BAIL TO THE CHIEF: Lawyers for Donald Trump reached a strict agreement in which he will be released on $200,000 bond after his arrest in Atlanta this week. According to the agreement he is also constrained from intimidating witnesses, and victims …

SHAKE, RATTLE, AND RAIN: A magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Southern California yesterday just hours before Tropical Storm Hilary began to lash the state with wind and rain.    The quake was centered near Ojai in Ventura County, up the coast from Los Angeles, but …

ORANGE ALERT: In an insult to the Republican Party and Fox News, which is hosting the event, Donald Trump appears to be skipping the first debate between Republican contenders for the presidential nomination and instead sitting for an online interview with …

NAMES AND THREATS: Authorities in Fulton County, Georgia are investigating threats made against members of the grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election.   Names of grand jurors are …

THE DOCKET: Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis is proposing to take Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants to trial on March 4th, making for a crowded legal schedule for the former president next year.   Willis’s motion said that she “proposes certain deadlines that …

SERVING HIM: Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis says she plans to try all 19 defendants together in her Georgia election interference case, but the legal maneuvering has already begun.   Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked to have his …

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 …