Congress has already disqualified Trump from the ballot  —  Editor's Note: Tristan Snell is author of the new book “Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did it Successfully.”  He is a lawyer and legal commentator who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN …

Senate advances Ukraine funding without border security reforms  —  The Senate voted Thursday to advance a $95 billion emergency security spending bill with $60 billion to support the war in Ukraine — but without a bipartisan border security bill that ran into stiff opposition from Republicans.

Authorities investigating online threats made to potential witness related to Trump classified docs case  —  The threats are cited in a court filing from the special prosecutor.  —  Former President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, on Oct. 2, 2023.

FCC outlaws AI voices in robocall fraud  —  The Federal Communications Commission has declared the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls illegal, with immediate effect. … - While using AI to perpetrate a scam or fraud was already illegal, now using AI to generate voices in such calls is itself illegal.

Fox News praises vigilante group for a takedown of migrant “shoplifter.”  Law enforcement say the man was neither a shoplifter nor a recent migrant.  —  Update: Fox guest Curtis Sliwa told the AP that he had believed the man was a migrant because he was “speaking Spanish”

Shocker: Republicans Admit in Private That They Killed a Good Deal … In an extraordinary spectacle, virtually all Senate Republicans joined together Wednesday to block a bipartisan bill that would have given Republicans much of what they wanted on border security.  Why?  Because Donald Trump told them to.

Joe Biden is currently losing the election  —  I try not to spend my days being a doomer or a catastrophist, but in both casual and formal conversations I've come to think that there is one very basic point about politics in 2024 that is being broadly underrated — Joe Biden is currently …

Loyalty is a one-way street in Donald Trump's GOP.  Just ask Ronna McDaniel  —  The Republican National Committee chair is expected to step down this spring.  —  For seven tumultuous years, Ronna McDaniel accomplished a feat that eluded almost everyone else in Donald Trump's orbit: She held on.

Bounced cheques and Trump's ‘unpaid fees’: Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing  —  Over three hours in the fifth-floor room of a court building, Donald Trump's one-time attorney reeled off a list of assets that revealed the strained state of his finances, from a Bronx storage unit to a $1m tax bill.

In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders  —  He referred to François Mitterrand, who died in 1996, instead of French President Emmanuel Macron and the late Helmut Kohl instead of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Utah teen athlete faces threats after state official posted photos questioning her gender  —  Utah state school board member Natalie Cline is under fire after posting photos of a high school basketball player, questioning her gender and prompting threats against the girl.

Tucker Carlson's Fatal Attraction  —  The right-wing conspiracy monger shares Putin's worldview.  —  THE TITLE OF MY 2003 BOOK, Useful Idiots, was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union.

Trump's ‘Knock on the Door’  —  Confrontations over immigration and border security are moving to the center of the struggle between the two parties, both in Washington, D.C., and beyond.  And yet the most explosive immigration clash of all may still lie ahead.

Powerful committee chair joins growing list of House GOP retirements  —  Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Thursday she won't seek reelection in November. … - “I will not be running for re-election to the People's House.”

Republicans tell Biden not to take control of Texas National Guard amid standoff over border  —  A group of 24 House Republicans urged President Biden not to federalize the Texas National Guard in the midst of Texas wanting to crack down on the spike of illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border in a letter Thursday.

Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record in a step toward unleashing the limitless, clean energy source  —  Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.