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TODAY: Trump’s NYC Trial Enters Its Fourth Week

Reuters reports: Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Monday, where he will be forced to sit silently while others testify about his efforts during the 2016 presidential election to cover up news of an alleged tryst with a porn star. Trump’s criminal hush money trial, entering its 12th day, has featured testimony from a top aide and …

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RNC’s Chief Counsel Resigns After Only Two Months

CNN reports: The Republican National Committee’s chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned two months after accepting the position. Spies’ departure follows weeks of growing tension with RNC officials, a source familiar with the situation told CNN. His hiring rankled many Donald Trump loyalists who viewed the veteran Republican lawyer as at odds with the former president, given his previous work …

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Rubio Dodges On Leaving Florida To Be Trump’s VP

Florida Politics reports: During a live interview on Fox News Sunday, host Shannon Bream pressed Florida’s senior Senator on rumors he’s on the former President’s short list for Vice President. “There may be a technical glitch with having two people from the same state when it comes down to an electoral college vote,” Bream noted, referencing a long-debated constitutional concern. …

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Hakeem Jeffries: “If Roe Can Fall, Anything Can Fall”

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) emphasized the stakes of the 2024 election in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, warning that much more than abortion rights are at risk if former President Trump gets a second term. “And the extreme MAGA Republicans have set in motion the erosion of reproductive freedom,” he said. “We’re gonna fight …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports: Women’s basketball interest is growing so fast, even the WNBA can’t keep up. On Friday night, the Chicago Sky faced the Minnesota Lynx in their preseason opener. The game was of major interest to followers of women’s basketball, as it featured the league debuts of prominent rookies Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. The WNBA’s streaming app did not …

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Elon Musk Amplifies Wildly False Anti-Muslim Claims

The Independent reports: On Saturday, Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox – who failed to submit the right paperwork to run for mayor and then failed to get elected in the London-wide assembly vote – penned a tweet in which he fumed that a number of elected individuals are all Muslim (even when some of them aren’t). Fox appears to have …

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Ole Miss Opens Probe Into Student Counterprotesters

NBC News reports: The University of Mississippi has opened at least one student conduct investigation after videos of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounded by counterprotesters circulated online, including one that many have singled out as racist. Chancellor Glenn F. Boyce sent a letter to students and staff on Friday noting that Ole Miss leaders were aware of behaviors that were “offensive, hurtful, …

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Trump Valet Petitions Judge To Toss Seized Evidence

Law & Crime reports: One of the co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case is asking the judge in charge to rule that the evidence seized during the execution of the search warrant should be suppressed — ruled legally unfit to be used in the upcoming trial. In a filing this week, Walt Nauta argued the warrants used …

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Burgum Dodges On Violence By Cultists If Trump Loses

The Hill reports: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) dodged a question Sunday on whether he is concerned about political violence if former President Trump loses the presidential election. Trump told Time magazine in a recent interview that “it depends” when asked if there could be political violence after the election if he doesn’t win. Burgum sidestepped the question and …

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