STRIKE FOUR: Former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants were charged last night in Atlanta under an indictment accusing them of racketeering in an attempt to overturn the Georgia results of the 2020 presidential election. It is Trump’s fourth criminal …

PARADISE LOST: The body count in the Maui wildfire has risen to 96, making it the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than 100 years. Authorities expect to find still more fatalities as they pick through the ash and ruins …

PARADISE LOST: The death toll has risen to 55 in Maui’s Lahaina wildfire, making it the second deadliest wildfire in US history, topped only by a California fire that killed 85 in 2018.   This morning there’s controversy over lack of warning …

REJECTED: Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment that was part of a Republican plan to block legal abortion in that state. The vote was 57 percent to 43 percent.   Issue 1, the bill on the ballot, would have made it a …

RAISING THE BAR: The state of Ohio is voting today in a special election on a ballot issue that would make it harder to amend the state’s constitution with the intention of blocking any effort to legalize abortion.   Until now, Ohio voters …

August 7, 2023Vol. 12, No. 2056 ASPIRATIONAL: Evidently Donald Trump merely “aspired” to remain in the presidency after losing the 2020 election.   Trump’s lawyer John Lauro hit the Sunday morning talk shows saying all Trump did was exercise his right to free speech. “What …

August 5, 2023Vol. 12, No. 2055 COMING AFTER YOU: Federal prosecutors last night notified the judge in Donald Trump’s election case that he had posted a threat to his legal opponents on his Truth Social website saying, “YOU GO AFTER ME, …

NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN:  Former President Donald Trump yesterday in a Washington federal court pleaded not guilty to his third criminal indictment since June, this one charging that he conspired to overthrow the legitimate results of the 2020 election.   Moments before …

IN FURTHERANCE OF LIES: Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in federal court in Washington this afternoon for arraignment on his third criminal indictment this year.   Trump and his lawyers are already basing a defense against charges that he …

INDICTMENT #3: A federal grand jury issued Donald Trump’s third criminal indictment, this one for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and whipping up the January 6th insurrection to intimidate Congress.   The indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith in Washington …