Donald Trump, whose social media posts fueled his improbable rise to the presidency, has found a new use for his favorite political tool — as ammunition in his legal battle against charges that he falsified business records in New York. That strategy became clear on the second day of jury selection on Tuesday, as Trump lawyer Todd Blanche repeatedly used ...
Several Kennedy family members plan to endorse President Biden for reelection at a campaign event in Philadelphia on Thursday, saying that Biden reflects the values and “moral leadership” of their clan’s most celebrated members, in a move intended in part to counter the independent campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. More than a dozen Kennedys — including siblings of Robert ...
A former Army financial counselor accused of siphoning millions of dollars from deceased soldiers’ life insurance funds pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, accepting a deal with prosecutors that could put him in jail for years after acknowledging he scammed grieving widows and children, the Justice Department said. After publication of a Washington Post investigation, federal investigators last year charged ...
Newly unsealed court documents show that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) may seek to blame his wife, Nadine Menendez, for withholding information in a case that led to federal bribery charges. In passages unsealed Tuesday, the senator’s lawyers wrote in a legal brief that they plan to try to show the “absence of any improper intent on Senator Menendez’s part” by ...
The United States will impose sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone program, as well as entities supporting the Iranian regime or military, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said additional sanctions on Iran would be forthcoming in retaliation for its attack against Israel over the weekend. “Treasury will not ...
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial said opening statements could begin as soon as Monday, as the jury selection process sped up and Trump got an earful from the people who might soon decide his fate. Lawyers for Trump on Tuesday repeatedly argued that old social media posts by many of the prospective jurors ...
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. (D) and his wife, superintendent of the city’s public schools, were accused Monday of physically and emotionally abusing their teenage daughter. Marty Small, 50, and La’Quetta Small, 47, were each charged with a second-degree count of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. The couple abused their 16-year-old ...
Bob Graham, a consensus-building moderate Democrat who as a two-term Florida governor and a three-term U.S. senator became one of the most popular politicians in the state’s history and then one of the Senate’s most ardent opponents of the Iraq War, died April 16 at the age of 87. His daughter Gwendolyn Graham confirmed the death in a statement on ...
Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency in 2015 after he said a gun he kept in his vehicle for bear protection fell and discharged, striking him in his right forearm in Glacier National Park, according to new National Park Service documents released through a Freedom of Information Act request. The new documents, which provide additional detail ...
NEW YORK — He was a publicity hound and a tabloid star. He was a developer who bragged about his acquisitions and exaggerated his wealth, emblazoning his name on towers that scraped the sky. He was a Queens boy made good — with no small amount of help from his father’s money — bursting onto the Manhattan scene through sheer ...