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ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump is set to address reporters on Friday morning — the day after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial. Trump will speak from the atrium of Trump Tower just feet away from the golden escalator he rode down in 2015 when he kicked off his first bid for president. …

The Associated Press reports: Trump’s campaign said it has raised a record $34.8 million in small-dollar online contributions off his conviction — nearly double its previous largest haul. The campaign advisors said nearly 30% of Thursday’s donors were new to the fundraising platform. “From just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with …

“There wasn’t any doubt – the nature of the indictment, the conduct of the judge, the jury instructions, the jurors themselves, the pool, the failure to move it out of Manhattan, this was a foregone conclusion. “I hope that the people of New York who are responsible for electing these judges and the prosecutor are happy. They’ve created a monstrosity. …

Education site The 74 reports: Texas elementary school students would get a significant dose of Bible knowledge with their reading instruction under a sweeping curriculum redesign unveiled Wednesday. From the story of Queen Esther — who convinced her husband, the Persian king, to spare the Jews — to the depiction of Christ’s last supper, the material is designed to draw …

“It is fundamental to our American system of justice that the government prosecutes cases because of alleged criminal conduct regardless of who the defendant happens to be. In this case the opposite has happened. The district attorney, who campaigned on a promise to prosecute Donald Trump, brought these charges precisely because of who the defendant was rather than because of …

Glorious snark from the Queens Daily Eagle newspaper: Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election. The jury’s verdict, which came after only two days of …

USA Today reports: Bruhat Soma entered the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee with three smaller spelling bee victories already under his belt in 2024, and the 12-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida, won the big prize Thursday by defeating fellow 12-year-old Faizan Zaki in a spell-off. “My heart was pumping so fast when I realized I won,” Soma said. “I had …

“He got caught, you know, with his hand in the cookie jar, so to speak. So he’s not happy. This shouldn’t be a surprise but, I mean, this is how a man runs his business and I don’t think he’s gonna change who he is, quite frankly. He’s never gonna show remorse over this conviction and, you know, he’s gonna …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk criticized the verdict that made Donald Trump the first former American president to be criminally convicted Thursday, with the Tesla boss claiming that the trial had been politically motivated. Musk moaned that the history-making outcome of the trial is bad news for all Americans. “Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That’s because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state …