Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama announced Friday that Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, died. She was 86 years old. Barack Obama released a statement providing details of her life along with the wisdom she provided. “Marian Lois Shields Robinson — our mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother — had a way of […]
Donald Trump’s criminal conviction by a New York jury could aid Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference case against the former president. “When we think about the conviction of President Donald Trump, it doesn’t have a direct effect on the president’s trial in Georgia,” legal expert John Acevedo said in a statement to […]
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has criticized President Joe Biden and Democrats, but that did not prevent him from attending his team’s Super Bowl championship celebration at the White House. Biden, who later put on a Chiefs helmet, quipped with the players about their back-to-back titles, comparing it to November’s election. “Winning back-to-back, I kind […]
House and Senate leaders Friday asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress, a long-awaited invitation that is expected to cause friction between both parties and within the Democratic conference in particular. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority […]
Questions are being raised about the logistics of now-convicted felon former President Donald Trump’s political future. Thursday, Trump became the first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial after 12 jurors found him guilty of falsifying business records. The jury deliberated for over 11 hours before unanimously reaching their verdict. Here are your […]
A conservative faction of Republican senators on Friday promised to place more hurdles in front of President Joe Biden and Democratic priorities as retribution for former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction. The vow came a day after Trump’s 34-count felony conviction by a jury in his New York hush money trial, which the GOP senators […]
President Joe Biden claimed on Friday that Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out a repeat Oct. 7 attack as he urged the terrorist group to agree to Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal. The admission by the president seemingly represents a new milestone reached by the Israeli military in its efforts to ensure Hamas can […]
Former President Donald Trump gave his first major speech since his historic conviction, both denouncing the verdict and hitting on parts of his campaign message. Symbolically speaking from the spot where he first launched his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump lambasted the verdict against him and bashed President Joe Biden in a longwinded, and at […]
The “other” crime factor in Donald Trump‘s hush money case was a source of scrutiny throughout his trial, and now that the former president has been convicted, legal experts say it could serve as a basis for his appeal. Trump vowed Friday he would bring the appeal on “many different” grounds, and one could be the lack […]
President Joe Biden weighed in on former President Donald Trump‘s guilty verdict Friday afternoon, saying justice was served and should be respected. “It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said from the White House. “Our justice system has endured for […]
