All 12 jurors have been seated in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in Manhattan. While jury selection continues today for alternates, the judge overseeing the case said opening arguments in the trial could come as soon as Monday. Former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi breaks down the challenges of seating a jury in such a historic, high-profile case.
Google announced late Wednesday that it fired 28 workers who staged sit-in protests at some of the company’s offices this week. The protests were organized by the group No Tech for Apartheid. They were demonstrating against a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud computing services.
And in headlines: Mutliple news outlets reported that Israel launched a strike on Iran, House lawmakers will again take up a bill to potentially ban TIkTok, and sports icons Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird are set to produce a queer soccer romance called “Cleat Cute.”
Show Notes:
Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify
Biden's San Francisco Mission
GOP Goes WWE
Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code
The People's Stop Work Order
Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control
The GOP In The 305
Abortion Rights Wins Elections
Trump Testified And It Was Chaos
In The Blinken of an Eye
The Push For A Pause
Exit to Egypt
The Tragedy of War, Made Worse
Not On My Ballot
The Global Plea For Peace
A Dark Day For Maine
The Real House Speaker of D.C.
Never Have I Emmer
The War Next Door
The Worst People for the Worst Job
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