Donald Trump kicked off the week by declaring he wants to sue more newspapers, and on Monday night filed a civil lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and famed Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer. The lawsuit accuses Selzer, her polling company, the Register, and its parent company Gannett of engaging …
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House Democrats on Tuesday voted for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, electing him to the key position by a vote of 131-84 over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who was also vying for the role. House Democrats’ Steering and Policy Committee voted …
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In July of 2023, New York Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a clarification in the civil cases brought by author E. Jean Carroll against President-elect Donald Trump. A New York jury had ruled in May of that year that Trump was liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll. According to …
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Donald Trump gave his first major press conference since winning the November election at Mar-a-Lago on Monday morning. The president-elect answered questions from reporters for more than an hour, reiterating and expanding on some of his most notorious campaign promises, including his plans to implement widespread tariffs and carry out …
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ABC has settled a defamation lawsuit Donald Trump brought over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air description of Trump being civilly liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, which Stephanopoulos described as “rape,” The Associated Press reports. The network will pay $15 million, which will go toward Trump’s presidential …
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Donald Trump is rewarding many of his donors with important roles in his upcoming administration. Almost three dozen people tapped to serve in his White House donated to his campaign or to groups that supported his election, according to a CNN analysis of federal campaign records. A dozen of Biden’s …
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Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn’t seem eager to send his congressional colleagues to jail. The Republican senator publicly disagreed with President-elect Donald Trump‘s statement that the members of the Jan. 6 committee who investigated him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and attack the Capitol should be imprisoned. “President-elect …
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is ringing the alarm that the United States is “rapidly” becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves. “We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and …
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Members of the House authored a letter urging President Joe Biden to take action to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, protecting rights for all regardless of sex, before he leaves office early next year. “As we approach the conclusion of your historic administration, we urge you to take immediate action …
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team has recommended the elimination of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule about collecting data from crashes of cars equipped with automated driving systems, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. It just so happens that Tesla — whose CEO, Elon Musk, spent roughly a …
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