• 'Very interesting': Ex-prosecutor flags Trump trial attendee that's 'worth following'

    Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on.This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020...

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    Informatica says it's not for sale, following Salesforce's reported interest in $10 billion deal

    Informatica said Monday it was not currently in talks to sell itself, pouring cold water on reports that Salesforce was discussing a roughly $10 billion deal.

  • Melania Trump's former press secretary claims Hope Hicks and Sarah Sanders called to see how the first lady was 'dealing' with Karen McDougal affair rumors but didn't share details of the National Enquirer 'deal'

    Stephanie Grisham made revealation during Pecker's testimony in Trump trial. 'Funny, they'd call me a lot to find out how MT was reacting to all the Clifford/McDougal news, but didn't bother to share any of this,' she said. Follow DailyMail.com's live blog of Trump's trial

  • Five arrested in Springfield following drug dealing operation

    Five people were arrested in Springfield as part of a joint operation to combat street-level drug dealing within the city.

  • Trump and Biden both say they're tough on China. But whom would Beijing prefer to deal with?

    No matter who wins the U.S. election in November, for China it’s lose-lose. With mistrust between the two nations deepening, both President Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump have sought to cast themselves as hard-line negotiators who will stand tough against China’s rise. And with both candidates vying to prove their mettle on dealing with China, experts are divided on which would ultimately harm Beijing’s interests more. “There’s no best-case scenario. There’s only the bad...

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    Opinion: Trump’s refusal to follow gag order could cost him

    Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday’s opening of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial was the juxtaposition between the extraordinary and the humdrum, with the judge and jury going through all the usual motions that I have seen hundreds of times – but doing them with a former president in the dock for the first time ever. Tuesday morning, however, will be something I have never seen before in my three decades of criminal law practice. After court comes into session at 9:30...

  • Inflation is down again – but don’t expect interest rates to follow suit

    Interest rate cuts are beginning to look like a mirage: the closer we seem to get to them the more…What to read next: Scrapping Ofsted would suit teachers – but be terrible for children | Why one-man plays are all the rage | Are we really reaching ‘farmaggedon’? | The irresponsibility of ‘two years to save the planet’

  • Granderson: Arizona's indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history

    I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city is also the state that did not want a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps the cultural pendulum swings so drastically because the population shifts depending on the time of year — shoutout to you snowbirds. Whatever the season, though, Arizona is not a liberal epicenter like New York. To get...

  • 'Trump has a big beautiful plane': Spokesperson explains strategy to deal with trials

    Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the former president was going to win the 2024 election despite his trials because he has a "big beautiful plane." Leavitt made the remarks Sunday on Fox & Friends after Donald Trump held a Saturday night rally in Pennsylvania. "The Americans have never had a stronger contrast than the one they will have on the ballot before them on November the 5th," Leavitt told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "President Trump has never been in a...

  • Why Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump's hush-money trial

    Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past personal foibles reemerged in the trial of former President Trump over allegations of a hush-money payment to a porn star in an attempt to cover up their sexual relationship. Former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker testified Thursday that he was reluctant to pay off a Playboy model who claimed to have an extramarital affair with Trump because of his experience with Schwarzenegger during his 2003 gubernatorial campaign. “A number of...

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    Ex-National Enquirer publisher dishes on seedy media deals with Trump, celebs

    Former President Trump had a busy legal day Thursday as the Supreme Court weighed presidential immunity arguments while his criminal hush money case continued in New York. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, was back on the stand for a full day in Manhattan where he continued providing a timeline of his []

  • Ex-National Enquirer publisher dishes on seedy media deals with Trump, celebs

    Former President Trump had a busy legal day Thursday as the Supreme Court weighed presidential immunity arguments while his criminal hush money case continued in New York. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, was back on the stand for a full day in Manhattan where he continued providing a timeline of his []