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Hunter Biden's trial on gun charges is underway in Delaware. The president's son faces three charges in the case brought by the special counsel. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law this week requiring Colorado middle and high schools to provide free period products in girls’ bathrooms by 2028. The legislation, HB24-1164, phases in the mandate with 25% of applicable bathrooms needing to comply by June 2025, then increasing the total by another 25% each year until full compliance is met in 2028. “Periods don’t wait — and this important law ensures that Colorado students can access the menstrual products they need, when they need them,” Rep.

(WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on the U. S. Capitol, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U. S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington granted prosecutors’ request to make Bannon begin serving his prison term after a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court last month upheld his contempt of Congress conviction.

(WILMINGTON, Del.) — The widow of Hunter Biden’s brother, Beau, testified Thursday in his federal gun trial that she found his crack at her Wilmington, Delaware, house, saw him use the illicit drug and eventually starting abusing it herself. “Where did he get the drugs from?” prosecutor Leo Wise asked. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Various dealers,” replied Hallie Biden, who had a brief romantic relationship with Hunter following her husband’s death.

driftglass: On the transgression of the unwritten law. Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I: Trump is lying about the Mar-a-Lago search. Strangely Blogged: All the bad guys. Rewire: Eight Supreme Court cases to watch. Finally, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here's audio of some of Studs Terkel's interviews for his World War II book, The Good War. This installment by Batocchio.

In the aftermath of his conviction Thursday on 34 felony counts in the state of New York related to hush-money payments ahead of the 2016 election, former president Donald Trump predictably denounced the trial as a "rigged" process and a "sham" as he declared that ultimately the "real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people" on this year's election day. But is the disgraced politician—the first of any sitting or former president to be convicted of a felony by his peers in U.