NEW YORK — At first, Michael Cohen testified about all the problems he fixed for Donald Trump — the boss whose praise made Cohen feel like he was “on top of the world.” When reporters angered Trump, Cohen threatened them. When a Miss USA contestant criticized Trump’s beauty pageant, he sprang into legal action. When Trump ran for president and ...
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) faces a challenge from the right flank of his party as he attempts to win reelection in Nebraska’s 2nd District without the support of the state and local chapters of the Republican Party. Bacon is running against populist business executive Dan Frei, who secured the endorsement of the Nebraska GOP and the Republican Party’s chapters in ...
WAUKESHA, Wis. — In his run for the Republican nomination for senator in Ohio, businessman Bernie Moreno baselessly alleged that political insiders, big tech companies and the media rigged the 2020 election. But after he won the primary in March, Moreno declined to say whether he believed Joe Biden had defeated Donald Trump, insisting voters wanted to talk about other ...
The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers. This post appeared ...
Selfie-camera soliloquies, elephant trunk face filters, stream-of-consciousness political debates with call-in guests: Welcome to the bizarre world of Michael Cohen’s TikTok live streams. Cohen this week is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution in former president Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money criminal trial in New York. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
The United States and China will hold their first high-level talks over the risks of artificial intelligence on Tuesday in Geneva, as the two governments seek to prevent disastrous accidents and unintended war amid an arms race for the emerging technology. “We’re focused on how both sides define risk and safety here,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters last ...
Amy Dorris tried not to watch too much news last week as Stormy Daniels gave her courtroom account of sex with Donald Trump. But little details from Daniels’s story have stuck with her, she said. The age gap. Daniels’s description of leaving a hotel bathroom and being surprised to see Trump in his boxers. Dorris said it reminded her of ...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he vehemently disagrees with President Biden on his Israel policy and has even suggested Biden may lose his reelection bid over it. But the 82-year-old progressive leader, who recently announced he’ll run for a fourth term, still plans on stumping for the president, making the case to what he describes as unenthusiastic young and liberal ...
A Democratic super PAC will launch a $25 million, three-week ad blitz against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday, with spots airing in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania that use voter testimonials to warn about reduced abortion access in a second Trump term, according to the group’s leaders. The ads by American Bridge 21st Century target a group of about ...
“Obamacare was sold on a lie. It massively increased the cost of health care in America.” — former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), in a video for America First Policy Institute, April 30 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, was enacted nearly 15 years ago and has survived numerous attempts by Republicans to repeal ...