Additional classified records were discovered in former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bedroom after the FBI search of his Florida estate, court records filed Tuesday reveal. The detail is buried in filings stemming from a separate legal battle as Trump asks a judge to toss his indictment for prosecutorial misconduct, unsealing for the first time many of...
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during America’s 2021 withdrawal said he repeatedly warned the Trump and Biden administrations that pulling out all troops would make the security situation in the country “very bad, very fast,” but officials failed to grasp the danger. Retired Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the former U.S. Forces Afghanistan commander,...
President Biden's campaign appears to be adopting a “Mean Girls”-esque motto in trying to claw back some coverage from former President Trump's hush money trial: On Wednesdays, we make news. Biden’s camp has utilized Wednesdays — the single weekday during which there’s a break in Trump’s New York City trial — to blanket the airwaves,...
The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday said it had ran out of food supplies in Rafah, the city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip at the center of a possible new Israeli military push. The UN said food distribution was halted due to insecurity and the lack of supplies, according to The Associated...
House Republicans' new farm bill proposal is drawing opposition from a coalition of left- and right-wing groups that agree on little else. The proposed version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus unveiled last week by House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) includes several priorities of big agribusiness — proposals that frustrated both right-aligned groups such as the...
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said Robert Costello’s behavior in former President Trump’s hush money case reinforced “mobby” behavior in the former president’s circles. Haberman joined a CNN panel Tuesday, where they discussed the transcript released by the court from when Costello, a former legal adviser to ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen, and the judge...
It would be an institutional tragedy if the justices allowed the votes of one or both of those two tainted justices to determine the result of either of the decisive Trump-related cases that are currently before the court, one involving presidential immunity or the other involving the scope of the obstruction statute.
GOP Maryland Senate candidate and former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Md.) has launched a new advertisement in which he says he will codify Roe v. Wade, "so every woman can make her own choice." “As governor, I promised to uphold Maryland law on abortion, while providing over-the-counter birth control covered by insurance,” Hogan says in the...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the flying of an upside-down flag outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home “casts doubt” on the justice’s impartiality in handling legal questions connected to the criminal case against Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. Schumer, who called flying the upside-down flag “\really the wrong...
Two key figures at the center of Donald Trump’s Georgia election probe are vying for reelection on Tuesday. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee will face voters for the first time since Trump’s election interference case thrust the two in the national spotlight. Any surprise upset in...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is eyeing legislation to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) officials after the entity requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, among others. Johnson — who sharply criticized the ICC’s move against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — told reporters Tuesday the details...
Microsoft on Monday released a new version of its personal computers "designed for" artificial intelligence (AI), as the company seeks an edge in the AI technology race. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella unveiled the product, dubbed "Copilot+" PCs, at an event in Redmond, Wash. on Monday. The company described the new line as "the fastest,...
Disney is laying off scores of employees from Pixar Animation Studios as part of the largest restructuring in the movie maker's history. Approximately 14 percent of Pixar's workforce —nearly 200 employees — are expected to be laid off as part of the job reductions, according to multiple Tuesday reports. Employees at Pixar have known the...
It is imperative to support the Iranian people’s quest for justice and hold the regime accountable for its crimes.
Justice Department antitrust division chief Jonathan Kanter praised his agency’s record of stopping mergers in concentrated markets Tuesday amid ongoing tensions between policymakers and big business that are reshaping party alliances. Kanter — who has overseen merger cancellations ranging from the airline industry to book publishing, as well as the first criminal monopolization legal win...
A group of House Democrats on Tuesday called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from all future cases related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol or the 2020 presidential election. In a letter addressed to the conservative justice, 45 Democrats pointed to recent New York Times reporting of a photograph...
The Biden administration is releasing about 1 million barrels of reserve gasoline supplies as part of an effort to bring down prices at the pump in the Northeastern U.S. In a statement on the announcement, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday described the effort as “strategically releasing this reserve in between Memorial Day and July...
Vice President Harris condemned former President Trump's rhetoric Tuesday, after he shared a video on social media referencing a "unified Reich." During remarks in Philadelphia, Pa., at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) convention, the vice president argued that the video shows what’s at stake in November’s election. “This kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming...
Peloton said it's not longer using music or content by Sean "Diddy" Combs after disturbing hotel assault video.
Cicadas have started to emerge, with their songs getting louder by the day. When will it stop?
Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine charges he is facing in Arizona in relation to a case focused on efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state. Giuliani entered his not guilty plea remotely at an arraignment held in a courtroom in Phoenix. Numerous other individuals charged in...
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of actors and other media professionals, threw their support behind actress Scarlett Johansson after she expressed concerns over ChatGPT's new voiced artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that she claims sounds "eerily similar" to her voice. "We share in her concerns and fully support her right to have clarity and transparency regarding...
A bipartisan group of senators has written to the Biden administration asking the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Formula 1 over a possible violation of American antitrust law. Formula 1, commonly known as F1, in January rejected former American racing star Michael Andretti’s application to join the sport’s racing grid with a...
People v. Trump is a dumb prosecution.
Former President Trump’s hush money trial resumed Tuesday, and the defense rested its case-in-chief within an hour, after finishing with its second and final witness. Across 20 days of testimony, 22 witnesses took the stand. Here’s the list, in order of appearance: Prosecution witnesses Defense witnesses