Pro-Palestinian college protests have faded somewhat from the news, as law enforcement has cracked down on encampments and schools break for the summer — though the protests continue on some campuses across the country. While the protests might have earned some concessions from administrators, it’s become clear that they’ve failed in one key respect: winning over the American public. This ...
A rebel Republican bloc aiming to curb far-right extremism in North Idaho made significant gains Tuesday, flipping dozens of local seats, but fell short of the votes needed to change the hard-line GOP leadership in an area with historic ties to the far right. The primary-election showdown in Kootenai County, a mountainous region near the Canadian border, drew national attention ...
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. ...
A candidate for president of the United States is on trial for allegedly helping facilitate a hush money payment to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal during his 2016 campaign, and then fraudulently disguising those payments in violation of the law. He’s also charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He’s also charged with willful retention ...
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 — 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...