Plus, the DOJ will reschedule marijuana, and Democrats will help House Speaker Mike Johnson.
High time. The Department of Justice plans to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk, Schedule III drug. Marijuana will go from being on par with heroin and ecstasy to being on par with Tylenol with codeine. CNN's report describes this as the Biden administration acknowledging "the medical benefits of the long-criminalized drug and carries broad implications for cannabis-related research and the industry at large." It can't hurt with those younger voters with whom the president struggles. More. To the rescue. House Democrats indicated they would save Mike Johnson's House speakership. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has yet to demand a vote to oust Johnson. Most Republicans oppose the move. Here's what Johnson says. Occupying Columbia. The university's administration has threatened student protesters who took over Hamilton Hall with expulsion. Police are involved at other protests around the country but not at Columbia. Updates. Protesters want "divestment" from Israel. Here's what that could mean. Start with a definition. The real Paleo diet. Scientists now think Stone Age hunter-gatherers ate more vegetables than meat. A complication for modern fad dieting. |
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: Here's the argument that Biden is winning this election right now |
Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University, does not follow opinion polls as he tries to predict the winner of presidential elections. Instead, he has developed a set of 13 keys, or indicators, which he grades. It's a system that has helped him accurately project the outcome of nine of the last 10 presidential races (he says his one failure, 2000, was complicated by the fact that the Democrat, Al Gore, got more popular votes). Lichtman told CNN's Laura Coates that while former President Donald Trump maintains a slight advantage in polls, it is President Joe Biden who is in the driver's seat. There are multiple factors still in play, however, including whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. emerges as a viable third-party contender, the state of international affairs like the Middle East war and social unrest in the US. Watch Coates and Lichtman here: |
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Here are some highlights from Tuesday in Trump's New York criminal hush money trial: Trump fined for violating gag order. The former president was ordered to pay $9,000 by the end of the week after Judge Juan Merchan found he violated a gag order with social media posts. The posts were removed from Trump's social media site on Tuesday afternoon. Michael Cohen's banker details payments. The banker told jurors how quickly Cohen, Trump's former fixer, needed $130,000 in cash to pay adult-film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election and how he mortgaged his house to get it done. Former lawyer for Daniels and Karen McDougal testified. Keith Davidson represented both women when they were paid. McDougal's story was bought by the National Enquirer, which was trying to help Trump. Daniels signed a nondisclosure agreement in exchange for $130,000 from Cohen. Some evidence of frustration. Trump vented about his top lawyer, Todd Blanche, according to a New York Times report. But Trump and Blanche sat next to each other and appeared to be on good terms during the trial on Tuesday. Read more from the day here. Won't rule out political violence. Separately, Time magazine asked Trump about the potential for political violence after the November election. Here's what he said: "I think we're going to win. And if we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election." Other takeaways from the interview. |
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