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The man accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two of his co-defendants have reached plea agreements that will allow them to avoid the death penalty, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Via The Washington Post: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi will all plead guilty, according to a letter sent to families of the victims by a senior U.

Finally, hope of progress. Wall St. Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is rumored to be included in a pending swap of prisoners who were held in Russia. Via The Daily Beast: Rumors flew Wednesday that such a deal between Russia and the U. S. and their respective allies could include Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained by Russian authorities in March 2023. Earlier this month, Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security penal colony under espionage charges internationally condemned as fabricated. Moscow previously said that there was no chance of Gershkovich being exchanged until after his sentencing.

Watch Fox go into full blown damage control mode following Trump's dumpster fire of an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists. A lot of people were rightfully angry that the organization invited him there in the first place, and despite the lack of fact-checking, the interview was a disaster, and just gave the Harris campaign a ton of material to attack Trump with, but here's how Fox's Bret Baier tried to spin it immediately after it ended on John Roberts' and Sandra Smith's show.. BAIER: Listen there's a couple of things there's a couple of things here obviously he went into the proverbial lion's den with some of those questions and this is what the former president does.

There isn't much to say about Trump that hasn't already been said, but I think it's important to make the point that he's an utter waste of oxygen. There isn't a bad human trait I can think of he doesn't possess, nor a good one he does. It feels like two trash compactors reproduced to create something of his ilk. So it was again, today, at the NABJ conference.

Fox's Martha MacCallum looked like she was ready to spit nails when her guest Jessica Tarlov told the truth about Trump's disastrous appearance in front of the National Association of Black Journalists. During an appearance on this Wednesday's The Story with Martha MacCallum, and immediately following Joe Concha attempting some lame damage control for Trump, MacCallum asked Tarlov for her reaction to what she just watched. TARLOV: My reaction is that it was a complete absolute dumpster fire for the former president.

Above, V-Day performs, Break The Chain. Hey, have you guys hear that Republicans are weirdoes? Speaking of weirdoes, Progressive Eruptions proves that JD Vance doesn't think through what he says. The Mahablog assures us that TFG doesn't know how to run against VP Harris. Today's Editions discusses turning enthusiasm for VP Kamala Harris into votes for Kamala Harris for President. Scripting News says that the execrable NYTimes is weird. Bonus Track: The Smithsonian presents, Nine Things You Didn't Know About The Ancient Olympic Games. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.