Judge Kicks Reporters Out of Courtroom to Talk to Trump and AG  —  Justice Arthur F. Engoron also issued a gag order against Trump earlier in the day after the former president attacked one of his law clerks on social media.  —  A turbulent second day at Donald Trump's bank fraud trial …

Republicans must expel Matt Gaetz  —  Newt Gingrich, a Republican from Georgia, was speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is an anti-Republican who has become actively destructive to the conservative movement.  —  Drama has filled the halls of Congress for 234 years.

Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants  —  First guilty plea in RICO case came Friday  —  Fulton County prosecutors are floating plea deals to a number of defendants in the election interference case involving former President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the proposals.

Payday Lenders Get Their Asses Handed To Them During Anti-CFPB Supreme Court Arguments  —  The case to dismantle the CFPB ran into a hammer from the three liberal justices and marked skepticism from at least two of the conservatives.  —  LOADING  —  The case seeking to eviscerate …

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Kari Lake Files to Run for Kyrsten Sinema's Senate Seat in Arizona  —  Ms. Sinema left the Democratic Party last year to become an independent, but has not confirmed whether she will run for re-election.  —  Kari Lake, the Republican former news anchor who refused to acknowledge her loss …

How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives  —  ASHTABULA, Ohio — Mike Czup unspooled the hose to wash his hearse.  It was time to pick up the body of yet another neighbor who had died in the prime of life.  —  Since he started working at 15 in the funeral business, Czup has seen plenty of tragedies.

Drug Makers Agree to Negotiate With Medicare on Prices of 10 Medications  —  The pharmaceutical companies said they would begin talks even as several of them were suing the Biden administration over a new law authorizing the negotiations.  —  The manufacturers of 10 expensive medications …

The DNC may have a diversity problem  —  With help from Ella Creamer, Rishika Dugyala, Jesse Naranjo and Teresa Wiltz  —  What up, Recast family!  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) triggers an effort to boot House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) …

Florida Executes Man Sentenced To Death By Split Jury  —  Michael Zack's lawyers say he had an intellectual disability.  He was killed amid Gov. Ron DeSantis' push to make it easier to execute people.  —  Florida on Tuesday executed 54-year-old Michael Zack, who was sentenced to death decades ago …