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And now, after three trials, we have secured the convictions of leaders of both the proud boys and the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy, specifically conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power.

Four members of the far right proud boys, including the group's leader and re-katerio, have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6th insurrection.

They face decades in prison. We'll get the latest.

Then to the rape and battery civil trial of Donald Trump. On Thursday, lawyers on both sides rested their cases without Trump's lawyer calling any witnesses.

The cross-examination has drawn on all sorts of myths and misperceptions about how victims behave and we'll see if the jury is able to discard some of that and judge credibility based on the evidence.

And then to freedom to learn.

Protest were held across the country this week against right-wing efforts to ban books and anti-racism education in schools.

In Florida, 14 members of the Dream Defenders were arrested for staging a peaceful sit-in inside the Office of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

So we're going to sit here until Ron DeSantis Danes to come back to his office to meet with the people of Florida who have been directly affected by his nonsense.

And his hate. And his panoring and his petty BS.

We'll speak with a Dream Defender as well as Professor Kimberly Crenshaw, all that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war in peace report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Fighting in Sudan's Capitol Cartoon has intensified as the Sudanese Army battles the Rapid Support Forces Power Military Group for Strategic Locations.

The UN's top humanitarian official Martin Griffiths arrived in Port Sudan this week where he called on combatants to allow the distribution of critically needed relief shipments to millions of civilians trapped by the fighting.

We need access. We need air lift. We need supplies that bring down the city. Well, through program today James informing six trucks of theirs which are going to tough for will lose it on who despite assurances of safety and security.

So it's a volatile environment.

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