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Former tabloid publisher David Pecker continues to testify Friday in Donald Trump's hush money trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.

CNN's Kylie Atwood sits down with top American diplomat Antony Blinken to discuss if recent actions by China violate a commitment made by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to President Joe Biden to not interfere with the 2024 elections.

Since U. S. Rep. Lauren Boebert opted to change her address to one clear across the state late last year, the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District has fallen out of the media glare that seemingly shines on the controversial Republican congresswoman wherever she goes. But Colorado’s largest district by land mass — taking in Grand Junction, Gunnison, Durango and Pueblo — may prove a critical contest in a closely divided Congress where the major parties are always hungry to flip a seat.

During the Supreme Court hearing that will likely determine whether or not Donald Trump is tried before the next presidential election over his attempt to steal the last one, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that should alarm everybody. Speaking of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kavanaugh correctly noted that it was “very controversial in the moment” and probably why Ford lost the 1976 presidential election.

The Just Waiting For Another Kent State Shooting Edition A. L. Katz makes some interesting claims. What is w/ Melania Trump? Dispatches From A Collapsing State has another long one, against the neo-liberal order. Good luck w/ that, optimist. Public Notice also goes on at length about Don Snorleone. And someone not in love w/ the sound of his own typing, the mercifully short Politicalprof. By M.

After 15 months of trying to pull a Biden family crime spree out of thin air, lead impeachment zealot James Comer has watched his dreams of MAGA glory crumble into dust. Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, told a Republican colleague that he’s ready to be “done with” the whole fiasco, according to CNN.