The FBI has raided Donald Trump’s personal lawyer’s offices. Trump lambasted the raid of Michael Cohen’s office as a “disgrace”. Agents seized files relating to Cohen’s work. If there was anything incriminating on Trump in Cohen’s offices, Robert Mueller certainly has it now. Expect further angry Tweets ranting about this shortly.

It has been a busy day for Trump. Before his lawyer’s office got raided, the president had been busily ratcheting up the belligerence against Syria in the aftermath of a horrific chemical weapons attack on a rebel-occupied city. Trump promised a “forceful” response, which could include military action in a country he had promised to withdraw American troops from.

Senator Tammy Duckworth has become the first sitting senator to give birth. The Illinois Democrat and veteran of the Iraq War gave birth to her baby daughter, becoming the 10th member of Congress and the first in the Senate to have a child while in office. Duckworth was praised by chief Democrat Nancy Pelosi and colleagues, hopefully from both sides of the house.

Move over Jack and Rose, Wakanda is bigger. Black Panther has exceeded revenue from 1997 hit Titanic to make $665.6-million in the US and Canada alone. It is still nowhere close to Star Wars’ $936.7-million, but for a film that did not come out over Christmas and had no nerd-pedigree to draw from, the Titanic-busting record is a stunning achievement.

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