Trump takes advantage of the slow legal system. The justices will be at the heart of election-year debate for several more months due to the Supreme Court’s decision to consider Donald Trump’s argument that he should be exempt from criminal prosecution. This also means that a decision about Trump’s alleged manipulation of the 2020 election...
Congress faces a crucial budget deadline in four days, and there is still no obvious way to prevent a partial government shutdown at the last day of the week The package has not yet been unveiled, despite lawmakers’ hopes to share the language of a bipartisan spending agreement Sunday evening. There are still high-level policy...
While on the campaign trail in South Carolina on Friday, former president Donald Trump raised racial issues by drawing parallels between his legal struggles and the unfairness Black voters experience in the judicial system. He also claimed that Black voters would choose him over “Black president” Barack Obama. Speaking to a predominantly Black voters’ crowd,...
Donald Trump may lose some of his cherished properties if he fails to pay his massive New York civil fraud fines. He gives the state around $454 million, plus interest, and the balance is increasing by $87,502 every day until it is paid Attorney General Letitia James of New York told ABC News on Tuesday...
Former US President Jimmy Carter has been in hospice care for a year. As to a report in the New York Post, on February 18, 2023, Mr. Carter—who will turn 99 in October 2023—began receiving hospice care. In an interview with USA Today, the Carter family expressed their gratitude for the outpouring of affection they...
Donald Trump received his harshest penalty to date on Friday, as Judge Arthur Engoron fined the former president $355 million for inflating the prices of his properties. This adds to the $83 million verdict against Donald for defaming E. Jean Carroll, meaning that in the last four weeks, Trump has been penalized almost $438 million....
Republicans’ main effort to impeach President Joe Biden was thwarted after Special Counsel David Weiss accused a former FBI informant of lying about the president’s and his son Hunter Biden’s participation in financial transactions with the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. The 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov is accused of fabricating records and lying to the FBI....
Biden alleges that Trump is caving in to Putin by inciting Russia to attack NATO members who fail to fulfill their commitments. After Donald Trump said he would back Russia’s invasion of countries who break their NATO pledges, President Joe Biden slammed the former president on Tuesday, accusing him of giving in to Vladimir Putin....
In an effort to capitalize on the problem in an election year, Republicans have voted in favor of impeaching Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, on clearly political grounds pertaining to conditions at the southern border. With Speaker Mike Johnson’s shaky Republican majority and strong Democratic resistance to impeaching Mayorkas—the first cabinet secretary...
As Republican opponents staged a filibuster to express their unhappiness over a proposal they could not veto, the Senate was on pace this week to adopt a long-awaited package of military assistance for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan after several delays and much suspense. By a vote of 66-33, the Senate overcame a 60-vote gap to...