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(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both visiting the southern border on Thursday, with the issue of the border and high rates of illegal immigration as a flashpoint between them in the race for the White House. The Biden campaign slammed Trump in a statement ahead of his border visit […]
Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former U.S. ambassador charged with spying for Cuban intelligence over a more than four-decade span told a judge Thursday he plans to plead guilty in his case, according to court records. Manuel Rocha, who rose through the ranks of the U.S. government and ultimately […]
(NEW YORK) — Attorneys for columnist E. Jean Carroll, who successfully sued Donald Trump for defamation, objected Thursday to the former president’s attempt to pause enforcement of the $83.3 million judgment the jury ordered him to pay. Trump had asked the court to stay enforcement of the monetary award while he appeals without requiring him […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The FBI carried out a search Thursday at the Bronx home of Winnie Greco, the director of Asian affairs for New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The search at Greco’s home follows a search in November at the Brooklyn home of Brianna Suggs, a campaign consultant and top fundraiser […]
(PHILADELPHIA) — A Philadelphia man who was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1994 arson murder of a woman is now exonerated 30 years later, the District Attorney’s Office announced. On Wednesday, Daniel Gwynn, 54, was exonerated and released from state prison in Pennsylvania after the DA’s office said they found flaws […]
(WASHINGTON) — Democrats helped Speaker Mike Johnson to pass a short-term funding bill in the House to avert a government shutdown before a Friday deadline — but it only kicks the can down the road for a week. The House voted 320-99 in bipartisan fashion to approve the short-term continuing resolution, pushing the funding deadlines […]
(WASHINGTON) — Facing angry lawmakers for the first time since his cancer diagnosis, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified Thursday that he takes “full responsibility” for keeping the White House in the dark when he underwent surgery and later when he was admitted to the intensive care unit after suffering complications. “Again, we did not handle […]
(SANTA FE, N.M) — David Halls, the first assistant director for “Rust,” gave emotional testimony Thursday about the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the involuntary manslaughter trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez. Actor Alec Baldwin was practicing a cross-draw in a church on the set of the Western movie in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump knows how to influence an election, that much is clear. In the last few years, he has championed down-ballot nominees, wielded extensive influence over primary races and had his fingerprints on the House leadership race. But Trump is already beginning to leave his MAGA mark on a new sort […]
(WASHINGTON) — Two of Donald Trump’s criminal cases face a key inflection point on Friday, as judges in Florida and Georgia weigh plans for the historic trials of the former president. In Florida, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to consider moving the May 20 trial date in Trump’s federal classified documents case during […]
