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Alex Jones to liquidate assets to pay off $1.5B Sandy Hook judgment

Alex Jones plans to liquidate his assets to pay $1.5 billion in defamation damages from families of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who are suing him for saying the mass murder was a hoax. Jones, host of the popular website Infowars, has abandoned efforts to resolve a judgment related to his […]

Judgment week: How prosecutors will use the ‘other crime’ against Trump

JUDGMENT WEEK: HOW PROSECUTORS WILL USE THE ‘OTHER CRIME’ AGAINST TRUMP. On Tuesday, a jury in Manhattan will hear closing arguments in the trial of former President Donald Trump. Local prosecutors allege Trump committed bookkeeping offenses as part of a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. The former president’s specific crime, prosecutors say, was […]

Judgment Day: Six ways the 2024 Trump-Biden election is different from 2020

The 2024 general election may have the same cast of characters, but the campaigns of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to provide this cycle with a couple of plot twists. In addition to 2024 doubling as a 2020 rematch between a historically unpopular incumbent president and an unprecedentedly criminally indicted […]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces US extradition judgment day

A British court could make a final decision on Monday whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States over the mass leak of classified American documents, the culmination of 13 years of legal battles and detention. Two judges at London’s High Court ruled that if Assange, 52, were to go on trial […]

Jury picked, opening statements begin in US v. Menendez: ‘Use your good judgment’

Twelve jurors and six alternates were selected Wednesday to begin hearing opening statements in New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s high-profile federal corruption trial. Opening statements are expected to last up to three hours in total, with prosecutor Lara Pomerantz given 45 minutes. U.S. Judge Sidney H. Stein told jurors: “Use common sense, use your […]

Trump locks down $175 million bond after New York civil fraud judgment

Former President Donald Trump has secured a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, according to the latest court filing. “As promised, President Trump has posted bond,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “He looks forward to vindicating his rights on appeal and overturning this unjust […]