Closing summary
Voters in three states are casting ballots in primaries that could prove crucial to determining the party control, and the ideological bent, of the next Congress. In New York, progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his seat against challenger George Latimer, amid a race where Bowman’s criticism of Israel has become a major issue. Over in Colorado, far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert is looking to overcome personal scandals and secure her place in the House by winning the GOP primary in a district that is even more friendly to Republicans than the one she presently represents. And in Utah, Republicans are deciding whether their next senator will be a moderate like the retiring senator Mitt Romney, or someone who vows to do what Donald Trump wants.
Here’s what else happened today:
Judge Juan Merchan modified the gag order imposed on Trump in his New York hush-money case and allowed him to attack jurors and witnesses.
Joe Biden’s approval ticked up slightly in June, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, but Trump maintained the edge when it came to handling of the economy.
Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge handling Trump’s classified documents case, is on her third day of hearing arguments on motions that could decide the trajectory of the closely watched case.
Last week’s primary in Virginia between Republican congressman Bob Good and challenger John McGuire remains too close to call, but Trump knows who he wants to win.
Who will Trump pick as his running mate? We take a look at what clues have emerged.
Prosecutors reveal Trump kept classified documents mixed with personal keepsakes at Mar-a-Lago
Federal prosecutors have released new photos of the classified documents they discovered two years ago at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, in a filing that rejects an attempt by the former president’s lawyers to get the case against him thrown out.
The photos reveal that top secret documents were mixed in with keepsakes like copies of the New York Times, Maga hats and cases of Diet Coke:
Here’s more, from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell, on the latest revelations from prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith in the long-running case:
Hillary Clinton has, interestingly enough, debated both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, though it is of course her general election loss to the former for which she is best remembered. Ahead of the Trump-Biden debate scheduled for Thursday, she offered some thoughts on what debating the ex-president is like, the Guardian’s Edward Helmore reports:
Hillary Clinton has said it would be a “waste of time” for Joe Biden to attempt to refute Donald Trump’s contentions in Thursday’s presidential debate because “it’s nearly impossible to identify what his arguments even are”.
The former secretary of state wrote in a New York Times opinion piece that Trump “starts with nonsense and then digresses into blather”.
“This has gotten only worse in the years since we debated,” she said.
Clinton debated Trump while unsuccessfully running for the White House against him in 2016 – and she had also debated Biden during a presidential primary eight years earlier.
Trump was later accused of speaking over Clinton and looming over her in a way that she later described as “really weird”.
Clinton predicted in her op-ed that Trump’s strategies would “fall flat” if Biden “is as direct and forceful as he was” during his State of the Union address in March.
Referring to Trump, she added: “Expectations for him are so low that if he doesn’t literally light himself on fire on Thursday evening, some will say he was downright presidential.”
Reuters and Ipsos just dropped a new poll ahead of Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s Thursday’s debate face-off, which shows the former president has the edge among voters when it comes to concerns about the economy, while the current White House occupant is more trusted to preserve America’s democracy.
It also found a slight bump in Biden’s approval rating, from a not-great 36% in May to a still-not-great 37% this month.
The survey does not tell us much we do not know, since previous polls have shown Trump with the edge on economic matters, though it does underscore the validity of the Biden campaign’s strategy of characterizing Trump as a threat to democracy.
The survey found Trump was viewed as the better choice for the economy, the top concern of voters, by 43% of respondents, against Biden’s 37%. He was also the preferred pick of respondents when it came to handling foreign policy and terrorism, with 40% support against Biden’s 35%.
The second-biggest concern for respondents was the state of the country’s democracy, and when it came to that, Biden was the pick of 39% of those polled, while Trump picked up 33% support.
Speaking of attacks, a CNN presenter’s interview with Donald Trump’s spokesperson went awry yesterday, when she began criticizing the moderators of the ex-president’s upcoming debate against Joe Biden, the Guardian’s Robert Tait reports:
CNN abruptly terminated a live interview with Donald Trump’s spokesperson on Monday after she criticised the two journalists whom the network chose to moderate the much anticipated upcoming debate between the former president and Joe Biden.
Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign national press secretary, became embroiled in a heated exchange with Kasie Hunt, the presenter of CNN This Morning, after saying Trump would be entering a “hostile environment on this very network” when he debates the incumbent president in Atlanta on Thursday.
Asked what strategy Trump would pursue on the debate stage, she said he would be contending “with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well known … and their biased coverage of him”.
Leavitt’s comments were aimed, without initially naming them, at the moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper. They triggered an immediate reaction from Hunt, who defended her colleagues.
