After the film The Apprentice debuted at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, the Trump Campaign threatened to sue over the controversial depiction of the ex-president during his early days in real estate and his marriage to his first wife, Ivana. Among scenes of Trump taking amphetamine pills and getting …
Read More »Lindsey Graham Chastises Samuel Alito Over Upside-Down Flag
After The New York Times reported thatthe American flag outside JusticeSamuel Alito‘s home was flown upside downin the aftermath of theJan. 6Capitol riot, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham criticized the conservative judge for failing to “think it through.” “Emotions are apparently high in that neighborhood but no, it’s not good judgment …
Read More »Trump's Witness Repeatedly Criticized Judge Before He Was Reprimanded in Court
The big news from Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush money trial Monday was Judge Juan Merchan clearing the courtroom so he could reprimand the Trump legal team’s combative witness, Robert Costello — who had spent the last several days publicly attacking the judge and the proceedings. Costello, a lawyer, previously …
Read More »Trump Posts Campaign Ad Referencing a 'Unified Reich'
Donald Trump has made a lot of terrifying promises about the future of the country should he win the White House in November. The former president has already vowed to only act like a dictator on “day one,” and now his campaign is now making references to a “unified Reich” …
Read More »4 Ways Michael Cohen Threw Cold Water on Trump's Hush-Money Defense
Michael Cohen may have directly transferred the funds, but he says it was at the behest and benefit of Donald Trump that he made the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. After four days on the witness stand, the prosecution’s key witness stepped down on Monday following a barrage of …
Read More »Trump's Allies Didn't Want Him to Testify: 'The Jury Would Hate Him'
Donald Trump’s defense rested on Tuesday, which means the former president will not be testifying in his criminal hush-money trial. Few would have begrudged Trump for declining to testify, but he promised he would take the stand while suggesting the only thing that prevented him from doing so was his …
Read More »Louisiana House Passes Bill Criminalizing Life-Saving Pregnancy Care Pills
On Tuesday, lawmakers in Louisiana voted 64-29 to reclassify drugs used in abortion as controlled dangerous substances. It’s a move staunchly protested by hundreds of physicians in the state, who fear passing this bill will interfere with patient care given how commonly one of the pills, misoprostol, is used to …
Read More »International Criminal Court Seeks Arrests Warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders
The International Criminal Court issued applications for arrest warrants on Monday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and several other Israeli and Hamas officials on war crimes charges and allegations of crimes against humanity. The court alleges that both Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel, in …
Read More »Alabama's War on Women
K rista Harding’s daughter was eight weeks old when that police cruiser pulled behind her on the interstate and hit the lights in September 2019. She called her boss at the Little Caesars in Pinson, Alabama, where she’d just been promoted to manager: I’m going to be a little late, …
Read More »Julian Assange Allowed to Appeal U.S. Extradition
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be able to appeal his extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, The Guardian reports. Two High Court judges in London issued the ruling Monday, May 20, after Assange’s legal team raised concerns over some of the assurances the U.S. government made about …
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