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“Donald Trump is the master of the politics of personal destruction,” said Taylor during an MSNBC appearance Sunday morning, paraphrasing previous remarks to which he credited President Joe Biden’s eldest son, Hunter Biden. Taylor, who served as chief of staff to the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristjen Nielsen until 2019, was targeted by Trump and his supporters after publicly denouncing Biden’s predecessor. More than one year after his departure from the Department of Homeland Security, Taylor revealed himself to be the “anonymous” insider behind an expository Times opinion piece, and subsequent book, censuring Trump and his administration....

“The evangelicals called, some of the greatest pastors, ministers, preachers,” Trump said. “They just called today, five of the most respected people, and they said things that were incredible.” “They said, there’s never been anything like this in the church that they can [remember]. Some of them had been doing it for 30, 40 years. They said we have never seen enthusiasm like we see for this president and for this presidency, all of us, like we have right now....

The renowned lawyer said the president and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, could face up to five years in prison for a “whole series of activities that could qualify as tax fraud, not tax avoidance.” Trump and his legal team have strenuously denied claims made in an investigation by the New York Times that the president paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years and just $750 in federal income taxes in the two most recent years of the newspaper’s probe—2016 and 2017....

Unnamed sources familiar with the conversations Trump has been having with advisers told The New York Times Trump is more interested in who the moderator of the debate would be than he is of who he may be facing, although advisers were not prepared to discuss the debate question until next year. Trump’s history with debates has been checkered, at best. In July, Trump tweeted that he came out the victor in his 2016 debates against Hillary Clinton....

During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Hageman opposed her party naming Trump as its presidential nominee. She said he would repel voters and saddle Republicans with “somebody who is racist and xenophobic,” The New York Times reported. When asked about her past views and current praise of Trump, Hageman told the publication, “I heard and believed the lies the Democrats and Liz Cheney’s friends in the media were telling at the time, but that is ancient history as I quickly realized that their allegations against President Trump were untrue....

On Tuesday, Representative Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, told reporters that the panel has decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) but that committee members have not narrowed who will be on the list and for what offenses. Until this week, the decision over criminal referrals remained up in the air as committee members split on whether such a move should be made against Trump....

“Republicans are getting absolutely creamed with the phony redistricting going on all over the country,” Trump said in a statement released Saturday. “We were expecting to do well in New York and now, we’ll lose 4 seats and the Old Broken-Down Crow, Mitch McConnell, sits back and does nothing to help the Party,” Trump added. He continued: “The only thing the Democrats are good at is cheating on elections, and the proof is out for everybody to see but hold on you haven’t seen anything yet!...

Barbados Pride have won two of their last five matches by big margins and will look to set up a winning streak in the tournament. T&T Red Force, on the other hand, have won four of their last five games this season. Barbados Pride will give it their all to win the match, but T&T Red Force are a relatively better team and are expected to win this nail-biting encounter....

The chorus in this drama of the chattering classes is Madame Wyatt, Gillian’s mother, who is wise and French and well-preserved by face creams and the decision to take herself out of the romantic fray. “I do not want love or sex anymore,” she tells us. “I prefer a well-cut suit and a sole off the bone.” Love and sex fare badly in Barnes’s book, as do most of the characters, shown in the harsh light of first-person monologues....

So when Frank Lampard announced his decision to retire from football at 38 years of age, it was clear that with every passing compliment, positive appraisal and endearing comparison that filtered through, he was rightfully claiming his final status as a genuine legend of the game. His was a career mainly littered with tremendous highs, a glittering reminder that whatever is said about English players’ ability to sparkle on the international front, they can still produce club football magicians, who are all too capable of reaching the peaks of both domestic and European football, with the spells they cast on the field of play....

The event takes place in GNP Seguros Arena in Acapulco, Mexico. It will be available on FITE.tv and through FITE+. It coincides with the WBC’s 60th Annual Convention. “I am very happy to start this new project in collaboration with No Puedes Jugar Boxeo, where we will be searching for new Mexican boxing stars throughout the country,” Reynoso, trainer of Canelo Alvarez stated. “And what better to kick off this partnership than at the closing of the 60th Annual Convention of the World Boxing Council in Acapulco and in the iconic Mundo Imperial Hotel....

Thompson, 30, posted a statement on his Twitter account confirming that paternity test results confirmed that he had concieved a son with a woman named Maralee Nichols. The NBA star had previously had a paternity lawsuit filed against him by Nichols this past June. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” Thompson said in the statement. “Now that paternity has been established I look forward to amicably raising our son....

Tupac Amaru Shakur knew so much trouble in this world, it was easy to forget that he was only 25 years old. He’d soaked his art and his life in a mystique of violence, selling 6 million albums in the process. Now the two had crashed fatally together. Critics of gangsta rap’s increasingly violent imagery, from William Bennett to Jesse Jackson, have long contended that the brutality of the lyrics spilled over into the real world....

When the Buckeyes take to “The Horseshoe” on Saturday for their spring game, two of Ohio State’s three quarterbacks will compete in a skills competition along with the former Heisman winner. MORE: Urban’s big extension | Spring game schedules

Michelle Pillar from Victoria state in southeastern Australia was driving a truck with a livestock trailer in January when it rolled over and got trapped between a tree and a bridge. She was trapped in the truck cabin for 11 hours before emergency services finally managed to free her, but only after paramedics were forced to amputate Pillar’s right leg below the knee to save her. After being rushed to the hospital, surgeons had to amputate her other leg because of complications arising from an infection....

Eight prominent figures from within Trump’s personal circle were called to give testimony Tuesday by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, including the likes of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. The office is investigating whether or not the former president violated state laws against soliciting election fraud in 2020 when he asked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia....

In the first primetime televised hearing of the committee’s findings on Thursday, vice chair Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said that Trump did not call for the Pentagon or the Justice Department to intervene to protect the federal legislative branch of government last year. “Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended,” she said during the hearing....

Kilmeade’s comments came during Fox News’ Media Buzz, when host Howard Kurtz played testimony that former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue gave during a January 6 committee hearing on Thursday. The hearing focused on Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure officials at the Department of Justice to help change the results of the 2020 presidential election. Donoghue testified that Trump asked him what he would do if he replaced former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeff Clark, who pushed Trump’s claims about the 2020 election....

Family dynamics are shifting in America, but Americans across the political spectrum are not nearly as divided as politicians and the media report. In fact, the lives and routines of Democratic and Republican families are nearly identical. Yet politicians and political campaigns speak to each as if they lived in alternate universes. For the past six years, Deseret News and Brigham Young University have conducted an annual American Family Survey to explore family life in unique and powerful ways....

The photo, which was shared by White House Social Media Director and assistant to the president Dan Scavino, shows Bloomberg standing in front of stacks of documents, as Trump cuts red tape. The photo is seemingly a screenshot from a video created by SOMETHiNG WiCKËD, a self-identified “cultural memesmith” and “digital graffiti” artist, according to his YouTube channel and Twitter bio. Scavino shared the photo while quote tweeting a CNBC story about the Bloomberg campaign paying influencers to post memes for the former mayor’s presidential run....