Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the daughter of the trial judge in his hush-money case, calling her out by name in a post on his Truth Social platform. The gag order state Judge Juan Merchan imposed this week does not include restrictions on attacking him or his family, and Trump is taking full advantage of the carveout.
This is, of course, only the latest in a months' long series of Trump attacks on judges, court workers, prosecutors, witnesses, and others, with full awareness of the risk of inciting further threats and potential violence.
Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald Trump has spent more than $100 million on costs related to investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, the New York Times reports.
"Israel has agreed to reschedule talks on Gaza that it called off in protest just days ago, an apparent effort to mend a growing rift with Washington over the war that was highlighted Wednesday by the resignation of a State Department official and new polling showing that a majority in the United States now disapprove of its ally's conduct," NBC News reports.
"The official, Annelle Sheline, who was focused on human rights issues in the Middle East, told NBC News she felt she had no choice but to publicly resign as the death toll in the Gaza Strip has soared past 32,000 people and as warnings of an imminent famine in the Palestinian enclave reach a fever pitch."
Congress passed over $71 million in earmarks in the recent minibus spending legislation for lawmakers who ultimately voted against the package, Punchbowl News reports.
President Biden is expected to ask Congress to approve more than $1 billion to help rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Punchbowl News reports.
"FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for fraud tied to the collapse of his digital exchange, capping his meteoric rise and fall," the Wall Street Journal reports.
"Less than two years ago, Bankman-Fried was the crypto king. The moptop millennial hobnobbed with heads of state, soaked up Caribbean views from his $30 million penthouse and vowed to use his wealth to better humanity."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday, the wartime leader said, as the House mulls how to proceed on additional aid funding for Kyiv, Politico reports.
"Speaker Mike Johnson informed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that the House will send the impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10," CNN reports.
"The House impeached Mayorkas on February 13 by an extremely narrow margin, making him the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years."
"House Republicans impeached Mayorkas last month after failing to do so on their first try, a stunning loss that came about after GOP defections and absence sank the initial floor vote."
"U.S. consumer sentiment rose markedly toward the end of March, supported by strong stock-market gains and expectations that inflation will continue to ease," Bloomberg reports.
"The Republican National Committee is weighing whether to restrict NBC's access to this summer's convention, following the network's decision to drop former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor," Politico reports.
"Such a move would mark a dramatic escalation in the growing rift between Donald Trump-allies and the TV network — a rift that has stemmed from NBC's decision to part ways with McDaniel amid a revolt among top on-air talent."
Donald Trump said on Truth Social he is not running to terminate the Affordable Care Act but he wants to "make the ACA, or Obamacare as it's known, much better, stronger and far less expensive."
The White House announced a new rule to curb so-called "junk health insurance," rolling back a Trump-era expansion of short-term health insurance plans, CNN reports.
"Democrats are upping their focus on Jared Kushner, heavily scrutinizing former President Donald Trump's son-in-law as Republicans have repeatedly spotlighted Hunter Biden and the business deals of the president's family members," Politico reports.
"Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday asking leading Republicans on the committee to hold a hearing in light of new reporting on Kushner seeking overseas business deals as Trump looks to take back the White House."
With Biden nominee Adeel Mangi under sustained Islamophobic attack from Republicans because he would be the first Muslim American appeals court judge, Senate Democrats are not uniting around him en masse but rather letting him twist in the wind.
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) this week became the third Democratic senator to abandon Mangi, joining Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).
"Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's notorious 'pedophile island' in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices," Wired reports.
"Maps of these visitations generated by a troubled international data broker with defense industry ties, discovered last week by Wired, document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender."
"Sportswriter Rick Reilly is calling BS on Donald Trump after the former president declared himself the winner of both the club championship and senior club championship at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida," the HuffPost reports. Said Reilly: "He's never won a championship at a course he doesn't own and operate. He's played in Pebble Beach, he's played in the Tahoe one, where there are rules and judges and cameras. And in those, he's never finished in the top half. So he wins when anybody who disagrees that he won is out of the club. That's how he gets it."
"A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax, according to documents and representatives for the media company and the royal, in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during the Trump administration," the Washington Post reports. "The investment bolstered a key conservative media outlet at a time when Qatar was facing intense diplomatic pressure from its neighbors and seeking allies in the United States."
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