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The U.S. Supreme Court spent much of Thursday, April 25 listening to opposing oral arguments in Donald Trump's absolute immunity case.The former president claims that because he enjoyed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution when he was in the White House, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's election interference indictment is illegitimate and needs to be thrown out. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, assigned to Smith's case, has flatly rejected Trump's absolute...
A potential ballot measure enshrining abortion rights in Nevada is one step closer to appearing before voters in November after the state Supreme Court ruled in its favor over the language of the proposed ballot initiative. A lower court had sided with the Coalition for Parents and Children in its argument that the ballot question, […]
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania House Democrats are proposing a process to determine if state representatives are “incapacitated” and to sanction or expel them. The rule change was proposed by Democratic floor leader Rep. Matt Bradford on Thursday. It’s being made in response to Democratic Rep. Kevin Boyle of Philadelphia
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia 's governing conservatives convincingly won a highly contested parliamentary election Wednesday, but will still need support from far-right groups to stay in power, according to the official vote count. The election followed a campaign that centered on a bitter rivalry between the country's president and prime minister. The ballot pitted []
By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Late Thursday night, the House Rules Committee passed a series of foreign aid bills out of committee using Democratic support, in a sign that Republicans in the chamber will need to rely on Democrats to pass the legislation. Three Republicans – Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s orders during the COVID-19 pandemic that directed standalone bars to remain shuttered for safety while restaurants that serve alcohol got to reopen were “illogical” and violated the state constitution, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Beneath the surface of Pennsylvania’s mostly sleepy, boring, low-turnout primary Tuesday was a trend that has stalked Joe Biden and Donald Trump across the country over the past month: a substantial protest vote. This time, though, the candidate who drew more attention for the protest he faced was not the current president but the former one. Trump got about 36,000 more protest votes than Biden, even though Biden faced an organized protest campaign from left-wing critics of his policy on Israel...
Graphic content showing the stabbing of a Sydney bishop will remain hidden on social media platform X for at least the next fortnight, following a stoush over the visibility of the video. The Federal Court on Wednesday extended an injunction requiring X, formerly known as Twitter, to hide video showing the stabbing of Bishop Mar […]
Donald Trump suffered a blow in the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans refused to vote for him despite being the presumptive GOP nominee.The former president won the primary race in the key swing state with 83.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 786,000 votes.However, Nikki Haley, who ended her campaign for the White House after Super Tuesday in March, still received 16.5 percent of the vote, equating to more than 155,000 ballots.The ContextTrump has...
Possible warning signs have emerged for the former president in his bid to
The court will investigate crimes against humanity committed during the African country’s two civil wars between 1989 and 2003Senators in Liberia have voted overwhelmingly to establish a war crimes court, two decades after civil conflict ended in the west African country.The new court will investigate and try crimes against humanity and corruption committed during Liberia’s two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which killed up to 250,000 people. Continue reading