NEW YORK — A crucial witness in the hush money trial against Donald Trump testified on Tuesday during questioning by prosecutors about the frantic efforts Michael Cohen allegedly made to shut down stories that would be “embarrassing” to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The witness, David Pecker, was a longtime publisher of the National Enquirer, and on the […]
Foxtrot Markets announced it was closing all of its locations by the end of Tuesday, marking an end to the high-end convenience store chain. The closure comes less than six months after Foxtrot Markets merged with Dom’s Kitchen & Market, which is also closing its two locations. Foxtrot had 33 stores spread out across Chicago, […]
President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump for “making a deal with MAGA extremists” that led to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision tearing down federal abortion protections included in Roe v. Wade. Biden has spent months tying Trump and the three Supreme Court justices he nominated to a rash of state abortion bans enacted […]
Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has an opinion on her state’s Civil War-era abortion ban. However, her public opinion has morphed several times recently. In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake said the state’s abortion law, which bans nearly all abortions, will “unfortunately” not be enforced, seemingly changing her previous negative statements on the law. “The […]
The number of Chinese citizens coming across the southern border from Mexico has skyrocketed to the fastest-growing demographic of illegal immigrants in recent months, triggering serious concerns among lawmakers in Washington. Tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants have been arrested by Border Patrol agents over the past year, far beyond the hundreds to a couple […]
The Department of Defense confirmed that U.S. troops were the target of attacks by militias in Iraq and Syria recently. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder affirmed on Tuesday that the two attacks on April 22 were unsuccessful, injured no one, and that it was the first time these Iranian-supported militias carried out an attack […]
An Oklahoma father shot and killed his wife and three of his children on Monday in what police believe was a mass murder-suicide. He left his 10-year-old son, who was unharmed in the shooting, an orphan. Jonathan Candy, 42, allegedly shot his wife Lindsay, 39, multiple times in their Yukon home following an “altercation” between […]
Russia has deployed a “shadow fleet” of oil tankers in the Baltic Sea to circumvent economic sanctions and also engage in espionage, according to a top Swedish military official. “We are finding antennas and masts that typically do not belong to, for example, fishing vessels, so it is clear that we feel that there are […]
Two California lawmakers have proposed bipartisan legislation that would ban Clear, a biometric travel document verification system, from airports across the state. State Sen. Josh Newman, a Democrat from Orange County and the sponsor of the legislation, said Clear effectively allows wealthy people to skip the line over those waiting to be screened by the […]
California lawmakers struck down a proposal on Monday that would have further regulated how utility companies spend money in the state. According to consumer groups, utility companies are exploiting loopholes in rules surrounding illicit spending on advertising and lobbying with customer money. The new legislation would have worked toward closing those loopholes and levying fines […]
