The Stage Is Set For Alvin Bragg’s Star Witness—An Admitted Liar—To Take The Stand Against Trump
new york-Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s team called five witnesses on Friday to conclude the bulk of the case, paving the way for Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has admitted to lying, to take the stand. I opened it. Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told a judge he could wrap up the case against former […]
CNN Legal Analysts Set Correspondent Straight When She Tries To Defend Trump Judge For Mistrial Ruling
Two CNN legal analysts informed a network correspondent that Judge Juan Merchan’s mistrial denial ruling was not fair to former President Donald Trump’s defense. Merchan denied Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche’s motion for a mistrial Tuesday after porn star Stormy Daniels’ testimony, which he claimed was “unduly prejudicial,” with the judge questioning why the defense did not […]
Biden Admin Reportedly Set To Significantly Strengthen Tariffs On Chinese EVs, Critical Minerals
The Biden administration is reportedly set to significantly enhance tariffs targeting Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and other green energy-related products as early as next week, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The administration will approximately quadruple tariffs against Chinese EVs, and U.S. officials will also increase levies against critical minerals, solar products and batteries that […]
Fresh Off Their Major Victory On Gas Export Terminals, Enviros Set Sights On New Target: Oil Exports
Months after President Joe Biden handed environmentalists a major win by pausing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, activist groups are beginning to turn their attention to deepwater oil export hubs. A coalition of 19 climate activist organizations — including the Sierra Club, Earthjustice and the Sunrise Movement’s New Orleans chapter — wrote a […]
Trump urges Biden to set up presidential debate in Truth Social ‘letter to Joe’
Former President Donald Trump is asking President Biden to coordinate a presidential debate in 2024 after both candidates expressed enthusiasm for the idea. President Trump wrote a short “Letter to Joe” on Thursday through his own social media platform, Truth Social. “Dear Joe, you promised to participate in a debate on the now-defunct Howard Stern […]
As Violent Crime Skyrockets Pima County Plans To Set More Criminals Free
Violent crime is skyrocketing in Pima County, but officials are too busy planning to release lawbreakers onto the streets to actually do anything about it. With the county jail falling into disrepair, the Pima County Board of Supervisors’ grand solution is to establish a commission that will study how officials can reduce the facility’s population […]
Burial Set After Pearl Harbor Sailor’s Remains Identified
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Monday that they identified the remains of an American sailor who perished during the Pearl Harbor attack. The DPAA said in a press release that they identified the sailor as Navy Fireman 1st Class Everett C. Titterington who served on the battleship USS Oklahoma on that fateful day […]
UN Palestinian aid agency says Israelis set fire to headquarters
The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Thursday that Israelis twice set fire to the area surrounding the agency’s headquarters in East Jerusalem. UNRWA Secretary-General Philippe Lazzarini said both UNRWA and other UN agency personnel were present at the time of the incident. He said there were no casualties […]
Republican House speakers set new precedent on voting
From eighth-grade civics to college administration courses to nearly 30 years in the House and think tank worlds, I mistakenly believed that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives could only vote to break ties. My long-held misconceptions were shattered last month when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) voted to pass a resolution rather […]
Man in the arena: Barron Trump set to enter political world at the Republican convention
Barron Trump will enter the political arena at the Republican National Convention this summer. The youngest child of former President Donald Trump was selected to be one of Florida’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, NBC News reported. The convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July. Trump’s selection as delegate comes as […]