NEW YORK — You could hear Donald Trump sporadically through the trees. Crotona Park has number of rocky hills, and the former president was speaking on top of one as I was talking to retired teacher Pam Sporn, 67, on top of one maybe a hundred yards away. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Former president Donald Trump suggested that Nikki Haley would have a place on his team “in some form” — in what appeared to be his first public response to his former Republican presidential rival’s announcement that she will vote for him. Trump, in an interview with News 12 New York after a Bronx campaign rally Thursday, was asked about the ...
One of the lines of argument used by Donald Trump and his supporters to attack the criminal trial that’s underway in Manhattan is that no jury in such a pro-Democratic place could possibly be fair. As jury selection was underway in the trial, which is likely to go to a jury next week, Trump’s allies studiously pored over available biographical ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...