Federal prosecutors have asked for a 40-year sentence for the man convicted of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband with a hammer, arguing that his crimes amount to terrorism and his punishment should be more severe than standard guidelines would call for. A sentencing memorandum, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco […]
In separate remarks at two different events on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued warnings about the state of affairs in America today, including support for freedom of speech “declining dangerously” and the nation’s capital becoming a “hideous” place where cancel culture runs rampant. Justice Thomas spoke at a conference of […]
Former President Donald Trump has put to rest rumors that he’s considering former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as his running mate in the 2024 election. As anticipation builds for who would serve as President Trump’s Vice President if he wins the election in November, rumors have swirled that Ms. Haley is in contention. President […]
A paralegal from Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg’s office testified on Friday during former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial that some phone call records between Michael Cohen and Stephanie Clifford’s (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) lawyer were deleted, raising questions about evidentiary integrity. In a bid to challenge some of the evidence being put forward in […]
Former President Donald Trump has vowed to reverse the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections for transgender students on “day one” of his administration—if he wins the election in November. President Joe Biden has set a pro-transgender course for his administration, advancing various policies that promote gender ideology and special protections for individuals who identify […]
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in New York denied two requests on May 9, a second bid for a mistrial and another to narrow a gag order in the ongoing case. On Thursday afternoon, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan denied a motion for a mistrial, the […]
A federal watchdog has launched an audit of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate its oversight of United Airlines’ maintenance practices to check if the agency is doing its job rigorously enough, citing a run of recent safety events at the carrier that have been linked to mechanical problems. The U.S. Transportation Department Office […]
Illinois Republicans have accused Democrats of election interference by adding an 11th-hour amendment to a bill that was quickly passed by the Democrat-controlled Legislature and signed into law by the state’s Democrat governor, changing ballot laws that allegedly disfavor the GOP. Last week, Democrats in the Illinois House added a last-minute amendment to Senate Bill […]
A GOP-led House committee has issued subpoenas to two Biden administration officials amid allegations that the executive branch agency they work for is funneling taxpayer resources to the key battleground state of Michigan to help President Joe Biden win reelection. Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, issued a pair […]
Federal judges who recently rejected Louisiana’s congressional election map that gave the state a second mostly black district have now ordered the state Legislature to pass a new map by June 3 or face the prospect that judges will simply impose one. In an order filed on May 7 at the U.S. District Court, Western […]
The Boy Scouts of America has announced that it’s rebranding to Scouting America in the name of diversity and inclusion, as it emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims. While the rebrand announcement comes on the fifth anniversary of allowing girls into its flagship boys-only program, the name change won’t go into […]
A new report shows that the Social Security system’s main trust fund will be depleted by 2035—one year later than a prior estimate, though concerns remain about the fund’s solvency. The Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual report on May 6 that projects that the Social Security trust fund, which consists of the […]
Officials at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have told students taking part in pro-Palestine encampment protests on campus to leave or face suspension. Protest movements connected to the Israel–Hamas war have swept college campuses across the country, leading to educational disruption and at times harassment, intimidation, and violence. Encampments have popped up […]
Charlie Spies has resigned from his role as chief counsel of the Republican National Committee (RNC) after just two months on the job, The Epoch Times has learned. Mr. Spies, a longtime Republican election attorney who joined the RNC in March amid a Trump-led overhaul, said that his full-time duties at the committee were in […]
Senior military leaders plotted to disobey then-President Donald Trump’s orders on Jan. 6, 2021, because they “unreasonably” thought he might try to use the D.C. National Guard to block certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to whistleblower Col. Earl Matthews. “I think a very plausible argument can be made that through no fault of […]
Former President Donald Trump issued a warning about the direction of the U.S. economy after Friday’s job creation numbers came in far below expectations and as more Americans were bumped onto unemployment rolls. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on May 3 that the U.S. economy added 175,000 new jobs last month. That’s down […]
An attempt by Kansas state lawmakers to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill banning transgender procedures for children failed after two Republicans joined Democrats to uphold the veto, clearing the way for the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries for kids. The Kansas Senate voted 27–13 to override Ms. Kelly’s […]
The House Judiciary Committee is investigating a top prosecutor on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Trump for his past work as a senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official during the Biden administration, amid allegations that the Trump prosecution is politically driven. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in an […]
Regulatory filings show that former President Donald Trump increased his stake significantly in the company behind his social media platform Truth Social, with the former president now owning nearly 65 percent of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and becoming around $1.8 billion richer. President Trump, who faces mounting legal bills from a bevy of court cases that […]
Federal food safety inspectors have begun testing ground beef from grocery stores for the presence of bird flu in states where dairy cows have tested positive for the virus, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). A USDA spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that the agency’s Food Safety and Inspection […]
