Hunter Biden reaches deal to plead guilty in tax, gun case  —  The president's son would get about two years probation and enter a diversion program, people familiar with the negotiations said  —  President Biden's son Hunter has reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors …

CNN Poll: Trump's GOP support appears to soften post-indictment, but he holds lead in primary field  —  Former President Donald Trump's support appears to have softened following his indictment and arrest on federal charges, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Trump classified documents trial date set for Aug. 14  — A Florida federal judge scheduled the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified government documents to begin Aug. 14.  — But legal experts do not expect the trial to begin so early.

Scientists on Twitter head for the exit  —  A feud broke out on Twitter over the weekend between popular podcaster Joe Rogan and prominent vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, with the podcaster challenging the scientist to a debate about vaccines in an online skirmish that drew fire from a few billionaires.

A Titanic expert, an adventurer, and a father and son are among the passengers on missing sub  —  A renowned Titanic expert, a world-record holding adventurer and two members of one of Pakistan's wealthiest families are facing critical danger aboard a small submersible that went missing …

Lawyer Eastman faces disciplinary hearing over plot to keep Trump in power after 2020 election loss  —  An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Gov. Ron DeSantis used secretive panel to flip state Supreme Court  —  Leonard Leo, the key architect of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority, led the advisers who helped DeSantis reshape the state court  —  For decades, the ambitions of Florida's Republican governors were stymied by the liberal-leaning state Supreme Court.

Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns  —  Details of the former president's agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect.  —  Reporting from Yiti, Oman

Romanian prosecutors send Andrew Tate to trial for human trafficking  —  Romanian prosecutors sent divisive internet personality Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan and two other suspects to trial on Tuesday on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.

Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years  —  Lawrence Hecker confessed to superiors he had molested multiple teenagers but he was never prosecuted, secret documents show  —  The last four Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans went to shocking lengths …

Three in 10 still say Biden won because of voter fraud: survey  —  Nearly three in 10 Americans in a new survey report believing President Biden only won the White House due to voter fraud, indicating that the concerns persist as the 2024 race revs up.  —  A Monmouth University poll found 30 percent …

Authors and Students Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans  —  The authors of a picture book about a penguin family with two fathers sued the state and a school district that removed the book from libraries.  —  A group of students and the authors of a children's book about a penguin family …

To Sanitize the Master's Corpus: On the Heidegger Hoax  —  THE PHILOSOPHER Martin Heidegger's influence has been enormous.  Richard Rorty once justifiably claimed that it would be impossible to write the intellectual history of the 20th century without acknowledging Heidegger's titanic impact.

Scoop: Doug Ducey targets free enterprise voters  —  Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is launching a national grassroots effort to find, register and educate voters who are willing to fight for free enterprise, Axios has learned. … - Ducey wants to build a 50-state organization that focuses …

Gannett CEO: Here's why we are suing Google for deceptive business practices  —  Google is a serial violator of U.S. antitrust and consumer-protection laws.  —  Mike ReedGannett CEO and chairman  —  This morning, Gannett, the largest news publisher in the United States including USA TODAY …

It's Not the Law's Fault that Trump Broke It  —  Misleading attacks on the Espionage Act fail to exonerate the former president.  —  What, if anything, is wrong with the Espionage Act of 1917?  The question is pertinent right now because a certain former president of the United States is facing 31 counts of violating the law.

Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, But Allows Hitler's Mein Kampf  —  Incarcerated people are baffled by the state's book screening process.  —  The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons …

US murder rate declines dramatically in 2023 — but you probably haven't heard about it  —  In 2020, along with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic spike in murders in the United States.  This increase in lethal violence, understandably, was covered extensively in national and local media outlets.

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak  —  Identification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory  —  A prominent scientist who worked on coronavirus projects funded …

RFK Jr.: A Threat Assessment  —  This isn't a primary campaign.  It's a Fifth Column.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. It's Not a Primary Campaign  —  There are two fundamental truths about the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. primary campaign.  —  (1) RFK Jr.'s polling is real.

U.S. is rejecting asylum seekers at much higher rates under new Biden policy  —  A new Biden administration policy has dramatically lowered the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, according to numbers revealed in court documents obtained by The Times.