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Donald Trump was the butt of the joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night – something he is not very happy about.

“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was really bad. Colin Jost BOMBED, and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster! Doesn’t get much worse than this!” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social at one o’clock in the morning.

The Saturday Night Live star made multiple jokes about Mr Trump being involved in criminal cases, including the one in Manhattan that starts back up tomorrow. President Joe Biden cracked a few himself when he got up on stage too.

The Supreme Court spent over three hours on Thursday hearing oral arguments in the historic case involving former president Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity from prosecution.

On the final day of arguments for this term, the nine justices questioned lawyers for Mr Trump and the Justice Department’s special counsel and toyed with whether or not presidents should be awarded broad, some, or no immunity from criminal prosecution.

Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota whom Donald Trump may be considering to be his running mate, apparently described shooting her 14-month-old dog in her new book.

According to The GuardianMs Noem described the incident as an example of her willingness to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly”.

Ms Noem writes that she had an aggressive wirehair pointer named Cricket who was extremely difficult to train as a hunting dog – at one point getting loose and killing a flock of chickens owned by a local family.

She said the dog was “less than worthless… as a hunting dog” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” so she got her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit – presumably to shoot her.

Later, Ms Noem described taking similar action to take care of an aggressive male goat.

The stories are from Ms Noem’s new book, No Going Back.

In response to the article from The GuardianMs. Noem wrote on X that, “Tough decisions like this happen all the time on the farm” but that, “We love animals.”

A former longtime assistant to Donald Trump at his Trump Organization testified that she has a “vague recollection” of seeing adult film star Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower before his 2016 presidential campaign.

Rhona Graff, who worked at the Trump Organization for more than 30 years, testified on Friday in a Manhattan courtroom across from her former boss – who is currently on trial charged with falsifying 34 business records to cover up payments to Ms Daniels as part of a scheme to bury details of their alleged affair.

In her testimony, Ms Graff revealed new details about Ms Daniels’ apparent ties to the former president, including that he appeared to be considering the adult film star as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice.

Ms Graff told the court that she once saw Ms Daniels in the lobby of the 26th floor of Trump Tower, where Mr Trump’s office is located.

She assumed that Ms Daniels may have been at the office to discuss a role with The Celebrity ApprenticeMr Trump’s former hit reality TV competition series on NBC, she said.

Joseph Fischer, a former police officer from Pennsylvania, allegedly entered the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, yelling “Charge!”, and rushing the police line.

Fischer, like thousands of other rioters that day, attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in support of former president Donald Trump who had spread false claims of election fraud.

Fischer was arrested and charged with several crimes for his actions on January 6. He is among 330 rioters, along with Mr Trump, charged with obstructing an official proceeding.

But Fischer disputes that charge, claiming it is being unfairly used to prosecute him. The white-collar law was enacted 20 years ago in the wake of the Enron financial scandal.

His case, at the hands of the Supreme Court, could call into question the sentencings and convictions against hundreds of rioters and potentially undermine the two federal charges against Mr Trump.

Though Mr Trump is not directly involved in this Supreme Court court case a ruling could potentially impact the federal prosecutor Jack Smith’s federal election interference case against the former president.

Mr Trump is also charged under the same provision by federal prosecutors and has raised a similar defence to Fischer.

An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 individuals for their role in an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election in favour of Donald Trump by falsely certifying the state’s 2020 election results.

The state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes has so far released the names of 16 of those charged, explaining that two of the defendants’ names have been redacted but will be released “after all defendants have been served.”

Eleven names were first released on Wednesday, but on Friday, the state’s Attorney General also revealed the names of five more defendants, all of whom were once Trump allies: John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, Christina Bobb, Jenna Ellis, and Michael Roman.