Columbia University has started suspending students who have defied the university’s order to dismantle an encampment protesting Israel’s military operation in Gaza, according to a spokesperson. “We have begun suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus,” Ben Chang, vice president for communications and a spokesperson […]
During Thursday’s deliberations at the U.S. Supreme Court on former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned that a decision in the case has future implications for whether future presidents are shielded from vicious cycles of malicious prosecution that could effectively end the presidency as we know it. In the course […]
The troubled Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank has imploded, with federal regulators seizing it and arranging for it to be taken over by fellow regional lender Fulton Financial, in what marks the first bank failure of 2024. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced on April 26 that Republic First Bank—which did business as Republic Bank—was […]
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday that he would back former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in the 2024 election and that he believes the real threat to democracy is not the former president but the progressive movement and its backing by the Biden administration. Mr. Barr made the remark in an […]
Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021, has announced that he’s pulling out of the Republican primary race for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Mr. Meijer made the announcement in an April 26 statement, in which he thanked his supporters and […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is facing criticism for a handful of operational shortcomings, with a government watchdog taking the tax agency to task for several “significant deficiencies” in the areas of security management and access controls, including one that puts sensitive taxpayer data at risk. A recent audit of the IRS by the Government […]
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has revealed the names of five additional defendants who were indicted earlier this week by a grand jury in the state’s ongoing investigation into the so-called fake electoral scheme, a probe that the Arizona GOP has panned as “pure election interference.” According to an updated indictment released on April 26 […]
The House Judiciary Committee has released a report documenting the panel’s allegations that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in the so-called “hush money” case was driven by a political vendetta. The committee announced the publication of the report—entitled “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The […]
A judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial or change of verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case, rejecting the former president’s contention that the outcome was tainted by “extreme” restrictions on his courtroom testimony and erroneous instructions to the jury. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a memorandum […]
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has vowed to appeal an unfavorable court ruling overturning the state’s transgender sports ban all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with athlete and policy advocate Riley Gaines joining him in calling for protections for women’s sports. “We’re not going to allow the elites in the swamp to […]
An official with the Michigan Attorney General’s office revealed in court this week that former President Donald Trump has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the state’s investigation into 2020 election interference. Howard Shock, a special agent at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office, said during a pretrial hearing in Lansing, Michigan, that investigators […]
The Biden administration faces multiple lawsuits—including from the nation’s biggest business lobby—over a new federal ban on the vast majority of worker noncompete agreements that the groups allege harms the economy and sets a dangerous precedent for government overreach. The lawsuits come in response to a 3–2 vote by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on […]
Federal regulators have imposed a nationwide ban on the vast majority of non-compete agreements that prevent tens of millions of employees from working for competitors or starting a competing business after they leave their job, with the country’s biggest business lobby vowing to sue. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3–2 on April 23 to […]
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a final blow to an effort to block former President Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in Arizona by refusing to hear an appeal from a man who’s waged a legal battle in dozens of states to get the former president disqualified over the Jan. 6 incident. The high court […]
The Biden administration has agreed to pay over $138 million to victims of convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar while acknowledging the FBI’s failures to properly investigate warnings that the sports physician was exploiting his position to molest young girls under the guise of treatment. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in an April 23 statement […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge to a Texas law that requires voters under the age of 65 to provide justification to vote by mail, meaning that the Democrat-aligned attempt to sharply expand “no-excuse” mail-in ballots in the Lone Star state has failed, with implications for other states. According to […]
The Obama-appointed judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington has just issued her harshest sentence yet in separate proceedings against a Jan. 6 defendant that she’s presiding over, sending the Maryland man behind bars for over five years. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan delivered her sentence on April 19 in a […]
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed absentee and early ballots as “good options” alongside Election Day voting as he seeks to rally Republican voters in his efforts to clinch a victory over his Democrat rival in the November election. President Trump has long expressed a strong preference for Election Day voting while being a sharp […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has asked the judge in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case to declare the $175 million bond that a surety company posted on his behalf as “without effect” and to require it to post a new bond that is sufficiently collateralized, while calling into question the firm’s credibility. […]
