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Cohen’s testimony will be the culmination of 20 tumultuous years.

Michael Cohen's credibility issues and social media usage have captured media attention heading into his potentially bombshell testimony against Donald Trump.

Rain enters the forecast Tuesday and stays in the forecast into the weekend.

Florida's Lee County sheriff has a message for Democrats fleeing criminal mayhem and lawlessness in New York and California.

A decision to end an extended-year program at Roscoe Nix Elementary School has frustrated some teachers who say they relied on the summertime salary.

Michael Cohen is expected to take the stand this week in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial. Meanwhile, he is live wearing cowboy hat filters, receiving calls from Rosie O’Donnell and sharing his feelings on TikTok.

Some legal experts are surprised that the trial judge allowed the adult-film actress to testify about an alleged unwanted sexual event in a case centered on allegations of falsifying business records.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyFor a moment it seemed Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) knew that, this time, he’d taken it too far.Last week, the prolific shitposter lauded a group of fraternity brothers at Ole Miss who jeered a Black pro-Palestine protester—including one who made racist monkey noises at the woman—as “Ole Miss taking care of business.”The mainstream media and left-leaning politicians’ response to Collins’ statement was swift and scathing. The archconservative freshman lawmaker is no stranger to controversy—in recent months he’s dubbed Haiti a “sh*thole” country and suggested an undocumented migrant be thrown from a helicopter—but this time, even Collins acknowledged his post amplifying naked racism warranted some damage control.Read more at The Daily Beast.

John TaggartDonald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial is the pinnacle of American spectacle, a lurid phantasmagoria of shifty lawyers and adult failsons (Hi, Eric!) tweeting their way through the embarrassment of public scrutiny.Any hard-nosed political reporter would kill for a regular spot in the courtroom, and visual artist Isabelle Brourman is one of the lucky few. The New York native works in several mediums, but her current focus is courtroom sketches, which she’s producing at a breakneck clip for New York magazine while covering the trial.Courtroom sketching is a centuries-old art, and its practitioners in the New York City media scene are mostly old-guard traditionalists. At 30, Brourman’s age sets her apart from her peers, but it’s her sketches that are the truly extraordinary draw. Rather than capturing one person at a time, Brourman’s watercolor and colored-pencil figures overlap and bleed into one another like atoms clustered within the same organism. There’s abstraction at play here, but journalistic diarism too.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NetflixThe 2015 hacking of adulterous dating website Ashley Madison was a crime, and yet precious few felt sorry for those who were impacted by this offense, be they the company’s CEO and his employees or the 37 million users who were outed as cheaters. Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal, a three-part Netflix docuseries from directors Zoe Hutton and Gagan Rehill, focuses on a couple of sob stories—including a popular Christian vlogging couple caught in the cheating crossfire—which detail the fallout from this headline-making incident, all in an effort to put a human face on a tawdry scandal. No matter the tears and critiques dispensed by those individuals, however, there’s little here to lose sleep over—unless, of course, your profile was in one of the two infamous data dumps.Arriving a year after Hulu and ABC News’ The Ashley Madison Affair, Netflix’s Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal (May 15) is a standard-issue recap of this saga, told through the eyes of a handful of insiders, journalists, and families that were devastated by the release of their confidential information. It begins with Evan Back, Ashley Madison’s former VP of sales, who joined the company in 2007 thanks to his childhood friend Noel Biderman, who had recently been hired as the start-up’s CEO after original founder Darren Morgenstern couldn’t find a way to make the business catch fire. Darren’s brother Marc participates in these proceedings, discussing the early difficulty of selling a site that was all about infidelity. He confesses that Biderman was Ashley Madison’s agent of transformative change, ushering in an era of immense growth thanks to his out-front promotion of the brand on any and every talk show that would book him.Given Ashley Madison’s salaciousness, Biderman quickly became a TV fixture, raising the company’s profile and helping it make money hand over fist. It wasn’t long before expansion took the site around the globe, complete with nation-specific advertising campaigns that cheekily pushed the promise of covert extramarital satisfaction. In archival interview clips (since he didn’t agree to participate in this series), Biderman touts the beneficial aspects of Ashley Madison, claiming that it actually saved marriages by letting people explore their unfulfilled dreams without destroying the unions they loved and relied upon as the bedrock foundations of their lives. Suffice it to say, those arguments don’t sound any more convincing now than they did then; Biderman comes across as a sleazy huckster pretending to be an upstanding gentleman—an image he cultivated with the assistance of wife Amanda, who joined him on television and posed for billboard advertisements, asserting all along that they were in a monogamous relationship.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesIn January 2015, Islamic terrorists murdered 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for depicting the Prophet Muhammad. When PEN America honored the magazine with its Freedom of Expression Courage Award that same year, the organization received backlash from prominent members.Then-PEN president Andrew Solomon stood by the decision, saying that the controversy was a reminder that the “defense of people murdered for their exercise of free speech is at the heart of what PEN stands for, so is the unfettered articulation of opposing viewpoints.”Standing up for free speech principles against religious extremism, it turns out, was the right call since it remains a real threat to authors and speakers around the world. At a book talk in August 2022, novelist and former PEN America president Salman Rushdie was stabbed 15 times by an assailant who admired Iran’s theocratic regime that issued a fatwa against Rushdie back in 1989 for the supposed blasphemy of his novel The Satanic Verses.\Read more at The Daily Beast.

