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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Senate OKs bill to repeal 1864 near-total abortion ban with Gov. Hobbs expected to sign.

A former Secret Service agent has sued the New York Post and the Daily Mail for defamation — accusing them of publishing stories based on fabricated text messages that he says falsely linked him to Hunter Biden.

Robert Savage alleges that the reporters and publications…

The Biden admin is canceling $6.1 billion in student debt for 317,000 people who attended The Art Institutes, a for-profit chain that shut down last year amid fraud allegations.

A Republican-backed ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect in Florida today — just after midnight.

Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy just won a special election for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins — further narrowing Republicans' slim majority in the House.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force a vote to oust Speaker Johnson next week.

Breaking: A federal court has blocked Louisiana from using the state's new congressional map for this year's elections — ruling in favor of a group of voters who argued the state engaged in racial gerrymandering.

“It’s one thing to come out, and it’s another thing to be comfortable with yourself as an out queer person. It’s another thing to embrace that in your professional life. I've been fortunate that MSNBC has always embraced my queerness.” --Kyle Griffin
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“[LGBTQ] people who are often marginalized, are often maligned, don't necessarily always get the space and time to share their experiences, to tell their stories. It is deeply important to me to get it right, to not shortchange them.” --Kyle Griffin
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Breaking: An appeal's court has denied Trump's request to delay the hush money trial.

Trump sought a delay because Merchan refused to recuse, because he couldn't invoke an immunity defense and because the judge made his team file motions with a delay to allow for redactions.

Keith Davidson says the Access Hollywood tape had 'tremendous influence' on Stormy Daniels' story.

'I think before, before Access Hollywood tape, there was very little interest, from what I understand.

After the tape was released, Davidson texted Dylan Howard: 'Trump is…

Keith Davidson, asked why he thought AMI purchased Karen McDougal's story if it didn't intend to print it, says there were two goals: To help build McDougal up as a brand and to help Trump by not exposing the affair.

Davidson: 'There was an unspoken understanding' that there was…

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asks Keith Davidson about the final deal signed by AMI and Karen McDougal in 2016.

Davidson said one of the paragraphs said that it grants her life rights to the subject manager regarding an affair she had with a married man.

Steinglass: 'Was there…

Breaking on MSNBC: All the Truth Social and campaign website posts that Judge Merchan ruled violated his gag order have now been deleted.

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) — US drug control agency is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift, AP sources say.

Keith Davidson describes a June 2016 meeting in which Karen McDougal alleged she had had a romantic and sexual affair with Donald Trump for 'several weeks to months' some years prior.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass introduces texts as evidence between Keith Davidson and Dylan Howard the morning after Davidson told him that he had a 'blockbuster Trump story.'

Howard: 'Did he cheat on Melania? Do you know if the affair was during his marriage to Melania.'…

Prosecutors have just called Keith Davidson to the stand. He's the former attorney for both Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.