The first six jurors were selected in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday afternoon, after a two-day process, whittled down from a potential 96 potential candidates.
A prominent group of Republicans who oppose Donald Trump are on a mission to convince voters who backed the former president in both 2016 and 2020 to switch their support to President Joe Biden in 2024 — and they're spending a lot of money to help in their effort. Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) announced a $50 million multi-platform ad campaign that is designed "both to troll the twice-impeached, four times-indicted ex-president and to genuinely reach out to his most loyal supporters,"...
As Donald Trump fronts up to a Manhattan court this week for his latest lawfare flogging from Democrats, Biden boosters are doing their best to trumpet a poll turnaround for the president.
We’re only one week into the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, yet he and his MAGA allies are already intervening to identify and drive off the jury anyone they think could pose a risk to the former president. At Fox News, host Jesse Watters has launched attacks on the jurors, saying at one point that any juror who says they can be unbiased in the case is a liar, and citing Trump’s legal team as having uncovered potential jurors who were “undercover activists.” Trump himself quickly...
When Fox News correspondent CB Cotton attempted to interview some of the anti-Israel protesters milling about on Columbia University's campus in Upper Manhattan, she was confronted and told to speak with an unidentified "media team." Cotton, who said she was permitted to film on campus by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, asked the protesters to elaborate on their demands to no avail. Reporting on "The Ingraham Angle," Cotton told guest host Pete Hegseth she wanted to attempt to...
Crucially, it allows the New York City Sherriff to deputize NYPD officers to close down stores, giving a much-needed manpower boost to enforcement of weed laws.
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by Wm. Steven Humphrey The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! It's Thursday, April 18, and HOW MANY SLICES OF PIZZA HAVE YOU CRAMMED IN YOUR MOUTH THIS WEEK? Since there are more than 50 local...
U.S. media, Congress, and the citizens who elected them own some of the media fail. Why aren’t we demanding more protection of our personal data in order to protect our democracy?
As is so often the case with Bidenomics, even good news is bad news because of the upward inflationary pressure.
Trump, who owns a majority stake in Trump Media and Technology Group, is due to receive an additional 36 million shares of the company on Tuesday.
The shares have already fallen nearly 60% since it first went public after a blank-check merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp.