Mike Johnson’s latest government funding plan seems to be a charade. Whether anyone will really be convinced of it is the question.
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- The decline of local news has become a campaign problem, Columbia Journalism Review
- How a long-standing federal program allows thousands of workers to earn subminimum wages, The Washington Post
- Inside a network of Republican operatives trying to prop up third-party candidates, Associated Press
- Congress put the wrong date in the tax law. Companies are reaping millions, The Wall Street Journal
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Courts
May 29, 2024
Trump Jury Heads Home for the Day Without a Verdict
On its first day of deliberation, the jury deciding Donald Trump’s fate in the Manhattan criminal court went home without a verdict Wednesday. While the jury wasn’t exactly expected to come to a decision in a single day, it’s a signal to both the prosecution and the defense that the case wasn’t so convincing — for either side — that it was open-and-shut for the jurors. Deliberations will continue on Thursday.