Alexandra Petri: On The Bard’s Birthday, Is Shakespeare Still Relevant?

A former Trump attorney told MSNBC it is silly and ridiculous to think President Biden or anyone from the Justice Department had anything to do with Trump's prosecution and conviction in Manhattan's Hush Money trial. Joe Tacopina, Trump's attorney until he left the defense team, remarked that Sen. Tim Scott, Trump and anyone in the MAGAt orbit were lying and/or idiots to say otherwise. Tacopina: This is a state case. Sharpton: This is different than the Jack Smith cases, okay? Tacopina: This is not a federal prosecution.

This serial liar wants us to believe we never heard that thing that literally came out of his mouth thousands of times, day in and day out at his cult rallies when he was running against Hillary Clinton. Here's Trump during a portion of his interview on Fox & Friends this Sunday, insulting everyone's intelligence by pretending he wasn't the ring leader of the "lock her up" chants at those rallies. CAIN: You famously said regarding Hillary Clinton, “lock her up.” You declined to do that as president. TRUMP: I beat her.

It used to be that The Heritage Institute was one of those semi-respectable right-wing think tanks, like the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the CATO Institute, the Claremont Institute, etc. that generally espoused conservative ideology without going off into crazyland, like the John Birch Society. Well, those days are dead and gone, and they've now thrown their lot in with the rest of the MAGA anti-American extremists. Source: Raw Story A conservative think tank with a controversial plan for if Donald Trump wins the presidential election was under fire on Friday after flying their headquarters' flag upside down and then advertising it. Heritage Foundation, known in part for its "Project 2025" plan to remake the government in MAGA's image, posted a photo of its upside-down flag on social media after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in a hush money cover-up case in New York.

A man from the Denver metro area died and another is missing after a rafting accident in the Yarmony Rapids area of the Colorado River on Saturday, according to a news release from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. The Grand County Communications Center received reports of a person who was not breathing on the Colorado River, southwest of Kremmling, around 3:40 p.m.

Severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and a tornado are possible in Colorado’s northeast corner Sunday and isolated showers are expected in the mountains and Denver metro area, according to the National Weather Service. Severe thunderstorms are possible in the eastern plains this afternoon, especially east of Sterling and Akron from 3 to 7 p.m.

By DOUG FEINBERG (AP Basketball Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA on Sunday upgraded Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter’s foul against Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark to a flagrant-1 violation after reviewing the play. Carter gave a shoulder shot to Clark that knocked her to the floor before an inbound pass during the third quarter of Saturday’s 71-70 win by the Fever.