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Donald Trump's lawyer claiming the former president can't be tried criminally if he retakes the White House is "contrary to the American notion of justice," a former federal prosecutor said on Saturday.

Donald Trump on Saturday said he hopes judges will let the 2020 election "be prosecuted" in court, bragging that he and his legal team have "so much evidence" that the election was stolen from him for President Joe Biden.

Executives at conservative outlet Newsmax are furious with the Republican National Committee for attempts to shake them down for a $4 million commitment to carry a GOP debate.

Donald Trump's questionable usage of his presidential pardon power before he left office is paying dividends for his 2024 presidential campaign as grateful recipients are showering his campaign with cash and, in some cases, using the media platforms to boost his chances of returning to the Oval Office.

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One of the featured guests on tomorrow's CBS Sunday Morning is former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), whose forthcoming book not only excoriates former President Donald Trump, but her fellow Republicans as well.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is reportedly giving serious consideration to leaving Congress after undergoing the humiliation of being deposed by his own caucus as House speaker after a brief eight months, reports the New York Times.

According to the report, the former GOP leader is having a hard time acclimating to life as just another rank-and-file House member after attaining the heights of becoming the face of the House Republican caucus.

As close McCarthy ally Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) put it... Читать дальше...

A decision by the far-right House Freedom Caucus members to go along with a tax deal proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that was similar to the one pushed by Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has some mainstream GOP lawmakers furious over the Congressional chaos they created that led to the California lawmakers ouster as speaker.

According to a report from the Washington Post, the Freedom Caucus agreed this week to go along with a top-line $1.59 trillion budget deal without the spending caps they previously demanded. Читать дальше...

In Haiti, where the battle against the virus that causes AIDS has been hard fought, Dr. Marie-Marcelle H. Deschamps knows that women are key: give a woman a job, she once said, and watch her not only take charge of her life but also cut HIV transmission.

According to former Solicitor General Neal Katyal, Donald Trump's loss on Friday in an appeals court ruling on his presidential immunity defense claim was bad for the former president but what made it worse was who signed off on blowing it out of the water.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart, the legal analyst joked that the assertions by Trump lawyers that the president could commit illegal acts with impunity was so ridiculous a "fourth grader" could see through it, before... Читать дальше...

Israel's military continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, reporting that it had attacked more than 400 terrorist targets since the truce with the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement ended the previous day.

Appearing on MSNBC early Saturday morning, the Guardian's Hugo Lowell followed up on his reporting that Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows will not be offered plea deals by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by noting the Georgia prosecutor is sitting on a mountain of evidence.

Prompted by host Katie Phang over whether the cases Willis has is rock solid against the former president, Lowell referred back to her indictment that hinted she has evidence that the House Jan. Читать дальше...

According to legal scholar Benjamin Edwards, a recent lawsuit filed by America First Legal, headed by former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, is cause for the courts to come down hard and sanction the right-wing advocacy group for bringing frivolous lawsuits that he called fraudulent.

Noting that Miller's group has filed a security fraud lawsuit against Target, Edwards wrote for the Daily Beast that the lawsuit has no chance of succeeding and is a waste of the court's time — and that... Читать дальше...

DUBAI — More than 110 nations pledged to triple the world's renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to slash methane emissions and boost nuclear capacity.

It is still "premature" to speculate on when the U.S. Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates despite the bank's recent progress on inflation, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday.

Using a recent report on Donald Trump doling out a pardon to a supporter which, in turn, led to a massive collapse of a separate Department of Justice investigation, one former U.S. attorney suggested a second Trump term could lead to more abuse of presidential pardon powers.

The Department of Justice celebrated World AIDS Day by calling out a Tennessee law that discriminates against people with HIV.

Spanish police on Friday said they had arrested a man wanted by Washington for allegedly conspiring with cryptocurrency experts to help North Korea evade US sanctions over its nuclear program.

He's not taking civilian life easily.

Hours after more than 300 members of the House of Representatives booted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) from Congress, he's picking fights.

As Friday was nearing midnight, Santos called out Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) who appeared on a news program explaining why she voted to get rid of the accused lawbreaking lawmaker.

In a video clip posted to her Twitter/X account, Malliotakis said that Santos "used his campaign funds for personal benefit" and cited "Botox... Читать дальше...

Trump's judge is writing to engage the Highest Court in the land.

When U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Friday that Trump is not immune from prosecution in his election interference case in Washington D.C., she included an intentional effort to prove her case preemptively before the Supreme Court where it will likely land on appeal.

"She is making a compelling argument to the Supreme Court, saying we value the separation of powers, but we also value the ability to of... Читать дальше...

Pennsylvania played a key role in deciding the last two presidential elections, and appears poised to be similarly decisive in the 2024 race. Now, the Keystone State is seeking to rectify an issue that prevented thousands of mail-in ballots from being counted in the most recent election.

Being U.S. president didn't anoint Trump with a crown.

In her retort to former President Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss his election interference charges on grounds of presidential immunity, Judge Tanya Chutkan denied in her Friday filing that his four years as leader of the free world didn’t entitle him to “divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens."

Legal analyst Ryan Goodman on CNN's "Out Front" called the formal rebuke a massive development. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump's effort to claim "presidential immunity" from criminal prosecution was always destined to fail, former prosecutor A. Scott Bolden argued on MSNBC's "All In" on Friday.

Donald Trump's niece has a warning for him.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and relative of the former president, on Friday raised the issue of Donald Trump's latest civil and criminal legal setbacks. Specifically, she noted that "Donald can be PERSONALLY SUED for January 6" events "after Appellate Court REJECTS immunity."

Mary Trump, who recently said she hopes a judge "drops the hammer" on "The Donald," said "the door is now open for a potential floodgate of civil suits brought by those... Читать дальше...

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) doesn't have the intelligence to be at the helm of a major impeachment investigation, argued former Republican strategist turned Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson on MSNBC Friday evening.