Understand about the Rule of Law
The first thing to keep in mind is that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg didn’t “do” this. He didn’t indict Donald Trump. A grand jury did—a group of Trump’s peers (by that, I mean they’re citizens). |
Wall Street Journal /
Bradley A. SmithTrump Indictment is a
Perversion of Campaign Finance Law
In choosing to convene a grand jury, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faced two big problems—one political, one legal. The indictment will address the first, likely at the expense of the second. |
WESH2Missing 2-year-old body
found in alligator Mouth
St. Petersburg police announced that Taylen Mosley’s body was found in an alligator’s mouth and his father has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. |
The Daily Beast / Katie
HawkinsonEric Trump Says People
Gave Him Hugs When Dad Indicted
Eric Trump says fellow plane passengers came up to hug him when news of his father’s indictment. “I was on a plane, I was on a commercial flight, when this whole indictment broke,” Trump said. |
Android Police / Jay
BonggoltoGoogle Says They Did Not
Use ChatGPT to Train Own AI
Google finally unveiled Bard last month in response to OpenAI's popular generative AI. Now, we're learning of accusations claiming its researchers used data from OpenAI's technology without permission. |
CNN / Jacob
LevUConn Moves
On
Fourth seed UConn advanced to the NCAA men’s basketball championship game following a 72-59 win over No. 5 Miami in the Final Four on Saturday. It will be the first NCAA national championship game for the UConn Huskies since 2014. |
For the
Left Minnesota's 21-year Age
Minimum for Handgun Carry Permits Struck Down
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law requiring a person to be at least 21 before obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public, finding it violated the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. |
For the
Right'SNL Cold Open Tackles
Trump's Indictment
The cold open featured comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time as an indicted former President Donald Trump. Johnson as Trump joked he'd be putting out an album of 30 classic covers to raise money from supporters. |
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