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Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A jury was selected and sworn in Wednesday for the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez. Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments and a luxury convertible […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, are set to face off in an ABC News presidential debate in September. Trump and Biden said they have both agreed to a prime-time debate at ABC News studios on Sept. 10. Before that, they will […]
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday challenged Donald Trump to participate in two 2024 presidential debates. “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in a video message his campaign posted to social media. “Now […]
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s entourage continued to grow when more high-profile politicians attended his New York hush money criminal trial on Tuesday — including House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, was in criminal court with Trump on Tuesday morning. After commuting with Trump in his […]
Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday, promised the U.S. will quickly deliver badly needed arms, touting Washington and the West’s alliances with Kyiv. Blinken is the first senior U.S. official to visit since Congress, after months of dispute, in April […]
Sen. J.D. Vance (left, red tie)(R-OH) looks on as former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media at his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York City, on May 13, 2024. (Spencer Platt/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Political allies of former President Donald Trump, […]
Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports, including a sharp tax hike on electric vehicles, to help protect his administration’s investments in key sectors in the United States. “The president’s actions ensure that American businesses and workers have the […]
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, speaks at the Turning Point Action conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 16, 2023. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month […]
adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Even though the general election matchup is already set between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, there have been plenty of fireworks down the ballot ahead of presidential and congressional primaries in Maryland, West Virginia, and Nebraska on Tuesday. Downballot races in Maryland, for example, have led to bitter […]
A flooded playground and field in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. – Shelby Knowles/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a pioneering measure to hold companies responsible for environmental damage, Vermont is poised to make oil and gas giants shell out billions in climate change cleanup. Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, which parallels […]
