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Trump let loose outside court after the first day of jury selection as he became the first U.S. ex-president to stand criminal trial.
When Lauren Nelson returned home from a trip to Portugal in 2022, she was “on cloud nine.” It hadn’t been any regular holiday — she had just gotten married. She and her new husband, Darragh, as well as their young daughter, were celebrating the perfect week away when they found a lump on his bicep.
CNN’s Michael Smerconish asks, can Trump field a fair and impartial jury in Manhattan, where he won only 12.3% of the vote in 2020?
Pro-Palestinian Democrats in Congress are facing warning signs in several primary elections, even after one of their own survived a challenge from a pro-Israel Democrat on Tuesday.Representative Summer Lee, who represents Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District, beat back a challenge from Bhavini Patel, winning by roughly 20 points. The race was the first of several where a challenger has raised concerns about a progressive incumbent's critiques of Israel amid the ongoing conflict between...
The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a "Sopranos" episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation’s sins and troubling divisions, its characters converging in a New York courtroom where, for the first time in history, a former president will stand before a jury in a criminal trial. Donald Trump is giving the country another unruly moment to mark. There have been so many over the years — the Jan. 6 insurrection, the failed pandemic response — that they...
New York state law regarding media coverage of court proceedings is one of the most restrictive in the country.
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial secondhand. []
Donald Trump's attorneys can only do so much to keep their client off the witness stand, but in the end the former president will do what he wants, his former attorney said Monday. Jim Trusty, the attorney who bailed on Trump's classified documents, appeared on CNN to discuss the prospects of whether his ex-client should take the stand in his ongoing criminal hush money trial. "In terms of testifying on the witness stand — I'd say 'Look, let's make this about Michael Cohen and nothing...
CNN’s Laura Coates discusses the possibility of an unfair “sleeper” juror making their way into the Trump jury selection and attempt a mistrial later on.
Some claimants may not see the increase until as late as June due to the way the benefit is calculated
Brian Cox is giving his take on Joaquin Phoenix's performance in Ridley Scott's Napoleon and pondering on leaving the U.S. if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.