NEW YORK — Donald Trump oversaw a “planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election,” which included hush money payments to an adult-film actress, prosecutors told a jury Monday in the opening salvo of the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. “It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told the jury inside ...
The House came together Saturday to pass a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid package, a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation in the closely divided chamber. But the move only intensified infighting among House Republicans, who split sharply on the strategy to deliver assistance to foreign allies including Ukraine and Israel. In social media posts and TV interviews afterward, House Republicans ...
Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state’s case against the former president. The jury will ultimately be asked not whether Trump is guilty of a crime in the abstract but, instead, whether the state provided enough evidence to eliminate any doubt that ...
Former president Donald Trump is digging in against a potential ban of TikTok moving through Congress — and seeking to blame President Biden for it — even though Trump sought to outlaw the social media application when he was in the White House. “Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump ...
One of Donald Trump’s most tried and true political strategies is rubber-and-glue: When he gets accused of something serious, he’ll just accuse his opponents of the same thing in the service of creating distractions. Mentally unstable? It’s actually his opponents who fit the bill. A “bigot” and a “racist?” Again, his opponents. Ditto inflammatory rhetoric, threatening democracy, being a puppet ...
Let’s stipulate at the outset that President Biden’s ongoing difficulties with younger voters — stark when measured overall, less so when considered through the lens of party — are probably not heavily driven by enthusiasm for Donald Trump. To some degree, sure. But if we accept that Biden is having trouble figuring out what message resonates with voters under 30, ...
President Biden will travel to Florida on Tuesday to denounce that state’s six-week abortion ban — just days before the law goes into effect — in his latest push to blame former president Donald Trump for the erosion of reproductive rights across the country. Biden will deliver remarks on what he has called “reproductive freedom” in Tampa, visiting a state ...
The Gaza conflict has worsened the human rights situation in Israel, the State Department said in new report released Monday, even as officials declined to say whether they would halt U.S. aid to elements of Israel’s military over alleged abuses. The State Department’s annual human rights report cited several reported rights violations committed in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...
It will take some time for the Caitlin Clark effect to be felt across the WNBA. Clark enters the league as a budding superstar who is already widely recognized as having been the biggest figure in a sea change for women’s basketball. Shortly after she helped the NCAA women’s Final Four set broadcasting records, she went first overall in the ...
On a slice of the ocean front in west Singapore, a startup is building a plant to turn carbon dioxide from air and seawater into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen — a much-hyped clean fuel. The cluster of low-slung buildings starting to take shape in Tuas will become the “world’s largest” ocean-based ...