'You're losing all crediblity with the court,' Judge Merchan tells Todd Blanche.

FBI code name for Trump classified documents probe was ‘Plasmic Echo,’ court records show

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From a phone call with Hakeem Jeffries after Iran attacked Israel to prayer to deciding what he learned from intel briefings was more important than pleasing his right wing: how Mike Johnson came around on Ukraine aid

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Opening statements will soon begin in the first criminal trial of the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Watch CNN and follow live updates. cnn.it/3xJ5usp

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New — > A trove of documents found on a North Korean computer server suggest that a pair of US animation studios may be unwittingly outsourcing work for popular forthcoming animation series to North Korean workers: cnn.com/2024/04/22/pol…

“We have walked through broken glass to get a result, all of which could have been done before Christmas, but we’re bringing it out until nearly summer,” GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina said of the aid package. “That is an active choice that I disagree with.”

In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:

A full jury of 12 jurors and six alternates has been empaneled in Trump's criminal trial. Opening statements are expected on Monday. cnn.com/politics/live-…

Just as a full jury is empaneled in Trump’s New York trial a fire breaks out in front of the courthouse — Laura Coates reporting live from scene that a person appeared to set themselves ablaze.

The House has adjourned for the rest of the day with no more floor action or votes, meaning the earliest GA Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene could move her motion to vacate is tomorrow.  
 
The House is expected to pass the foreign aid packages SATURDAY.

The much-hyped right-wing overthrow of Kevin McCarthy because he was supposedly insufficiently America First (or something) resulted in... a massive bipartisan foreign aid package!

Today on Inside Politics, an exasperated Rep. Dusty Johnson compares some of his fellow Republicans to 'pyromaniacs who want to burn it down' and says those who refuse to back Speaker Johnson 'give a certain amount of power' to Democrats.

Dems -- in an incredibly rare move -- voted to advance a rule to the floor. And today the rule -- a first step to take up the $95B foreign aid package --- will also be backed by Ds and Rs on floor, something that rarely happens.
But D leaders staying mum on saving Johnson's job

Biden will receive the formal endorsement of more than a dozen members of the extended Kennedy family on Thursday, as battle heats up with RFK Jr. over family legacy

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Lot of angry House Freedom Caucus members after Mike Johnson announced plan for aid package.

Chip Roy told me he’s “very” upset. “I am well past the point of giving grace here. We are going to go have some conversations, I don’t want to get in front of everything here, I need to

NEW: GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a potential vice presidential contender, will headline the NRCC’s annual spring dinner later this month, per a source familiar.

There had been an effort to secure Donald Trump as the headliner, but he was unable to commit given the

I dream of being Juror B128.