Judge Tosses Trump's Lawsuit Against NY Times, Orders Him to Pay All Legal Fees  —  Trump sued the paper, along with his niece Mary, alleging an “insidious plot” to grab his tax records and publish them in a Pulitzer-winning report. … A New York judge has tossed out Donald Trump's lawsuit …

Emails Reveal ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Herschel Walker Money Scandal  —  Emails show Herschel Walker solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars for his own business from a billionaire donor, with the donor believing he was giving to Walker's campaign. … Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding.

Exclusive: Special counsel probing Trump Organization's handling of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage  —  Prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith have been asking questions in recent weeks about the handling of surveillance footage from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort …

Ex-FBI agent feds say urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill police worked terrorism task force  —  Jared Wise was part of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and served as supervisory special agent in charge of the Homegrown Violent Extremism unit.  —  NEW YORK — An ex-FBI official who allegedly urged rioters to …

Kentucky McDonald's put 10-year-olds to work until 2 in the morning: officials  —  A McDonald's restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky had 10-year-olds working shifts that sometimes ended at 2 a.m., CNN reported Wednesday.  —  The U.S. Department of Labor discovered the hours during an investigation …

Trump Will Offer No Defense in Rape Trial, His Lawyer Says  —  The lawyer said he would call no witnesses to rebut E. Jean Carroll's account of being assaulted at Bergdorf Goodman.  The case could go to a jury early next week.  —  A lawyer defending former President Donald J. Trump …

7 people found dead in Oklahoma were shot in the head in apparent murder-suicide, authorities say  —  Jesse McFadden, 39, is believed to have gunned down five teenagers and his wife during a sleepover at his family's house.  —  A convicted rapist on trial for child pornography charges …

Florida Republicans pass pronoun, diversity bills  —  Florida Republicans on Wednesday approved two bills that will restrict the use of preferred pronouns in schools and ban diversity programs in colleges, building on key priorities of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of his expected White House candidacy.

Dem Senator: Scalia accepted over 70 undisclosed gifts similar to Clarence Thomas  —  U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has revealed the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia also accepted and did not disclose dozens of trips paid for by special interest advocates …

Atlanta mass shooting live updates: 1 killed, 4 hurt; suspect at large  —  Police are looking for the suspect, identified as 24-year-old Deion Patterson.  —  Atlanta police are searching for the gunman who killed one and wounded four others in a mass shooting in a medical center waiting room on Wednesday, police said.

Trumps Fail To Turn Over Documents In Fraud Case, New York Attorney General Claims  —  Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization failed to turn over emails and other communications in a fraud lawsuit, the New York attorney general's office claimed in a letter submitted in court last week.

Tucker Carlson helped broker the deal that made Kevin McCarthy House speaker after 14 failed votes, text messages show  — Tucker Carlson won concessions from Kevin McCarthy in a deal that made him House speaker, per his texts.  — Carlson said McCarthy agreed to put Rep. Thomas Massie on a committee …

Trump Using Photos From His Own Presidency To Argue Life Is Worse Under Biden  —  Donald Trump started a new ad campaign on Facebook last week that insists the U.S. is doing worse under President Joe Biden.  The Facebook ads even include photos trying to suggest the chaos we see in those images is a direct result of Biden's policies.

Tyre Nichols' official autopsy reveals brain injuries from blunt force trauma, DA says  —  The DA's office said the autopsy will be released publicly soon.  —  The medical examiner's official autopsy report for Tyre Nichols showed he “died of brain injuries from blunt force trauma,” …

Witnesses Are Too ‘Intimidated’ to Testify Against Ammon Bundy, Lawyer Says  —  A hospital is suing the right-wing leader for harassing its staff.  Doctors say witnesses are concerned about new attacks from him or his followers.  —  Militia leader Ammon Bundy says he won't appear in court because there's too much paperwork.

The Potential Economic Impacts of Various Debt Ceiling Scenarios  —  Summary  —  New analyses by both the Congressional Budget Office and the U.S. Department of the Treasury suggest the United States is rapidly approaching the date at which the government can no longer pay its bills, also known as the “X-date.”

Montana Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr Target of SWATting Attempt Hours After Girlfriend Was  —  An unknown person attempted to send armed tactical teams to the Missoula home of Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr hours after her girlfriend, Erin Reed, a prominent transgender activist and journalist, was the target of a SWATting attempt in Maryland.

Exclusive: Vivek Ramaswamy Paid to Have His Soros Fellowship and Covid-Era Role Scrubbed from Wikipedia Page  —  Longshot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has accused his prospective Republican rivals of parroting him, but Ramaswamy himself has made an intentional effort to conceal his own biography …

Exclusive: Billionaire Investor Buys Jeffrey Epstein's Private Islands For $60 Million  —  A private equity mogul, who says he never met Epstein, plans to develop a luxury resort on the infamous property.  —  After more than a year on the market, Jeffrey Epstein's infamous Caribbean islands …

PacWest Is Weighing Strategic Options, Including Possible Sale  —  PacWest Bancorp., a regional bank teetering following the collapse of three rival California-based lenders, has been weighing a range of strategic options, including a sale, according to people familiar with the matter.

Biden allies join Republicans in vote to resume solar tariffs  —  The Senate on Wednesday voted 56 to 41 to override President Biden's two-year suspension of tariffs on solar imports from four southeast Asian countries.  —  The resolution, sponsored by Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Joe Manchin …