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McDonald signed the California Humanities council letter, which was reviewed by The Times and read in part: “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible.”

In a remarkable statement later read in court by Joanne Sharkey's barrister, Neil Sharkey himself described how he was "not the greatest husband and father" and how he "blamed himself" for what had happened.

Messages between the girl and one of her friends, read in court, shared a discussion about what she had told her co-defendant about an unrelated, planned fight.

But read in the context of someone who is taking decisions with big consequences for many, many people's lives while at the same time being someone who has faced awkward questions about her own job history and CV, this may be Reeves' way of telling us that she's feeling the heat.

"Today, Attorney General James Uthmeier threw ethics law out of the window when he publicly took a side in an ongoing Florida lawsuit where Andrew and Tristan Tate are suing a Florida woman for orchestrating a sophisticated plot to use sex as a weapon to ruin their lives," the statement read in part.