“So I’ll just say, my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as professionals as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle,” Hunt said. Citing analysts of previous debates, she added: “If you’re attacking the moderators, you’re usually losing.”
Michael Cohen says Trump's attacks 'won't work' after judge modifies gag order – report
Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, who appeared as a witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial that resulted in the former president’s conviction in New York City on charges related to hush-money payments, told CNN he won’t be intimidated by Trump’s attacks.
His comment came after Judge Juan Merchan modified the gag order on Trump, and allowed him to make statements about witnesses in the case – such as Cohen.
Here’s what he told CNN:
Michael Cohen responds to Judge Merchan amending the gag order, telling CNN: “For the past 6 years, Donald and acolytes have been making constant negative statements about me. Donald’s failed strategy of discrediting me so that he can avoid accountability didn’t work then and…
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 25, 2024
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And now we wait to see if Donald Trump unleashes a new volley of insults against those involved in his criminal conviction last month in New York City.
The place to watch is his Truth Social account, which the former president has used in place of his account on X (formerly Twitter) to comment on a variety of subjects, his criminal trials included. He has left his account on X dormant since owner Elon Musk allowed him back on to the site two years ago, with the sole exception of tweeting out the mug shot taken in Georgia, when charges were brought against him in the election subversion case.
Before its modification, Judge Juan Merchan fined Trump for repeatedly violating the gag order imposed against him in his hush money case. Here’s more on that:
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Judge partially lifts Trump gag order in hush-money case
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case has modified a gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the trial until his sentencing date next month, Reuters reports.
Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling allows Trump to go on the attack against his former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, the adult star Stormy Daniels, and other witnesses.
But Merchan ruled that Trump is still bound by the order’s restrictions on speaking about lawyers and staff for the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the court, if those statements could interfere with the case.
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More than a dozen Nobel prize-winning economists have warned that inflation will soar once again if Donald Trump takes back the White House in November.
In a letter obtained by Axios, 16 Nobel laureates wrote that the presumptive Republican nominee’s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy.
While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump.
They go on to write that a second Trump term would have “a negative impact on the US’s economic standing in the world, and a destabilizing effect on the US’s domestic economy.”
Many Americans are concerned about inflation, which has come down remarkably fast. There is rightly a worry that Donald Trump will reignite this inflation, with his fiscally irresponsible budgets.
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Hunter Biden’s license to practice law in Washington DC has been suspended after he was convicted earlier this month of three federal gun charges.
The filing on Tuesday by the DC court of appeals states that Hunter Biden, the president’s eldest living son, is “suspended immediately” from practicing law in the city.
The appeals court also directs the DC board on professional responsibility to to hold additional proceedings to “determine the nature of the offense and whether it involves moral turpitude.”
Hunter Biden was found guilty earlier this month on three felony counts related to a handgun purchase while he was a user of crack cocaine.
US senator Rand Paul celebrated Julian Assange’s freedom, but criticized the US plea deal as harmful.
In a post to X, Paul said that he was “relieved” Assange was being reunited with his family, but argued that Assange’s plea deal was dangerous for first amendment rights and criminalizing to journalism.
I’m relieved Assange is finally free and reuniting with his family after years of wrongful persecution. Yet, this plea deal sets a dangerous precedent, criminalizing journalism and damaging our First Amendment rights. The “Land of the Free” can and must do better.
I'm relieved Assange is finally free and reuniting with his family after years of wrongful persecution. Yet, this plea deal sets a dangerous precedent, criminalizing journalism and damaging our First Amendment rights. The "Land of the Free" can and must do better.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) June 25, 2024
Follow the Guardian’s coverage of Julian Assange’s plea deal here.
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The day so far
Voters in three states are casting ballots in primaries that could prove crucial to determining the party control, and the ideological bent, of the next Congress. In New York, progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his seat against challenger George Latimer, in a race where Bowman’s criticism of Israel has become a major issue. Over in Colorado, far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert is looking to overcome personal scandals and secure her place in the House by winning the GOP primary in a district that is even more friendly to Republicans than the one she presently represents. And in Utah, Republicans are deciding whether their next senator will be a moderate like the retiring senator Mitt Romney, or someone who vows to do what Donald Trump wants.
Here’s what else has been happening today:
Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge handling Trump’s classified documents case, is on her third day of hearing arguments on motions that could decide the trajectory of the closely watched case.
Last week’s primary in Virginia between Republican congressman Bob Good and challenger John McGuire remains too close to call, but Trump knows who he wants to win.
Who will Trump pick as his running mate? We take a look at what clues have emerged.
Voting is ongoing in New York, where progressive congressman Jamaal Bowman is facing a tough challenge in the Democratic primary from George Latimer, the executive of Westchester county.
