Gag Order Against Trump Is Expanded to Bar Attacks on Judge's Family  —  Donald Trump had in recent days targeted the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan, in blistering social media posts.  —  The New York judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's upcoming …

Trump Media auditor warns that losses ‘raise substantial doubt’ about company's ability to continue  —  The Truth Social parent, which trades under the stock ticker DJT, said it lost more than $58 million last year.  —  An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of Donald Trump's publicly traded company …

Florida Supreme Court upholds state's 15-week abortion ban, but voters will soon have a say  —  The Florida Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the state to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant, while also giving voters a chance to remove restrictions in November.

RFK Jr. rebuked for calling Biden bigger threat to democracy than Trump  —  Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly advanced an argument Monday that President Biden poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump, a comment that drew swift rebukes from several historians and experts.

Iran vows response after strike it blames on Israel demolishes consulate in Syria  —  Iran and one of its key proxies vowed Tuesday to respond to a strike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran's consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus and killed eight people, including two Iranian generals.

World Central Kitchen Says U.S. Citizen Among 7 Staff Killed in ‘Targeted’ Triple Israeli Attack  —  ‘UNFORGIVABLE’  —  José Andrés' international aid organization said it would pause its work in Gaza in the wake of the killings.  —  A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen …

The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement  —  The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means  —  The US supreme court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas cited the Comstock Act, named after the 19th-century …

House Republicans push to rename DC international airport after Trump  —  ‘In my lifetime, our nation has never been greater than under the leadership of President Donald J Trump’: Reschenthaler  —  FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is pushing to rename Washington, D.C.'s …

Manufacturing discontent  —  How Dems can fight back against Republican resentment politics. … It's become something of a cottage industry to explore how white rural animus gives much-needed support to Republican candidates in local, state, and national elections.

Corporate profit bonanza  —  In the last three months of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion.  This is part of a long-term growth in corporate profits that began in the 1980s, picked up steam at the turn of the millennium, and exploded since 2020.

Fake right-wing panic about “trans” Easter is part of Trump's push for Christian nationalism  —  Phony claims that Democrats “mock your faith” are a cynical excuse to strip Americans of religious freedom  —  Most Americans spent Easter weekend with traditional activities like church or egg hunts …

Biden's Justice Department looks for scapegoats in overdose deaths  —  Americans concerned about the politicization of our legal system won't be comforted by the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Walmart's alleged role in the opioid crisis, which looked political from the jump.

The Russian Army Just Launched The Biggest Tank Assault Of The War  —  Forty-eight tanks and fighting vehicles attacked along a single road west of Avdiivka—and got massacred  —  On Saturday, the Russian army launched what may have been one of the largest-scale tank assaults of Russia's 25-month wider war on Ukraine.

Trump Allies Plan Anti-Racism Overhaul to Protect White People: Report  —  NEW PRIORITY  —  Donald Trump's close allies want to overhaul anti-racism protections to focus on protecting white people rather than people of color if he wins another term in November, according to a report.