Several of former president Donald Trump’s close associates and allies have been indicted in Arizona for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by trying to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Joe Biden, who won the state by 10,457 votes. The charges follow a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D). ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson had walked into something of an ambush. President Biden had called the four congressional leaders — Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), along with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — to the Oval Office in late February ostensibly to talk about heading off a ...
Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday called a deadly neo-Nazi rally a “peanut” compared with current protests of the Israel-Gaza war — his latest downplaying of a 2017 white-supremacist event in Charlottesville over which Trump, as president, drew massive blowback for declaring that there were “very fine people on both sides.” Trump noted in an evening social media post that ...
A member of Vice President Harris’s Secret Service security detail was involved in an altercation with other agents on Monday and removed from their assignment, law enforcement officials said. Harris was not affected by the incident, which took place at Joint Base Andrews while she was at the Naval Observatory, according to the Secret Service. “At approximately 9 a.m. April ...
“[Rep. Adam Schiff] won’t tell you that he just voted to send $100 billion to foreign countries. We have a $35 trillion national debt in America.” — Richard Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, in a social media post, April 20 As the House on Saturday approved long-stalled aid packages for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, one of the top contenders ...
A defiant TikTok is preparing to fight for its life in court after President Biden signed a law calling for its forced sale or ban in the United States, a legal battle that could reshape American speech freedoms in the internet age. The popular video app, owned by the China-based tech giant ByteDance, fended off ban attempts by the Trump ...
Tesla’s stock jumped about 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the electric vehicle giant reported its steepest annual revenue drop in over a decade. Despite softer sales and a growing chorus of skeptics about CEO Elon Musk’s focus on the company, investors cheered its vow to ‘accelerate the launch of new models,’ likely including more affordable ones like the long-awaited ...
The Biden administration has issued a nationwide ban on the ability of employers to make their workers sign noncompete agreements, a move regulators said would help boost employee pay but which is set to be challenged in court by business groups. In a ruling Tuesday afternoon, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said noncompete clauses would henceforth be illegal. The measure ...
Soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine say the prospect of final approval in the US Congress of a $60 billion military aid package for Kyiv will serve as a giant morale boost as Russia looks to step up its advance. The Ukraine aid bill, passed in the United States’ House of Representatives on Saturday, is now due to go to the ...
Britain’s Prince and Princess of Wales have released a new photo of Prince Louis to mark his sixth birthday on Tuesday, the first image to be released by the family since a photo-editing scandal erupted last month. In the photo, Louis – who is fourth in line to the British throne – can be seen grinning at the camera lying ...