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USA Today reports: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon is headed to prison after Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday rejected his emergency request to postpone a four-month sentence while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Bannon is scheduled to report to prison on July 1. Bannon was convicted in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the House …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue. As a result, …

NBC News reports: A jury in Delaware has found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony gun charges.  Hunter Biden was charged in federal court in Wilmington with three felony counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics. He had pleaded not guilty. Two of the counts carry maximum prison sentences of 10 years, while the third has a …

NBC News reports: A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal. Bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying the committee’s …

Breaking just now live on all networks. POP YOUR CORKS, MY TENDER KITTENS! Now comes the year or years of appeals. BUT STILL. The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump was convicted on Thursday of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign, capping an extraordinary trial that tested the resilience …

CNN reports: The jury has reached a verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial. The verdict will be read in court shortly. Judge Juan Merchan said, “Please let there be no reactions, no outbursts of any kind,” when they read the verdict.Trump was leaning back in his chair when the judge took the bench. He kept a straight face …

The Associated Press reports: Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital, according to the news television station TA3. A suspect has been detained, it said. Deputy speaker of parliament Lubos Blaha confirmed the …

CNBC reports: A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the criminal contempt of Congress conviction of former Trump White House senior aide Steve Bannon for refusing to testify and provide documents to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The ruling by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for …

The Hill reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) moved to force a vote on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday, a momentous move that is all but certain to fail amid opposition from conservative Republicans and Democrats. Greene — who filed her motion to vacate against Johnson more than a month ago — called her resolution to the floor …

ABC News reports:  Sources tell Channel 9 a deputy U.S. Marshal was killed Monday in what police are calling an “active” situation in east Charlotte. “Numerous” law enforcement officers were shot, police said. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department shared news of the shooting just before 2 p.m. They said it happened while the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force was trying to …

Houston’s ABC affiliate reports: Multiple people suffered what were described as “serious injuries” Friday when a commercial vehicle crashed into a DPS Office in Brenham, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Six people were hospitalized, according to Senator Lois Kolkhorst, who is from Brenham. She said of the six, three were taken to nearby hospitals by helicopters. The …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: Orenthal James Simpson, also known as O.J. Simpson, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 76 years old. His family announced that he passed away on Wednesday after battling cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren, the family said. “During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their …

So this just happened: An earthquake has hit the New York City region. The initial details peg it at a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, which is a moderate size and it’s a city that doesn’t really get earthquakes. The largest known earthquake in this region occurred in 1884 and had a magnitude of approximately 5.0. The center of the earthquake was …

The Washington Post reports: Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in New York City. He was 82. The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a …

Bloomberg News reports: A New York appeals court agreed to slash the amount of the bond Donald Trump must post to cover a $454 million civil fraud verdict while he appeals it, reducing it to just $175 million after the real estate mogul claimed he’d have to sell properties at a loss to raise cash. The ruling Monday comes as …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump has not been able to get a bond to secure the $464 million fraud judgment against him, his lawyers said in a court filing Monday. “Defendants’ ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is ‘a practical impossibility,'” the filing said. “These diligent efforts have included approaching about …

NBC News reports: A Georgia judge ruled Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should not be disqualified from prosecuting the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and several co-defendants — with one major condition. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee found the “appearance of impropriety” brought about by Willis’s romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Friday denied Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a criminal case that charges him with illegally holding onto classified documents. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida came just hours after a hearing in which his lawyers argued that the central charge in the case is improperly vague. Cannon, who was appointed …

Bloomberg News reports: Independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she won’t run for a second term, ending prospects for a turbulent three-way race in one of the nation’s most politically competitive states. Sinema, who switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in 2022, said she won’t run for re-election in a statement released Tuesday. Read the full article. …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a Colorado court ruling that said former President Donald Trump was ineligible to run for office again because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — bringing a swift end to a case with huge implications for the 2024 election. The court reversed the Colorado …