Donald Trump’s defense team suggested Thursday that rather than orchestrating a hush money scheme, the former president was really the target of a shakedown attempt by unscrupulous entertainment figures who saw his 2016 presidential campaign as an opportunity for a quick payday. In the most contentious testimony yet in the criminal trial, Los Angeles lawyer Keith Davidson denied accusations that ...
Former president Donald Trump is taking a familiar tack: preemptively questioning the integrity of another election in which he’s competing before ballots are cast. In recent media interviews, Trump declined to commit to accepting the 2024 presidential election results, a posture that drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from the Biden campaign, which said the former president is a “danger to ...
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III interviewed former White House official Hope Hicks three times during his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, mentioning her more than 180 times in his final report. House and Senate congressional committees repeatedly sought testimony from Hicks, including on the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. This post appeared ...
As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat. If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains legal, Davis would seek a ...
President Biden on Friday will give the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people — with recipients covering nearly every corner of American life, including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Olympic champion Katie Ledecky, Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh and, posthumously, civil rights leader Medgar Evers. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday there was no sign of stagflation in the economy, even as inflation remains stubbornly high and some signs of slowing growth have started to emerge. In remarks after the release of the Fed’s decision Wednesday to leave interest rates unchanged, Powell said he didn’t ‘really understand where talk of a stagflation scenario is ...
Is being nice holding you back at work? One viral TikTok has young workers up in arms about the perils of being pleasant in the workplace. A TikToker who goes by the name Jacqueline recently posted a TikTok video where she claimed that people who are “a pleasure to work with” will “never get promoted.” The video has struck a nerve and ...
Arcade giant Dave & Buster’s is set to allow adults 18 and older to place real-time bets with friends on arcade games. The Dave & Buster’s app will begin to incorporate an option to bet against other players, the company said Tuesday as part of a news release. The arcade company is partnering with Lucra, a company that makes gamification ...
Strong demand and tight supply continue to push home values higher, even though mortgage rates are now moving higher again. Home prices in February jumped 6.4% year over year, another increase after the prior month’s annual gain of 6%, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index released Tuesday. It was the fastest rate of price growth since ...
Trump Media shares climbed nearly 7% Tuesday, continuing a rise that has seen the Truth Social owner surge about 50% in the past week. DJT closed the trading day at roughly $50 a share, about 30% below its opening price of $70.90 in late March. The stock has had several volatile days in the past month, trading at a high of about $60 a share ...