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Eric Trump was seen using his cell phone in a Manhattan courtroom after New York Justice Juan Merchan forbade using mobile devices.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and suspended attorney John Eastman appeared on a podcast this week and discussed the 2020 election.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is getting pushback after complaining at a legal conference last week that he and his wife Ginni are being treated unfairly with allegations of corruption while at the same time refusing to explain questions about his alleged ethical transgressions.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he has a "duty" and "responsibility" to contest the results of the presidential election if there is a question about the process complying with the U.S. Constitution and vowed to do so again this year as he did in 2020, if the same "circumstances were presented." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the 2020 case with Johnson's claims, and his argument was dismissed by a constitutional expert as being on "the far-right fringes of American legal thought."

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Democratic strategists, according to Roll Call, are feeling increasingly optimistic about their chances of flipping the U.S. House of Representatives — but worried about holding their small U.S. Senate majority.

Rudy Giuliani is out of a job hosting a talk radio program after the station owner unloaded on the former New York City mayor.

Donald Trump's former personal "fixer" testified Monday that the former president told him that "a lot of women" would come forward after he announced his candidacy for president in 2016.

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, began his testimony Monday by admitting that he lied for his boss.

There’s plenty of good news out there, people, even if during this endless money grab called “election season,” our click-bait corporate media would rather you didn’t see any of it.

Donald Trump started Monday in court with his former lawyer and current nemesis Michael Cohen taking the stand in the hush money trial — and his emotion was evident.

Even among far-right Republican lawmakers who stoke outrage and attract attention with eyebrow-raising social media posts, Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) stands out as a vicious troll, according to a new report.

Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg will not participate in Donald Trump's hush money trial after a judge's ruling on Monday.

Card players have to "know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em," as singer Kenny Rogers put it in his signature version of "The Gambler". But that might not be enough if you are across a virtual table from an artificial intelligence (AI) poker shark, as some bots "have already learned how to deceive humans," according to research published in the science journal Patterns Some AI systems "demonstrated the ability to bluff in a game of Texas hold ‘em poker against professional human players," the team found. Читать дальше...

Hours before former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen takes the stand as a prosecution witness in the former president's multi-felony hush money triall, an attorney who has already had Cohen under oath claimed he may surprise his detractors once he is sworn in on Monday.

CNN's Jamie Gangel said on Monday that prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial are bringing in fresh material to show jurors during Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen's testimony on Monday.

Paul Manafort is backing off his plan to help manage the Republican National Convention, but a columnist said it's crazy that Donald Trump wanted the convicted felon to take part in the first place.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Georgia) efforts to oust Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) as House speaker were rejected in a major way when lawmakers voted, 359-43, to keep him in that position. The vote came down along bipartisan lines, with the vast majority of House Democrats voting against ousting Johnson.

Early Monday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on an epic rant attacking Republican Party lawmakers who talk a big game about the non-existent "war on masculinity" and then roll over on to their backs whenever Donald Trump looks sideways at them.

Michael Cohen will take the stand Monday in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and a legal expert predicted his testimony would be briefer than defense attorneys might expect.

Former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen is set to take the witness stand on Monday and Trump biographer Timothy O'Brien argues that he will essentially serve as jurors' Virgil on a Dante-like survey of MAGA hell.

Many of the judges selected by Leonard Leo and Don McGahn during the Trump years have been acting very badly. A little over a year ago, I documented this terrible behavior by discussing many different judges. For example, Justin Walker was only 37 when he was nominated to be a federal trial judge despite absolutely no trial experience. What Walker possessed were ties to conservative groups, including the Federalist Society. Less than one year later, he was confirmed as a judge for the United States... Читать дальше...

As part of an analysis on the way Donald Trump strong-armed the Republican Party after his 2020 presidential election loss to set up a third run 2024, one GOP insider suggested any other GOP lawmaker who felt they could compete with him never had a chance.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to testify in his hush money trial, and his legal adviser explained how he would counter the former president's attacks on his credibility.

If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine that water under a microscope and you will see your bucket contains a universe of microscopic life, in the form of beautiful and fascinating plankton.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) — a form of AI that would not only surpass human intelligence but would not be bound by the learning speeds of humans.