Dick Gregory, Comedian And Political Activist, Dead At 84

The Senate will vote Wednesday on the Right to Contraception Act, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced as Democrats look to squeeze Republicans once again over abortion and reproductive rights, Punchbowl News reports. Schumer also said Senate Democrats plan to focus heavily on abortion throughout June, which marks two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

“I don’t know that the public would stand it. You know, I don’t… I’m not sure the public would stand for it. I think it would be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.” — Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox News, about possibly being sentenced to prison.

Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, CNN reports. Trump said he had decided that imprisoning Clinton “would have been a terrible thing.” Then he added: “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people would all say ‘lock her up, lock her up.’”

Some top Republicans privately tell CBS News they’re not ruling out the possibility, however remote, that Donald Trump might be in jail during the convention due to Trump’s gag-order violations and conduct during his “hush money” criminal trial.

A new Bloomberg Markets Live Pulse survey finds 44% of respondents said they expect Donald Trump to seek to to politicize the central bank or limit its power if he returns to the White House. Overall, they put a probability of 40% on the Fed losing its autonomy under a second Trump administration.

Donald Trump has joined TikTok, posting for the first time Saturday on the widely popular video-sharing app controlled by a Chinese parent company that he once tried to ban in the U. S., CBS News reports.