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.”
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Let Her Speak
Supremely Sus
All Tuckered Out
Until Debt Do Us Part
Why Buzzfeed News Left Us
Full Supreme Court Press
The Defamation Trial That Never Was
Ceiling Our Fate
No Fox Given
It All Went Down in the Discord
Poetic Justins
Ain’t No River Wide Enough
No Mifepristone Unturned
We Didn't Volunteer For This
All I Do Is Winsconsin No Matter What
Florida Man Charged With Fraud
It's Arraigning Men
We Don't Mean To Bragg
Trump Indicted!
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