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(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump made his first motion to dismiss his federal election interference case Thursday, citing what his lawyers claim is his “absolute immunity” from prosecution for actions taken while serving in the nation’s highest office. “Breaking 234 years of precedent, the incumbent administration has charged President Trump for acts that lie […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Three Philadelphia police officers were shot Wednesday night while responding to a 911 call about a shooting at a home, officials said. Just after 7 p.m. ET, officers responded to a 911 call regarding a person shot in a home as part of a domestic dispute, Philadelphia Interim Police Commissioner […]
(WASHINGTON)– After a protracted legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama residents will cast ballots in the 2024 congressional elections using a map that includes a second district designed to empower Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday. The new order, from a three-judge panel in Alabama, determines which of three proposed […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ROCKPORT, Mass.) — Two people who went diving off a beach in Rockport, Massachusetts, were found dead Wednesday within hours of each other, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. At approximately 11 a.m., the Rockport Police Department discovered a man who had been diving in the area dead on Front Beach. Rockport […]
(WASHINGTON) — Progressive activist Cornel West switched parties for the second time as he wages a third-party presidential campaign. West is planning to run as an independent for president, ditching the Green Party, which has a more formalized infrastructure to gain access to the ballot, shifting the calculus of how much of a threat he […]
(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Maryland Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on the conviction of Adnan Syed in the murder case that was the subject of the hit podcast “Serial”. Syed spent 24 years fighting charges that he’d killed his former girlfriend in 1999. Last year, a judge vacated Syed’s conviction for the murder of […]
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is considering attending House Republicans’ candidate forum for speaker next week, multiple sources familiar with his thinking told ABC News. The sources, however, cautioned that nothing is finalized and his plans could change. The closed-door candidate forum is scheduled for Tuesday. There, lawmakers will make their pitch for why […]
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are accused by New York Attorney General Letitia […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday said his administration had no choice but to build about 20 miles more southern border wall — after he’s long dismissed Donald Trump’s wall as a waste of money that doesn’t work to stop illegal immigration. “Money was appropriated for the border wall,” Biden told reporters, referring to […]
(NEW YORK) — Two of the three suspects arrested in the death of a 1-year-old boy from fentanyl exposure at a Bronx, New York, day care center in September, and the sickening of three other children from the drug, which was stashed at the business, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges. Defendants Grei Mendez, […]
