Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received concert tickets valued at $900 last year from a German princess known for her conservative Catholic views and sold stock in a beer company targeted by anti-LGBTQ+ activists, according to his financial disclosure form released Friday. Alito continues to own individual stock in more than two dozen companies — a practice that ...
He endured “Where’s Hunter?” chants during the 2020 campaign, and looked on as he became a focal point of presidential debates. He saw a member of Congress display nude photos of him during a congressional hearing. In a courtroom, he listened to testimony from ex-lovers as they recounted his various misdeeds. Now Hunter Biden hopes the worst of it is ...
COLORADO SPRINGS — When asked about the challenges of being a Supreme Court justice and a parent of seven children, Amy Coney Barrett told an audience Friday about a time she was sent home from the court with a bulletproof vest and her 13-year-old son saw it tossed on a bed. Her son asked whether it was a bulletproof jacket, ...
Former vice president Dick Cheney, who was George W. Bush’s No. 2 and served in other Republican administrations, will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election, he said in a statement Friday — marking a remarkable historic moment and one of the most significant defections to the Democratic nominee from the opposing party two months before Election ...
House Republicans are expanding their investigation of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to people familiar with that matter, pursuing additional witness testimony as former president Donald Trump attempts to make the war’s deadly endgame a central issue with the election now weeks away. The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s GOP majority has been in contact with at least three ...
A month after losing a landmark antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice, Google is headed back to court to face off for a second time against federal prosecutors. In August, a judge ruled that Google has held a monopoly in internet search, marking the biggest antitrust ruling in the tech industry since the case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. This time, Google is defending ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is preparing to announce that he will formally block Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News. The storied American firm announced in December that it had agreed to be purchased by the Japanese-owned conglomerate, saying it was necessary for U.S. Steel’s evolution in ...
Two loggers have been killed by bow and arrow after allegedly encroaching the land of the uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru’s Amazon, according to a rights group. The group, known as FENAMAD, defends the rights of Peru’s Indigenous peoples. It says tensions between loggers and Indigenous tribes are on the rise and more government protective action is ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday was as clear as he has ever been about how he views a ceasefire and hostage agreement with Hamas. “There’s not a deal in the making,” he told Fox News. “Unfortunately, it’s not close.” “It’s exactly inaccurate. There’s a story, a narrative out there, that there’s a deal out there.” Hamas “don’t agree ...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, has been named France’s new prime minister, the French president’s office says, ending two months of stalemate following inconclusive parliamentary elections. In a statement on Thursday, the Élysée Palace said: “The President of the Republic has appointed Michel Barnier as Prime Minister. He has to form a united government to serve the ...