Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who suspended her run for the Republican nomination for president in early March, announced she will vote for Donald Trump but reiterated that he should not assume that her supporters will back him. “I will be voting for Trump. Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” Haley said Wednesday. ...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed two women of color as President Biden’s 200th and 201st judicial nominees, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to diversify and remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, a Latina who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney, was approved to become ...
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen arrived for his cross-examination by Donald Trump’s defense lawyers known as someone convicted of lying to Congress and cheating on his taxes. The former Trump lawyer left the Manhattan criminal courthouse witness stand after several days of testimony having admitted that he stole tens of thousands of dollars, lied to a federal judge and invented ...
The House was brought to a halt for over an hour on Wednesday after Republicans demanded that the words of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) be “taken down” from the congressional record after McGovern, during House floor remarks, listed the number of criminal trials former president Donald Trump faces. As House members were debating a procedural move on digital cryptocurrency legislation, ...
NEW YORK — In under 48 hours this week, Donald Trump’s social media account promoted a video featuring a term frequently associated with Nazi Germany and later removed it. He suggested he was open to states restricting access to contraceptives and then walked that back. He falsely accused President Biden of being “locked & loaded” to “take me out.” And ...
In Marilyn Mosby’s first stop on her public campaign for a presidential pardon, Baltimore’s former progressive prosecutor sat at a table with MSNBC’s Joy Reid and laid out her situation as she saw it: She prosecuted Baltimore police officers for the in-custody death of Freddie Gray. As political payback, federal officials prosecuted her for financial crimes. Now she could go ...
Driven by the work-from-home dynamic, as well as by new migration patterns, both single-family and multifamily rent prices were red-hot during the first years of the pandemic. Now different drivers are pushing some rents higher — and throwing cold water on others. Multifamily rents in April were 0.8% lower than they were in the same month last year, according to ...
Long-expected layoffs are hitting Pixar Animation Studios today. Pixar will lay off about 175 employees, or around 14% of the studio’s workforce, a spokesperson for parent company Walt Disney told CNBC. The cuts come as CEO Bob Iger works toward his overarching mandate to focus on quality content, not quantity. Layoffs hit other Disney businesses last year, but Pixar’s cuts were delayed ...
Spirit Airlines is doing away with both change and cancellation fees, effective immediately, days after Frontier’s similar announcement, part of an overhaul of the country’s biggest discount carriers’ longtime strategy. Prior to the new rule, Spirit used to charge anywhere between $69 and $119 for ticket changes and cancellations, depending on how close to departure the customer made the change. “This new ...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold shares of beer giant Anheuser-Busch as conservatives were ditching the Bud Light brewer over its partnership with a transgender social media influencer. On the same day Alito sold Anheuser-Busch, he then bought the same amount of stock in Molson Coors, a company with a history of facing political boycotts of its own, the filing shows. The transactions have bred fresh accusations that ...