Inflation “was at 9 percent when I came in and it’s now down around 3 percent.” — President Biden, in an interview with Yahoo Finance, May 14 Inflation continues to be an albatross for President Biden as he seeks reelection. After decades of stable prices — inflation of about 2 percent a year — the sudden increase in Biden’s term ...
Some of former president Donald Trump’s co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case are receiving legal funding from a charity started to help people charged in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to people familiar with the group. The legal fund beneficiaries include John Eastman, a lawyer who advised the Trump campaign on trying to reject the electoral ...
Donald Trump’s mouth and keyboard fingers have been relatively disciplined — by his own standards, at least — since he racked up the 10th gag-order violation of his Manhattan criminal trial last week. Facing the threat of jail, he’s generally avoided three verboten subjects that have gotten him in trouble before. Those would be attacking the jury, attacking the witnesses ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Monday of mounting violent threats against election workers across the country, and vowed that the Justice Department will be “relentless” in prosecuting those who threaten the democratic process. Speaking to reporters ahead of a meeting of the department’s Election Threats Task Force, Garland cited a handful of cases over the past several years in which ...
A St. Louis-area man who crashed his rented U-Haul truck into Lafayette Square last year, with the apparent intention of entering the White House and overthrowing the government, pleaded guilty in federal court in the District on Monday to damaging federal property. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors added a “terrorism” enhancement for Sai Varshith Kandula, which exposed him ...
NEW YORK — Former lawyer Michael Cohen, the key witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, began testifying Monday against his ex-boss — unspooling what prosecutors hope will be a critical thread of evidence tying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee directly to an illegal scheme to conceal a 2016 payment to an adult-film actress. This post appeared first on The ...
As is now his habit, Donald Trump took advantage of the press waiting for his arrival at his criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday to talk about the things he wanted to talk about. To wit: new polling from Siena College showing him leading in several battleground states — and maybe a new indicator that a blue state might be ...
MADISON, Wis. — Liberals who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court signaled Monday that they were prepared to overturn a two-year-old decision that banned absentee ballot drop boxes and allow them for the 2024 election. The justices’ comments during oral arguments offered the latest sign that the liberal majority is prepared to act boldly and swiftly to change policies the conservatives ...
Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state lawmaker who served three months in prison after pleading guilty to a felony for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, is hoping to return to Washington. Evans faces Rep. Carol Miller in Tuesday’s Republican primary for West Virginia’s 1st District. The three-term congresswoman is a staunch supporter of ...
Joe Biden awoke suddenly in his hotel room, curled up on the floor and fully clothed, and felt an electric surge inside his head, “a rip of pain like I never felt before,” as he later recalled. It was 4:10 a.m. on a winter day in 1988. The debilitating headaches had been happening for nearly a year, interrupting his first ...