NEW YORK — The legal framework that a Manhattan jury will use to evaluate the charges against former President Donald Trump will be unveiled by Judge Juan Merchan on Wednesday. The long-anticipated jury instructions will come nearly a week later than initially scheduled, amid widespread speculation about the precise legal criteria the jury will consider […]
The 2024 presidential election features a unique wrinkle in the form of Donald Trump‘s New York trial and three other legal cases pending against the former president. The trial, which is now in its final stages, opens up several scenarios that have never played out before. Can Trump become president if he’s convicted of a […]
Hunter Biden will stand trial next week on gun-related charges just as the GOP’s effort to untangle his web of foreign moneymaking fizzles out. While the political will to impeach President Joe Biden over any involvement in his family’s influence-peddling has all but disappeared, the belief that the Justice Department gave Hunter Biden favorable treatment […]
A North Carolina judge ruled that a woman who was convinced to transition from a girl to a boy as a 16-year-old could proceed with a lawsuit against the so-called “gender-affirming doctors” who treated her. Now 25 years old, Prisha Mosley filed her lawsuit in July 2023, suing multiple doctors who advised her to proceed […]
Senate Democrats are brushing off concerns that President Joe Biden will be a drag on the ticket in November even as the party’s most vulnerable incumbents distance themselves from the president. Biden’s low approval numbers, driven in part by his age and handling of the economy, have set off alarm bells from party operatives warning […]
Time is running out for President Joe Biden to change the public perception of his economic stewardship, with numerous allies worrying that inflation, regardless of the relative health of the economy, will hamper the president through the general election. For months, if not years, voters have given the president poor marks for his handling of […]
The Department of Defense needs to increase its defense spending significantly to meet current and future global threats, according to a new plan from Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The senator argues that the U.S. defense industrial base is underfunded and unprepared for future conflict, and in […]
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are making a concerted effort to reach out to black voters by launching “Black Voters for Biden-Harris,” a national organizing program. The campaign within a campaign comes as Biden and Harris struggle to generate enthusiasm among a voter demographic that has supported them, and Democrats more broadly, […]
The political legacy of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and the rest of his family has been temporarily salvaged after one of his siblings won their respective primary elections in Texas, possibly giving hope to the incumbent Democrat as he fights for his own reelection in November. Martin Cuellar won his runoff as he seeks reelection […]
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark announced on Tuesday that it would divest from companies doing business in the West Bank. The university’s decision came after meeting with anti-Israel protesters. Starting on May 29, the University of Copenhagen will divest about 1 million Danish crowns (an equivalent to $145,810) from its holdings in Booking.com, eDreams, […]
