Wisconsin Supreme Court election sends message on abortion rights  —  MILWAUKEE — In overturning a national right to abortion last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court gave conservatives a policy they'd been seeking for nearly half a century.  In the process, the justices also angered millions …

Depraved, Deranged, and Doing Real Damage  —  The former president is a grotesque man presiding over a grotesque party.  In his speech last night to his supporters at Mar-a-Lago, made several hours after he was arraigned in Manhattan on 34 felony counts, Donald Trump took aim at Juan Merchan, the judge in the case.

‘A child of dreams.’ Friends mourn Cash App founder Bob Lee, stabbed to death in S.F.  —  San Francisco's tech community mourned the violent death of one of their own Wednesday, calling Cash App founder Bob Lee a standout among Silicon Valley geniuses, someone idolized as a brilliant thinker …

Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024  —  Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country's most famous political families, is running for president.  Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.

Exclusive: National security officials tell special counsel Trump was repeatedly warned he did not have the authority to seize voting machines  —  Former top national security officials have testified to a federal grand jury that they repeatedly told former President Donald Trump and his allies …

Baltimore's Catholic Church sexually abused at least 600 children over 60 years, Maryland AG says  —  “Young people in some parishes were preyed upon by multiple abusers over decades,” the state's top prosecutor said after a 4-year investigation.  —  Maryland's top prosecutor accused Catholic …

Rupert Murdoch Can Be Forced to Testify in Defamation Trial, Judge Says  —  Star hosts for Fox News like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity may also appear in person at the high-profile trial, which is set to start April 17.  —  The witness list for the Fox News $1.6 billion defamation trial …

The Trump Indictment Is a Legal Embarrassment  —  Tuesday was historic for the rule of law in America, but not in the way Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, would have imagined.  The 34-count indictment — which more accurately could be described as 34 half-indictments — was a disaster.

You're Being Played, Republicans!  —  A few years ago, I posted this riddle on Twitter:  —  What's easier to roll than an Easter egg?  —  Answer: Donald Trump.  —  Now, I can add:  —  What's easier to roll than Donald Trump?  —  Answer: Republican voters.  —  Democrats are playing Republicans like a fiddle.

Twitter labels NPR's account as ‘state-affiliated media,’ which is untrue  —  Twitter added a “state-affiliated media” tag to NPR's main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China.

Expulsion vote thrusts Tennessee politics onto the national stage, could set precedent  —  The Democrats could become political martyrs if expelled from the legislature.  The move shows the power the GOP holds and could set a precedent for the future.  —  Tennessee's Republican supermajority …

Don Lemon's Misogyny at CNN, Exposed: Malicious Texts, Mocking Female Co-Workers and ‘Diva-Like Behavior’  —  Back in 2008, Don Lemon was co-anchoring CNN's “Live From” weekday show with Kyra Phillips, a gig that he landed after he arrived at the network two years prior from local news in Chicago.

Trump makes play for DeSantis donors  —  Donald Trump's campaign is reaching out directly to Ron DeSantis' donors to convince them to jump ship.  —  Donald Trump is moving to undercut what's expected to be a major point of strength for rival Republican Ron DeSantis — reaching …

Blinken: “No doubt” WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained  —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Wednesday that he has “no doubt” that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained by Russia.  —  Driving the news …

As future of abortion pill is weighed, Democrats in Congress see little they can do  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats appear lukewarm about pursuing reproductive rights legislation in a divided Congress, even as a federal judge in Texas considers overturning access to abortion pills nationwide.

ChatGPT sometimes makes up facts.  For one law prof, it went too far.  —  The AI chatbot fabricated a sexual harassment scandal involving a law professor — and cited a fake Washington Post article as evidence  —  One night last week, the law professor Jonathan Turley got a troubling email.

Jane Rosenberg's “Courtroom Sketch, Manhattan Criminal Courthouse”  —  Truth is stranger than fiction: for the first time in its long history, The New Yorker is publishing a courtroom sketch on the cover.  —  Though we often ask artists to reflect on the events of the day for the weekly cover …

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson found a place in his acceptance speech for God.  But not Barack Obama.  —  In its election Tuesday of Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson as its 57th mayor, Chicago chose an inspiring orator.  This will be a City Hall first for most Chicagoans.

At least two Republican DAs want to prosecute Bidens: Rep. James Comer  —  WASHINGTON — At least two local GOP prosecutors are looking at ways to charge President Biden and his family amid Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Donald Trump …

Transgender student athlete ban on the books in Kansas, following three years of GOP campaigning  —  TOPEKA — Transgender girls are now blocked from playing women's sports from kindergarten through college, following the Legislature's successful override of Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a transgender student athlete ban.

NYC and PBA police union reach new contract after seven years of disagreement; deal extends to 2025  —  Mayor Adams and the Police Benevolent Association unveiled a tentative new labor agreement Wednesday, marking the end of a seven-year stretch in which the NYPD's biggest union worked without a formal contract.