On this version of Hot off the Wire:
» Former President Donald Trump is expected appear at an arraignment in Washington, D.C. on Thursday following his indictment on felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S.
(CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday is expected to return to the epicenter of his alleged bid to overthrow the 2020 election to answer historic charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
» Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.
A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.
» A Russian court on Thursday imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.
A Russian court has imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. The Interfax news agency reported that a justice of the peace in a magistrate’s court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 3 million rubles ($33,000) on Thursday for retaining material on Russian-language Wikipedia pages that violated a law against discrediting the Russia military and spreading false information about the Ukraine conflict. The same justice found Apple guilty of failing to delete podcasts and apps with such information and fined the company 400,000 rubles ($4,400).
» NYC calls for help amid migrant crisis after seeing 2300 arrive in the past week.
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For days now, newly arrived migrants have been waiting outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, hoping for a bed in an overly crowded shelter system. And for weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has said the city is out of room. City officials and activists alike have called the bleak conditions heartbreaking as busloads of migrants keep coming. Some critics charge that the scene outside the hotel is part of the city's campaign to pressure state and federal authorities to provide more money to handle the crisis — and to discourage more migrants from coming. But Adams says the city is doing all it can to open new shelters and deal with new migrants compassionately.
» Braves playing like the best team in baseball
Braves shine against Lucas Giolito, marking the 2nd tough outing with the Angels. Get the game highlights and pitching insights with Kevin and Donnie.
» Cubs set scoring record as they surge over Reds
