New York-based dance and music company Shen Yun Performing Arts has been targeted with at least 10 threats of bombs, mass shootings, kidnappings, and rape. The threats have been sent through email, usually in Chinese, over the past two weeks with increasing frequency. Several emails were sent to the company’s headquarters. Others were sent to […]
A false bomb threat and a false threat of a mass shooting have been sent to the headquarters of Shen Yun Performing Arts, an art group founded by Chinese dissidents that has long faced harassment by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The messages were received just days after similar false bomb threats were sent to […]
The New York Times has ignored, downplayed, or misrepresented large swaths of human rights abuses in China, a new report says, arguing the paper’s sins against journalistic integrity have likely cost lives by skewing policy debate and propping up the regime’s dehumanizing propaganda. “Not only are the victims’ plights typically treated with silence and indifference, […]
A debate has raged over a bill that would ban the social media app TikTok unless it strips its links to China. There appears to be a broad consensus that the app is a national security risk, exposing users to risk of nefarious influence and personal data exfiltration by the communist regime in China. Many […]
Former President Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts in office, even if he were to conduct them with criminal intentions, his lawyer argued before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. A three-judge panel of the court, consisting of Judges Michelle Childs, Karen LeCraft Henderson, and Florence Pan, scrutinized […]
The Supreme Court’s declining to quickly hear a key aspect of former President Donald Trump’s criminal case makes it all but impossible for the upcoming trial in Washington, D.C., to launch on schedule, several experts have said. Some say the trial may not happen until after the 2024 election. Special counsel Jack Smith, who handles […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to strike down a Colorado court ruling that removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot. However, the conservative majority on the highest court is likely to do so in a narrow way that doesn’t get into the weeds of whether President Trump’s actions constituted insurrection, according to […]
Former President Donald Trump made an unprecedented court appearance on Oct. 2 at the famed courthouse on 60 Centre Street. “I want to watch this witch hunt myself,” he explained after giving remarks during the lunch break. “I’ve been on their witch hunt for years, but this is now really getting dirty.” The former president […]
Day 1 Concludes–4:30 p.m. The first day of the civil case against President Trump concluded around 4:30 p.m. During President Trump’s remarks at lunch, he signaled he may be attending other days as well. Accountant Testifies–4 p.m. Donald Bender, former Mazars accountant who prepared tax documents and did accounting for Trump Organization, said the numbers […]
Sidney Powell, the former prosecutor and lawyer who challenged the 2020 election, has asked a judge to dismiss her part of the case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia. The case was brought on Aug. 14 by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, alleging that the challenges President Trump, Ms. Powell, and 17 others […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has abandoned a stale prosecution of Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. After being stuck in the appeals process for more than four years, the DOJ was facing the prospect of having to try the case in federal district court anew. Instead, on Sept. 11, […]
Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversees the election interference case against former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., revoked an earlier motion she approved after lawyers representing President Trump said court rules were not followed. On Sept. 5, prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team had asked the judge to allow documents to be filed […]
The sprawling case against former President Donald Trump in Georgia has driven many of the defendants to ask for donations in order to cover legal fees. President Trump himself has dug deep into his campaign coffers to ensure his representation in this and other court cases he is facing. While some of the 19 defendants […]
WASHINGTON—Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan has set the trial date for the case dealing with former President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election results for March 4, 2024. She declared that both trial dates offered by the former president’s lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith were unacceptable, though her decision put the date just […]
Former President Donald Trump surrendered himself to authorities at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 24 at roughly 7:36 p.m. local time. He was released on a $200,000 bond in about 20 minutes after going through the booking process, including fingerprinting and having his picture taken for a mug shot—the first ever […]
Mark Meadows, former congressman and chief of staff to President Donald Trump, has asked a federal judge to prevent his arrest in Georgia, where President Trump, Mr. Meadows, and others face charges for attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Mr. Meadows joins former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark who similarly asked […]
Former President Donald Trump may be able to extricate himself from charges in Georgia related to his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Like his former chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, the 45th president can ask a federal court to “remove” the case from the state court on the grounds that it targets his […]
The 2020 transition team of then-President Elect Joe Biden was informed in advance of the FBI planning an interview of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, according to a whistleblower—the former FBI supervisor responsible for opening the bureau’s investigation into Mr. Biden. FBI and IRS agents planned the interview for Dec. 8, 2020, but were told […]
WASHINGTON—District Judge Tanya Chutkan opposed the request by prosecutors to bar former President Donald Trump from revealing non-sensitive evidence provided to him by the prosecutors ahead of the trial on whether he conspired to illegally obstruct the counting of the 2020 electoral votes. During an Aug. 11 hearing in Washington, she decided to issue a […]
Special counsel Jack Smith has proposed Jan. 2, 2024, as the date to launch the trial with former President Donald Trump in the case involving his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Jury selection would start as early as Dec. 11 based on the proposed schedule. In an Aug. 10 court filing, […]
