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Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show, Dahlia Lithwick says “The tide is turning.”  She will analyze three key court cases where Trump suffered major defeats, defeats which are likely to have an “exponential effect”on other judges.  But first: Sherrod Brown talks about winning back the working class – That’s coming up, in a minute.[BREAK]It’s time to talk politics with Sherrod Brown. Of course, he was the senior senator from Ohio, served 18 years, first elected in 2006, re-elected twice. For years, he was the only Democrat to win…

A lawyer for Smokey Robinson said late Wednesday that the sexual assault allegations against the Motown singer were “vile” and “false” and that a lawsuit filed by the four women making the accusations was an attempt to extract millions of dollars from him.The women worked as Mr. Robinson’s housekeepers, and their lawsuit accuses him of abusing them dozens of times. The suit, which identifies the women only as Jane Does 1 through 4, says Mr. Robinson raped them repeatedly while his wife, Frances, who is a co-defendant, turned a blind eye.In a statement provided to The New York Times, Mr.…

Reporter’s Notebook: Who pays for tariffs? – CBS News Watch CBS News As officials debate who pays for tariffs, small business owners say the answer is on their import bill. “CBS Evening News” co-anchor John Dickerson explains. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

The National Archives released on Wednesday a second tranche of documents related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, though the documents are unlikely to change scholars’ views of his murder.The release of 60,000 additional documents was announced by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.“After the initial release of 10,000 documents three weeks ago, we searched F.B.I. and C.I.A. warehouses for any records not previously turned over to The National Archives,” Ms. Gabbard wrote on social media. “More than 60,000 documents were discovered, declassified, and digitized for public viewing. Today’s release is an important step…

Voice of America, a U.S.-funded international news broadcaster that was muted by the Trump administration in March, may sound quite different when it returns to the air.Kari Lake, the former news anchor whom President Trump put in charge of overhauling Voice of America, said Tuesday that it would be fed with content from One America News Network, or OAN, a reliably pro-Trump television channel that has propagated falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election.Ms. Lake, who in recent years mounted unsuccessful campaigns for governor and senator in Arizona, said OAN had offered to provide free news reports to Voice of America…

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President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on May 7, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP President Trump on Thursday is set to announce his first trade agreement since his steep tariffs last month roiled stock markets, teasing the announcement in a social media post late Wednesday night. Trump did not reveal the name of the country, nor the terms, saying only that it was “A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY” and that representatives would join him for the announcement at 10 a.m. ET in the Oval Office. The White House declined comment. It normally…

The lights never seem to be on and the shutters stay shut.As the weeks pass by at the White House, the corner of the residence long used by first ladies remains dark, because this first lady does not really live in Washington. Melania Trump vanishes from view for weeks at a time, holing up in Trump Tower in Manhattan or in Florida, where she can lie low at Mar-a-Lago. Administration officials say she is at the White House more often than the public knows, but when exactly, and for how long, these officials will not (or perhaps cannot) say for…

The federal government published more than 60,000 pages of records on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination late Wednesday — the second tranche of documents to be released on the 1968 slaying.The releases were ordered by President Trump in January, with backing from the senator’s son, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has claimed for years that his father’s convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan might be innocent.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the documents “have been sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to…

The promoters of scam currency spent more money than any other group in 2024. They’re now realizing a massive return on investment in Donald Trump’s White House. King of the shill: A mural of President Donald Trump outside a cryptocurrency office in Hong Kong.(Mladen Antonov / AFP via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Coin Operated” On February 11, 2025, Representative Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, questioned crypto industry executives at a public hearing about the dangers of the president of the United States launching…