The War Room: The Justice Department has opened an investigation into how a cache of secret documents revealing and detailing US involvement in the Ukraine war ended up posted online for all to see.  The 100-plus pages of slides and briefing documents …

Texas Law: A federal judge in Texas appointed by Donald Trump has invalidated the 23-year-old Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, which is used in medical abortion.  Only about an hour later a federal judge in Washington state ordered …

The Tennessee Three:  With demonstrators demanding that the Tennessee legislature act on guns in the after the most recent school shooting in which three 9-year-olds and three staff members were killed, the immediate action the legislature took was to expel two …

Trumped: Former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he’s not going to fight the subpoena calling him to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The presumption is that Pence has a lot …

Law and Order: A scowling former President Donald Trump yesterday pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to 34 counts of filing false business records to cover up another crime, lying to tax authorities, a low level felony that carries a maximum …

Law and Order:  Every New York City police officer is in uniform and on alert for the arraignment this afternoon of former Donald Trump, an event that will last minutes and go down in history when he becomes the first former …

Twister: Tornadoes and powerful storms over the weekend killed at least 33 people in several southern and midwestern states between Friday and yesterday.   The storm damage stretched from Iowa to Delaware.   Nine people died in McNairy County, Tennessee, where some homes …

Orange is the New Black: Perhaps the most damning statement about the indictment of Donald Trump came from his daughter Ivanka, who did not proclaim the former president’s innocence or claim he’s the victim of political prosecution. Ivanka said in a …

The Ham Sandwich: Donald Trump yesterday became the first former president to be indicted on criminal charges. The indictment has not been opened, so we don’t know what the charges are, but this comes from the New York grand jury investigating …

Anti-Trans: The right wing movement against gender-affirming care for minors has become a major effort to neutralize the medical establishment dealing with what appears to be the growing phenomenon of gender dysphoria.    A troubling medical matter has become a major political issue.  Georgia …