Police have identified the man who set himself on fire in a park outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s business record falsification trial was taking place, with officials reviewing whether to restrict access to Collect Pond Park following the incident. Max Azzarello of St. Augustine, Florida, was identified by officials with the […]
A man set himself on fire across the street from a Manhattan courthouse just minutes after the full jury was selected in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial that alleges falsification of business records. New York Police Department (NYPD) said at a press conference that the individual has been identified as Max Azzarello and that […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have infiltrated America’s critical infrastructure and are biding their time as they wait for the right moment to strike a “devastating blow.” Mr. Wray said in an April 18 speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, that the threats posed […]
The top administrative court in Belgium issued an emergency late-night ruling in favor of a conservative conference, overturning a ban by a mayor who cited “public safety” concerns, but explicitly said the “far-right is not welcome,” with the court allowing the conference to resume on April 17 after it was blocked a day earlier by […]
The first seven jurors have been selected and sworn in to serve on former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, with the selection process continuing to pick another five to make up the 12-member jury panel, as lawyers grilled members of the jury pool to determine whether they can sit in fair judgment of […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to rehear an appeal to undo sanctions against a handful of pro-Trump lawyers—including Sidney Powell—who filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. In an April 15 entry in the case docket, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Ms. Powell’s petition for rehearing, effectively leaving […]
A former U.S. ambassador who had access to top secret government information has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to working for communist-run Cuba’s spy service for decades. Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and member of the White House National Security Council, was recruited by Cuba’s spy […]
New York City has seen a record jump in the number of human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine that can cause kidney damage, liver failure, and even death. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued an advisory on April 12, warning that the number of human leptospirosis cases continues to trend […]
A woman who recently went viral for hugging former President Donald Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Georgia and telling him not to worry about dishonest media coverage has revealed why she thinks black voters are increasingly backing the former president in the upcoming election. President Trump met with supporters at the restaurant in Atlanta earlier […]
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has rejected his bid to postpone the trial on the grounds of prejudicial pretrial publicity. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said in an April 12 order and decision that he was denying President Trump’s request in part because it amounted […]
A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to Georgia’s voter citizenship verification requirements, keeping in place the state’s process of cross-checking citizenship status to determine voter eligibility and handing a win to election integrity advocates. Judge Eleanor Ross of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a ruling on April […]
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) has unveiled a bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants from boarding commercial flights into and within the United States without valid identification. “Allowing illegal immigrants to abuse commercial airline travel is unacceptable,” Mr. Green said in a statement on April 11, in which he announced the draft […]
Americans are having growing difficulty making payments on their credit card debt, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve, which shows credit card delinquencies surging to a record high. The share credit card accounts with past due debt payments has reached all-time highs at every time horizon—30, 60, and 90 days—according to fourth-quarter […]
Wholesale inflation accelerated in March, delivering a blow to the narrative that price pressures are easing and dimming hopes for an interest rate cut in the near future. Inflation from the perspective of business input costs called the Producer Price Index (PPI), rose 2.1 percent in year-over-year terms in March, after a 1.6 percent reading […]
An appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay the start of his criminal trial in New York, marking the third such failed attempt this week. Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer issued an order on April 10, denying President Trump’s request for a stay of proceedings that cited the alleged “unconstitutional […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that official figures of around 9 million grossly underestimate the number of illegal immigrants who have entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office, and that he believes the true number is closer to 16 million. Mr. Johnson made the remarks while speaking at a press […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has challenged the legitimacy of the $175 million bond that a surety company posted on behalf of former President Donald Trump, sparking allegations of bias. President Trump posted a $175 million bond on April 1, allowing him to fend off a possible seizure of his properties or other assets […]
A governing body for college athletics has announced a ban on transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) said in an April 8 announcement that its Council of Presidents approved the ban in a unanimous 20–0 vote. “Only NAIA student-athletes whose biological sex is female may participate in NAIA-sponsored […]
President Joe Biden may have trouble getting on the general election ballot in Ohio because of an apparent conflict in state law related to the timing of the Democratic National Committee’s nominating process and a deadline for certifying the party’s presidential nominee to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, per reports. Ohio Secretary of State […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has provided an update on the looming impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, including when the House impeachment managers will present the articles of impeachment in the Senate. Mr. Schumer disclosed in an April 5 letter to fellow Democrats that the Senate will receive the House impeachment […]
Former President Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden and the Justice Department for “unfairly” targeting a 71-year-old woman dubbed the “J6 Praying Grandma” who entered the U.S. Capitol for around 10 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021. Rebecca Lavrenz was convicted on April 4 on four federal misdemeanor charges, including entering and remaining in a […]