On X, Bowman posted a video encouraging volunteers to come to his district and knock on doors to rally voter support, or to work phone banks:
We got under 9 hours left y’all!
— Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. (@JamaalBowmanNY) June 25, 2024
Polls close at 9 and we need to do everything we can to get out the vote! Sign up to canvass, sign up to phonebank, text your friends and join us as we talk to voters all day!
Sign up: https://t.co/xWyzGmzwII pic.twitter.com/L6TGhPeTlJ
Latimer has meanwhile been calling attention to his endorsements. Here’s Ken Jenkins, the deputy executive of Westchester county, in New York City’s suburbs:
I’m proud to call @KenJenkinsNY a friend, and I’m proud to have his support.
— George Latimer (@LatimerforNY) June 25, 2024
You have less than 11 hours left to vote. What are you waiting for? #RealResultsNotRhetoric pic.twitter.com/jfPorEfhwN
While his primary contest may be too close to call, the vote count thus far shows Republican congressman Bob Good trailing his challenger John McGuire by a small amount.
Good is now casting aspersions on the fairness of the election, NBC News reports:
Good claimed during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast Monday that Lynchburg “did not secure their drop boxes.”
“There’s no accountability for when those boxes were opened,” Good said. “They were apparently left to be stuffed for two or three days after the election.”
“We’re going to be making the legal challenge in the next couple of days to demonstrate that Lynchburg, the biggest city, can’t be certified,” he added.
Neither Good’s campaign nor the chairman of Lynchburg’s electoral board immediately responded to requests for comment.
Good also complained on X last week that there were fires in three precincts on Election Day. “What is the probability? Does anyone recall even 1 fire at a precinct on election day?”
Given the close margin, the race could be headed to a recount. If the candidates are separated by less than 1 percentage point, a candidate can request a recount, according to state law. If the margin is less than half of a percentage point, counties and cities would pay for a recount, but otherwise the candidate would have to cover the cost.
Good appears to be preparing for that possibility, telling Bannon: “I hate to be crass about it, Steve, but we depleted resources trying to win this primary. We believe we did win the primary, even though we’re vastly outspent. I need help funding the recount challenge, the challenge to the certification, the challenge to getting a hand count, a paper ballot match to this.”
In the interview with Bannon, Good also criticized McGuire’s support from Republicans like former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, though he did not mention that former President Donald Trump also endorsed McGuire.
“Look, just look at who’s supporting my opponent. It is the Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Eric Cantor types, the swamp folks, the RINOs, for whom the endless wars, allegiance to the industrial military complex — that’s who’s funding my opponent,” he said. “That’s who’s supporting my opponent. He would vote very differently than me in Washington.”
Speaking of Donald Trump and primaries, we still don’t know the outcome of a tight election held last week in Virginia, where the former president was seeking to oust a sitting congressman who had crossed him by supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis in the GOP’s primary.
The race between congressman Bob Good and his Trump-backed challenger John McGuire remains too close to call, the Associated Press says, though that has not stopped Trump from saying McGuire won and congratulating him:
Donald Trump Truth Social 07:04 PM EST 06/24/24 pic.twitter.com/HGJ8NJN8DX
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 25, 2024
Here’s more on last week’s showdown in a southern Virginia district that tends to favor Republicans:
Utah Republicans search for their Romney replacement in Senate primary
Utah is one of those deep-red bastions in the United States, where the winner of the Republican primary is seen as almost certain to win the general election. That makes today’s primaries in the state all the more important, as they pit candidates aligned with Donald Trump against those who are less friendly to the former president, and could frustrate his agenda, should he return to the White House.
The race for its Senate seat is perhaps the most important of the day, as it will determine whether Republican senator and Trump foe Mitt Romney, who is retiring, is replaced by moderate congressman John Curtis, or one of several challengers who have vowed to support the ex-president’s preferred policies. Curtis is perhaps most notable for being one of the few Republicans in Congress who supports some measures to fight the climate crisis.
Elsewhere on the ballot, Utah Republicans will decide whether to renominate governor Spencer Cox, another moderate, and who should take over Curtis’s seat in Congress.
Here’s more from the Associated Press on what we can expect from the Beehive state (yes, that’s its nickname):
The primary duel between GOP factions will test whether Trump’s influence and appeal have grown among Republican voters in Utah, a rare Republican stronghold that half-heartedly embraced the former president in past elections.
A suburban mayor, Trent Staggs, who rode Trump’s endorsement to a GOP convention nomination for Romney’s seat, is hoping it will also propel him past U.S. Rep. John Curtis, the more moderate front-runner in Tuesday’s primary.
