A judge on Thursday said attorneys could begin delivering closing arguments in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money trial as early as Tuesday, clearing the way for the jury to begin deliberating on Trump’s fate by the end of the week. The schedule, if it holds, would mean a verdict on whether Trump falsified business […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed protester in 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin, Texas. The former U.S. Army sergeant was convicted in April 2023 for the killing of Garrett Foster. Working as an Uber driver, Perry said he […]
Senate Democrats on Thursday refiled a previously failed bipartisan border security bill in a bid to force Republicans to again oppose legislation they helped craft just months before the November election. But the Republican co-author of the measure will vote down the proposal this go-around and disparaged what he called a “nonserious” attempt to score […]
Nearly a dozen House Republicans showed up in Manhattan outside the courthouse of former President Donald Trump’s trial on Thursday, disrupting scheduled legislative business in the Capitol in the process. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), surrounded by fellow Republican lawmakers, said they were there to protest the gag order preventing Trump from speaking. “We are here […]
In a possible tease of his pick for running mate, presidential candidate Donald Trump echoed a school choice sentiment Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has repeatedly hailed. The former president called parental rights the “civil rights issue of our time” in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, a conviction that has formed the cornerstone of Scott’s […]
New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes and businessman Wael Hana might have given Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) expensive gifts, including a car, cash, and gold bars, but they weren’t bribes, a New York jury heard on Thursday. There is “nothing criminal about being generous,” Daibes’s lawyer, César de Castro, said. He added that the senator and real […]
Wisconsin election officials are working on ways to clear up confusion about a ballot that will allow voters to vote for both a special election and a regular election. Following former Rep. Mike Gallagher’s sudden resignation from Congress last month, Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District has remained vacant. Under Wisconsin law, if Gallagher had resigned before […]
A Republican who was running for West Virginia secretary of state has been hospitalized after suffering multiple snake bites while he removed campaign signs on Wednesday. Doug Skaff, originally a Democrat in the state’s House of Delegates who switched his affiliation to Republican to run, finished second in the Republican primary and is currently in […]
The House passed a resolution condemning President Joe Biden for his threats to withhold weapons shipments to Israel in a Republican-led vote that put Democrats at a crossroads on an issue that is set to become increasingly relevant ahead of the 2024 election. Lawmakers voted 224-187 to pass the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, which […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani thanked those who have supported his new show amid a recent shake-up, which involved him getting fired from his radio show on WABC in New York City. Giuliani’s recent firing occurred when John Catsimatidis, the owner of WABC, fired the former mayor due to his repeated claims that […]
