“I have had cats since I was a boy, and all of them were wonderful, but one of them left a mark on my life forever.” Tom Nichols honors the memory of Carla, his beloved pet, in The Atlantic Daily: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Exclusive: As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, the former president proposed that they raise $1 billion to return him to the White House. wapo.st/3QCoLlT

China formally bans 'Glory to Hong Kong' protest anthem lemonde.fr/en/internation…

Defense lawyers said it looked like language in affidavits related to the arrests of 57 students at the University of Texas was 'copied and pasted.'

Prosecutors agreed that those arrests lacked probable cause and dropped charges against the students.

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“Tabling articles of impeachment would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate' said Mitch McConnell.

McConnell didn't mention that he voted in favor of an unsuccessful Republican effort in 2021 to dismiss an impeachment case against Donald J. Trump over the Jan. 6 attack.

The bodega worker Trump was planning on visiting yesterday was with family in the Dominican Republic: nydailynews.com/2024/04/17/bod…

SCOOP: Adams celebrated birthday at lux pad of Chinese billionaire implicated in straw donor scheme nydailynews.com/2024/04/15/ada…

The Supreme Court seems ready to limit a law that makes it illegal for government officials to accept gifts and payments meant to influence or reward their actions while in office.

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Trump moves to delay May 9 deadline Judge Cannon set for the filing of his CIPA Section 5 notice in the classified docs case.

Trump says a delay is necessary bc he’ll be on trial in NY starting Monday.

He wants the deadline moved to 3 weeks after conclusion of the NY trial.

The Belarusian dissident rock band Nizkiz and its three members have been declared extremists and sentenced to 2 1/2 years of restrictions on their freedom of movement after being convicted on criminal charges of violating public order. rferl.org/a/belarus-band…

BREAKING: Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg has been sentenced to five months in jail for perjury. cbsn.ws/49yGZLZ

video shows RFK Jr’s NY director laying out a clear plan:

“The Kennedy voter & the Trump voter—our mutual enemy is Biden. … if nobody gets to 270, Congress picks the president. So who are they going to pick if it’s a R Congress? They’ll pick Trump.”

Grace Jabbari, who Majors was convicted of assaulting, spoke in court, saying that when she was with him she had become a “different person” ­­— someone who was “small, scared and vulnerable.” She also said: “I have seen his physical anger, and he does not have control over it.”

Is the video for Aaron Lee Tasjan's 'The Drugs Did Me,' meant as a thematic homage to the video for Beck's 'Loser,' made about 30 years earlier?

I just feel for Trevor Story