Judge Aileen Cannon tossed former President Trump’s case over his alleged mishandling of classified information, ruling Monday that special counsel Jack Smith was not lawfully appointed. The ruling hands a major victory to Trump, marking the first time one of his four criminal cases has been dismissed entirely. Read Cannon's 93-page ruling below. Read Judge Aileen Cannon...
The Republican National Convention will kick off Monday from Milwaukee, where hundreds of delegates and key political figures will gather to make former President Trump the party's official presidential nominee, just days after a shooter attempted to take his life. The highly anticipated event comes amid the backdrop of the attempted assassination at Trump's campaign...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Sunday four new human cases of avian flu, bringing the total number to eight confirmed cases nationwide since March. An additional human case is presumed positive and pending confirmation at the CDC, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said in a statement...
ignoring the Republican platform would be a mistake.
First lady Jill Biden and her predecessor, former first lady Melania Trump, spoke Sunday afternoon following the shooting at former President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania. The first lady’s office confirmed to The Hill that the two women spoke after Melania Trump released a statement earlier Sunday calling the attack on her husband “heinous” and saying...
In reality, the end of Chevron deference changes little.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) on Sunday called Saturday's assassination attempt of former President Trump a “huge failure” for the U.S. Secret Service. In an interview on Fox News's “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Mills, a former Army sniper, said it was “divine intervention” that Trump survived the shooting in Pennsylvania, stressing the proximity of the shooter to...
MSNBC did not air its flagship morning talk show "Morning Joe" on Monday following an assassination attempt against former President Trump over the weekend. The long-running news and analysis program was not on the air Monday morning, as the network provided live continuous coverage of the aftermath of the shooting in Pennsylvania, which injured Trump...
Trump's pick for Vice President, Mike Pence, and other potential cabinet members are being asked to follow Trump's lead in spreading conspiracy theories and undermining democratic institutions, while former Trump administration officials face legal and financial trouble.
A fifth of Americans said they have a lot of confidence in the Secret Service to protect presidential candidates from harm, according to a new poll conducted after the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally. According to a snap poll from YouGov, released Sunday, 20 percent of U.S. adults said they are "very...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who ran for president himself in 2020, says he will support “whoever our nominee is coming out of the convention,” signaling he’s open to backing a Democratic nominee other than President Biden. Booker said he didn’t want to air the party’s “issues publicly” but nevertheless hinted he’s not entirely satisfied with...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, has joined music star Kid Rock and fight promoter Dana White in donating $50,000 to the GoFundMe campaign set up to the victims of the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I donate my Senate salary every quarter and am honored...
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) is calling to establish an independent commission to examine the security failures that enabled the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. “Now that details of the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump are unfolding, we will witness federal agencies, including the United States...
As AI becomes more ubiquitous in society, mistakes and personal injuries are certain to occur.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson (D) said he is confident in the law enforcement officers who will be on scene for this week's Republican National Convention, where former President Trump is expected to be officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate following the assassination attempt against him over the weekend. When asked Sunday on CNN if...
The U.S. Secret Service plans to “participate fully” in an independent review of the assassination attempt against former President Trump, Director Kimberly Cheatle said in a statement Monday. Cheatle said the agency would also work with Congress “on any oversight action” committees plan to take. “The Secret Service is working with all involved Federal, state...
The Supreme Court's new presidential immunity rule in Trump v. United States is narrow, as it only applies when the Constitution grants the president "conclusive and preclusive" power, and does not apply to cases involving competing Constitutional powers or unofficial conduct.
It is more likely that a truly pivotal October Surprise comes in the form of a foreign policy development that either drastically helps Biden, or considerably hurts him.
Former President Trump on Sunday reflected on the assassination attempt against him over the weekend, describing it as a "very surreal experience" as he made his way to this week's Republican convention in Milwaukee. "I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead," Trump told reporters from the New York Post and Washington...
Former President Trump said Sunday that he rewrote his speech for this week's Republican National Convention to focus on unity following the assassination attempt against him over the weekend. “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” Trump said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “Had this...
French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to call early parliamentary elections has proven to be a wise one, as the far-right National Rally party was defeated by the left-wing coalition and Macron's centrist group, demonstrating that democracy can still prevail in France.
President Joe Biden is facing a media feeding frenzy as medical professionals and journalists speculate about his health, with some violating the Goldwater Rule by making unprofessional diagnoses without having examined him.
The Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee today, just two days after an assassination attempt against former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump will be in Milwaukee today as scheduled, and will address the convention on Thursday. The event had been expected to be a tightly-scripted affair where Republicans were hoping to make few major headlines as...
The Republican National Convention is kicking off Monday in Milwaukee, where former President Trump is set to formally accept the party’s nomination just days after an assassination attempt against him shocked the country. Trump pledged to attend the Wisconsin convention despite the incident at his Pennsylvania rally, which the FBI is investigating as a potential domestic...
The second phase of the National Rifle Association (NRA)’s corruption trial in New York, where a judge will determine whether ex-leadership should face any non-monetary penalties for misspending the prominent gun rights organization’s money, is set to begin Monday. Earlier this year, a jury found that longtime NRA head Wayne LaPierre squandered millions of dollars...
