Massachusetts candidate for lieutenant governor Shawn Oliver (R) was arrested on a charge of operating under the influence of alcohol, the New Bedford Light reports.
Mike Minogue (R), the GOP candidate for governor, has asked Oliver to immediately suspend his campaign and said, if elected, he would formally ask Oliver to resign.
“Federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining the DNA of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and her family before this week’s raid at the Minnesota Democrat’s home in Washington,” NewsNation reports.
“Investigators historically have used secretive ‘dumpster diving’ to obtain DNA when search warrants were not possible or would have tipped off investigatory targets. It is legally permissible for law enforcement to collect trash that has been discarded for pickup and comb through it for genetic material.”
New York Times: Ilhan Omar’s sister’s phone was seized before search of lawmaker’s home.
The Atlantic: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enjoyed President Trump’s full support for any number of Trumpian initiatives: staging macho, campy shows of military bravado; trashing political opponents and the press, often by name; dissing European allies; posting videos of air strikes on suspected drug boats off the coast of Latin America.”
“But Hegseth apparently crossed a line with his revelation last week that the execution by firing squad of a military death-row inmate would be livestreamed to the world. Even a president who’d brought a bloody mixed-martial-arts fight to the White House lawn apparently didn’t relish the thought of an afternoon spent watching Army soldiers shoot bullets into a paraplegic.”
“Authorities are investigating letters containing ‘suspicious substances’ sent to multiple Capitol Hill offices,” Politico reports.
“President Trump said the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a former officer who admitted to killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, won’t be livestreamed, reversing a decision by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Bloomberg: Trump rejects Hegseth’s bid to livestream firing squad execution.
“Eight in 10 Americans say the execution of former Army officer Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding another 32 in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, should not be livestreamed,” according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.
“Rep. Nancy Mace’s former fiance and two of his business associates were charged with sex crimes and voyeurism on Wednesday over an episode the South Carolina congresswoman described in detail during a speech last year on the House floor about how crimes against women are not investigated thoroughly,” the Associated Press reports.
“President Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down,” CNN reports.
“The president was not aware that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was announcing last week that the administration planned to let the public watch the execution, the sources said, and was not sure what to make of it at first.”
“President Trump during a political rally in the state late Tuesday granted onstage pardons to two Alaska auto shop owners who pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act — an unusually public use of the president’s clemency power,” CBS News reports.
“The president said the two men — Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming — were ‘wrongly charged,’ and cast the charges against the two men as an example of how the Biden-era Justice Department ‘viciously targeted the Alaskan way of life.'”
Washington Sun: Trump stumps for Alaska Republicans and hands out two pardons.
“The plan to livestream the firing squad execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter is garnering mounting discomfort from the Catholic Church, the Hill and survivors of the shooting,” Axios reports.
“President Trump even has apparent qualms over holding the first public execution in the U.S. in some nine decades after receiving a deluge of bipartisan concern.”
New York Post: Mike Johnson urges Trump to rethink livestreaming Nidal Hasan execution: “I wouldn’t be watching.”
“What started as a routine day on the campaign trail turned into a police scene when two statewide Libertarian candidates discovered a dead body in the Maumee River near downtown Toledo,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
“President Trump has privately shared misgivings about livestreaming the firing-squad execution of a former Army major who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas,” Axios reports.
“Trump has been deluged with ‘negative input’ about the idea from a bipartisan chorus of lawmakers as well as advisers inside and outside of his White House.”
“Gov. Gavin Newsom is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of the 563 people condemned to death row in California prisons, as public opinion has shifted in the week since a Tennessee female prisoner survived a botched execution by lethal injection,” the Sacramento Bee reports.
“Newsom, who is term-limited, has discussed with his advisors reducing death row inmates’ sentences to life in prison without parole as one of his final acts in office.”
“Gov. Tim Walz considered leaving public office after the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark,” Minnesota Star Tribune reports.
Said Walz: “I didn’t want to do this job anymore after that. Not just out of fear or anything, but the joy of public service, the joy of being with Melissa Hortman, and just how that was taken.”
“President Trump said he wasn’t involved in the plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, while stressing that he understands the decision to make an ‘example’ of him,” the New York Post reports.
Said Trump: “They want to do that because they want to set an example. I wasn’t involved in that decision, but I understand the decision.”
“Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison,” the Associated Press reports.
New York Times: A vague, redacted execution protocol in Tennessee draws scrutiny.
“Asked Friday whether he had personally authorized or approved the live-streaming of the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, President Donald Trump responded, ‘Did I approve? Absolutely,'” the Washington Post reports.
Associated Press: A history of public executions in the U.S. as Fort Hood shooter’s could be livestreamed.
“Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he wasn’t sure whether there would be a live stream of Nidal Hasan’s December execution, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation of that plan, adding that if it were to be live-streamed, ‘I’m not going to be watching,'” ABC News reports.
The New Republic: Even (a few) Republicans are shocked by execution livestreaming plan.
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