The Latest | Trump speaks with reporters after 4th day of witness testimony in hush money trial ends Donald Trump spoke to reporters with more energy than he had in past days after spending the day in the Manhattan courtroom where his hush money trial is being held. The former president says the ... 04/26/2024 - 10:10 am | View Link
Trump trial highlights: Former Trump assistant testifies about Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal Latest news and live updates on Day 8 of the Trump hush money trial as testimony about the former president continues. 04/26/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that It just has zero credibility,” said Lachlan Cartwright, executive editor of the Enquirer from 2014 to 2017. However its stories danced on the edge of credulity, the Enquirer was a cultural fixture, in ... 04/26/2024 - 8:51 am | View Link
"National Enquirer gold": Trump's alleged tryst would have sold lots of papers, David Pecker says David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, admitted Friday that he would have loved to publish the story of Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with ... 04/26/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
The Latest | Prosecution calls its 3rd witness in Trump's hush money trial Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America’s best-known ... 04/26/2024 - 8:16 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.