Donald Trump’s first criminal trial featured its first bombshell day Tuesday, with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand to detail her claims of an affair with Trump. Daniels went into extensive detail about the alleged 2006 tryst — more extensive than the defense and even the judge cared for, with numerous objections being sustained. This post appeared first on ...
President Biden was in the Map Room at the White House, going line by line over a speech he would soon deliver commemorating the Holocaust, when, a few hundred miles to the north, a prosecutor stood before the court and declared, “The people call Stormy Daniels.” Biden would soon visit Capitol Hill to join some of the country’s top elected ...
Donald Trump’s Florida trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them has been pushed back indefinitely, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Tuesday, increasing the chance that the former president’s ongoing New York criminal trial may be the only one to happen before the November election. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
A reader asked us to fact-check a four-minute “history lesson” posted by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on YouTube. International events — and the causes of war — are often open to interpretation. But Kennedy’s lecture, about how the United States allegedly provoked the Ukraine war, was filled with so much misinformation and Russian talking points that it seems ...
The Biden administration paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel, including controversial 2,000-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. officials said Tuesday. “Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are ...
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) is projected to win a hard-fought primary for reelection that centered on her record of support for her native Ukraine, according to the Associated Press. Spartz — the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress — was facing a crowded field of challengers after she reversed her decision to not seek another term and reentered the race this ...
Speaking to Semafor, New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn explained how he saw his newsroom’s role in the 2024 election. “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have,” Kahn said, responding to criticism that his paper has been insufficiently critical of Donald Trump. “At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not ...
Former president Donald Trump mocked Sen. Jon Tester’s weight at a fundraiser Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., comparing his appearance to that of a pregnant woman, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made the remark at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser for Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-Tex.), Trump’s former White House doctor, who has had ...
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial found him in contempt of court Monday — the 10th such violation of a gag order — and warned the former president that he was flirting with jail time if he continued to talk or post online statements about witnesses, jurors, or relatives of those involved in the case. This ...
It appears increasingly possible that Donald Trump could face actual jail time before we ever get a verdict in any of his four criminal trials. Jail would be a fraught outcome that few seem to truly desire — and might never happen for a host of reasons — but it’s time to ask whether the American people are prepared for ...