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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden poked fun at himself but took sharp aim at his election rival Donald Trump Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, as protesters outside demonstrated against the conflict in Gaza.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Reserve is highly likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week, as policymakers contend with a recent uptick in inflation that has sharply cut the chance of a summer start to interest rate cuts.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books like those banned in schools in ultra-conservative parts of the United States.

They seemed to have a lot of fun —
Just a game, when said and done.
Pecker’s out there with his mitt
To catch the next big juicy hit!

Some little sin by his friend Don
Will keep his income moving on.
Another woman, another song,
Claims the Don has done her wrong.

He fields the story, pays the bill,
And now the story he will kill.
He’ll be paid back by his friend Don.
Another day, another con.

And why not sling a bunch of lies,
Scandals to hurt the other guys. Читать дальше...

Republican businessman Tim Sheehy, who is running for U.S. Senate in Montana, reportedly hired a staffer whose social media account liked and shared racist posts.

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) may be one of Donald Trump's top elected allies, but the former president's supporters appear to be holding a grudge against the conservative lawmaker, based on their response to his last statement.

An indictment of Donald Trump's allies and associates in Arizona is one of the things that will make it easier for President Joe Biden to win that "battleground" state in the upcoming election, a former GOP strategist said on Saturday.

BOSTON — Police detained nearly 200 people at three US universities on Saturday as they cleared pro-Palestinian encampments, in the latest campus clashes triggered by protests over Israel's war against Hamas.

Donald Trump was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a recent Arizona indictment of false electors, but his right-hand man was charged, which could signal prosecutors think Trump is "personally involved" in the scheme and they want to get the goods on him, according to a Florida prosecutor.

A lot of legal experts appeared worried after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Donald Trump's immunity case, but there's no way the right-wing justices are going to buy all of what the former president is selling, a former FBI agent said on Saturday.

Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in New York over an alleged hush-money cover up scheme, is hanging something over the head of the former president's attorneys, a former prosecutor said on Saturday.

During Thursday's oral arguments concerning former President Donald Trump's claim of total criminal immunity, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) indicated warmth toward Trump's position. One columnist recently wrote that if Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith hopes to try the former president before the election, he may have to put some elements of his indictment on the chopping block.

Donald Trump's legal team has been working overtime to force Special Counsel Jack Smith to make public his prosecution team's evidence against the former president in the criminal documents case, and they just had a victory... sort of.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz held out the prospect of postponing a planned offensive in the Gaza city of Rafah in the event of a hostage agreement with the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia.

The general public already knows a lot about the prosecution's case against Donald Trump in the criminal hush money cover-up case, but there's one detail that is keeping former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean "on the edge of his seat."