Comment on Pence's Role Is Entirely Up to His Bond With Trump

“The Biden administration is preparing to raise tariffs on clean-energy goods from China in the coming days, with the levy on Chinese electric vehicles set to roughly quadruple,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“After a meeting that lasted for hours, the Shenandoah County school board voted early Friday morning to restore the names of three Confederate officers to schools in the district,” the New York Times reports. “With the vote, the district appears to be the first in the country to return Confederate names to schools that had removed them after the summer of 2020.”

“A partisan battle in Ohio has stalled an effort by state lawmakers to ensure that President Biden is on the ballot in the state this November, teeing up what could be an expensive and protracted legal battle ahead of this year’s election,” the New York Times reports. “Ohio was one of three states that had warned the Democratic Party that Mr.

Joyce Vance: “The jury doesn’t have to believe Stormy Daniels to convict Donald Trump. Even if her story was just that—a made up story, as the defense claims—the crime happened when Trump paid her off and concealed the payments with false business records. But Daniels came off as believable. At one point, under pressure from Necheles to concede she’d never had sex with Trump, Daniels fired back that if she was going to tell a story that wasn’t true, she ‘would’ve written it to be a lot better.'” “Trump’s lawyers staked their case on Stormy Daniels’ story being a lie.

Washington Post: “While the threat to oust Johnson was put to rest after 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats voted to stop Greene’s effort, many House Republicans left the Capitol on Wednesday evening quipping that the menacing move was only over for now. They do not believe Greene and other agitators are going to ‘move on’ as Johnson hopes.” “What sows that doubt among most House Republicans is that their conference is fundamentally broken.

“After pleading guilty to money laundering and obstruction of justice, Paul Manafort, the globe-trotting political consultant and former campaign chairman for Donald Trump, asked for leniency in his sentencing, telling a federal judge five years ago that he was nearly 70 years old, struggling with health concerns and remorseful for his actions,” the Washington Post reports. “The judge rejected his entreaties in the spring of 2019, ordering Manafort to remain behind bars for more than seven years.