The Daily Dot reports: Isabella Moody and Josiah Moody, far-right YouTubers and content creators, posted a video of their child babbling on X, claiming she was saying the N-word. The two received such fervent backlash they appear to have deleted their accounts on the app. “My daughter literally said the n-word,” Moody captioned a video she posted on X on …

Green Bay’s NBC affiliate reports: In one of his last acts in Congress, Rep. Mike Gallagher — who represents Wisconsin’s 8th District — chaired a Tuesday hearing of the House Select Committee on China concerning the country’s possible connection to fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S. After the hearing, Gallagher spoke with reporters about the hearing and the end of …

Reuters reports: More than 15 members of the storied Kennedy political family will endorse U.S. President Joe Biden at a Philadelphia campaign event on Thursday in a rebuke of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s independent bid for office. Biden, a Democrat, faces Republican Donald Trump in a November re-match of the 2020 election. But members of both parties have bristled over …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: John Eastman, once an attorney for former President Donald Trump, was de-banked twice in the span of several months by two prominent financial institutions, Bank of America and USAA, he told the Daily Caller. His accounts were closed as he faced substantial backlash for his work advising Trump around the time of the 2020 …

Raw Story reports: A juror seated in Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial was the second to be dismissed on Thursday. As jurors returned to the courtroom for the third day of trial, one woman said she had “concerns about her ability to be fair.” Soon after, prosecutors said another juror, a man, had not disclosed that he had been arrested …

Politico reports: One of Mayor Eric Adams’ fundraising entities on Wednesday fired the security and private investigative firm run by longtime friend and donor Bo Dietl shortly after Dietl berated a POLITICO reporter. Dietl’s company was hired to vet donors to Adams’ legal defense trust — a fundraising entity to help pay legal bills connected to a federal probe into …

CNN reports: After a paneled juror expressed concerns in court about her ability to serve, Judge Juan Merchan addressed the press in court, telling them “there’s a reason this is an anonymous jury.” “I’m directing that the press simply apply common sense and refrain from writing about anything that has to do with physical descriptions, it’s just not necessary, it …

Politico reports: In a letter received by Republican digital vendors this week, the Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign. They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t planning to host the Oscars next year. But now he might. The ABC late-night host was responding to comments from former President Donald Trump on Truth Social. Trump said that Kimmel was “made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST …

The Colorado Times Recorder reports: In the days after U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was rushed into emergency surgery to remove a blood clot that threatened her life, the online underworld swirled with speculation that the clot resulted from Boebert receiving a COVID vaccination. In a radio interview last week, Boebert put the speculation to rest. “I’m not COVID vaxxed,” said …

“We have a bipartisan government, and the only way good policy is gonna be made better, the only way we’re gonna stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies – Israel and Ukraine – the only way we push back against evil like Putin, is to do it in a bipartisan way. “And I want to be judged by my ability …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump appeared to violate the clear gag order set forth by Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York trial over hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. On Wednesday, Trump took to Truth Social and quoted Fox News host Jesse Watters. “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge …

Today reports: Openly gay actor Maulik Pancholy was disinvited from speaking at a middle school anti-bullying assembly after concerns were raised about his political activism and what two school board members called his “lifestyle.” Pancholy’s scheduled appearance at Mountain View Middle School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was unanimously overturned by the district’s school board in a public meeting on April 15. …

The Associate Press reports: Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for Trump’s lawyers …

The Insider reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made clear her opposition to sending extra money to Israel in a weirdly self-referential way. The Georgia congresswoman demanded that US funding to Israel also be spent on developing “space lasers,” an apparent reference to a lowlight of her political past. Greene’s proposed amendment to HR 8034 seeks to divert money from Israel …

CNN reports: Thursday morning, a new panel of 96 jurors, already sworn in, will return to the courtroom. The judge will ask two broad questions: whether any juror feels they can’t be fair or impartial, and whether they are unable to serve on the trial for another reason. The trial is expected to last at least six weeks. The remaining …

The New York Times reports: Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Republicans that the House would vote Saturday evening on his foreign aid package for Israel and Ukraine, pushing through resistance in his own party to advance a long-stalled national security spending package for U.S. allies. His announcement came amid a crush of opposition from Republicans who are vehemently against …

The New Jersey Globe reports: Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. (D-Newark) remains unconscious after suffering a heart attack on April 6, indicating that the congressman’s medical condition is substantially more severe than had been initially revealed. Payne, a six-term Democrat from Essex County, has been on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center for …

The New Republic reports: Representative Mike Gallagher’s last day in Congress was supposed to be Friday, but some wavering votes on upcoming legislation might delay his exit. The Wisconsin Republican confirmed Wednesday that he would be sticking around for an “extra day or so” to help push through Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package for Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine, according …

The Athletic reports: NBA commissioner Adam Silver delivered the league’s most severe punishment in decades for gambling on Wednesday, banning Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter from the league for what he termed “a cardinal sin” of betting on the league’s games and sharing inside information. The league said Porter, who spent part of his time in the NBA and part …