Curtis has pitched himself as the alternative to Staggs, the mayor Riverton, and two other contenders who have spent much of the race arguing over whose policy positions most closely align with Trump’s.
Curtis, the former mayor of Provo who started out as a county-level Democratic Party official, is the only Republican in the race who has not outright endorsed Trump’s reelection bid. He has been compared to Romney for pushing back against more extreme members of his party, particularly on climate change.
Another candidate for the seat, former state House Speaker Brad Wilson, has the financial advantage after loaning his campaign $3 million. He was considered a strong contender before a loss to Staggs at the April convention relegated him to a long shot in the primary. Jason Walton, who has pitched himself as a businessman in the style of Trump, is also running.
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Meanwhile, in Florida, a hearing that could determine the trajectory of Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of concealing classified documents is ongoing, with the former president’s lawyers making potentially pivotal arguments. Here’s more, from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell:
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case for retaining classified documents is expected on Tuesday to weigh a brazen attempt by the former president to prevent special counsel prosecutors from using some of the most incriminating evidence against him at trial.
The Trump lawyers will first argue at a sealed hearing that prosecutors’ access to transcripts of voice memos made by Trump’s ex-lawyer Evan Corcoran – which constitute key evidence of obstruction – should be entirely revoked, according to people familiar with the matter.
And the Trump lawyers will later argue to the US district judge Aileen Cannon that prosecutors should be barred from using the 101 classified documents the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 because the search warrant used to seize them was improperly obtained.
The two-part request in federal district court in Fort Pierce, Florida, amounts to an audacious attempt by Trump’s lawyers to suppress evidence that would face serious difficulty in front of any other judge.
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Donald Trump has been handing out endorsements left and right in congressional primaries across the country, but there’s one big choice he has not yet publicly made. That would be his pick of running mate, but as the Guardian’s David Smith reports, there have been some hints as to who he may choose:
The guessing game is nearly over. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has said he has made a decision about who his running mate will be in November – but has yet to tell anyone who it is. Trump is expected to make the announcement any time between now and the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, starting on 15 July.
Once again, the Republican primaries demonstrated Trump’s strength among white men in rural areas, leading to speculation that he will choose a woman or person of colour to broaden his appeal in November. But media reports suggest that he is leaning towards North Dakota’s governor, Doug Burgum, and the Ohio senator JD Vance – both white men. Then again, Trump loves nothing more than suspense and the element of surprise.
Here are some factors to consider and a look at the likely contenders.
Donald Trump’s influence looms large in Republican politics, with Lauren Boebert’s primary race no exception.
The Colorado congresswoman has been eager to point out that she has the former president’s endorsement:
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert is a Proven Conservative and Effective Leader who delivers for Colorado, and our America First agenda. She has led the fight to Impeach Joe Biden, Stop Illegal Immigration, Defend the Second Amendment, Protect our Wonderful Ranchers and… pic.twitter.com/xnB9HAQwD9
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 22, 2024
From Boebert's fate to control of Congress, much at stake in Colorado primaries
Who is the opposite of Jamaal Bowman? A good case could be made for that person being Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado who is on the other side of pretty much every issue from the progressive New Yorker.
But there’s one thing they have in common: both will be fighting to return to Congress in today’s primaries, though Boebert appears to have a better shot than her Democratic counterpart.
After almost losing re-election to a Democrat in 2022 and then being tarred by a series of personal scandals that put her further at risk of being dumped by voters, Boebert has moved to an even more staunchly Republican district than the one she previously represented, an appears to have a path to victory.
Her race will be one of several in Colorado that could play a part in deciding whether Republicans are able to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the forthcoming Congress, which kicks off in January 2025.
Here’s more from the Guardian’s Lois Beckett on why today’s primaries in the Centennial state are so important:
Colorado’s primary elections on Tuesday will choose the winners in several bitter intraparty fights between the state’s Republicans, including in two competitive House districts that could help determine control of Congress in November.
Despite a series of personal scandals, Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican who narrowly avoided defeat in 2022, is favored to win out over a crowded field of other Republican primary candidates in Ken Buck’s former congressional district, the fourth, which leans more heavily Republican.
In Boebert’s former district, Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within 546 votes of defeating her in 2022, is likely to face a tighter race against the winner of the Republican primary there. Voters in the district supported Trump with 53% of the vote in 2016 and 2020.
Frisch’s potential opponents include Jeff Hurd, who is seen as a more old-school and mainstream Republican, and Ron Hanks, a self-described “pro-Trump warrior” who attended the 6 January 2021 rally that preceded the attack on the US Capitol and went on to claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. Hanks has said publicly that he did not participate in the breaching of the US Capitol. His Republican colleagues declined to censure him for his actions on that day, Colorado Public Radio reported in 2021, and his current primary bid for Congress has been endorsed by the state Republican party.
