Politics

Former Michigan House speaker Lee Chatfield (R) and his wife “pleaded not guilty Thursday to financial charges arising from an investigation of how they spent money from unregulated political funds,” the AP reports. They are accused of using money for personal travel, housing and other benefits

Tom Nichols: “One problem has been around as long as the republic: Americans don’t pay attention to politics, and when they do, they frequently blame the current president for whatever is going wrong in their lives. For most people, economic cause and effect is mostly notional; if gas prices are

New York Times: “To recap, the jury just heard a very important recording, made by Michael Cohen during the 2016 campaign and extracted from his phone. On the recording, Trump discussed a hush-money payment with Cohen, asking him specifically about the financing of the deal. The payment in question

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lab-grown meat, while noting: “Global elites want to control our behavior and push a diet of petri dish meat and bugs on Americans. Florida is saying no.”

Kelly Daughtry (R) suspended her congressional campaign in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district after Donald Trump endorsed her opponent, Brad Knott (R), in the Republican primary, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. The ballots had already been printed and voting had already started