• Six pivotal battlegrounds in 2024 presidential election

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump clinched enough support last week to become the standard-bearers for their parties in November's presidential election. Under the U.S. Constitution, each of the 50 states holds its own vote for the next commander-in-chief and candidates are awarded "electors" from each state according to its size. With candidates needing 270 electors to win the White House, elections tend to be decided in the hotly-contested "swing states" with a...

  • 'Smaller sacrifice': Peter Navarro compares himself to soldiers as he readies for prison

    A day before he's set to surrender and serve a four-month sentence in federal prison, former President Donald Trump's adviser Peter Navarro described himself as a MAGA martyr in an interview with Don Trump Jr. "You're literally reporting to prison tomorrow and yet you're here and talking about MAGA principles for the next term," Trump Jr. said during an episode of his Rumble show "Triggered" Monday. "Just so people understand the kind of warrior you actually are."And Navarro, who served in...

  • 'Those are his babies': Ex-Trump aide names properties he would be 'devastated' to lose

    A former spokesperson for Donald Trump revealed he has a handful of real estate properties that he considers his "babies" — and if New York Attorney General Letitia James seized them, it would leave the former president 'devastated." Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House communications director from July 2019 until April 2020, was talking to CNN's Erin Burnett Monday after Trump's lawyers revealed they have been unable to secure a bond to cover the $464 million in damages he owes...

  • 'Legally insane': Judge Cannon's latest filing slammed by experts as 'utterly nuts'

    Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be inviting a future jury to pore over Donald Trump's seized classified materials — despite them being national secrets — while putting constraints on her own duties. In her most recent filing Monday, Cannon also wants to task jurors with figuring out if the former president can rightfully consider the documents as his personal property — a claim she is supposed to be deciding after he used it as an argument for his case to be dismissed."In prosecution of a former...

  • 'Practically impossible': Trump lashes out hours after revelation he can't pay $464M bond

    Donald Trump hit back Monday night after his lawyers revealed he couldn't pay his $464 million fraud trial bond.In a post to Truth Social, he claimed that it wasn't that he couldn't find a company willing to underwrite a bond of that amount of money — it's that no company possibly could.His lawyers told the court earlier that day that they had approached 30 underwriters to back the bond, which he needs to pay by the end of the month. And none of them were willing to do so, claiming that property...

  • Elon Musk defends ketamine use, dismisses investor worries

    WASHINGTON — Elon Musk suggested his use of drugs benefits Tesla investors in an interview released Monday, saying he takes prescribed ketamine to treat his "negative frame of mind." The 52-year-old tycoon confirmed he takes the anesthetic — typically used for pain management and to treat depression -- following reports in the US media that his drug use was spooking investors. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one outside out of a negative frame of mind," Musk told former CNN host Don Lemon in an...

  • Trump insiders worry as critical small-dollar donors abandon his campaign: report

    While Donald Trump's team may be courting big-dollar donors like Elon Musk to catch up with President Joe Biden's war chest, the warning bells are sounding for an erosion in small-dollar donors. Trump's campaign team is quietly vexed about the lack of the smaller donors that buoyed the former president to the White House back in 2016, according to a CNBC report that cites members of Trump's inner sanctum. Trump’s campaign reported raising just $3 million from small-dollar donors in January this...

  • Trump called out for tactic of using ‘vague terms' so he can backtrack from outrage

    Writing with former ethics czar Norm Eisen, authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned that one of Donald Trump's key tactics is talking with such vague generalities that he can't be pinned down to answer for anything — including his most violent rhetoric. Ben-Ghiat included Trump in her book about dictators, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present."Trump left many shocked Saturday when, at a speech in Ohio, he warned there was going "to be a bloodbath." His supporters said he was referring...

  • 'The feeling is mutual': Trump blasted over attack on Jewish Democrats

    Donald Trump targeted Jews who vote Democratic Monday, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office. His remarks, which include claiming Jewish Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quickly labeled antisemitic.“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump on Monday told far right wing radio host Sebastian Gorka, who alleged the Joe Biden administration and Democratic Senate Majority...

  • Brutal primary battle is putting the value of Trump's endorsement to the test: report

    A political race in Ohio is putting Donald Trump's influence over the Republican Party to the test after he endorsed car dealership owner Bernie Moreno in a three-way race against State Senator Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose. All candidates are Republicans. The polls show the race to be close, with single digits separating the candidates as they begin to ramp up mudslinging, with Moreno's allies accusing LaRose of being soft on transgender rights and LaRose's team bringing up a...

  • 'Playing with his head': Ex-senator says Trump's debt humiliation is feeding angry speech

    Donald Trump's rhetoric is growing increasingly violent, says one former lawmaker, and it might be due to the psychological impact the four trials are having on him. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, former Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, explained that it has been evident that Trump "is a deeply insecure man," and it doesn't take a "psychologist or psychiatrist" to see it. Having to admit, as he did Monday, that he doesn't have cash on hand to pay the $464 million bond owed after his New...

  • The human egg locks like Fort Knox after it’s fertilized. Scientists finally find out how

    During a single ejaculation, millions of sperm embark on their arduous journey to the egg. On the way, numerous challenges await. These include an acidic environment in the vagina, the cervix’s mucus which can act as a barrier or filter, the many wrong turns within the uterus, and the final challenge of penetrating the egg itself which is encased in a protective layer called the zona pellucida. Only a few hundred lucky sperm actually make it close to the egg. But, in the end, there is only one...