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David Hearn, the former Olympic canoeist who was arrested for reaching into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a couple weeks ago, has been indicted by a grand jury on a felony charge. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Hearn was…

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Hunter Biden, the son of former President Biden, ribbed President Trump on Thursday, saying he is nominating the president for the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war in Iran. “I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Hunter Biden wrote on social platform X. “No President in History has…

The Cradley Market shop, in Sandwell, is closed for three months following an investigation.

The Cradley Market shop, in Sandwell, is closed for three months following an investigation.

The Supreme Court declined to save journalist Catherine Herridge from having to reveal her source or pay fines in a case that she said raises a crucial First Amendment issue.

Herridge had asked the justices to stop a lower court ruling from taking effect that would put her to that choice.

In an order on Thursday, the high court declined Herridge’s request. As is typical for such actions, the court did not explain its reasoning. The order noted that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have granted Herridge’s request.

She was held in contempt by a Washington, D.C., judge in a case brought against the federal government by Yanping Chen, who alleged that officials violated the Privacy Act by disclosing records about her that were collected as part of an FBI investigation. The records were published by Fox News, where Herridge worked at the time.

To help in her lawsuit against the government, Chen sought to make Herridge identify who leaked the records. Herridge invoked the reporter’s privilege under the First Amendment, but the district judge said Chen overcame the privilege and ordered Herridge to answer Chen’s questions. Herridge declined, and the court held her in contempt and set a fine of $800 a day. The federal appeals court in Washington upheld the judge’s ruling.

Herridge urged the appeals court to halt its ruling from taking effect while she petitions the Supreme Court on what she called the exceptionally important question of the scope of the reporter’s privilege to protect confidential sources. Without such relief in the meantime, her lawyers argued to the appeals court, she’d have to “reveal her confidential source(s) or pay a draconian sanction of $800 per day, in violation of her First Amendment rights.”

Opposing that relief in the appeals court, Chen said that Herridge “has no special solicitude to flout a court order” and that she “retains the ability to pay the monetary sanctions imposed by the district court instead of complying with the order.” Chen said in the “unlikely event” that the Supreme Court is interested in reviewing Herridge’s underlying appeal, the journalist would be able to recoup any monetary fines she pays.

The appeals court denied Herridge’s request on June 23, and she filed a sealed application to the Supreme Court on June 26. That same day, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order temporarily halting the lower court ruling against Herridge from taking effect while the full court considers whether to provide Herridge longer-term relief. (Roberts is the justice assigned to field emergency motions from Washington.)

Opposing Herridge’s application at the high court, Chen said the reporter’s interest in protecting her source(s) is outweighed by Chen’s right under the Privacy Act to learn the identity of the federal official(s) whom she said violated her rights. Chen said the justices are unlikely to grant review of Herridge’s underlying appeal, noting the high court has refused to review multiple previous appeals raising the same issue. It takes four justices to grant review of a petition.

Herridge’s application that the court rejected on Thursday is a separate filing from her forthcoming petition, which will challenge the lower court ruling itself. The justices will consider the latter filing separately after it is lodged with the court.

Supporting Herridge in an amicus brief, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said the justices should halt the lower court ruling from taking effect while she petitions the high court, in order to avoid what the group called an “unjust result” that “would chill the work of journalists well beyond the facts of this proceeding.”

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Jaylen Brown is speaking out on getting shipped to the Philadelphia 76ers … and he seemingly took a shot at the Boston Celtics in the process. The 2024 NBA Finals MVP released a statement on Thursday … admitting he’s still trying to wrap his…

A recent move by the Trump administration effectively killed an office in Minnesota responsible for investigating wrongful convictions.

The news comes as Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to assume the presidency, wages a campaign to persecute and prosecute his perceived enemies. Trump has made a mockery of the American justice system by pardoning scores of criminals aligned with him — including several who have gone on to be convicted of sexual abuse — while simultaneously using federal law enforcement to investigate people he doesn’t like.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday that the Trump administration has refused to renew a federal grant used by his office to address possible wrongful convictions, adding in a statement:

Following the Trump Administration’s refusal to renew federal grant funding that supported the program, my Office is suspending our Conviction Review Unit. Current budget constraints do not allow the program’s costs to be absorbed without compromising other core responsibilities.

Just last year, an independent auditor praised our CRU as a “model for how statewide conviction integrity work should be done.” It is disappointing that our federal government has decided to deprioritize identifying and correcting wrongful convictions.

This is just the latest example of how Trump’s campaign rhetoric is at odds with his actual behavior as president. You may remember that Trump, while falsely portraying himself as a martyr in the 2024 race, made the bigoted suggestion that “the Black people” were supporting him because they could supposedly relate to his multiple criminal indictments. (For the record, I debunked this mythical claim of Black support after the election.)

In other words, Trump framed himself as a spokesman, if not an outright savior, for people who have been unjustly targeted by law enforcement — and then gutted a key means by which people who have actually been wrongly convicted can receive justice.

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Former New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio (D) and Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday tangled with each other over the surge of democratic socialist candidates winning primaries this election season. Hannity asked De Blasio in an interview about New York Assembly member Darializa Avila Chevalier (D), a democratic socialist who defeated Rep….

Olympian David Hearn has been indicted in for allegedly “maliciously” destroying lining at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

In recent weeks, as Donald Trump’s renovation project at the Reflecting Pool became an embarrassing fiasco, the president settled on a curious strategy to deflect blame. He contended “vandals” had secretly attacked the pool, and it was their intervention, rather than his incompetence, that ruined the Republican’s triumph.

In the days that followed, the president and his administration made a variety of claims about these alleged criminals, whose existence was in doubt, though one name was confirmed: David Hearn, who represented the United States in three Olympics as a canoeist, acknowledged that he’d received a citation.

Hearn recently told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes that he’d touched a piece of peeling blue paint toward the end of a bike ride.

“I didn’t think I’d done anything wrong, so I had no reason to think I was going to be arrested … and kind of before I knew it, I was being handcuffed,” Hearn said, adding that he made no effort to tear the pool’s coating.

His lawyer, Norm Eisen, soon after told The New York Times, “It is not a crime in America to touch water.”

Evidently, Trump’s Justice Department came to a different conclusion. On Thursday afternoon, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose recent prosecutorial track record has been as embarrassing as it has been political, announced that Hearn has been charged with one felony count of destruction of property in D.C. Superior Court.

According to the former Fox News host, who said at a press conference that she would not discuss any details about collected evidence, Hearn engaged in a “violent effort” and “willfully destroyed” public property with his bare hands. Pirro added that the defendant, if convicted, faces up to 10 years in prison.

Of course, securing an indictment through a grand jury process is one thing; securing a conviction in the nation’s capital against an Olympian who touched the Reflecting Pool is something else entirely.

During the press conference, MS NOW’s Adam Hudacek asked the prosecutor how she squares charging an alleged pool vandal after Trump’s Justice Department pardoned Jan. 6 rioters who caused millions of dollars in damage at the U.S. Capitol. Pirro refused to answer.

Q: How can you square charging this alleged vandal when this DOJ has–PIRRO: Already this is a problemQ: Over 1,000 January 6 rioters who caused millions of damage–PIRRO: Are you really talking about January 6? I’m not. Who’s next. Not you! No!

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-02T19:05:50.968Z

Eisen, the defendant’s lawyer, added in a written statement, “Davey Hearn is innocent. These charges are outrageous and should be alarming to every American. This indictment reflects the administration’s effort to shift blame for their own failures. On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, Americans should be deeply concerned by the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative. The justice system exists to determine facts, not to provide political cover.”

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