It's been over two months since Tyler Boebert was arrested on felony theft charges, and he still doesn't have a lawyer.

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Representative Lauren Boebert’s eldest son appeared in court today, May 9, to announce whether he’s scrounged up enough cash to hire a lawyer to represent him in his felony theft case, or if he's decided to get a public defender — neither of which he's figured out yet, to the judge's dismay.

“I have now sent...um, I can’t remember what...like, the document to sign up for a public defender," Tyler told 9th Judicial District Judge John F. Neiley. "I’ve sent it in. I haven’t gotten a message back, but it was very recently. It was only a couple days ago."

Back on April 11, Neiley had instructed Tyler to apply for a public defender right away in order to save time while he looked for an attorney in his price range after the nineteen-year-old claimed he was having a hard time affording one.

"I wish you had turned in that application a little sooner," Neiley told Tyler. "If you’ve done that, you just have to wait for the public defender to make their decision. We can continue it to the June 13 docket."

https://www.westword.com/news/lauren-boebert-son-still-doesnt-have-lawyer-20664602

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: President Biden tells @ErinBurnett that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the U.S. will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons

DETROIT -- The first-ever tornado emergency in Michigan was issued Tuesday, one of many called across the country in recent weeks as severe weather tears through states in the Plains and Midwest. As massive storms barrel East, homes and property have been destroyed and thousands of people have gone without power.

The National Weather Service called an emergency for areas of Michigan on Tuesday evening amid forecasts of a damaging tornado and hail. At the time, other spots in Michigan and portions of Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri were also under a tornado watch. Tuesday's severe weather followed an ugly twister that battered a small Oklahoma town and killed at least one person a day earlier.

Tornado emergencies were also called in Nebraska and Iowa late last month. During those storms, tornadoes flattened homes in suburban Omaha, Nebraska, and northeast, a small city of Minden, Iowa, also sustained damage.

Tuesday marked the 6th emergency issued in the U.S. this year. There were 15 issued in 2023.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tornado-emergency-warning-watch-110030874

BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

Viral videos show Fox Theatre balcony bouncing, officials say no sweat

On Tuesday morning, social media was lit up with footage from Monday night's Gunna concert at Detroit's Fox Theatre, which showed the balcony of the nearly 100-year-old building wobbling as fans jumped up and down during the show.

Local concert fans know that's how it goes at the Fox, and venue operators Ilitch Sports and Entertainment released a statement Tuesday saying the balcony was built to flex and withstand such activity, just as it has for decades.

"The type of movement seen at the recent Fox Theatre concert is common and expected on free-standing balcony structures, to support audience members actively dancing, as shown during last night’s concert," the company said in a statement. "This capability is an integral part of the balcony’s structural engineering design. Regular inspections, most recently conducted in April, are completed to ensure the integrity and safety of the structure."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/05/07/viral-videos-show-fox-theatre-balcony-bouncing-officials-say-no-sweat/73599692007/

House Democrats are challenging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to cracking down on campus antisemitism, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: House Republicans held a vote on an antisemitism bill last week that Democrats complained was inadequate to address the issue and geared toward dividing the left.

Driving the news: Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) is introducing another bill, first obtained by Axios, to provide $280 million to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

The office is in charge of enforcing federal laws against discrimination at schools, including antisemitism and Islamophobia.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/democrats-mike-johnson-college-antisemitism