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Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen can testify at Trump hush money trial, judge rules
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, porn star Stormy Daniels, Playboy model Karen McDougal and a Trump Tower doorman — all of whom prosecutors allege Donald Trump paid to stay silent about a series of sex scandals to win the ...Read more
Pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.
DETROIT — Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan lawyer who has championed dubious claims of election fraud, was arrested in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon because of a bench warrant, according to a spokesman for the U.S. ...Read more
Trump can't come up with full $454 million bond owed NY attorney general while he appeals fraud ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump can’t come up with almost half a billion dollars he owes the New York attorney general for committing large-scale fraud, his lawyers told an appeals court Monday.
With one week to go before the...Read more
Trump, co-defendants ask to appeal judge's decision not to remove DA Willis
ATLANTA — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and seven co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case are asking a Superior Court judge for permission to appeal his recent decision that has kept ...Read more
Missouri attorney general says government censored social media. The Supreme Court seemed skeptical
WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, into a biting spring wind and declared that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media...Read more
Procedural hoops could drag wrapup spending bill into weekend
WASHINGTON — House GOP and Biden administration negotiators were closing in on a fiscal 2024 Homeland Security spending deal Monday, even as agencies face a potential brief appropriations lapse this weekend with time ...Read more
Former Georgia official Geoff Duncan passes on No Labels presidential bid
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he won’t launch a third-party presidential bid with the No Labels movement.
“It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all ...Read more
2,000 pages of 'confidential' Dominion emails dumped on social media
DETROIT — A new social media account using the name and photo of Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf released Sunday more than 2,100 pages of emails from employees of Dominion Voting Systems as the company maintained Leaf got ...Read more
Biden team eyes expanding map to Texas, Florida despite Trump leads
WASHINGTON — Biden campaign officials said Monday they see “multiple paths” to President Joe Biden winning reelection, targeting a handful of swing states — and even trying to grab states he lost to Donald Trump in...Read more
Trump tries to walk back rant, threat of 'bloodbath' if Biden beats him
Former President Trump scrambled Monday to walk back his weekend rant that the country would be plunged into a “BLOODBATH” if he doesn’t win back the White House.
After a day of controversy over his remarks, Trump ...Read more
Missouri says the Biden administration censored speech. The Supreme Court will judge
WASHINGTON — In March 2021, as COVID-19 vaccines were increasingly available to the general public, officials inside the Biden administration were growing frustrated.
The administration had launched an aggressive ...Read more
Supreme Court sounds reluctant to curb US social media outreach
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to allow Biden administration officials to communicate with social media companies, as multiple justices sounded skeptical that the government violated free speech ...Read more
The Biggest Contrast in the Upcoming Election (Other Than Democracy vs. "Blood in the Streets" Fascism)
One of my goals in this column is to give you the facts and analysis you need to make informed decisions, especially political ones — and equip you to spread the word to others. So here goes on social security.
During a...Read more
Jackie Calmes: One Trump puppet stands between Ukraine and the aid it needs
Speaker Mike Johnson in just months has all but cemented his place among the weakest House leaders in its history. Alas, the Louisianan nonetheless holds enough power that he's single-handedly blocking one of the most ...Read more
Robin Abcarian: Flamin' Hot Cheetos and iPhones are ruining my kid and yours
With apologies to Allen Ginsberg:
I am seeing the best minds of our middle-school generation destroyed by Flamin' Hot Cheetos and iPhones,
Teenagers on the cusp of young adulthood dragging themselves out of bed each day...Read more
Commentary: Fani Willis' prosecution of Donald Trump may be alive, but it isn't well
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s resignation Friday from the Georgia racketeering prosecution of Donald Trump and others was the right decision and, indeed, a virtually forced one. Judge Scott McAfee’s resolution of a ...Read more
Martin Schram: Through America's Looking Glass
It probably hasn’t dawned on you yet. But it will. Because what happened to Alice is happening to us all.
Our news screens have become our Looking-Glasses. And we are being sucked in by our own news screens. Just as ...Read more
John M. Crisp: The difference between a Trump victory and a Biden victory
It’s impossible to predict with confidence who will win the presidency of the United States in November 2024.
President Joe Biden seems likely to win the popular vote. He received 7 million more votes than Donald Trump ...Read more
Editorial: Chuck vs. Bibi: Schumer's gambit against Netanyahu
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — whom we knew back when he was Brooklyn Assemblyman Chuck Schumer and Congressman Chuck Schumer — wants Israel to hold new elections, and makes no secret that he thinks and hopes ...Read more
Biden and Trump, though old, are both likely to survive to the end of the next president’s term, demographers explain
In a recent poll, 67% of Americans surveyed believe that President Joe Biden, 81, is too old to serve another term as president. But only 41% of respondents said they feel that way about former President Donald Trump, ...Read more
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