Reuters reports: Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third parties without consent, a law firm said on Monday. Austen Hays, which said the lawsuit is being filed at London’s High Court, said thousands of Grindr users in the …

Raw Story reports: Michael Cohen trolled Donald Trump Monday after he was badmouthed by the former president outside the New York City courtroom where Trump faces an ongoing hush money trial. “Your attacks of me stink of desperation,” Cohen told Trump, using his lewd nickname for the former president. “We are all hoping that you take the stand in your …

Politico reports: In this deep blue state where Republicans rarely back Democratic colleagues in the Capitol, one issue is overcoming the partisan divide: line skipping at airports. A pair of Orange County state senators from opposing parties — who frequently fly between their districts and Sacramento — are both boosting a first-in-the-nation proposal critics say would ban the expedited security …

The Guardian reports: New York state lawyers and an attorney for Donald Trump settled their differences on Monday over a $175m bond that Trump posted to block a large civil fraud judgment while he pursues appeals. The agreement cut short a potential day-long court hearing in Manhattan that was to feature witnesses. As part of a deal struck during a …

“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok. He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant, and able to continue to fight, perhaps illegally, the Republican Party. It’s called ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Young people, and lots of others, …

“They’re angry on a whole ‘nother level. And here’s what really worries me: They’re done with the Republican party. They are absolutely done with Republican leadership like Mike Johnson, who totally sold us out to the Democrats, joined the uni-party faster than anyone we’ve ever seen in history, and literally made a night-and-day change in a matter of months. “Betrayed …

“He is fundraising in the name of God, saying I got down on my knees asking God what the right course is. Look, Mike Johnson, if God is telling you to go keep on funding a war that’s effectively eliminating a generation of Ukrainian young men, you’re praying to the wrong God, man. “So let me understand this, Mike Johnson. …

Law & Crime reports: A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Tyler Bradley Dykes, a former U.S. Marine of South Carolina, pleaded guilty …

Via email from hate group leader Bill Donohue: Why are those on the left so miserable? For starters, consider this. Imagine waking up each day thinking the world is made up of oppressors, racists, sexists, homophobes and their victims. Is that likely to put a smile on your dial? It’s actually worse than this. Left-wing professors, which is to say …

The Arizona Mirror reports: A slew of Republican bills, including those that would have allowed discrimination against transgender people and would have given public school teachers a green light to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms, were vetoed by Gov. Katie Hobbs. Hobbs, who has made it clear that she’ll use her veto power on any bills that don’t …

The Daily Beast reports: Opening statements had not yet begun on Monday when former President Donald Trump dozed off for the first time. He quickly opened his eyes when defense attorney Todd Blanche slid him a note, as prosecutors prepared to kick off opening arguments in the historic trial. Trump’s eyes appeared to close again as Merchan continued laying out …

“Axios has a story that’s popped. I’m sending it to my crack team. It is, ‘Hakeem Jeffries emerges as Congress’ shadow speaker.’ I don’t know if he’s so much a shadow speaker. First time in the history of this country, a minority leader determined what came to the floor. “Look at who is slobbering all over Mike Johnson over the …

The Miami Herald reports: Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims of a potential crime, their attorney says. The migrants are eligible for these protections because they applied for a special …

Law & Crime reports: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were uninterested in Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake’s far-reaching attempt to ban Dominion Voting Systems’ machines from use in Arizona elections and beyond, sending her petition to the dust bin despite the hype generated around the failed effort. In an orders list on Monday, SCOTUS jettisoned the case …

The Hill reports: A New York judge said Monday that Manhattan prosecutors can bring up several civil lawsuits involving former President Trump if he chooses to testify in his ongoing criminal trial. After hearing arguments Friday, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that prosecutors can cross-examine Trump about six of the 13 prior court determinations they requested to raise in their efforts …

Democracy Docket reports: Nevada recently enacted a new Election Worker Protection Law to combat the increasing threats faced by election workers. Shortly after the law was enacted, the Republican Party’s failed 2022 attorney general candidate [PHOTO: Sigal Chattah] — who is currently a Republican National Committeewoman — filed a lawsuit to block the law. Her argument is that the law …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Biden administration can lawfully regulate so-called ghost guns — firearms that are made from kits available online that people can assemble at home. The justices took up a Biden administration appeal in defense of regulations that a lower court invalidated. The provisions in question are currently in …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk appears to have moved on from Tucker Carlson based on the conservative pundit’s recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast where Carlson rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. In multiple X, formerly Twitter, posts on Monday, Musk responded to messages critical of Carlson. “Yeah,” he wrote in reply to a clip of Carlson rejecting evolution and a …

The Independent reports: Melania Trump has returned to the campaign trail to support Donald Trump’s 2024 bid to win back the White House, in an understated at-home event in stark contrast to her husband’s loud, bombastic style. On Saturday night, the former first lady hosted a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans at her Mar-a-Lago home. Richard Grenell, the first …

The Daily Beast reports: The Russian who loaned Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social $8 million previously set up websites selling dodgy sex pills, according to records seen by The Daily Beast. The flagship product sold by these sites, Vimax—which promises longer sex and a firmer erection—has prompted warnings from health regulators in the U.S. for containing hidden ingredients …