KVSP Politics
Page: 11
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill to reauthorize a spy program considered critical to U.S. national security is in limbo on Capitol Hill. An attempt on Wednesday to move ahead with reforming and renewing parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was blocked by House Republicans, in another blow the […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign says it has ended its contract with a consultant who was seen on video encouraging people to vote for him in order to get “rid of Biden” even if that means electing former President Donald Trump. Campaign manager Amaryllis Fox announced the decision […]
ATU Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Less than a year after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a public health advisory calling attention to a crisis of loneliness, isolation and lack of connection across the country, Rep. Jamaal Bowman says he was spurred on to call for more funding for the next generation of mental health […]
A man walks past tents and shacks erected by destroyed buildings in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 9, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Even as U.S. officials applaud Israel’s initial steps to address dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza, the Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are still openly at […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A key procedural vote on a bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed on the House floor on Wednesday, another sign of Republican infighting under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership. Nineteen Republicans broke ranks with party leadership and voted against the measure, despite urging from Johnson […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York appeals court judge declined to postpone the April 15 trial in former President Donald Trump’s hush money case. The full Appellate Division First Department will consider later this month whether to relax a limited gag order as Trump has requested. The full panel of the appellate […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Allen Weisselberg, once the long-serving chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, will be sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial. Weisselberg is expected to report to Rikers Island immediately following the sentencing […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial and during the investigation that preceded it. Weisselberg, 76, arrived at New York criminal court not in […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appellate court for an interim stay to his upcoming criminal hush money trial in New York — a tactic that has already failed twice this week. Trump’s latest effort to scuttle the trial involves a petition against Judge Juan […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There are multiple Jeremy Rosenbergs in New York City, as former President Donald Trump’s attorneys found out Tuesday after they sent a subpoena to the wrong one. Last month, Trump’s attorneys in his criminal hush money case in Manhattan sought to subpoena the Jeremy Rosenberg who was a supervising […]
