Election Updates: Biden says he is ‘happy to’ debate Trump, a notable shift. President Biden will depart New York today and return to Washington, D.C., concluding a campaign trip promoting his economic policies. On his way out of the state, he will pass less than two miles ... 04/26/2024 - 6:26 am | View Link
Biden says he’s ‘happy’ to debate Trump President Biden on Friday indicated he’s willing to debate former President Trump ahead of November’s election. “I am, somewhere. I don’t know when, but I am happy to ... 04/26/2024 - 4:32 am | View Link
Trump trial live updates: Prosecution calls more witnesses to establish Trump ties with Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal The former president’s criminal hush money is set to resume in Manhattan Friday when former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker returns to the witness stand to face cross-examination by the ... 04/26/2024 - 2:20 am | View Link
Testimony ends for the day in Trump hush money trial The prosecution continued to question the ex-publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker as Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom Thursday for his criminal hush money trial. 04/25/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Trump trial live updates: David Pecker testifies about hush money negotiations with Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal The former president's hush money trial is set to resume Thursday at Manhattan Criminal Court, where ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker — the first witness to testify in the historic case — ... 04/25/2024 - 7:10 am | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
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.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.