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Former President Donald Trump follows his second shot during the LIV Golf Invitational DC event at Trump National Golf Club on May 25, 2023, in Sterling, Virginia.Rob Carr / Getty Images There's a lot of Trump legal news these days, what with the E. Jean Carroll verdict, the Manhattan hush money indictment, the news that Fulton County, Georgia, D.A. Fani Willis has put local authorities on notice to anticipate "something" coming in August, and a cascade of reporting on special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, with some suggestions evidence that will come to a conclusion very soon.

Jay Johnston, an actor who appeared in such shows as Arrested Development and Bob's Burgers was arrested in California Wednesday, and faces charges in connection to the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.According to court documents, Johnston, 54, allegedly helped pour water on the faces of rioters who had been pepper sprayed by law enforcement and was seen carrying a stolen shield that belonged to U.S. Capitol Police.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie barged into the Republican presidential primary last week with a scathing rebuke of front-runner and former President Donald Trump.Now, less than a week after formally entering the race and on the eve of Trump's court appearance in South Florida on an indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents, Christie, at a CNN town hall Monday night, will have another opportunity in front of a national audience to make the political case against Trump and for himself.

Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on the unsealed indictment against Donald Trump at the Justice Department on Friday.Alex Wong/Getty Images Jack Smith, the special counsel announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland last year to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection, is a long-time prosecutor who has overseen a variety of high-profile cases during a career that spans decades.

In the topsy-turvy world of 2024 Republican politics, rivals of Donald J. Trump had been bracing for weeks for his second indictment with more dread than any sense of opportunity.After years of successive scandals, the immediate instincts of so many Republican voters are thoroughly ingrained.They snap to Mr. Trump's defense, no matter how outrageous the charges are or who is making them Democrats, the news media, local prosecutors or, now, federal ones.

Former president Donald Trump legal woes are now dominating the news cycle as federal prosecutors hit the real estate developer with a 37-count indictment connected to the mishandling of classified documents.The news surrounding the latest indictment is still unfolding.Special Counsel Jack Smith is expected to make a statement on Friday.

Former President Donald J. Trump faces a host of investigations around the country, at both the state and federal levels, into matters related to his business and political careers.Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts filed by prosecutors in Manhattan related to his role in what they described as a hush-money scheme to cover up a potential sex scandal in order to clear his path to the presidency in 2016.

At the heart of the case against Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers leader who was sentenced on Thursday to the longest prison term yet in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, was a rare and serious charge: seditious conspiracy.Although people have sometimes colloquially used terms like sedition, insurrection, domestic terrorism and treason interchangeably when discussing the events of Jan. 6, 2021, seditious conspiracy is legally distinct from the other terms in subtle but important ways.

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The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said this week it would no longer post to Twitter after website moderators ignored requests to delete a torrent of bigoted and hateful comments left under a post about employees attending the West Hollywood Pride parade.

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, launching his second bid for the White House and kicking off another clash with former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner and a former Christie ally.Christie's announcement comes a day after fellow GOP moderate Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, opted against running and less than 24 hours before former Vice President Mike Pence officially enters the race.

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday filed the paperwork for his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, setting up a clash with his running mate of elections past, former President Donald Trump.Pence is set to formally announce his candidacy on Wednesday ahead of a CNN presidential town hall that evening.

Toward the end of World War II, my father served on the USS Kalk, a Navy destroyer on anti-submarine warfare and screening duty in the Pacific that steamed all the way into Tokyo Bay for the formal Japanese surrender in 1945.One of his brothers was a Navy pilot who had two aircraft carriers sunk beneath him in the Pacific.

Scene outside the Capitol after Trump supporters breached the building in Washington, District of Columbia on January 6, 2021.Bonnie Jo Mount (The Washington Post / Getty) FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a heavily blacked-out court order released Friday.

The government of Senegal said on Friday that it had shut down some social media platforms as a result of clashes between protesters and security forces a day earlier which it said had left at least nine people dead.Demonstrators had taken to the streets across the West African nation on Thursday shortly after a court acquitted a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, on charges of rape and making death threats, but convicted him on the lesser charge of corrupting youth.

This past week, a complaint from a single parent in Florida led to a poem by Amanda Gorman being banned from Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes.Not just any poem: The parent took issue with Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," which she recited at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, making her the youngest inaugural poet in the country's history.

The US remains in a heightened threat environment for terrorism driven by a series of racially and ethnically motivated attacks or plots in recent months, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday in a public advisory.The pro-Nazi views espoused by the gunman who killed eight people in Allen, Texas, this month are part of a growing trend of extremists displaying White nationalist paraphernalia in the US and abroad, a senior DHS official told reporters.

US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference following the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 21.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In a news conference over the weekend, President Joe Biden addressed the possibility of using the 14th Amendment to continue US government borrowing in the absence of a deal, suggesting he has the power but not the time to utilize the unilateral action.