Trump lawyers try to discredit key prosecution witness as hush money trial wraps first week Donald Trump’s defense team tried to poke holes in potentially crucial testimony for prosecutors as the first criminal trial of a former American president wrapped up its first week. 04/26/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
Trump legal woes mount as ex-tabloid chief testifies about scheme to shield old friend The National Enquirer’s David Pecker paid out thousands to shield Donald Trump. But when it came to seamy claims from porn star Stormy Daniels, he put his foot down. 04/25/2024 - 10:57 am | View Link
In Modi's India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationa ... 04/14/2024 - 7:23 pm | View Link
Decades after a boat arrived in Australia, the government suddenly found itself with an immigration detention system in disarray After the shock of the immediate ruling, both the government and lawyers expected it could be months before the justices released the reasons for their decision. But as this saga has shown time ... 04/13/2024 - 10:54 am | View Link
Idaho Supreme Court upholds ruling on new Idaho voter ID laws The Idaho State Supreme Court has unanimously ruled against Babe Vote and the League of Women Voters, determining Idaho's new voter ID laws to be constitutional. 04/11/2024 - 10:58 am | View Link
Former Speaker of the House and all around badass had no time for Katy Tur's bullshit today. She joined her for a polite in studio interview at MSNBC and with the skill and bluntness that only Nancy Pelosi possesses, she put Tur in her place with on sentence.
PELOSI: So there's nothing in his performance, if that's the word we'll use, what he has done, that would indicate that he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued or did anything to support a democracy.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has doubled down on her defense of murdering her 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, who, she said in her new book, she "hated." Noem didn't try to rehome Cricket to someone with a soul. She said she "hated that dog" and shot her dead by the gravel pit.
CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan is working on a special investigation into the pervasiveness and perversity of Christian Nationalism and the misinformation it brings with it.
In his latest segment, he shows an encounter he had with a woman named Julian Lightfoot, who was adamant that our Constitutional rights were God given rights because God is in the Constitution.
“Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot,” CNN reports.
“The previously unreported warrants gave prosecutors access to new Chesebro emails and his private direct messages on Twitter.”
“As he awaits his turn to take the witness stand, Michael Cohen has discussed Donald Trump, the ongoing trial, and the testimony already underway during nightly livestreams on TikTok which appear to be earning him financial benefit through viewers’ donations,” ABC News reports.
“And while the undertaking doesn’t appear to run afoul of any court order, experts say it hurts the already-blemished credibility of an essential witness in the case.”
“Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the European Union for the first time in five years with a clear message: Beijing offers much more of an economic opportunity for the bloc than the U. S. wants to admit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Chinese leader will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on May 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing.