• Secretive conservative donor group meets to draw up 2024 plans — with a call-in from Trump

    Former President Donald Trump spent last week stuck in New York City for the beginning of his hush money trial. But on Wednesday, between days in court, Trump made time to call into a secretive donor meeting back at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two people involved with the group who were in the room. The event was hosted by the Rockbridge Network, an under-the-radar, new-age conservative group that sees itself as the leading edge of a changing Republican Party — and...

  • The OTHER glamorous aide supporting Trump at his trial: Meet his golf partner Natalie Harp

    Natalie Harp joined fellow communications aide Margo Martin in accompanying former President Donald Trump during his first criminal trial in Manhattan this week.

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

  • 'Golden opportunity': James Carville calls on Democrats to disrupt Trump rallies with 'fart sounds'

    The man who led Bill Clinton into the White House said party members should keep Joe Biden in it by trolling former President Donald Trump with “fart sounds.”

  • Trump to meet with Polish president Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

    NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. The planned dinner meeting, confirmed by a person familiar with the matter, comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility that Trump might win the November election and return to the […]

  • Trump to meet with Polish president Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine

    By STEVE PEOPLES (AP National Political Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. The planned dinner meeting, confirmed by a person familiar with the matter, comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility that Trump might win […]

  • Trump meets with Polish president at Trump Tower

    Former President Trump met Wednesday night with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of conversations the presumptive Republican nominee has held with foreign leaders. Trump hosted Duda at Trump Tower in New York City, where the former president is staying as he attends his criminal trial over an alleged hush money scheme.

  • Trump trial updates: Prosecutors say Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. Defense lawyers call it 'democracy.'

    Criminal conspiracy and cover-up (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Silent and brooding, Trump endures courtroom ordealHas To Be 'Jolted Awake' AgainProsecutors make history with opening statementsTrial's First Witness Could Destroy Defense

  • The Democrats who flipped on Israel aid, and why

    The Senate approved the national security supplemental on Tuesday night, by a vote of 75-17. The legislation combined the four bills that were approved by the House over the weekend. After months of pushing the Biden administration to do more to pressure Israel to change its conduct in its war in Gaza, Democrats in Congress ultimately approved $26 billion in aid for Israel, including approximately $9 billion in global humanitarian aid (how much would go to Gaza, to be determined). In the Senate,...

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    Trump meets with foreign leaders

    Leaders from Hungary, Poland, and even the UK meet with candidate Donald Trump. Is that a snub to President Biden? And what are they hoping to gain?

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    Newshour, US calls for calm after strike on Iran

    Following a presumed Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins renewed international calls for de-escalation. Israel has not commented on the attack, which saw projectiles reach deep into Iran. Also on the programme: the US Congress moves closer to approving $60 billion of aid for Ukraine; in India voting begins in the world’s biggest election. (Picture: Antony Blinken at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Capri, Italy, April 19, 2024.Credit:...