Cross-Examination

• Trump trial set: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Donald Trump’s legal team’s request to move the trial date for his federal charges related to the January 6 Capitol riot back to April 2026. Chutkan instead set the trial date for March 4, 2024, just three months later than the January 2 date requested by special prosecutor Jack Smith. That trial date just happens to be the day before the crucial Super Tuesday primary elections, significantly impairing Trump’s ability to campaign though also handing him a colossal amount of free advertising. This trial date in DC comes mere weeks before Trump is scheduled for his trial in New York over alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Then there are two other trials Trump is facing — one in Georgia, and the other being the federal trial related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

• RIP family entertainment: For the first time in recent memory, Hollywood will release no “G”-rated movies this year. The family-friendly rating long considered a staple production for Hollywood has steadily declined over the last decade, increasingly being replaced with “PG” fare. For example, the “Little Mermaid” remake this year was rated PG, as is the new animated children’s movie “Paw Patrol 2.” Is this indicative of a dearth of family-friendly movies being produced by Hollywood, or is it an increased sensitivity to potentially offensive material?

• Another one bites the dust: Thanks to San Francisco’s growing crime problem, which the city’s leftist leaders appear dead set on doing nothing to address, another major retailer is closing up shop. After being in the city for the last 35 years, Nordstrom announced that it will be permanently closing its San Francisco store “partially due to the crime in the area,” according to an employee. It’s hard to blame Nordstrom for coming to this decision given the fact that between 2019 and 2022, property crime, including shoplifting, rose by an astounding 57% in downtown San Francisco. Nordstrom joins roughly 40 stores that have closed their operations in the City by the Bay since 2020.

• Court dismisses female sorority members’ “anti-trans” lawsuit: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit raised by University of Wyoming members of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma who sought to revoke membership of a male “transgender” student in the girls’ student organization. The sorority members claimed that the man in question engaged in unacceptable behaviors like “voyeuristically peeping on them while they were in intimate situations, and, in at least one occasion, had a visible erection while doing so.” Furthermore, he never really attempted to live or behave like a woman “other than occasionally wearing women’s clothing.” The judge ruled that since the sorority is a private national organization, the court was in no position to usurp its bylaws. At issue is whether the members of the University of Wyoming chapter of the sorority have the right to reject the national organization’s decision to allow “transgender”-identifying individuals. The court says they do not.

• American Spirit: Fishing for hundreds: On a recent family fishing trip on Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, 14-year-old Connor Halsa hooked what he thought was a big fish. Upon reeling in his catch, he discovered it was no fish at all but a wallet stuffed full of cash — $2,000, to be exact. However, rather than simply pocket the prize catch, Connor immediately decided he needed to give it back to its owner. A business card in the wallet directed him to a farmer by the name of Jim Denney, who the year prior lost his wallet while fishing on the lake. Denney offered to pay Conner for his honesty, but the kid turned it down. Instead, Denney gifted Connor with a custom cooler and treated him and his family to dinner.

Headlines

• Hurricane Idalia rapidly intensifying, eyeing Florida as a major hurricane (Fox Weather)

• National Archives confirms existence of 5,400 emails, records containing alleged VP Biden pseudonyms (National Review)

• Biden falsely claims to have convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act (Breitbart)

• Biden slammed for taking credit for reopening schools (Fox News)

• Eminem reportedly sent Vivek Ramaswamy campaign a cease and desist letter demanding he stop rapping his songs (Fox News)

• More than 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, declare climate “emergency” a myth (Just the News)

• Associated Press coverage of courts, climate bankrolled by dozens of left-wing foundations (Free Beacon)

• Graduate student charged with murder in killing of University of North Carolina faculty member (AP)

• California sues school district that tells parents if kids are confused about their gender (Free Beacon)

• Canadian teacher with giant prosthetic breasts heads back to classroom in new school (Daily Wire)

• Humor: Nikki Haley unveils campaign slogan “I am a woman” (Babylon Bee)

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