Former President Trump on Monday claimed Michael Cohen is "lying," following a day in court for his hush money trial, once again testing the gag order imposed in the case. "When are they going to look at all the lies that Cohen did in the last trial. He got caught lying. Pure lying. And when...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Monday applauded the solidarity among the Columbia University students protesting for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, while noting the attention needs to be kept on the "genocide in Gaza," as authorities arrest dozens of students, including her daughter, for their involvement. "On Thursday, Columbia arrested and suspended its students...
GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) called on President Biden on Monday to deploy the National Guard to colleges, particularly Columbia University in New York City, where pro-Palestinian protesters have staged sit-ins and other disruptive activities to focus public attention on the war. “Eisenhower sent the 101st to Little Rock. It’s time for...
President Biden recognized Earth Day by touting his administration’s environmental efforts, including a Civilian Climate Corps and a $7 billion “Solar for All" program to expand access to rooftop solar power. “The impacts you’re seeing, decades in the making because of inaction, are only going to get more frequent, ferocious and costly,” Biden said Monday...
President Biden said Monday he condemns antisemitic protests amid escalating pro-Palestine demonstrations at Columbia University and on other U.S. college campuses. “I condemn the antisemitic protests, that’s why I set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians and their, how they’re being...
The State Department investigation into allegations of Israeli human rights abuses and the role of American weapons in potential violations is being carried out to the same standard as that for any other country, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. Blinken was speaking during the release of the State Department’s 2023 Country Reports on...
An alleged conspiracy to launch Donald Trump to the White House, with top allies pulling the strings to get him there: That’s the case against Trump that prosecutors said Monday they intend to present to a jury of New Yorkers, who will decide whether to make the former president a felon before Election Day. “This...
A Los Angeles man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) while people were home, according to local police and the mayor's office. Ephraim Matthew Hunter, 29, smashed a window around 6:40 a.m. on Sunday to gain entry into the Getty House, Bass's official residence on Irving...
Child pornography generated by artificial intelligence (AI) could overwhelm an already inundated reporting system for online child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found. The CyberTipline, which is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), processes and shares reports of child sexual abuse material with relevant law...
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) joined a group of Jewish Democrats in a visit to Columbia University on Monday as the school grapples with fiery pro-Palestinian protests on campus that have led to mounting criticism of the university’s leadership from all sides. The Democratic members denounced the protests, which they described as antisemitic, with Gottheimer going...
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Vice President Harris is entering into hairy territory — sharing the history of her hair. The vice president opened up about her much-photographed locks in BuzzFeed's Cocoa Butter video series "Hair Story," released Monday. "As long as I can remember, my mother would part our hair down the middle and put it in two tight braids," she...
Aaron LaBerge, Disney's top technology officer who has spearheaded much of the company's recent efforts on streaming, is leaving the company. LaBerge will vacate his post at Disney in June "for personal reasons," CNBC reported Monday, citing an internal memo from the company. LaBerge is taking a job with gambling giant Penn Entertainment, which operates...
Vice President Harris will address abortion access Monday afternoon in a campaign stop in La Crosse, Wis., during her third visit to the critical swing state this year. Harris has taken the lead in the White House’s efforts to restore national protections for reproductive rights. The issue has taken on greater urgency for abortion-rights advocates...
Two lawyers. A teacher and a speech therapist. An Irish foreperson. Seven men and five women heard opening statements Monday in former President Trump’s hush money case, the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The jury, selected from hundreds of New Yorkers, is charged with determining Trump's guilt or innocence as the trial...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) called on the president of Columbia University to do her "job or resign” amid ongoing unrest and heightened concern for Jewish students’ safety on campus. In a post on social platform X, Fetterman compared aspects of the anti-Israel protests to the infamous Charlottesville rally in 2017, when white supremacists chanted “Jews...
The obvious problem is that almost total reliance on the Fed to defeat inflation by slowing the economy will not work in sectors where price-fixing and structural issues are its principal causes.
Former President Trump’s attorney and New York prosecutors have settled their differences over his bond in the state's civil fraud case against the former president and his business. The deal was struck during a hearing Monday morning, where Judge Arthur Engoron was slated to hear arguments on whether Trump’s $175 million bond should be voided....
The driest place in North America had a lake big enough you could kayak in this past winter.
A pro-choice group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election. Reproductive Freedom for All Freedom Fund put out an ad on Monday in two battleground states, Michigan and Wisconsin, looking to portray the Independent candidate as indecisive...
No longer will the world be able to count on China to be the world’s primary engine of economic growth.
All 10 House Republicans from New York on Monday called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign amid fiery pro-Palestinian protests on campus that have led to mounting criticism of the university's leadership from all sides. Led by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the members said Columbia’s campus has been overrun by “anarchy” and that...
The freedom to protest against American foreign policy decisions is pretty much exactly what the First Amendment is all about.
In honor of Earth Day, President Biden is announcing $7 billion in grants for solar energy projects serving lower and middle income communities at an event Monday in northern Virginia. The program is meant to ease the high startup costs for residential solar. That could help create a lower-cost, more reliable electric grid than the...
A criminal trial against Donald Trump is currently underway in a New York City courtroom, with prosecutors and Trump’s defense giving their opening arguments Monday.