The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump predictably cried “election interference” on Tuesday—while also likening his prosecutors to Nazis—just after a grand jury returned a third indictment against the former president. “Why did they wait two and a half years to bring these fake charges, right in the middle of President Trump’s winning campaign for 2024?” the statement rhetorically asks. “The …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump was charged Tuesday in a Justice Department investigation into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, a frantic but ultimately failed endeavor that culminated in the violent riot by his supporters at the US Capitol. Special counsel Jack Smith, whose office is leading the Justice Department’s investigation, is making an …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on charges related to special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources with direct knowledge tell ABC News. It marks the third time the former president has been indicted on criminal charges, following his indictment last month in the special counsel’s probe into his handling …

CNN reports:  The federal grand jury hearing evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election handed up an indictment on Tuesday in the federal courthouse in Washington, DC. The foreperson of the grand jury along with a Justice Department prosecutor were present in the courtroom when the indictment was returned. A judge agreed to …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M. Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it …

“Look, as students start going back to school, do you think they’ll be learning about foundational principles, they’ll probably be learning about trans surgeries, there is no truth. It is depressing what most kids learn when they go to college. I just hope you as parents are prepared, and grandparents, when you send that kid off to college, you may …

The Washington Post reports: A Michigan prosecutor charged a former state lawmaker and a losing candidate for state attorney general Monday as part of an investigation into the improper acquisition of voting machines. Monday’s charges against former state Rep. Daire Rendon (R) and former attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno (R) stem from a stand-alone probe into what happened to voting …

Michigan Live reports: Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and former Arizona GOP governor candidate Kari Lake were announced in recent days as speakers for the Michigan GOP’s annual Leadership Conference scheduled for Sept. 22-24 at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Their attendance is the MIGOP’s latest embrace of voting conspiracies since election denier Kristina Karamo, who never conceded last November’s secretary …

“Now they attempt to legitimize these unnecessary debates with a proposal that most recently came in of a politically motivated roundtable. Well, I’m here in Florida. I tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact. There were no redeeming qualities of slavery, right? And as I said last week, when …

The Christian Post reports: Former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. has filed a lawsuit against Liberty University for the alleged exploitation of the trademark and image of his father, Jerry Falwell Sr., who founded the Evangelical Christian university in 1971, without consulting the Falwell family or “authorization of the Dr. Jerry L. Falwell Family Trust.” The lawsuit argues that …

The Florida Phoenix reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis, flailing in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, proposed a starkly nationalistic and populist economic program during a speech Monday in the early primary state of New Hampshire, promising to overthrow a “failed ruling class.” “We cannot allow no longer the failed ruling class in this nation to dictate our nation’s policies,” …

Michigan Live reports: A former Michigan pastor has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection to the shooting death of a transgender woman nearly five years ago, authorities announced. Kelly Stough, 36, of Detroit, was shot to death around 6 a.m. on Dec. 7, 2018, in Detroit. Her body was discovered by a Detroit Police officer. Albert Weathers, then-46, of …

The Hill reports: The super PAC supporting presidential candidate Nikki Haley launched its first ad of the 2024 campaign cycle Tuesday, highlighting the former United Nations ambassador’s tough stance on China. “Communist China won’t just lose. Like the Soviet Union before it, Communist China will end up on the ash heap of history,” Haley says in a clip featured in …

CBS News reports: New Jersey’s Lieutenant Governor, Sheila Oliver, died at age 71, her family and Gov. Phil Murphy announced Tuesday. Oliver had been filling in as acting governor while Murphy was out of the state on a family vacation in Italy. Then on Monday, she was taken to a hospital for an undisclosed medical issue. Oliver made history in …

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports: A man dancing at a gas station in Brooklyn was stabbed to death after a dispute broke out between two groups Saturday night — and a 17-year-old is now being sought in connection to the shocking death of dancer O’Shea Sibley. Law enforcement sources have identified the suspect as a teen who remains at …

“We stay maniacally focused in the general, particularly as – remember this – the firestorm of the lawfare will start next spring with him. If you can walk through that, which you can do, you can walk through that fire, which you can do and I think, get 55 percent or more of the country. And I think if somehow …

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: A former Madison County councilman who is accused of raping an underage girl in 2020 is being sought by police after he failed to show up for his appointed court date. According to court records, former councilman Steve Sumner, 55, was set to appear in Madison County court on Thursday. After failing to show, the court …

Houston’s CBS affiliate reports: At a July 11 commissioner’s court meeting in Montgomery County, a battle over books took center stage. “This is really an agenda to sexualize our children at a young age,” Lisa Palmer said. Michele Nuckolls expressed frustration at the lack of conservative-themed books in the library system. “I was not able to find one book on …

Bloomberg News reports: A Pennsylvania state court judge ruled that presidential immunity is broad enough to protect Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, even if he didn’t really believe the conspiracy. Judge Michael Erdos in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Monday granted Trump immunity on two claims made in a 2021 lawsuit by …

NBC News reports: Members of the D.C. grand jury hearing evidence and testimony in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into 2020 election interference are arriving at the courthouse and heading up to the 3rd floor grand jury area. A new indictment was filed last week in a separate special counsel investigation of Trump involving his alleged mishandling of classified records. …