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Former President Donald Trump was less worried about the 2016 election than he was about the future of his marriage when he allegedly authorized hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the adult actress he's accused of having an affair with, a biographer has claimed.

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, met with the New York grand jury on Monday as part of the possible charges coming up for the former president.

A bomb threat found in a plane lavatory Sunday grounded a Vermont-bound flight for several hours, NBC News reports.

Ten more people were indicted Monday for misappropriating and laundering money they got through a federal child nutrition program prosecutors say was bilked out of more than $250 million in Minnesota.

Two people were arrested after a brawl broke out in an Indianapolis courtroom during a paternity suit, WTHR reported.

A road rage incident in Nashville on Sunday left an elderly woman hospitalized with serious injuries, WSMV 4 reports.

It's no secret what caused the sudden implosion of the once-mighty Silicon Valley Bank, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote Monday in a New York Times op-ed. "We know who is responsible," she declared.

(Reuters) -SVB Financial Group and two top executives were sued on Monday by shareholders who accused them of concealing how rising interest rates would leave its Silicon Valley Bank unit, which failed last week, "particularly susceptible" to a bank run.

While the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the U.S. in 2020, the nationwide rate of sudden unexplained infant deaths remained steady — except among Black babies, according to a study released Monday. The sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) rates among white, Asian, American Indian and Hispanic babies all remained relatively steady or declined from 2019 to 2020, the study found. However, the rate increased substantially among Black babies. “The significant increased rate of SUID among non-Hispanic Black infants from 2019 to 2020... Читать дальше...

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is calling out Republican House Oversight chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for abandoning the effort to obtain former President Donald Trump's financial documents, and instead focusing in the finances of Hunter Biden, NBC News reported.

A defamation lawsuit against Fox News by voting machine company Smartmatic appears to be headed to trial after the New York Supreme Court gave the green light last week.

A Manhattan grand jury heard from the former daughter-in-law of Donald Trump's longtime accountant Allen Weisselberg.

In an grim column for The Atlantic, American University Law Professor Kimberly Wehle warns that the current Supreme Court with its 6-3 conservative majority has become "a threat" to the country as it runs roughshod over previous rulings while usurping the powers of the executive and legislative branch unchecked.

A Houston girl shot and killed her older sister after finding a semiautomatic handgun at the apartment they were visiting.

Pastor Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries asserted over the weekend that Joe Biden's administration "doesn't exist" and that the president had been replaced with a body double with "different looking earlobes."

A shocking video shows a Black teenager being brutally beaten on the New York subway by other teens, at least one of whom chanted the N-word at him.

A Rhode Island man who promoted ivermectin died from a common side effect to the veterinary medicine, sparking concerns from his followers about their own reactions to the drug.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) was raked over the coals over the weekend by his hometown newspaper which accused him of ignoring his duties when he was Missouri's attorney general because he was too busy working on raising his national profile.

The Biden administration is approving a scaled-back version ConocoPhillips' COP.N $7 billion oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, the US Department of Interior said on Monday.

The family of the author of "This Land Is Your Land" has called on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to stop using the song's lyrics.

A January 6th defendant appeared to get cold feet about accepting a plea agreement on Monday, until his lawyer stepped in and "saved [him] from himself."

Ohio Republicans could steer up to $22,000 in public money to a neo-Nazi homeschooling couple that offers a white nationalist curriculum.

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is leading the charge against "wokeness" and diversity, this time falsely blaming "DEI" – diversity, equity, and inclusion – as the reason Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday.

Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth, with rough estimates suggesting there are over 10 quadrillion individuals – that is a 1 followed by 16 zeroes, or about 1 million ants per person. Ants are among the most biologically successful animals on the planet.

The World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the central African country of Equatorial Guinea on Feb. 13, 2023. To date, there have been 11 deaths suspected to be caused by the virus, with one case confirmed. Authorities are currently monitoring 48 contacts, four of whom have developed symptoms and three of whom are hospitalized as of publication. The WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are assisting Equatorial Guinea in its efforts to stop the spread of the outbreak. Читать дальше...