• Lisa on One America News: What’s Next for Israel After the Iran Regime’s Missile Attack?

    Lisa Daftari joins Stella Escobedo and Monica Paige to discuss how Jerusalem will respond to Saturday's missile attack… The post Lisa on One America News: What’s Next for Israel After the Iran Regime’s Missile Attack? first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.

    • MSNBC

    Trump’s first criminal trial poses a dire political problem — and it’s only going to get worse

    Conventional political wisdom suggests the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, which got underway in Manhattan last week, will have a minimal effect on the 2024 election. Many political observers see the allegations — covering up hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election — as relatively trifling, and certainly not comparable to the other three indictments Trump faces in Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C. Even a guilty verdict in the trial would “be unlikely to have a big influence come...

  • Trump’s Rally on Biden’s Home Turf in Pennsylvania Will Be the Last One Before His Hush Money Trial

    Donald Trump’s rally set for Saturday night in northeast Pennsylvania, an area President Joe Biden considers home turf, will be the Republican’s last one before his criminal hush money trial begins Monday. The presumptive GOP nominee and former president is scheduled to speak at the Schnecksville Fire Hall in Lehigh County. It will be Trump’s […]

  • There’s a Philadelphia WNBA expansion bid, but no one’s saying who’s in it

    Speaking at the WNBA draft, Collingswood-born commissioner Cathy Engelbert name-dropped her "hometown" first on a list of cities the league has talked with.

  • Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.

    Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More

  • 5 takeaways from first day of Trump’s criminal trial

    The first criminal trial of an American president got underway in downtown Manhattan on Monday. Former President Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The underlying events revolve around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the last stages of the 2016 presidential election campaign. The payment was made []

  • 5 takeaways from first day of Trump’s criminal trial

    The first criminal trial of an American president got underway in downtown Manhattan on Monday. Former President Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The underlying events revolve around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the last stages of the 2016 presidential election campaign. The payment was made

    • KIFI

    Inside Trump’s first day on trial in Manhattan criminal court

    By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has been inside a half-dozen courthouses over the past year, but he had a new experience walking into a downtown Manhattan courtroom Monday morning: a half-empty room. The former president slowly walked through the cavernous and dingy courtroom, past six empty rows of benches – set aside for prospective jurors

  • Trump’s hush-money trial: key takeaways from the first day

    Monday’s day in court indicated that jury selection could take weeks – and that Trump could yet be held in contemptDonald Trump struggled through the opening day of his New York criminal trial on Monday as the jury selection process formally got under way in Manhattan in the first criminal trial of a current or former US president.Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in trying to cover up hush-money payments to an adult film star that influenced the 2016...

  • Live coverage: Donald Trump's first criminal trial, Day One

    Monday marks the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records connected to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump faces 34 felony counts and, unlike past civil trials, Trump is required to be in court for these proceedings. He could face prison time if convicted.  The trial is being conducted in the Manhattan courtroom of New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan. There is no video or audio feed. Mechan has also limited the pool of...

  • Trump’s first criminal trial starts today in New York

    MORNING NEWSBREAK | In the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, a jury pool will convene today to start a case in which Donald Trump is accused of falsifying documents in paying hush-money to hide a sex scandal. Testimony may not begin for days as lawyers work to pick an impartial jury.

    • CNN

    Trump’s first criminal trial is a historic and solemn moment for America

    The United States will cross a historic threshold on Monday when for the first time a former president goes on criminal trial in a case laced with fateful significance because Donald Trump could be back in the Oval Office next year. When the presumptive GOP nominee walks into court for the start of jury selection, he and the country will enter a new state of reality as legal and political worlds collide in a trial almost guaranteed to deepen Americans’ bitter ideological estrangement. The trial,...