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  • Recovery a faraway thought for East Texas flood evacuees as more rain is expected

    Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. COLDSPRING – Willie Rawls woke up to water at the steps of his home Thursday in the river bottoms of Coldspring – one of the first towns hit by the several hundred thousand gallons of water released from the Lake Livingston Dam.The dam was releasing water in an effort to maintain its levels as merciless rain storms drenched...

  • Fifth 'God's Misfit' accused of murdering KS women declared extremist beliefs last year

    On the afternoon of July 6 last year, Paul Grice went to the county clerk’s office at the Cimarron County Courthouse at Boise City, Oklahoma, and paid $104 to file a peculiar document in an attempt, among other things, to renounce his U.S. citizenship. You may have heard of Grice, a member of an anti-government group in the Oklahoma panhandle called “God’s Misfits,” because he was recently the fifth member of the group to be charged with the murder of a pair of Kansas women in connection...

  • CNN's Tapper schools Trump VP hopeful for calling hush money payment a 'filing error'

    North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) ran into a buzzsaw Sunday morning when CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper lectured him for trying to dismiss Donald Trump's hush money payment to an adult film star before the 2016 election as an accounting error.The billionaire Burgum, who is reportedly high on the former president's running mate list due to his wealth and low-key demeanor, complained the 34-felony count indictment should never have been brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg...

  • 'It's terrifying': Race against time to rescue Brazil's flood victims after dozens killed

    Porto Alegre (Brazil) (AFP) – Authorities were racing against time on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed more than 50 and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes in southern Brazil.Viewed from the air, Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state, is completely flooded, with streets waterlogged and the roofs of some houses barely visible.The Guaiba River, which flows through the city of 1.4 million people, reached a record high level of 5.09...

  • ADL warns of global surge in anti-Semitism

    New York (AFP) – The Anti-Defamation League on Sunday warned that "the future of Jewish life in the West" was under threat, detailing a sharp rise in anti-Semitism since the start of the war between Hamas militants and Israel. The annual report from the ADL, the leading Jewish advocacy group, said anti-Semitic incidents had been increasing before the war erupted in October, but that the conflict had fueled "a fire that was already out of control."Jointly written with Tel Aviv University, the...

  • Progressives decry repression of student protests on Kent State massacre anniversary

    As U.S. Republicans push for the deployment of National Guard troops to quell nationwide student demonstrations against the Gaza genocide, progressive lawmakers marked the anniversary of the 1970 Kent State Massacre by condemning police repression of peaceful protesters and reaffirming the power of dissent. "On the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, students across our country are being brutalized for standing up to endless war," Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said on social media....

  • Ex-prosecutor highlights 'breathtaking' trial testimony that 'undercuts' Trump's defense

    Two weeks of trial have commenced in Donald Trump's criminal case over an alleged hush money cover-up scheme aimed at fixing an election, yet one piece of evidence that has been presented stands out as "breathtaking," according to a former prosecutor Saturday. Ex-federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner went on The Legal Breakdown, where he talked about Trump's trial and a secret recording played in court. The recording, made undercover by Trump's former attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen, had...

  • Karen McDougal throws 'brutal shade' with rare Trump reference as trial heats up

    Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal on Saturday issued an eyebrow-raising reference to Donald Trump, with whom she has claimed to have had an affair, as the former president's criminal hush money cover-up case heats up. McDougal, who has had her story discussed at length in Trump's criminal trial to give prosecutors context for charging document fraud in connection with a similar scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels, is not directly related to the charges. Yet she referenced...

  • Trump is blaming Jack Smith for 'evidence tampering' the ex-president caused: NYT reporter

    Donald Trump recently accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of "evidence tampering" in connection with the criminal documents case in Florida, but the alleged issue stems from something the former president did, a New York Times reporter said Saturday.Trump Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in the sunshine state, accusing Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped."It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an...

  • Newly revealed detail makes Trump aide's testimony 'even more incriminating' than reported

    There is a key detail in the official transcript of the testimony of Donald Trump's longtime aide, Hope Hicks, that is even "more incriminating" to the former president's criminal case than has previously been reported, a law professor said on Saturday. Hicks testified in the New York criminal case, where her former boss stands accused of committing felonies in connection with covering up hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in order to impact the election in 2016....

  • 'Damaging for Trump': What Hope Hicks didn't testify about tells us more than what she did

    Former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks spoke under oath at length about how the former president sought to silence women who claimed to have had affairs with him in order to affect the 2016 election, but it's what she didn't say that stood out to one legal expert. MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, who has previously provided analysis of Trump's various criminal cases, appeared on the network on Saturday to discuss Trump's case in which he is charged with felonies for allegedly disguising hush...

  • Bodies found in Mexico likely those of missing surfers: authorities

    TIJUANA, Mexico — The physical characteristics of three bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state resemble those of two Australian brothers and their American friend who went missing while on a surfing trip, local authorities said Saturday. State prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade said that the bodies, found Friday dumped in a shaft atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, were in an "advanced state of decomposition," complicating identification.