Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all counts in his Manhattan hush money trial, marking the end of the first criminal trial of a former president as well as the first to end in a conviction. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, each of which carries a sentence of […]
Ade Salim Lilly, a 35-year-old man from Queens, New York, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of threatening to kill a congressional staff member and calling members of Congress more than 12,000 times in just over a 21-month period. He faces fines of up to $500,000 and a maximum seven-year prison sentence. In one call, Lilly […]
NEW YORK — In a historic verdict, former President Donald Trump has been found guilty by a 12-member jury in the criminal hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The case, which captured national attention, centered on allegations that Trump orchestrated illegal payments to silence women with potentially damaging information during his […]
The jury has reached a verdict in former President Donald Trump‘s hush money criminal trial in New York, and a decision will soon be read in court. The 12-person jury has been considering whether Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the alleged cover-up of hush money payments to porn […]
Federal prosecutors spent the past two days laying out the origin story of Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) alleged yearslong bribery scheme to a Manhattan jury. The government claims Menendez’s wife, Nadine Menendez’s, dire financial situation was the catalyst for what they said was a five-year bribery conspiracy. A federal indictment accuses the one-time power couple of accepting […]
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial announced Thursday afternoon he plans to excuse the jury at 4:30 p.m. as they continue their deliberations on a verdict this week. Judge Juan Merchan came int0 the courtroom just after 4:15 p.m. and said that he plans to excuse the jury soon […]
Service organization Daughters of the American Revolution is facing calls from its own members to stop allowing transgender women to become members. According to the New Tolerance Campaign, a petition website, some 500 current and former members have sent 3,000 messages regarding DAR’s change to its bylaws from last year. Members voted on changing the […]
Morgan & Morgan CEO John Morgan is lending his aid in the fight to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida, potentially signaling further political involvement in the future. The face of the iconic law firm has partnered with the nonprofit organization Smart and Safe Florida, which seeks to pass Amendment 3 to allow marijuana to be […]
Israel recently achieved “operational control” over the Philadelphi Corridor, the land border between Gaza and Egypt from the Gaza side, a potentially significant military maneuver in its effort to defeat Hamas. The buffer zone is about nine miles long and several hundred yards wide and extends the length of Gaza’s southern border from the Mediterranean […]
The Trucking Association of New York filed a lawsuit Thursday in a Manhattan federal court seeking to delay New York City’s congestion pricing policy on the grounds that it would unfairly charge truckers. The plan is slated to begin June 30, and could charge trucks up to $36 during peak hours against $15 for passenger […]
