Trump vowed to appeal the $355 million fraud penalty handed down to him on Friday, after JudgeArthur Engoronfound the Trump Organization liable for financial fraud and barred him from serving as a corporate officer or a director of a company in New York for three years. The former president took …
Read More »Alexei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader and Fierce Putin Critic, Dead at 47
Alexei Navalny, the Russia opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, died in prison, Russian authorities announced on Friday. He was 47. Russia’s prison service said Navalny felt unwell after taking a walk and lost consciousness. He was service a 19-year sentence on controversial, extremism-related charges. “The facility’s medical …
Read More »Yulia Navalnaya Demands Justice in Powerful Speech After Husband's Death
Yulia Navalnaya, now the widow of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, demanded after her husband’s death on Friday that the Russian autocrat and his government “be personally held responsible for all of the atrocities they have committed.” Russian correctional authorities announced earlier on Friday that Alexei Navalny, who was serving …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Days Ago on Navalny and Assassinations: 'Leadership Requires Killing People'
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, died on Friday while imprisoned in Russia. Navalny’s death comes as the American conservative movement has grown sympathetic toward Putin, an autocrat whose political enemies have a long history of dying under mysterious circumstances. Former Fox News host …
Read More »Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report
Donald Trump wants to implement a 16-week national abortion ban, The New York Times reported on Friday. The former president has largely avoided taking on reproductive rights during the Republican primary, although he has at times made a point to take credit for the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn …
Read More »Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million in New York Fraud Case
Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $355 million in damages and barred the former president “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.” Judge Arthur Engoron handed the ruling down on Friday …
Read More »The GOP's Key Hunter Biden Witness Was Just Charged With Making It All Up
The Department of Justice has charged a former FBI informant — whose claims Republicans used to bolster allegations of a corrupt bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma — with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities. The indictment, announced Thursday by Special Counsel …
Read More »Trump Insists He's Being 'Sarcastic' When Confusing Haley and Pelosi
Donald Trump defended his mental fitness during a campaign rally in South Carolina Wednesday, claiming he was “sarcastic” when confusing Republican rivalNikki Haley with Rep.Nancy Pelosi in January. “I’s very hard to be sarcastic when I interpose. I’m not a Nicki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when …
Read More »Trump's First Criminal Trial Is Starting Next Month
Donald Trump‘s first criminal trial is slated to begin in March 25. A Manhattan judge on Thursday rejected Trump’s bid to toss out District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case accusing the former president of fraudulently paying off a porn star ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Judge Juan Merchan followed …
Read More »Putin Says He Was Disappointed by Tucker Carlson's Soft Questions
Russian President Vladimir Putin was apparently itching for a verbal wrestling match with Tucker Carlson when the former Fox News host interviewed him earlier this month. He was disappointed not to get one. Speaking to Russian state TV anchor Pavel Zarubin earlier this week, Putin said that he “thought he …
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