
Trump Prepares to Surrender in New York as Police Brace for Protests
nytimes.com > us > politics...Trump and made him the first former president to face criminal charges, metal barricades were up around the criminal courthouse on Centre Street... ...Trump is expected to enter the often grimy and ill-lit building with his Secret Service protection to answer charges before a state judge on Tuesday... ...Speaking at the National Review Institute in Washington, Mr. Pence said that Mr.... ...Trump was roundly defended on Fox News, including by hosts who had reviled him in private. Although the host Tucker Carson said of Mr....

Israel Launches Air Strikes Against Syria
voanews.com...Iran's influence in the area has been growing in Syria since it began supporting President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that began in 2011.... ...Israel Launches Air Strikes Against Syria. Israel launched missile strikes against Damascus early Friday, Syria's state media has reported.... ...Some material in this report came from Agence France Presse and Reuters....

Biden Surveys Damage From Deadly Tornado in Mississippi
nytimes.com > us > politics...The storm left at least 26 people dead and injured dozens in Rolling Fork, a town of about 2,000, and across a wide swath of the Mississippi Delta... .... -- President Biden vowed on Friday that the federal government would help Mississippi recover and rebuild from devastation caused by a deadly tornado... ...Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, met privately with families affected by the storms at South Delta Elementary School, which had parts of its... ...United States....

Biden Vows to Help Mississippi Town Devastated by Tornado
voanews.com...President Joe Biden saw for himself the flattened homes, broken furniture and upended lives left behind by last week's deadly tornado in Mississippi... ...Biden Vows to Help Mississippi Town Devastated by Tornado.... ...The president heaped praise on Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and the area's longtime Democratic congressman, Rep.... ...Joseph Thomas, a 77-year-old Vietnam veteran and lifelong Rolling Fork resident, arrived to claim his meal wearing a bandana emblazoned with an American...

Dungeons and Dragons Directors Talk Rege-Jean Page
thewrap.com...Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant that plays for those who play the game or those who have merely heard of it via pop culture osmosis... ...However, it's first and foremost a rousing, crowd-pleasing action comedy filled with a game cast including Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean... ...The $150 million Paramount/EOne production comes courtesy of writer/directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who last helmed the winning... ...The Jason Bateman/Rachel McAdams romp had the sheen of a big-studio comedy with the cinematic polish that justified a big-screen viewing and this...

Latest in Ukraine: Russia Could Station Intercontinental Nuclear Missiles in Belarus, Belarus President Says...
voanews.com...in a tweet. - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Finland will formally join NATO "in the coming days.".... ...involve Russian forces remaining on Ukrainian territory is "totally inadmissible," Mykhailo Podolyak, senior adviser to President Zelenskyy, said... ...President Joe Biden called on Russia Friday to release detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, charged with spying by Moscow.... ..."Let him go," Biden said as he left the White House for a trip to storm-devastated Mississippi....

Senator John Fetterman Checks Out of Hospital After Depression Treatment
nytimes.com > us > politics...WASHINGTON -- Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, announced on Friday that he had checked out of Walter Reed Military Medical Center... ...Fetterman is set to return to the Senate on April 17, after a two-week holiday recess, according to his spokesman, who said that the senator planned... ...David Williamson, the neuropsychiatry chief and medical director at Walter Reed, had determined that Mr.... ...He thanked the medical team at Walter Reed, saying the care "changed my life," and he promised he would say more about it soon....

GOP lawmaker hands out "indict this!" ham sandwiches on Capitol Hill
cnn.com > videos > politics..."Indict this," wrote one GOP lawmaker on a ham sandwich...

Judge: Dominion Defamation Case Against Fox Will Go to Trial
voanews.com...Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled that neither Fox nor Dominion Voting Systems had presented a convincing argument to prevail on whether Fox... ...A voting machine company's defamation case against Fox News over its airing of false allegations about the 2020 presidential election will go to... ...The company sued Fox News and its parent, Fox Corp.... ...Dominion is suing the network for $1.6 billion, claiming Fox defamed it by repeatedly airing false allegations by then-President Donald Trump and...

'Let Him Go," Biden Says as Russia Orders American Journalist Held Until May
voanews.com...President Joe Biden on Friday urged Russia to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich from custody.... ...Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was detained in Yekaterinburg, a city about 800 miles from the Russian capital, on accusations... ...Andrey Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told VOA that Gershkovich's arrest reflected a "general deterioration... ...Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke about the case during her visit to Zambia, telling reporters the administration was "deeply concerned."....