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Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ordered Thursday that all court proceedings in Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants will be televised and livestreamed.

Several Republican figures have spoken out against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell since his second freezing episode while addressing reporters on Wednesday.

Democrats are pushing for a subpoena of Jared Kushner’s Saudi-backed investment firm.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a stark warning to potential looters post–Hurricane Idalia: “You loot, we shoot.”

The New York attorney general’s office says there is “no shred of doubt” that former President Donald Trump inflated his net worth—by as much as $2 billion in one year.

“Here’s a thing I don’t get: people who worry about living in a big city because of all the crime,” declares Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), a washed-up TV detective whose residual checks allow him to live a comfortable life in a stately co-operative apartment building on the Upper West Side called the Arconia. There are too many eyes on you in a place like New York City for anything sinister to happen to you, Charles explains. Crime is for places like Oklahoma (Charles is an avid listener to All Is Not OK in Oklahoma... Читать дальше...

After all of next year’s primaries and caucuses end, it is likely that Donald Trump will be rechristened the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee. But it’ll get pretty weird along the way—even compared to how weird things got during his first primary campaign (which got very weird!)—thanks to the sort of legal troubles that might completely consume the time and energy of a normal human being with the misfortune of being credibly accused of such a vast array of crimes. But Trump is, of course, well beyond the bounds of normal... Читать дальше...

America has a gun violence problem. It also has a problem with right-wing violence, and the two come together all too often in the form of massacres of nonwhites, LGBTQ people, and Jewish people. Given the trajectory of the country now, it’s only going to get worse over time. The recent mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, by a shooter carrying swastika-adorned guns, only serves to highlight the issue once again: The American right has a violence problem, and they’re in deep denial about it.

As Hurricane Matthew bore down on the Atlantic Coast in October 2016, Mary Fashik was forced to leave her home in Brunswick, Georgia, for a communal shelter in Valdosta, about a two-hour drive inland.