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A New York State Supreme Court judge holds former President Donald Trump in civil contempt today. The ruling comes after Trump failed to comply with a subpoena issued in December by the New York attorney general’s office. As CBS News reports: “Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously, I hereby hold you in civil contempt and fine you $10,000 a day,” said New York Supreme Court judge Arthur Engoron. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1518632366549475328 James’ office asked for the contempt finding after Trump failed to meet a court-ordered March 31 deadline to turn over subpoenaed material, claiming he had none of…

Former U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has died. Hatch, 88, served in the Senate from 1977 until 2019. He passed away in Salt Lake City. In a press release, The Heritage Foundation did not list a cause of death. As CNN reports: “A man of wisdom, kindness, character, and compassion, Orrin G. Hatch was everything a United States Senator should be,” said A. Scott Anderson, chairman of the Hatch Foundation. “He exemplified a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of comity and compromise, and he embodied those principles better than anyone. In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped…

UPDATE: Police have reportedly found the deceased suspect in what NBC News described as a “sniper-style attack” in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Officers found his body in a nearby apartment building late Friday. The chief of the Metropolitan Police Department wouldn’t identify the suspect but said they are no longer looking for Raymond Spencer. Sources close to the department say investigators believe Spencer acted alone. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A mass shooting occurred in Washington, D.C. earlier today. A gunman injured three adults and one child in the capital’s Van Ness neighborhood. Local authorities quickly placed a nearby school under lockdown as…

An undercover investigation by Accuracy in Media revealed five school administrators in Iowa admitted to ignoring the state’s CRT ban. To skirt the law and undermine the will of the Iowa Legislature, school officials have relabeled critical race theory lessons. And their admissions were all caught on camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MnaZz97eU The Daily Caller’s Chrissy Clark further reports: Anthony Ferguson, the executive director for equity, inclusion and diversity at West Des Moines Community Schools told Accuracy in Media that administrators work around the state’s critical race theory ban by relabeling “critical race theory.”“I think we can do a lot of this work without the…

A New York appellate court has delivered a stinging blow to Democrats, ruling their congressional map violated the state’s ban on partisan gerrymandering. By a 3-2 margin, the majority wrote that they were “satisfied that petitioners established beyond a reasonable doubt that the Legislature acted with partisan intent.” The previous map had eight Republican-leaning congressional districts. The latest version was rammed through by Democrats in the state legislature “without any Republican input” or “a single Republican vote” and had only four GOP-leaning seats. https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/1517518645135646723 Lawmakers in Albany have little more than one week to submit a new map. But Democrats…

The Florida Legislature has passed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed congressional map. Florida Republicans adopted DeSantis’ map after the governor vetoed two plans approved by the state legislature. Between Florida gaining one seat in the U.S. House following congressional apportionment and the aggressive redrawing of district boundaries, the GOP finds itself about to pick up as many as four congressional seats. CNN further reports: The House voted 68-38 to send the map to DeSantis’ desk. DeSantis, whose office submitted the map and defended its merits in testimony this week, is expected to sign it. The Senate passed the map on Wednesday,…

CNN’s subscription streaming service has remained on life support since its debut one month ago. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery finally pulled the plug. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1517169719115141123 With only 150,000 subscribers and poor ratings, almost everyone outside CNN headquarters considered CNN+ a failure. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery ended all external marketing for CNN+ and fired CNN’s chief financial officer. The network had hoped to make CNN+ profitable in four years with the help of a $1 billion investment. As The New York Times reports: The service is set to cease operations on April 30. Andrew Morse, CNN’s chief digital officer and a…

Newsmax host Eric Bolling delivered an impassioned monologue hoping to convince Tucker Carlson to change course. For the second time in recent weeks, Bolling pleaded with Carlson for, in his view, giving fodder to Russian propagandists during the war in Ukraine. Bolling made an emotional case to fellow conservatives, saying they can be concerned about domestic issues and recognize the Russian government is waging a war of tyranny and oppression against its Ukrainian neighbors. While saying that he’s anti-war, Bolling stressed that the documented atrocities in Ukraine deserve unequivocal condemnation — and that Carlson hasn’t done enough. “Blatant and horrifying…

A Florida judge has struck down the ongoing federal mask mandate for public transportation, including air travel. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled Monday in Tampa that officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded their statutory authority, improperly failed to justify their decision and “did not follow proper rulemaking.” https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1516110325216546817 The Detriot News reports: The CDC recently extended the mask mandate, which was set to expire on April 18, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant of the coronavirus that is now responsible for the vast majority of cases…

A group of exasperated business owners and residents are suing the City of Philadelphia for reinstating its indoor mask mandate. The petitioners filed their lawsuit in the state’s Republican-leaning Commonwealth Court. They’re hopeful about the prospects of overturning the citywide mandate that began today. Fox Business reports: Philadelphia this week became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after reporting a sharp increase in coronavirus infections, with the city’s top health official saying she wanted to forestall a potential new wave driven by an omicron subvariant.Attorney Thomas W. King III, who was among those involved in last…