Monday briefing: How Donald Trump plans to survive hush money trial with his campaign intact There were shocking revelations in the first week of the former president’s hush money trial – but the defence’s tactics of sowing doubt and playing for time may just work ... 04/28/2024 - 8:08 pm | View Link
CARTOON: Trump claims Review-Journal editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a four-time winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award. 04/28/2024 - 5:00 pm | View Link
‘Trump f----ed you, idiot’, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer told tabloid The lawyer who negotiated Stormy Daniels’ hush money deal told a tabloid editor who helped Donald Trump kill stories of alleged affairs “he f----d you, idiot”. 04/26/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
It's Coal v Clean Fuels in the Coming Power Struggle Over EPA Climate Rules Coal interests promise to fight the EPA's strict new rules on CO2 from power plants, in a battle that could shape the country's climate future. 04/25/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
New EPA rules close a ‘huge loophole’ on coal ash, forcing wide-scale cleanup, advocates say A pair of new regulations finalized Thursday are expected to require cleanup of coal ash pollution at all known locations where the toxic byproduct has been dumped. 04/25/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has raised a whopping $18.3 million dollars this election cycle to help GOP incumbents and candidates — putting him ahead of his leadership opponent Sen. John Thune (R-S. D), Axios reports.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to make the case on Sunday that he can do something no third-party or independent candidate has come close to doing in modern U. S. history: win a presidential election. Although polls show him far behind, both major-party campaigns, those of President Biden and former President Donald Trump, view Mr.
“Nearly seven months after the Israel-Hamas war began, the demonstrations convulsing college campuses nationwide are exposing fresh tensions within the Democratic Party over how to balance free speech protections and support for Gazans with concerns that some Jewish Americans are raising about antisemitism,” the New York Times reports.
“From New York and Los Angeles to Atlanta and Austin, a surge in student activism has manifested in protest encampments and other demonstrations, drawing significant police crackdowns and sometimes appearing to attract outside agitators.
“Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote,” Bloomberg reports.
“Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in what had been a party stronghold in Shimane prefecture.”
“Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months as prime minister fending off internal Conservative Party criticism and rumors of plots to oust him. So far it’s come to nothing — though his team is taking nothing for granted this week,” Bloomberg reports.
“His critics on the Tory right have spent months gearing up for Thursday’s local and mayoral elections across England as their final chance to oust Sunak.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley refused to pull over for speeding and went home and called the police chief to quash the incident instead. That's a no-no.
Unfortunately for her (or fortunately for the rule of law), the entire incident was recorded on the officer's bodycam and now DA Doorley has to explain why she has such reckless disregard for the law, police officers, and common sense.
And although a Republican now (of course), Doorley has been a Democrat in the past.