What happened
Twelve states, led by Oregon, sued the Trump administration yesterday in the U.S. Court of International Trade, seeking to halt tariffs they said were illegal, arbitrary and damaging to their economies. California filed its own lawsuit against President Donald Trump's tariff policy in federal court last week.

Who said what
Only Congress can impose tariffs, the dozen state attorneys general argued in their lawsuit. Trump has "upended the constitutional order and brought chaos to the American economy" by "claiming the authority to impose immense and ever-changing tariffs on whatever goods entering the United States he chooses, for whatever reason he finds convenient to declare an emergency."

States "don’t have the luxury of standing by" as Trump "pushes an unlawful policy that drives up prices at the grocery store and spikes utility bills," Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (D) said in a statement. White House spokesperson Kush Desai called the lawsuit a "witch hunt" by Democrats and said the administration "remains committed to using its full legal authority to confront the distinct national emergencies our country is currently facing."

What next?
Trump's poll numbers continue to slide — only 37% of Americans approved of his handling of the economy in a Reuters poll released yesterday, while Gallup and a New York Times average of polls put his overall approval number at 44%, down from 52% in January. But "so far, the only force that has reliably prompted him to back down is Wall Street," The Wall Street Journal said.

What happened
William Shakespeare was not an absentee husband living in an unhappy marriage to Anne Hathaway, as the couple has been portrayed for the past 200 years, a British scholar argues in a study published yesterday in the journal Shakespeare. Instead, Matthew Steggle of the University of Bristol said, a letter fragment discovered in 1978 suggests the Shakespeares lived together in London during a fruitful decade in which the Bard wrote some of his most famous plays, including "Hamlet" and "Othello."

Who said what
Steggle's analysis "reads like a detective yarn set in the Elizabethan era," The Washington Post said. Over eight years, he followed the clues scattered through the letter to "Good Mrs. Shakspaire" of "Trinitie Lane." Steggle found that the subject of the letter, an orphan named John Butts, lived in London at the time, and there was a Trinity Lane in London — right across the Thames from Shakespeare's Globe Theater — but not in Stratford-upon-Avon, where Hathaway was traditionally believed to be "stashed" in a cottage while her husband was "living large as a lodger in swinging 1600s London," the Post said.

"For Shakespeare biographers who favor the narrative of the 'disastrous marriage' — in fact, for all Shakespeare biographers," Steggle said, the letter "should be a horrible, difficult problem."

What next?
Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence" but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia University, told the Post. It will likely "take some time for the smoke to clear and a new scholarly consensus" to emerge, but "if Steggle is correct," this "will overturn many accepted beliefs."