Special counsel reveals plans to use Trump's phone data at trial  —  Jack Smith indicated that he plans to call an expert witness who extracted and reviewed data copied from Trump's phone.  —  Special counsel Jack Smith has extracted data from the cell phone Donald Trump used while in the White House …

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say  —  A pregnant Texas woman who sought court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. has left the state to obtain the procedure, her attorneys said Monday.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's latest move on abortion highlights Democrats' 2024 push  —  In an interview with NBC News before repealing a remaining state restriction on abortion, Whitmer said, “When you stay in the fight, you can win.”  —  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday repealed …

House to Vote on Impeachment Probe Wednesday  —  Republicans argue it is an essential step in getting past what they call the Biden administration's ‘stonewalling’ of their impeachment probe  —  House Republicans are expected to schedule a floor vote on Wednesday to formally authorize …

Iowa Poll: Donald Trump holds overwhelming lead; Ron DeSantis edges ahead of Nikki Haley  —  A new nationally renowned Iowa Poll shows that a shrinking field has only made Donald Trump's lead grow as Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis fail to capitalize on powerful endorsements

Project Veritas CEO Jumps Ship After Finding ‘Evidence of Past Illegality’  —  ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST  —  Hannah Giles, the CEO of conservative nonprofit Project Veritas, announced her resignation “effective immediately” on Monday, saying she'd unwittingly “stepped into an unsalvageable mess” upon taking the job earlier this year.

“Bombshell”: Does Harvard's President Also Have a Plagiarism Scandal?  Update: Billionaire donor demands Gay's firing  —  Isn't the anti-Semitism and hypocrisy scandal enough for Claudine Gay?  Harvard's board has gotten very quiet over the past week after its president's congressional testimony outraged practically everyone.

A deadly delivery highlights ‘falsified’ heat records at USPS  —  The Postal Service allegedly doctored heat training records of thousands of mail carriers.  One of them died on a blistering day in June.  —  Eugene Gates, a Dallas letter carrier for the Postal Service, died of heat exposure in June.

Rudy Giuliani defamation damages trial set to begin in DC  —  Rudy Giuliani's defamation damages trial is set to begin Monday as the court considers the monetary damages the former Donald Trump attorney must pay two election workers.  —  The trial, which is expected to last four days …

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack  —  DHEIRA, Lebanon — Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime …

Dover Man Arrested and Charged with Threatening to Kill a Presidential Candidate  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire  —  CONCORD - A Dover man has been arrested and charged in connection with sending text messages that threatened a presidential candidate …

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill leaving X after Alex Jones account reinstated  —  Prominent civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill announced she is leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, due to the Elon Musk-owned platform reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's account.

Trump as Dictator Is a Classic Case of Projection  —  Biden and his supporters try to excuse and deflect attention from their own authoritarian actions.  —  If you haven't heard, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are planning a coup.  “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable …

House Takes Up Long-Building Debate Over Rival Surveillance Bills  —  The fight over privacy and national security, which has scrambled partisan lines, will come to a head with an unusual double vote on the floor.  —  A long-simmering debate over a powerful surveillance tool is coming to a head in Congress …

As advertisers flee Musk's X, Democrats splurge on political ads  —  Democratic candidates, including Musk's most vocal critics, have spent over a million dollars to run thousands of political ads on X  —  Advertisers are fleeing Elon Musk's X amid rising concerns that the social media site …

Right Deed, Wrong Reason  —  The firing of Penn president Liz Magill, along with the embattled status of her peers at MIT and Harvard, owes to an irony: they are being condemned not for their many abuses of free speech but for their one correct articulation of it.  —  / Eye on the News / The Social Order, Education