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New York Times: “Trump spent much of the rally complaining: about the heat, the apparently malfunctioning teleprompters, his legal troubles. He heaped blame upon Democrats, hoping a tale of bad things happening to him would be just as motivating to his base as the charmed version of his life story.” “It was a good bet.

“Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s wife, Martha-Ann, recently told a woman posing as a conservative supporter that she wanted to fly a Catholic flag at the couple’s Virginia home in response to a Pride flag in her neighborhood,” the New York Times reports. Said Mrs. Alito: “You know what I want? I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”

“On the face of it, there is little logic in calling an election from a position of great weakness. But that is what President Emmanuel Macron has done by calling a snap parliamentary election in France on the back of a humiliation by the far right,” the New York Times reports. “After the National Rally of Marine Le Pen and her popular protégé Jordan Bardella handed him a crushing defeat on Sunday in elections for the European Parliament, Mr.

“Utah’s 2024 U. S. Senate Republican primary election debate was mostly a ho-hum affair,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports. “That is until the final seconds of the hourlong debate when Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs insinuated that Rep. John Curtis was guilty of insider trading, drawing an angry response from the congressman.”

CNN's Tom Foreman details how each of the women in Hunter Biden's life played a big role in his federal gun trial.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump completed his mandatory presentencing interview Monday after less than 30 minutes of routine, uneventful questions and answers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity. The former president was quizzed by a New York City probation officer for a report, required by law, that trial judge Juan M.