Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted  —  Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction  —  The fight for democracy is supported by  —  A Texas appeals court has thrown …

Anti-Israel protesters disrupt Biden's lavish NYC fundraiser with Obama, Clinton, where tickets went for up to $500K: ‘War pig’  —  Several waves of protesters disrupted President Biden's grandiose fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday, where he kicked it with former Presidents Barack Obama …

Trump's actual record comes back to haunt him  —  This isn't 2016 anymore. … Donald Trump continued his Nazi-style rhetoric at his most recent campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, warning that if he didn't win the presidential election, “it's going to be a bloodbath for the country.”

Trump Has a Big Problem With GOP Voters  —  NOT DONE YET  —  The GOP primary has been effectively over for weeks, but voters are still showing up to cast their ballots for anyone but Donald Trump. … ZOMBIE PRIMARY  —  Donald Trump may believe the 2024 Republican presidential primary is done—but clearly, it's not done with him.

Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87  —  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died.  He was 87.  —  Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told …

Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6.  They're coming back to Trump.  —  Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges

Scotland was ‘hoodwinked’ by Donald Trump, says former aide  —  Donald Trump flanked by his children and pipers on the official opening day of the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire in 2012  —  The man who helped broker the deal for Donald Trump's first Scottish golf resort …

A Judge Finally Found Fraudulent Votes.  They're All From a Republican.  —  A prominent Georgia state Republican, who has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen, was found to have voted illegally nine times.  —  Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of the state Republican Party …

Statement from President Joe Biden on the Wrongful Detention of Evan Gershkovich  —  Today we mark a painful anniversary: one year of American journalist Evan Gershkovich's wrongful detention in Russia.  —  Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter …

U.S. updates how it classifies people by race, ethnicity for first time in decades  —  The changes, announced Thursday by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, aim to better capture an increasingly diverse country and give policymakers a fuller view of Americans

A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration  —  From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working.  The youngest of eight children, Suazo was fleeing numbing poverty …

Suicide Mission  —  What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane  —  A Boeing Dreamlifter sits on the tarmac at their campus in North Charleston, South Carolina, May 30, 2023.  —  John Barnett had one of those bosses who seemed to spend most of his waking hours scheming to inflict humiliation upon him.

March 28, 2024  —  Yesterday the National Economic Council called a meeting of the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, which the Biden-Harris administration launched in 2021, to discuss the impact of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the partial closure of the Port of Baltimore on regional and national supply chains.

Kentucky bill strips governor of power to appoint senator  —  The Kentucky Senate sent a bill to Gov. Andy Beshear (D) Thursday that would strip him of his power to appoint people to the U.S. Senate.  —  The bill seeks to hold special elections for Senate vacancies in Kentucky, according to The Associated Press.

GOP Biden impeachment witness sues Fox News co-host Tarlov  —  Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter Biden, filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against Fox News host Jessica Tarlov over her comments about his legal fees, which she corrected a day later.

Marylanders plot a Hill bridge response  —  With assists from POLITICO's Congress team  —  SPAN AND DELIVER  —  As if lawmakers didn't have enough to address when they return next month from their two-week recess, they're going to have to add a response to the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge to their to-do list.

Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here's how he responded  —  Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism.  —  The latest example came in the aftermath of Tuesday night's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy  —  RICHMOND — No Virginia governor has come into office with a deeper dealmaking background than Glenn Youngkin, who as former co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group made a fortune acquiring and merging companies around the globe.

The real D.C. crime wave  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  —  In a sense, it's a daring crime given that the aircraft and the individual traveling in its executive cabin are among the most heavily secured entities in the world.

Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail  —  President Biden will also be in the state for a fundraiser with Obama, Clinton.  —  Former President Donald Trump arrives for the wake for New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, Long Island, N.Y., March 28, 2024.

Why Hasn't Biden Called Chris Christie?  —  The man who never misses a funeral seems to have lost his personal touch when it comes to Republicans he needs — badly — in the fall.  —  Chris Christie's extended flirtation with No Labels should be a wake-up call — for President Joe Biden.