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During the ABC "This Week" roundtable panel discussion on poll numbers matching up President Joe Biden against presumptive GOP 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump, host Jonathan Karl complained that there has not been near enough attention paid to the mental decline of Trump.

Addressing comments made by host George Stephanopolous who brought up the polls, Karl stated, "We have seen similar polls like this that which show that in a hypothetical match-up which doesn't seem all that hypothetical anymore in Biden versus Trump. Читать дальше...

Lawyers for Donald Trump are preparing for the fallout if their client is "pinned down" on his asset valuations during testimony on Monday.

Donald Trump's well-documented history of going off script, digressions and boasting while under oath may lead to more legal woes if he can't control himself on Monday when he testifies in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged people in Germany to "protect Jews" in the face of anti-Semitic incidents, saying it was a question civil courage.

Reacting to the progress so far in a Colorado courtroom where the first real test over whether Donald Trump can be on the ballot next year, retired conservative Judge Michael Luttoig suggested the former president's lawyers have failed to confront a pivotal point in the 14th Amendment.

Criminal defense attorney Randy Zelin blasted Eric Trump after he ranted to reporters outside a New York courtroom last week.

On Sunday Morning's "State of the Union," CNN host Dana Bash was taken aback when Israel's ambassador to the United Nations flatly denied there is a "humanitarian crisis" in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Bash got right into it with Ambassador Gilad Erdan, asking about the recent retaliatory attacks on Gaza that are leading to mass Palestinian casualties, which led to the Israeli official to reply, "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," before adding "We allow the number of trucks entering... Читать дальше...

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo falsely claimed that a judge's gag order prevented former President Donald Trump from saying "a word about anything."

Fox News host Shannon Bream challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his history of opposing certain forms of birth control.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) refused to say the 2020 presidential election was "not stolen" despite being given six chances.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) — Police arrested a man and rescued a child at the centre of a hostage standoff at Hamburg airport on Sunday, ending a crisis that had forced authorities to close the busy air hub.

Fox News hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth disagreed over whether the deaths of innocent people in Gaza were "worth" reporting.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon doesn't have a leg to stand on as she battles the Department of Justice over proceeding with the federal case filed by special counsel Jack Smith against Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.

That is the opinion of law Professor Stephen Gillers of New York University who told Newsweek that the Trump-appointed jurist is making suspect rulings that may not rise to the point where Smith could successfully have her removed — but are baffling nonetheless. Читать дальше...

Editor & Publisher magazine has awarded Raw Story a 2023 EPPY Award as the "best news / political blog" among all news sites with 1 million or more unique monthly visitors.

With an eye on a possible win in the 2024 presidential election, allies of former Donald Trump are pitching plans to quell public unrest over his return to the Oval Office by using the military to put down potential protests the moment he takes power.

When Florida Panhandle-area GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz used a rarely used congressional procedure last month to remove U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from power, he was initially blasted by Republicans and Democrats alike for creating chaos on Capitol Hill.

Wire fraud. Tax evasion. Money laundering. Sexual abuse. Child pornograpy. Since 1980, more than two dozen members of Congress have been indicted for such crimes, some spending years in prison.

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COLUMBUS (AFP) — Ohio will decide whether to guarantee the right to abortion in a potential 2024 bellwether Tuesday as both sides of the American political machine establish their campaign strategies on this crucial issue one year out from the presidential election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza where thousands have been killed in an Israeli offensive since an attack by Palestinian Islamists Hamas, and to denounce President Joe Biden's policy toward the war.

Judge Aileen Cannon lacks the temperament to be a federal judge, at least in a case involving Donald Trump, according to a former prosecutor Saturday.

Donald Trump is asking the court to be strict about imposing rules on page limits when it comes to filings by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

GAZA/AMMAN (Reuters) — The United States and its Arab allies appeared divided over Israel's military offensive in Gaza to defeat Hamas, as Washington, alongside Israel, resisted pressure for an immediate ceasefire despite the rising death toll among Palestinian civilians.

Donald Trump's two sons tried to distance themselves from documents that purportedly overvalued various Trump Organization properties, but that's not likely to help the family escape culpability, a former prosecutor said on Saturday.

As Medicare Advantage plans rely increasingly upon artificial intelligence to determine—and often deny—payment for patient care, a group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged Medicare's top official to strengthen oversight of AI and algorithmic tools used to make coverage determinations.