President Biden is under growing pressure from civil rights groups and some Democratic lawmakers to pardon Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore state’s attorney who was convicted in February of mortgage fraud. Mosby’s advocates argue that she was the target of a politically motivated prosecution under the Trump administration after she unsuccessfully prosecuted six Baltimore police officers in the 2015 death ...
PHOENIX — John Eastman, an alleged architect of an attempt to deliver Arizona’s 11 presidential electoral votes to Donald Trump after his 2020 loss, pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiracy, fraud and other criminal charges brought by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D). Wearing a navy suit and tie, Eastman appeared alongside his attorneys in a tiny courtroom in the ...
Donald Trump has developed a pattern when it comes to his criminal trial in Manhattan. He arrives, talks to reporters, goes inside, closes his eyes for a bit, comes out, talks to reporters and leaves. Same thing, three or four days a week for about a month now. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Battle wounds and grisly injuries don’t often faze Adam Hamawy. The 53-year-old reconstructive plastic surgeon and U.S. Army veteran who served as a combat trauma surgeon in Iraq has seen the burned skin of children after a firework exploded, and a soldier whose legs were blasted away by a rocket-propelled grenade. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
David DePape, the man whose embrace of right-wing conspiracy theories led him to break into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeon her 82-year-old husband, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Federal prosecutors had asked for a 40-year term, arguing that the attack constituted an act of terrorism. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
In the fraught weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. flew an upside-down American flag at their home following a dispute with a neighbor over anti-Trump yard signs, according to a statement from the justice and interviews with neighbors. This post appeared first on The Washington ...
NASA said Friday that Boeing’s first flight with people aboard its troubled Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again, as the beleaguered company works to assess a helium leak in the capsule’s service module. The flight, which was originally scheduled for May 6, is now set for no earlier than May 25 at 3:09 p.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral, Fla. ...
A federal judge on Friday sentenced the son and grandson of prominent American conservative media figures to nearly four years in prison, saying Leo Brent Bozell IV led the charge of an angry mob at multiple key points in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and lied at trial to cover up his actions. This post appeared first on The ...
Less than two hours after President Biden made his move Wednesday to upend the nation’s presidential debate tradition, two of CNN’s top political journalists were on the phone with Donald Trump’s high command. “We are sending you a proposal for a debate that will be in your inbox at 10 a.m.,” one of them told the Trump senior leadership, Susie ...
The consumer price index, the most-watched inflation measurement put out by the U.S. government, declined slightly to 3.4% on a 12-month basis in April as price growth in the economy remained elevated. Compared with March, prices climbed 0.3%, with rent and gasoline contributing 70% of the monthly increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was down from the ...