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Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Starting Friday morning, Arizona’s “fake electors” case will get going with the first of the 18 defendants walking into a basement courtroom in downtown Phoenix. One arraignment is scheduled Friday, for John C. Eastman. Eastman is the 64-year-old conservative law professor and former Trump lawyer who was the father of the fake elector scheme, according to …

USA Today reports: World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was booked into a Louisville jail Friday morning after being detained by police near the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week’s 2024 PGA Championship. Scheffler, 27, was booked shortly before 7:30 a.m., according to online records published by the Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections. He is being …

The Hill reports: A House Oversight Committee hearing devolved into chaos Thursday night as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) clashed after the firebrand Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of wearing “fake eyelashes.” The comment — which was made during a markup to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — prompted nearly an …

“People are thinking that Soros backed D.A., Alvin Bragg, who never wanted to bring the Witch Hunt against me in the first place, is going to drop this ridiculous and very unpatriotic ‘CASE’ in order to save lots of money, and also the self respect of his once revered Office. “He would then be able to focus on Violent Crime, …

The Associated Press reports: Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CBS News to debate former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick this summer, the Biden campaign said Thursday, as the Republican said he might wait until his party’s convention in July to announce his selection. Harris’ team told the network she would debate in-studio on Tuesday, July …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department’s independence and turn the nation’s top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters. If successful, the overhaul could represent one of the most consequential actions of a second Trump presidency given the Justice Department’s role in …

The New York Times reports: With Pride events scheduled worldwide over the coming weeks, U.S. officials are bracing for a return of mpox, the infectious disease formerly called monkeypox that struck tens of thousands of gay and bisexual men worldwide in 2022. A combination of behavioral changes and vaccination quelled that outbreak, but a majority of those at risk have …

The Washington Examiner reports: A Republican who was running for West Virginia secretary of state has been hospitalized after suffering multiple snake bites while he removed campaign signs on Wednesday. Doug Skaff, originally a Democrat in the state’s House of Delegates who switched his affiliation to Republican to run, finished second in the Republican primary and is currently in a …

Kansas City’s CBS affiliate reports: Amid reaction to Harrison Butker’s now-viral commencement speech at Benedictine College on Saturday, the placekicker seems to have gained new fans in the process. According to NFL.com, Butker’s jersey sales are among the most popular online. Only Travis Kelce rated higher than Butker, with Mahomes coming in right behind the star from Georgia Tech. Additionally, …

From a new study on church attendance: To date, most studies on religion have relied on surveys where respondents self-report their worship, potentially limiting the reliability of results. In this paper, the author uses anonymized location data from smartphones to provide a descriptive analysis of religious worship attendance in the United States. Seventy-three percent of people step into a religious …