Did former President Trump violate the gag order issued by Judge Merchan? The prosecution team is arguing he did with his Truth Social posts. Meanwhile, President Biden is out on the campaign trail. Former Rep. David Jolly and Biden 2020 senior campaign advisor Alencia Johnson discuss.
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It's the 10th day of the hush money trial.
In a written order handed down at the start of Tuesday’s court proceedings, Judge Juan Merchan announced fines of $1,000 each for nine posts made on Trump’s Truth Social feed that he said violated his gag order barring attacks on potential witnesses in the hush money trial.
Prosecutors are set to resume presenting their case against the former president, who is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.
In what amounted to incredibly damning testimony, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker laid out the 2015 deal he reached with Donald Trump “to help the campaign.”
On Tuesday, the second day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, Judge Juan Merchan rebuked defense lawyers after Trump was heard muttering his disapproval of an answer given by a potential juror in the case.
Here's what you might've missed from this weekend's action across the league.
Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season.
"Don't call unless you absolutely need it, but, if you ever do call, I'll be there."
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking him to explain his departure.
The Magic and Cavs are giving us the only Game 7 of the playoffs so far.
It was initially a demanding fight for the champion, but Álvarez silenced Munguía's typically explosive speed and combinations with precise counter punches.
How could the differences between Biden and Trump reshape U.S. border policy going forward?
Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and Bluesky offer similar reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls last month, and last night Adam Mosseri — who leads both Threads and Instagram for parent company Meta — announced that the feature is available to all users.
Brady joined Birmingham City's ownership group last August.
The Lyon, France crowd was electric start-to-finish in WWE's first major event since WrestleMania 40
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The former president’s criminal hush money trial resumed Friday for the 11th day.
X is using Grok to publish AI-generated summaries of news and other topics that trend on the platform.
The episode originally aired in Australia four years ago but has never been available on Disney+, where “Bluey” airs in the U.S. Now it has quietly appeared on YouTube, surprising fans.