Iowa’s Hinson says trip to Ukraine informed aid vote Hinson voted for the foreign aid bill and has supported as well as opposed previous funding packages providing military assistance to Ukraine. She and Iowa GOP U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst met with Zelenskyy ... 04/26/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Breaking down TikTok's legal arguments around free speech, national security claims The bill in question, which President Joe Biden signed Wednesday, gives Chinese parent company ByteDance nine months to divest TikTok or face a ban on app stores to distribute the app in the U.S. The ... 04/25/2024 - 10:44 am | View Link
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Judge to determine whether Trump violated gag order A New York judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday over whether former President Trump violated a gag order imposed against him in his hush money case. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District ... 04/22/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Having remade Twitter, Musk takes his speech fight global SAN FRANCISCO — To Elon Musk, the Brazilian Supreme Court justice is a “dictator.” In the justice’s view, Musk is allowing his social media platform to support the “digital militias” that are using ... 04/17/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
“This week, one presidential candidate has called the other a loser, made fun of him for selling Bibles, and even poked fun at his hair,” the New York Times reports.
“That kind of taunting is generally more within the purview of former President Donald J. Trump, whose insults are so voluminous and so often absurd that they have been cataloged by the hundreds.
Following the indictment of Donald Trump’s allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Margaret Hoover that those efforts came “quite close” to succeeding.
Said Richer: “I think we put ourselves in a pretty perilous situation.”
“The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering Black voters in an election year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Donald Trump suggested someone is purposely keeping him a “freezing” courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.
Said Trump: “We have another day in court, in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there, on purpose I believe.”
“All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.