Douglas Brinkley and the lesson of Trump's guilty verdict
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Two years shy of this country's 250th birthday, 12 New York jurors have convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 counts for falsifying business records in an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
When the guilty verdicts were read this past week, America—in a tangible way—rechristened itself as a republic.
It was a sobering reminder that every American is precisely equal before the law.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.