Barr, Who Previously Advised Trump to Stay Away from Oval Office, Announces Intent to Vote for Him in 2024 Bill Barr’s recent statements on his voting intentions for the 2024 election, choosing Trump over Biden, have stirred controversy and further highlighted the deep political divisions within the United ... 04/30/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
Who are Trump's potential VP picks? Here are some candidates who are still in the running Some of the names coming up most consistently have been on Trump's list for months, while other candidates seem to be sliding out of favor. 04/30/2024 - 5:28 am | View Link
Opinion: Even if Trump can’t stay awake this week, the jury will have reason to David Pecker had introduced the jury to a world of celebrities, sex scandals and an alleged backroom deal; now we are building the details out, writes Norman Eisen. 04/29/2024 - 9:51 pm | View Link
The new economic ideas Trump advisers are floating for second term — to campaign’s chagrin Trumpworld is flush with economic advisers pushing different policy proposals for a possible second term — reportedly to the annoyance of the Trump campaign. 04/29/2024 - 1:53 pm | View Link
Even Trump’s Advisers Stunned by Details from Hush-Money Trial Trump can’t communicate with anyone while he’s in the Manhattan court, and only a small number of his aides are in the (apparently frigid) courtroom with him. That means the rest of them have to keep ... 04/26/2024 - 10:49 am | View Link
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Threats of jail time.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the less severe Schedule III, for drugs with significant medical use. If the White House Office of Management and Budget approves the decision, the DEA would be able to offer its proposal for public comment.
Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused a firestorm and his campaign walked it back within hours. It marked one of the few times that Trump recanted.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met.
The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, according to a media advisory from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment over the past few weeks.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged extra-marital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.