IN DEEPER: The special counsel has added a new charge to Donald Trump’s existing federal indictment involving his possession of secret documents, now accusing the former president of attempting to suppress evidence by telling the property manager of his Mar-a-Lago residence that he wanted security camera footage to be deleted.

  A superseding indictment that also names the property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, accuses Trump of attempting to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; inducing someone else to do so; and a new count under the Espionage Act in volving the incident in which he showed a national security document to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

  Trump responded by telling Fox News Digital, “They’re harassing my company, they’re harassing my family and by far, least importantly of all, they’re harassing me.”

  Trump’s original indictment accuses him of violating the Espionage Act by illegally holding 31 classified documents containing national defense information after he left office, as well as conspiracy to obstruct the government’s attempts to retrieve the classified material.

  The new indictment details movements and conversations involving De Oliveira and Trump’s personal aide, Walt Nauta, with De Oliveira saying “the boss” wanted the security video server deleted.

  These new charges were revealed yesterday even as Trump’s lawyers met with prosecutors about the target letter Trump received regarding the investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The troop movements seem to indicate that a second federal indictment is looming.

SUCCESSION: Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s evident medical incident during a press availability Wednesday has spurred further discussion about aging leadership in the Senate. The 81-year-old McConnell froze for 23 seconds in the midst of speaking and was led away.

  He’s not the only one. California Sen. Diane Feinstein, at 90 the oldest member of the Senate, has become feeble and seemingly confused. Yesterday during a vote she froze, then started to read prepared remarks and had to be told, “just say ‘aye.’” 

THE WAR ROOM: As it presses a counter-offensive against Russian occupiers, Ukraine claims to have re-taken a southern village invaded early in the war. Ukraine says its troops took the village of Staromaiorske under heavy fire from Russian aircraft and artillery. The village is now a ruin.

GETTING WARMER: A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents with enormous effect upon weather is on track to collapse by the middle of the century and even as early as 2025, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.

  The article itself might as well be written in scientific Greek, but here’s a translation: 

  What’s called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) transports warm water from the tropics toward the North Atlantic, where the water cools, becomes saltier, and sinks deep before spreading southwards. 

  The AMOC helps regulate global weather patterns. Its collapse would cause more extreme winters and sea level rises affecting parts of Europe and the US, as well as shifting of the monsoon in the tropics.

THE OBIT PAGE: Screenwriter Bo Goldman, who succeeded later in life to win Oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Melvin and Howard, has died at age 90.

  Among his other credits were Shoot the Moon (1982), about a disintegrating marriage, The Rose (1979), starring Bette Midler, and Martin Brest’s Scent of a Woman (1992), with Al Pacino.

  Goldman had kicked around New York doing writing jobs, one of them with The Will Rogers Jr. Showon CBS, alongside future 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney.

  Broke and in debt, Goldman left his wife and six children behind on the East Coast in 1974 and flew to Los Angeles to salvage his writing career. He ended up being nominated for four Oscars.

  “If there is a train of thought that runs through my work,” he told The Washington Post in 1982, “it is a yearning, a longing to make the people real and capture their lives on the screen. I think there is nothing more fulfilling in the world than to see your view of life realized in art.”

THE SPIN RACK: President Biden is set to give final approval today to an overhaul of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of authority over cases of sexual assault, rape and murder to ensure that prosecutions are independent from the chain of command. — Nearly 4 million Americans have been cut from Medicaid insurance since the end of the pandemic, most for reasons of lost or improper paperwork, or bureaucratic screwup. — Scientists say they have woken up a microscopic roundworm that spent 46,000 years in suspended animation in the Siberian permafrost and that it is starting to deliver babies in a laboratory dish.

BELOW THE FOLD: The River Seine through Paris has been closed to swimming since 1923 because it is disgustingly polluted as it carries away the detritus of French civilization. It used to be the dump for raw sewage.

  Now the organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympics say they want to hold swimming events in the Seine. Swimmers will set records to get to the finish line and out of the water.

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