Colorado’s most competitive US House race this fall will probably be in the eighth congressional district, where first-term congresswoman Yadira Caraveo is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. Her Republican opponent will be either state representative Gabe Evans, an army veteran and former police officer, or former state representative Janak Joshi, a retired physician who has the state party’s endorsement.
Colorado’s primary landscape was reshaped by the sudden resignation this March of Buck, a former Republican congressman and staunch conservative. Buck cited his frustration with his own party in his resignation, telling CNN: “Instead of having decorum – instead of acting in a professional manner – this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense.”
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Over the weekend, some of the most prominent progressive Democrats in the country rallied to Jamaal Bowman’s aid in the Bronx, and the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt was there. We’ll find out later today if it is enough for him to win his primary:
It was one of the hottest days of the year in New York City on Saturday – but as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the stage in the Bronx, you wouldn’t know it.
At a rally to support Jamaal Bowman, the progressive Democrat facing a primary campaign that has seen pro-Israel lobbying groups pump more than $15m into the race, Ocasio-Cortez was amped up.
Bowman’s fellow progressive member of Congress – one of America’s most recognizable politicians – sprinted on to the stage and jumped around to a Cardi B track, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd.
“Let’s go, Bronx!” she shouted.
“Are you ready to fight? Are you ready to take this borough back? Are you ready to win this country back? Are you ready to fight for peace on earth and ceasefire in Gaza?”
The reception from the crowd of more than 1,000 people suggested that the crowd was very ready.
Progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman makes potential last stand in New York primary
Jamaal Bowman may be the first member of the Squad group of progressive Democrats to be ousted from office, as polls show him trailing centrist George Latimer in a race that has become the most expensive House primary ever.
Looming over the New York lawmaker’s primary challenge is his opposition to aiding Israel, driven by concerns over civilian deaths in its invasion of Gaza. That has sparked the ire of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has poured millions into defeating Bowman, who has himself raised millions more to keep his seat.
Polling of such small areas as Bowman’s suburban New York City congressional district can be unreliable, but one of the surveys that is out there shows Bowman trailing Latimer by a big margin. Here’s the latest on the clash, from the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt:
Voters will render their verdict on Tuesday in what has become the most expensive House primary in history, as a progressive incumbent Democrat faces a primary challenge from a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups.
Jamaal Bowman, the congressman for New York’s 16th district, has faced a vigorous challenge from George Latimer after Bowman criticized Israel’s war on Gaza.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and an affiliated group have spent almost $15m to defeat Bowman, a former school principal elected in 2020, and the organization has said it will spend $100m this year on trying to oust politicians it deems to be anti-Israel.
Local polling can be unreliable, but a survey in early June had Bowman trailing Latimer, a longtime local politician and vocal advocate for Israel, by 17 points – suggesting that Aipac’s strategy might be working.
Bowman, whose heavily Democratic district includes parts of the Bronx in New York City and half of Westchester county, just to the north, appeared with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders at a rally on Sunday, as progressive Democrats launched a last-ditch attempt to drive people to the polls.
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Voters to decide fates of progressive and far-right lawmakers as states hold primaries nationwide
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today is primary day in New York, Colorado and Utah, where voters will cast ballots in races that could help determine the ideological bent of the next Congress. The outcomes of these contests could, in turn, determine how contentious issues such as military aid to Ukraine are handled by lawmakers next year, and how prone the next Congress is to getting into standoffs that result in government shutdowns – a favorite tactic of recalcitrant Congress members in recent years. Of all the offices up for grabs, there are two that will be getting a lot of attention. In New York City’s suburbs, progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman is fighting for his seat against centrist George Latimer, in a race where Bowman’s opposition to aiding Israel has become a major issue. In rural Colorado, far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert is looking to win the Republican primary in a different, more conservative district than the one she currently holds, to shore up support rocked by a series of missteps and questionable deeds.
South Carolina will also hold runoffs today, and we’ll get the first results there, beginning at 7pm ET. We’ll tell you more about the races to be decided as the day goes on.
Here’s what else is happening:
Joe Biden remains at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, with nothing public on his schedule. Reports say that he has been spending his time preparing for his debate against Donald Trump on Thursday.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is on his way to Saipan to complete the terms of the plea agreement that will end his lengthy legal saga. Follow our live blog for the latest.
Two years ago, Congress passed a bipartisan law making some modest gun safety reforms in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. Gun violence remains common and deadly in the United States.
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