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A Morning Consult survey finds that 54% of voters approved (“strongly” or “somewhat”) of the verdict in Donald Trump’s hushed money criminal case. In addition, 15% of Republican voters, 8% of Trump supporters, and 49% of independents thought he should end his presidential bid.

New York Times: “Whatever rules Americans thought were in place are now being rewritten by Donald Trump, the once and perhaps future president who has already shattered many barriers and precedents. The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.” “And it raises fundamental questions about the limits of power in a second term, should Mr.

“Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution,” Reuters reports. “Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection.”

“A major study of Donald Trump’s social media posts has revealed the scale of the former US president’s ambitions to target Joe Biden, judges and other perceived political enemies if he returns to power,” The Guardian reports. “The presumptive Republican nominee has threatened to use the federal government to go after Biden during a second Trump administration 25 times since the start of 2023, the study found.

“President Biden wakes up every day to a list of concerns he must address as commander in chief. He receives updates from his aides each morning on the war in Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He calls his advisers to quiz them about the latest polls and headlines,” the New York Times reports. “But at the top of that list, people who know him say, is a concern that nags at him as a father: the legal problems of his son, Hunter Biden.” “Hunter Biden, 54, is scheduled to stand trial this week in a federal court in Delaware on charges that he failed to disclose his drug addiction on a form when buying a gun in 2018.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a decade, wind farm companies had been eyeing Molok Luyuk—a mountain ridge of religious importance to tribes in Northern California, whose people have worked for years to protect it. It’s also widely biodiverse, with elk, mountain lions, and black bears, as well as 40 rare plants such as the pink adobe lily.