RICH MAN, POOR MAN: Former President Donald Trump has been unable to find an insurance company to underwrite a $464 million bond to cover the massive judgment against him in his New York fraud case that would allow him to appeal …

PUTIN DEMOCRACY: Thousands of Russians went to the polls yesterday on the final day of voting to create long lines in silent protest to Vladimir Putin’s guaranteed election for a fifth six-year term as president. They were responding to the late opposition …

JUST PEACHY: The judge in the Georgia election interference case ruled that District Attorney Fani Willis can stay but her former boyfriend who’s been running the case must go.   Defense lawyers, including those for Donald Trump, had argued that the romance …

LEADER TO LEADER: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the US, spoke on the Senate floor yesterday condemning the wartime leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for elections to replace him.   With more than …

TIK TOK: The House yesterday passed a bill with strong support from both parties that would force the sale of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok or ban it with the US.   Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican who is among …

REPLAY: The rematch is on. Joe Biden and Donald Trump both won enough delegates in primary races yesterday to put them over the top for their party’s presidential nomination. It will be the first time in 70 years that candidates have …

HUNGER GAMES: Seven Democratic senators and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont have urged President Biden to stop providing weapons to Israel until it stops restrictions on humanitarian aid going into Gaza. The eight senators said in a letter that Biden is in …

RED CARPET: “Oppenheimer,” the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, won Best Picture, Best Actor, and five other Oscars at the Academy Awards last night.   “Barbie,” the highest grossing movie of 2023, scored only a …

YES, HE’S OLD: President Biden is out there on the campaign trail confronting the age issue and telling voters to get over it. “Look, I’m not a young guy. That’s no secret,” says a smiling Biden in a new television ad. “But …

SUCH A STATE: Joe Biden was energetic, forceful, confrontative, and combatively partisan in his State of the Union speech last night, a performance designed to show the doubters that at 81 he’s fit for a second term in the White House. …