Rudy Giuliani has agreed to no longer accuse two Georgia poll workers of tampering with the 2020 election, according to a draft agreement filed Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court. The agreement bars Giuliani — who has for years amplified election falsehoods as a staunch ally of former president Donald Trump — from publishing or assisting to publish false statements that ...
Five states held elections Tuesday that could play a consequential role in deciding the balance of power in the U.S. House this year and next — with races ranging from a contentious Democratic primary in an Oregon swing district to a special election to replace former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R) in Congress. This post appeared first on The Washington ...
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) joined Fox News host Shannon Bream on Sunday for what Stefanik might justifiably have assumed would be a low-tension interview. But it wasn’t. Bream pointed out that Stefanik’s name has been mentioned regularly in discussions of who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate for the general election. Given those mentions, Bream ...
After evading and publicly taunting Arizona prosecutors, Rudy Giuliani is now expected to appear in court in Phoenix on Tuesday to face criminal charges linked to his alleged efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss after the 2020 presidential election results in that state. Giuliani — a former federal prosecutor, New York mayor and lawyer for Trump — was served a ...
The latest poll in Arizona from CBS News, conducted by YouGov, offers good news and bad news for Democrats. The party’s likely candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), leads the likely Republican nominee, Kari Lake, by a robust margin. But then there’s the bad news: President Biden also trails ...
The abortion rights position has won on the ballot in seven out of seven states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in mid-2022 — even in red-leaning ones such as Kansas, Kentucky, Montana and Ohio. And new polling suggests that in 2024, abortion rights measures could do even better than they did in those first seven states, as ...
For the second consecutive day in court, former president Donald Trump’s lawyers produced what they may have thought was a “gotcha” moment in Trump’s Manhattan trial because it undercut former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s credibility. But the impact and circumstances surrounding the first moment — Cohen’s supposedly lying about an Oct. 24, 2016, phone call with Trump — remain murky. ...
I was in Florida in May 2021 when I saw a white Mini Cooper with two seemingly incongruous bumper stickers. One said, “I WILL NOT COMPLY” — a then-vogue sentiment as governments sought to mandate vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic. In a rear window, though, the car displayed a monochromatic American flag with one of the stripes rendered in ...
President Biden and U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle sharply criticized news Monday that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor was seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Israel-Hamas conflict. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
NEW YORK — Prosecutors rested their case against former president Donald Trump on Monday, a momentous day in the month-long trial that was quickly overshadowed by the judge’s angry dressing-down of a witness he thought was being disrespectful. For most of the day, the trial seemed to be winding down; defense lawyers indicated they did not plan to call Trump ...