Politics

Al Gore criticized the United Arab Emirates for hosting a United Nations climate conference and appointing an oil executive to serve as the summit’s president, saying the move was “ridiculous” and “a direct conflict of interests.” The former vice president made the comments on CNN’s State of the Union after …

Donald Trump has been laser-focused on his thirst for vengeance during his campaign for president, threatening to indict his political opponents and even going so far as to say he would act as “a dictator” on his first day back in the White House should he win the 2024 election. …

Donald Trump will no longer testify in his own defense during his civil fraud trial against him and his company as the trial enters its final week of testimony. He was scheduled to take the stand on Monday, Nov. 11, but in a last-minute reversal, he announced on Sunday that …

As delegates at the 2023COP28UNclimate changesummit work to identifyglobal climate actionsby the Dec. 12 deadline, the head of the OPEC oil cartel urged the group’s members to block any deal aimed at phasing out fossil fuels. In a letter dated Dec. 6, first reported by Reuters, Haitham Al-Ghais, secretary general …

A pregnant woman was temporarily blocked from obtaining an emergency abortion by the Texas Supreme Court in a ruling issued Friday evening, CNN reported. The lower court’s decision was put on hold, and the Court said the case would remain pending. However, a timeline on when a full ruling would …

Hunter Biden has been charged with nine federal tax crimes, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Central District of California. President Joe Biden’s son was charged with failure to file and pay taxes, evasion of assessment and filing a false or fraudulent tax return, the Washington Post …

O F ALL THE STRANGE, conspiratorial, and potentially dangerous theories Donald Trump and his allies came up with in the days after the 2020 election, this was the strangest, the most conspiratorial, the most potentially dangerous. Millions of electronic ballots for Trump had been “deleted,” and hundreds of thousands more …

On Thursday night, the Justice Department unsealed nine new tax-charges against Hunter Biden. The new charges come as the president’s much-maligned son finds himself at the center of countless right-wing conspiracies, GOP-led investigations into his foreign business dealings, and a DOJ special counsel probe Biden doesn’t sit down for many …

The state of Massachusetts has hit the neo-Nazi group NSC-131 with a raft of charges including civil rights violations, trespass, and conspiracy. The 26-page, five-charge complaint is the most aggressive effort yet to blunt the belligerent actions of the hate group, which seeks to turn New England into a whites-only …

Donald Trump has spent the last three years alleging that the 2020 election was rigged against him. The former president and his allies have done everything in their power to prove Joe Biden’s win was fraudulent, to no avail, because it wasn’t. Team Trump has simultaneously been laying the groundwork …