Ten years ago, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served under Barack Obama and George W. Bush, wrote a memoir in which he offered a damning assessment of Joe Biden's foreign policy.
A dozen jurors were chosen for Trump’s hush-money trial in April 2024.
Former President Donald Trump experienced a fresh form of humiliation during the second day of his criminal hush money trial, listening to a cavalcade of negative social media posts about him without reacting, according to new piece from Daily Beast writer David Mack. Mack revels in "the Joy of making Trump listen to mean tweets About himself" in his new op-ed."The vicious, thin-skinned ex-president was forced to endure readings of social media posts by prospective jurors that mercilessly mocked...
While criminal trials often have dramatic moments, the process of selecting a jury isn’t exactly riveting. An NBC News report on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial noted, “The quest to find a jury of 12 people and six alternates got off to a slow start Monday, as more than half of the 96 potential jurors summoned to the Manhattan courtroom said they couldn’t be ‘fair and impartial’" when it comes to the former president. But as the day got underway in New York, one of the presumptive...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who faces []
The Supreme Court is questioning whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Capitol riot.
A Fox personality’s social media post on Monday is raising eyebrows, as one U.S. Congressman calls it “jury tampering” and a legal expert suggests it could be “conspiring to commit jury tampering.”Clay Travis is an attorney and the founder of the conservative “sports and American culture” website Outkick, which was purchased by the Fox Corporation in 2021.His Fox News bio calls him “the founder of the fastest-growing national multimedia platform,” and, “One of the most electrifying and outspoken...
State Representative Angelo Puppolo is calling for a solar company to reconsider their proposal to build a solar array in the Sixteen Acres neighborhood due to concerns over excess water in the area.
Colr. Hutton said some of the people who were in the vehicles targeted at the weekend were left shaken after their vehicles were pelted with the balloons filled with water while in motion. She said: "I was contacted by a number of constituents over the weekend who had their cars attacked travelling through the area. "In around the Lecky Road Flyover has some of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the city and I am afraid we will see a major accident if these attacks continue. She went on to say:...
Thompson’s bill, the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act, (H.R. 8081) is seen as an attempt to reckon with the possibility of former President Trump serving a prison sentence.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his then-attorney Michael Cohen. She discussed one of many legal battles the former president will face in the weeks ahead. "Trump himself has tweeted that he repaid...
New NPR CEO Katherine Maher tried to rally the troops on Friday with a memo to staff that vaguely attacked NPR senior editor Uri Berliner's expose of the taxpayer-funded network's viewpoint diversity. She never actually mentioned Berliner, or seemed to engage with his overall argument. Instead, she vaguely expressed insult at Berliner noting the existence of a pile of identity groups among the employees: "Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little...