The State Department’s report on the war in Gaza — which suggested Israel had likely violated international law yet remained eligible to receive U.S. military aid — has left President Biden increasingly isolated on an issue that has consumed his presidency and complicated his reelection bid. Like much of Biden’s, at times, halting approach toward the war, the report released ...
Former aides to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) vehemently disputed her claims that they “sabotaged” her office by hacking her phone, mismanaging the office budget, spying on her children and trying to destroy electronic devices with water. Mace alleged the staff misconduct in a story published Friday by DailyMail.com, which noted she “fired or lost nine staffers from her Washington D.C. ...
When lawyers for former president Donald Trump cross-examined adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Thursday, they used on-the-record interviews and TV appearances to suggest inconsistencies in her accounts of an alleged tryst with Trump. The Washington Post sourced key moments from the interviews and TV appearances and compared them with what Trump’s attorneys cited, according to the trial transcript. Below are ...
ATLANTA — Regardless of what happens at Morehouse College’s commencement — whether President Biden’s keynote speech is jeered or cheered, whether students protest raucously or respectfully or not at all — Calvin Bell III will feel conflicted. Morehouse has opened many doors for the graduating senior. The college helped him become a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship. He interned for ...
Stephen Miller is not subtle. His rhetoric tends toward the apocalyptic, a habit that would seem hard to maintain over the course of a decade that included holding a senior position in the White House. But he sticks to it. On Wednesday evening, for example, Miller warned his followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, about a devious, nation-ending effort ...
Two political operatives close to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) agreed to plead guilty this year and cooperate with the Justice Department’s bribery case against the lawmaker, according to newly unsealed court documents. The records show that Colin Strother and Florencio “Lencho” Rendon struck the plea agreements in March, admitting to their roles in an alleged bribery scheme in which they ...
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Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and an attorney for former president Donald Trump engaged in a fiery, hours-long cross-examination Thursday, bringing an end to Daniels’s testimony during Trump’s criminal trial. Since Daniels took the stand Tuesday, she has testified about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, at times seeming to describe it as nonconsensual. Trump has pleaded not guilty ...
NEW YORK — New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan blamed Donald Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles in court Thursday for not sufficiently objecting in real time to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels’s detailed testimony this week — and again said Daniels’s testimony does not warrant a mistrial. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Shortly after House lawmakers overwhelming rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attempt to strip the gavel from a second Republican leader in the past year, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told her in a brief conversation on the House floor that he isn’t one to hold a grudge. “Let’s move on, Marjorie. I’m okay with this. Let’s move on,” Johnson recounted telling ...