IT’S POLITICAL: Nikki Haley has been crisscrossing New Hampshire courting voters and hoping to punch a hole in Donald Trump’s political armor today in the state’s primary.   “America doesn’t do coronations,” Haley said at her first event of the day ysterday …

FLORIDA RETIREE: Low on money and votes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the second nastiest person in the Republican run for the presidency, quit his campaign yesterday and endorsed Donald Trump.   This makes the Republican primaries a two-person race between Trump and …

BAD REVIEW: Actor Alec Baldwin was indicted in New Mexico a second time yesterday on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust.”   The first charge, a felony, accuses Baldwin …

COMPLETE FAILURE: A federal report on the police response to the Uvalde, Texas school massacre during which officers waited 77 minutes to enter the school a complete “failure.”   The report from the Department of Justice says, “Officers on scene should have recognized …

WORLD AT WAR: Hostilities in the Middle East expanded yesterday as Pakistan carried out strikes inside Iran in response to Iranian attacks on what they said were militant camps in Pakistan. War is spreading gradually nearly every day.   The Pakistani Foreign Affairs …

POLITICAL CHILL: Donald Trump spent the first morning of his New Hampshire primary campaign in a New York courtroom for the opening of the second defamation suit brought against him by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.   A nine member jury …

POLITICAL CHILL: It was four below zero when Iowa Republican voters met for their caucuses and Donald Trump froze out his opponents, taking 51 percent of the vote.   Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a big victory, of sorts, finishing second with …

THE BIG CHILL: The temperature in Des Moines, Iowa this morning was 10 below zero, causing political analysts to speculate endlessly on what will be the effect of the weather on turnout for tonight’s Iowa Caucuses, the opening of the presidential …

ANOTHER ONE DOWN: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie quit his bid for president yesterday in which he failed to knock Donald Trump out of the race. As of yesterday, Christie had 3.6 percent of the likely Republican vote to Trump’s …

ORANGE ALERT: Lawyers arguing presidential immunity for Donald Trump told a federal appeals panel that a president could be criminally charged only if impeached and convicted first, even if he had ordered the assassination of a political rival. A lawyer for the …