To hear Cornel West tell it, Joe Biden, whom West campaigned for in 2020, is complicit in war crimes occurring in Gaza. Jill Stein, whom West voted for in 2016, is no longer his ally. Donald Trump is a “fascist pied piper” and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presents “evidence-weak” arguments. Even Bernie Sanders, West’s longtime friend, is “just wrong” when ...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was repeatedly aided by the National Enquirer, which squelched potentially damaging stories about him and pumped out articles pummeling his rivals, the former boss of the supermarket tabloid testified Tuesday during the ex-president’s trial on charges of falsifying business records. Trump, the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial, spent ...
The continued fervor of college protests against the Israel-Gaza war as it drags into its seventh month highlights the political challenges President Biden still faces from his unconditional support of Israel as he aims to strike a careful balance between condemning antisemitism on college campuses and supporting students’ right to protest. Students at several campuses across the country have formed ...
TAMPA, Fla. — President Biden traveled to Florida on Tuesday to denounce that state’s six-week abortion ban — just days before the law goes into effect — blaming former president Donald Trump for the erosion of reproductive rights across the country. “There’s one person who is responsible for this nightmare — and he’s acknowledged and he’s bragged about it,” Biden ...
When Michael Cohen takes the stand in the coming days as the star witness in his former boss’s criminal trial, it will mark the climax of his transformation from Donald Trump’s bullying defender to one of his loudest public enemies. As Cohen tells and retells the story — in congressional testimony, television interviews, two books, a popular podcast and assertions ...
Rep. Summer Lee, a far-left Democrat who has been critical of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, prevailed in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary election, which epitomized larger intraparty tensions over the Middle East and served as a test of Democratic voters’ attitudes about the war. The race in Pennsylvania’s 12th District was considered a first test for the “Squad” of left-wing, progressive ...
Former President Donald Trump is poised to receive an additional 36 million shares of Trump Media Tuesday — an “earnout” bonus worth more than $1.25 billion, at Monday’s price. Trump Media, which owns the Truth Social app, was trading at around $35 per share mid-day Monday. But that price is twice the $17.50 benchmark minimum share price, which the DJT ticker has to hit by the close of ...
Longtime mall retailer Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, but a group of investors led by brand management firm WHP Global is looking to save the company by acquiring it. Express, whose portfolio includes its namesake banner, Bonobos and UpWest, said it will close 95 of its eponymous shops and all of its UpWest doors. Closing sales are expected ...
This is Bill Weir’s fourth letter on Earth Day to his young son. His new book, “Life As We Know it (Can Be),” is available now in stores. Dear River, This is your fourth Earth Day, and so much has happened in your little lifespan that what started as an annual record of anger and regret has grown into a ...
China has accused the United States of “stoking military confrontation” with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines. The US Army’s Mid-Range Capability (MRC) ground-based missile system arrives in a region on edge following a series of dangerous Chinese-Philippine face-offs in the ...