Some Walmart shoppers may be eligible to receive cash payments of up to $500 as part of a $45 million settlement the retail giant recently agreed to enter into in order to settle a lawsuit. The settlement stems from a class action lawsuit in which Walmart was accused of three “systemic unfair and deceptive” business […]
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign expects to raise a record-breaking $43 million at a single big fundraiser in Florida on Saturday as it looks to narrow the gap with the war chest of the Biden campaign, which said it raised over $90 million in March. President Joe Biden’s campaign announced on April 6 that it […]
A watchdog overseeing the IRS has revealed that the agency is hiring 5,582 tax enforcers this year, although it dismissed as “unfounded” media reports claiming the tax agency is hiring “87,000-armed enforcement agents” because only a fraction of the new hires will carry guns. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), which is the […]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing renewed pressure to explain the circumstances of inadmissible aliens on the terrorist watchlist being released into the United States rather than being held in custody until deportation. A group of Homeland Security Republicans expressed serious concern in an April 3 letter to Mr. Mayorkas about unanswered […]
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that media fixation on the $58 million loss of the company behind Truth Social is misguided, touting its fundamentals—which he said include over $200 million cash and no debt—as “very solid.” President Trump took to Truth Social on April 4 to say that the platform’s performance is “amazing” and […]
Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell has announced that he’s switching party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, citing his Christian faith and views on abortion. Mr. McDonnell made the announcement in an April 3 statement to local media outlets, citing the Democrat Party’s opposition to his pro-life stance. “When I ran for reelection in 2020 I […]
Lara Merchan, the wife of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” case in Manhattan, once worked for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the massive $350 million civil fraud case against the former president, with the revelation reviving claims of bias and calls for the judge’s recusal. Records reviewed […]
A federal judge in Kentucky has struck down a Biden administration rule that required states to measure and report the greenouse gas emissions from any vehicles traveling on the national highway system. “With this victory in court, we’re slamming the brakes on the Biden Administration’s politics that make no sense,” said Kentucky Attorney General Russell […]
Customs officials are working to deport 215 illegal immigrants charged with various offenses in connection with breaking through a razor wire barrier in El Paso County and stampeding through a group of outnumbered Texas National Guard troops. A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement on […]
Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who’s serving time in prison for refusing to comply with a Congressional subpoena, has lost a separate legal bid to prevent having to turn over purported presidential records from his personal email account. In an April 1 order, a panel of three Democrat-appointed judges at the U.S. Court […]
The company behind former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, said in a regulatory filing on April 1 that it suffered a net loss of more than $58 million, and the news sent its stock down by more than 20 percent. The new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that […]
A Chinese national confirmed to be an illegal immigrant was arrested last week after sneaking onto a military base in California and ignoring orders to leave, according to an official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP’s El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said in a March 29 post on social media […]
President Joe Biden has declared March 31, 2024, which falls on Easter Sunday, as “Transgender Day of Visibility,” sparking uproar among conservatives and scathing criticism from former President Donald Trump, who demanded that the president apologize to millions of Christians in the United States. “Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans … You […]
Telecom giant AT&T disclosed on Saturday that data from some 73 million current and former account holders has been leaked onto the “dark web” and the incident is under investigation. In a March 30 announcement, AT&T said that data from roughly 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders were released on […]
With what’s shaping up to be a long-running investigation underway into the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, attention is now turning to the massive clean-up operation that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has described as a “daunting” task. A crane described as the largest on the Eastern Seabord that can lift 1,000 […]
A coalition of 11 Republican attorneys general has sued the Biden administration in a bid to block President Joe Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness scheme, arguing it’s illegal because Congress didn’t approve it. The lawsuit was filed on March 28 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, and it seeks a declaration […]
A Delaware man serving a three-year sentence for marching through the halls of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is poised to be released from prison pending appeal after serving one year thanks to a Supreme Court decision to review the Biden administration’s novel use of an evidence-tampering law to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants […]
U.S. economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2023 has been revised upward, from 3.2 percent to 3.4 percent in the government’s third—and final—update of gross domestic product (GDP) figures, though real-time GDP estimates for the first quarter of 2024 have fallen sharply, undercutting hopes for an economic “soft landing.” The economy expanded by 3.4 […]
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is predicting that inflation will be higher than most people believe while arguing that much of that is actually a good thing because it also means higher wages, and more generally downplaying price pressure fears as overblown. “Well, when you and I were young, we actually had worse inflation” than the […]
The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt its natural gas appliance ban in a lawsuit settlement with restaurant owners and business groups, slowing attempts by some lawmakers to crack down on natural gas as part of their climate agenda. The California Restaurant Association (CRA) announced on March 22 that it had entered into […]