Severe thunderstorms are forecast to cause flash floods in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, Alabama and Florida on Monday.

Workers at the first Apple Store to unionize, outside Baltimore, have now also authorized a first strike against the tech giant's retail operations.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance discusses the complications around Michael Cohen's testimony in Trump's hush-money case.

It was never a dull moment. I met all the Trump family, and I remember one incident with Don Jr.

Barron, Tiffany, Donald Junior and Eric Trump, along with Kimberly Guilfoyle and Michael Boulos were Trump family members selected to the Florida RNC delegation.

Newsweek has provided detailed instructions, hints, and answers for today's "Connections" brainteaser.

Clarence Williams/DisneyWhen Wired’s Jason Parham published “A People’s History of Black Twitter” in July 2021, it felt monumental. Here was an attempt to comprehensively recount one of the largest, most impactful online communities in history—a daunting task way beyond what most internet culture explainers ever approach. Its scope was so impressive that the feature was split into two parts.“This story of Black Twitter is as important as the story of Facebook, as the story of all these other tech platforms,” Parham told The Daily Beast’s Obsessed in an interview at SXSW earlier this year, of the inspiration behind his feature. “Our story is valuable.”But there was only so much that Parham could include. After all, Black Twitter is something that defies simple definition: It’s “a comedy showcase, therapy session, and family cookout all in one,” as Parham wrote in his piece. Black Twitter is the simplest way to refer to the space carved out by Black social media users, who have used the tools of the internet—memes, hashtags, trending topics—to develop a language, sense of community, and social influence.Read more at The Daily Beast.

More than a dozen students at Princeton University said they were ending their hunger strike amid continued anti-Israel demonstrations at the university.

Israel's military has ordered the evacuation of more neighborhoods in Rafah ahead of a potential major ground operation in the southern Gaza city, where over 1 million Palestinians are estimated to be displaced.

Anti-Israel agitators from North Carolina to California have disrupted commencement ceremonies following weeks of demonstrations that upended campus life.

Much of "2054" by Elliot Ackerman and Ret. Admiral James G. Stavridis focused on the race to achieve the singularity, which would accelerate tech development to unbelievable levels.

The upcoming presidential election is likely to become a fraught topic of conversation in the workplace as November 5 approaches.

Finding today's "Wordle" puzzle a challenge? Newsweek has put together a few hints to help you out.

The rockers kicked off their hotly-anticipated "Dark Matter" tour earlier this month, but their May 4 gig wasn't without its drama.

Dear Abby weighs in on a man who took it too far with his situationship and a caregiver who has reached her limits.

El gobierno federal repartió alrededor de 5 billones de dólares en asistencia por la pandemia entre 2020 y 2021 —una cantidad mucho mayor a la de contrapartes extranjeras—, lo que dejó a muchas familias en mucho mejor forma financiera e impulsó el gasto del consumidor hasta bien entrado el 2023.

Russia lost 1,740 troops in a single day, marking the highest daily casualties since the start of the war more than two years ago, Ukraine's military said.

Tras décadas de turbulencia, esta organización de gran tradición ha introducido cambios radicales, desde permitir por fin la participación de jóvenes homosexuales hasta acoger a niñas en sus filas.

Blinken also directly addressed the U.S. withholding high payload bombs to Israel.

“Es un tonto. No es un hombre inteligente”, dijo Trump sobre Biden. “Ahora hablo de él de manera diferente porque ya me quité los guantes”.

Prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into ex-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband.

Roger Corman, a prolific producer who also gave first breaks to future Hollywood luminaries has died. He was 98.

Palestinians flee Rafah as fighting continues; Artists in 4 cities create murals to celebrate moms

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death, police said.

"Now every time you open the door for delivery, you have to watch out."

Melody Felicano Johnson, 40, has been sentenced to three years probation in Arizona after pleading guilty to attempting to poison her husband.

First, a report on Israel's fronts: Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran. And, a look at a Marine veteran’s work to help North Koreans.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken strongly criticized Israel's continued offensive in Gaza amid its war with the Hamas terror group, citing a growing civilian death toll.

After the first horse was rolled onto the sled, it took about 30 minutes to bring him to firm ground before rescuers took another 30 minutes to get the second horse to safety.

Jury selection is scheduled to start in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat charged with accepting bribes of gold and cash to use his influence to aid three New Jersey businessmen

Whether competition between the world’s superpowers stymies overall progress on AI and quantum—or pushes each to accelerate these technologies—could have far-reaching consequences.

Rescuers have recovered more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud

Cold lava—or lahar—is a mixture of volcanic material and pebbles that flow down a volcano’s slopes in the rain.

More than six months after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip.

The bloody fracas came months before Black, a staff sergeant, was arrested on May 2 in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on accusations of theft after an argument, Russian authorities said.

DJ Stewart is hardly a prototypical leadoff hitter, but an unorthodox look certainly didn’t hurt the Mets on Sunday.