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TODAY: Cross-Examination Of Michael Cohen Continues

ABC News reports: Michael Cohen is set to return to the witness stand Thursday to face a full day of cross-examination in which the defense is expected to question the former Trump attorney’s credibility as the prosecution’s star witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial. Across his two days on the witness stand, Cohen has offered the most incriminating …

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Watters: Trump Isn’t Sleeping In Court, He’s Meditating

“You have a guy who said the guy’s sleeping. He’s meditating, Greg. He’s in a meditative state, and when you’re defensive about something, you avoid something. Trump’s not defensive of being old and tired. He can shut his eyes and not feel bad about it like Sleepy Joe.” – Fox News host Jesse Watters, pushing back on fellow The Five …

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Lara Trump: The Debates Are “Rigged” Against Trump

“It’s rigged so heavily in Joe Biden’s favor, but everything always is! You’ve got Hollywood against Donald Trump. You’ve got the music industry against Donald Trump. Mainstream media. Despite that and even the judicial system at this point, he is beating Joe Biden in every poll out there. It’s amazing to see. So, if Joe Biden shows up on June …

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NFL Disavows Kicker’s Anti-LGBTQ, Sexist Speech

The Daily Beast reports: The NFL wants to make it clear that, unlike a certain Kansas City Chiefs kicker, they do not believe that women belong solely as homemakers, nor that LGBTQ+ people constitute “the deadly sins.” Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, told …

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DeSantis Signs “Don’t Say Climate Change” Bill

The Washington Post reports: Florida will eliminate climate change as a priority in making energy policy decisions, despite the threats it faces from powerful hurricanes, extreme heat and worsening toxic algae blooms. On Wednesday, the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the legislation, which is set to go into effect on July 1. The measure also removes most references to climate …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

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 …

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Florida Zaps Dem US House Candidate From Voter Roll

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 …

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Trump Defends Kristi Noem Having Killed Her Dog

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 …

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Judge To Peter Navarro: Your Ass Is Staying In Prison

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 …

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SCOTUS Restores LA Majority-Black US House 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 …

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