NBC has announced it’s cutting ties with Ronna McDaniel, saying that the decision to bring her on board as an NBC News contributor outraged some staff and undermined newsroom cohesion. “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” Cesar Conde, […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton scored a major legal and political victory on March 26, as prosecutors dropped a long-running securities fraud case against him in a $300,000 restitution deal with no admission of guilt. “Look, we’re glad to have this matter behind [us]. This case has been pending longer than the Beatles were together—literally,” […]
A number of Republicans have come out in support of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in response to a move by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) demanding his ouster. Ms. Greene filed a motion to vacate on March 22, seeking to oust Mr. Johnson from his leadership role in frustration over a $1.2 trillion spending […]
The Biden administration is setting up a national center to provide training and technical assistance to help police, prosecutors, judges, and others implement “red flags” laws more effectively to take away guns from Americans “who pose a threat to themselves or others,” drawing criticism from some conservatives. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on March […]
President Joe Biden has signed into law the $1.2 trillion package of spending bills, averting a government shutdown. The White House said that President Biden signed the measure on March 23, providing funding for various federal government departments and agencies through Sept. 30, 2024. “The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has declared a national day of mourning as officials said all four suspects involved in the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall had been arrested, with the death toll rising to 133. “I declare March 24 a day of nationwide mourning,” President Putin said in a televised address to the […]
The number of illegal immigrants encountered between ports of entry or who presented themselves to customs officials in February soared to the highest level compared to any prior February on record, new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows. There were 140,644 illegal alien encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border, […]
A whistleblower has accused the CIA of impeding the tax fraud investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, by intervening to block an interview of a witness by other federal agencies. The CIA allegedly meddled in the investigation into Mr. Biden in August 2021 by preventing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Internal […]
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a certificate of immediate review, allowing the former president and seven co-defendants to appeal the judge’s order denying the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The certificate of immediate review, filed on March 20 at the Superior Court […]
Former President Donald Trump on March 18 accused media outlets and their “Democrat Partners” of pushing a false narrative regarding a comment he made about a “bloodbath” in the auto industry if he isn’t reelected. During a speech at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on March 16, President Trump discussed auto imports into the United […]
The judge in former president Donald Trump’s classified documents case has ordered the preparation of jury instructions in a way that demands the parties to both consider competing sets of facts, on the premise that President Trump designated the documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago home as “personal records,” and on the premise that a […]
Former President Donald Trump said at a Saturday rally that, if elected in November, he would move quickly to fix a host of problems plaguing the country, including using executive power to free Jan. 6 “hostages” and ending every single “open border policy of the Biden administration” on day one after taking office. The former […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning to taxpayers who improperly claimed a pandemic-era tax credit that they face a fast-approaching deadline to apply for a voluntary disclosure program that will let them avoid penalties and interest—and even get a sharp discount on repayments. The IRS warned in a March 15 notice that businesses […]
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in a case that concerns what two lower courts found to be a “coordinated campaign” by top Biden administration officials to suppress disfavored views on key public issues like COVID-19 vaccine side effects and pandemic lockdowns. The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing on March 18 […]
Michael Whatley, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), said that the party will use all available tools to help former President Donald Trump win the race for the White House, including continuing the “Bank Your Vote” campaign that educates Republican voters on locking their votes in early through mail-in ballots. Mr. Whatley […]
A federal judge has granted former President Donald Trump’s request for more time to file motions in support of his request for a new trial in a case in which the former president has been ordered to pay $83 million for supposedly defaming author E. Jean Carroll. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on March 14 […]
House Republicans have notified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis that she could face contempt of Congress proceedings for alleged non-compliance with a subpoena to produce records related to her office’s use of federal funds related to her case against former President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has threatened to initiate […]
Former President Donald Trump has scored a partial win in his bid to postpone his criminal trial in New York, in which the former president faces 34 felony counts of allegedly falsifying business records in connection with so-called “hush money” payments. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to a 30-day delay of the trial, […]
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed an election integrity lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, accusing her of undermining confidence in elections by failing to follow federal law on proper maintenance of voter rolls. The RNC filed its complaint on March 13 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of […]
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has refused an invitation from Republican lawmakers to appear at a public hearing before Congress, according to his attorney, who cited a scheduling conflict and denounced the hearing as a “carnival side show.” Abbe Lowell, Mr. Biden’s attorney, said in a letter to House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair […]