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Courting and Dating: Let’s crisscross the country and catch up with the latest in the Trump legal soap opera. In NYC, a judge announced that the hush money case will start on March 25. In Georgia, where things are decidedly more soap opera-ish (and the case is decidedly more serious), the prosecutor and her former lover are the ones being questioned. “Judge Scott McAfee is considering whether a personal relationship between Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis and her top Trump prosecutor, Nathan Wade, creates a conflict of interest that should oust the entire office from the case.” Nathan Wade testified and Fani Willis has taken the stand. “I’ve been very anxious to have this conversation with you today. So I ran to the courtroom.” Here’s the latest from CNN and AJC.
+ Send Ammo: “The consequences of politics in Washington are playing out in Oleksander Kucheriavenko’s Humvee on the eastern front of Ukraine’s war against Russia.
On a patrol Wednesday, Kucheriavenko, a sergeant, fired several grenade rounds from his armored vehicle at a Russian assault team—and then stopped, to conserve ammunition” Ukrainian Soldiers Forced to Tune In to Washington Politics. (No one deserves that fate.)
+ Jailhouse Shock: “A gargantuan complex constructed in the middle of nowhere, it symbolises President Nayib Bukele’s controversial security policy more than any other project.” BBC: Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador’s mega-jail.
+ Not Too Swift: “Just under 1 in 5 Americans believe the singer Taylor Swift is part of a covert effort to help President Joe Biden win the 2024 election.”
+ The Beautiful Claim: “As far as the man in the food truck is concerned, the patch of land he occupies in Sheffield, England, is about as humdrum as they come. To him, the spot — in the drab parking lot of a sprawling home improvement superstore, its facade plastered in lurid orange — is not exactly a place where history comes alive.” NYT (Gift Article): An English City Gave Soccer to the World. Now It Wants Credit.
+ It’s Showtime, Folks: “OpenAI’s latest model takes text prompts and turns them into ‘complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion,’ and more.” OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model.
+ Touch of Green: Grateful Dead shirts: They won’t fade. “What other economies can learn from the decades-long success of band tees.”
