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Variety reports: Paramount+ has unveiled a teaser for its seventh “South Park” streaming special, “South Park: The End of Obesity,” which premieres May 24 in the U.S. and Canada, and May 25 in Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In “The End of Obesity,” weight loss drugs take the quiet mountain town of South Park by …

Florida Politics reports: The Florida Democratic Party (FDP) is urging members to confirm they are still election-ready after a U.S. House candidate revealed he was recently deactivated from the state’s voter rolls. Former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey, a Democrat running for Florida’s 27th Congressional District in Miami-Dade, shared this past weekend that the state had removed him in October …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump defended South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem over a controversial anecdote from her latest book where she discussed killing her dog. “I think [Noem’s] terrific. A couple of rough stories, there’s no question about it,” Trump said during a podcast interview released Tuesday with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. “And when explained — the dog …

CNN reports: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected another request from former Donald Trump economic aide Peter Navarro to cut his four-month prison sentence short. Navarro is in prison for contempt of Congress after ducking a subpoena for documents and testimony from the House committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Last week, Navarro asked district …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court preserved – for now – a Louisiana electoral map with two of the state’s six congressional districts majority Black – a ruling on Wednesday with implications for the Nov. 5 election that will determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives. The justices granted a request by state officials and a group of …

NBC News reports: Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, argued that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump after the Justice Department brought indictments against the former president and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue Trump’s ongoing hush money trial. The Utah Republican argued that Biden should have pardoned Trump when the Justice Department announced charges against him and that …

Media Matters has the transcript: The very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s just — it’s a farce. OK? The whole thing. The whole Indian reservation thing is absurd. Like, can we just be — can we be done …

Axios reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) appearance at former President Trump’s criminal trial on Tuesday is dismaying the House Democrats who saved his job less than a week ago. The trip is sending ripples through the Democratic ranks and is already being raised in leadership circles, multiple senior House Democrats told Axios. At the trial, Johnson defended the former …

CNN reports: For the past several weeks, witnesses in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have evoked a chapter of his past when the adult entertainment industry helped him brandish an image as a Manhattan playboy. If some of the former president’s allies get their way, a second Trump term would put that industry on the ropes – and potentially its …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) both declined to comment Wednesday on the possibility of voting to expel Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) if he is convicted of bribery, obstruction of justice and other charges. “He’s on trial so I’m not going to comment,” Schumer told reporters when asked whether he …