Two days into Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, the first seven jurors have been selected, and they are now tasked with deciding the outcome of the first criminal trial of a former president in U.S. history. The anonymous jurors will hear evidence related to allegations that Trump participated in a scheme with his former
The Biden administration on Monday confirmed that the Afghan suicide bomber who killed more than a dozen U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in 2021 had been freed from a prison abandoned during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) in a Monday statement said a
During his visit to the United Steelworkers headquarters, the president pledged to increase the existing 301 tariff rate. PITTSBURGH—President Joe Biden on April 17 called for dramatically higher tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from China, a move likely aimed at pleasing blue-collar voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania before the 2024 election. The
Former president’s longtime friend, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would ‘infest’ the Trump admin The co-chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, Claire Shipman, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the proliferation of anti-Semitism on the school’s Manhattan campus is “shocking.” Shipman’s husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president
Chemical weapons are typically associated with Middle Eastern warzones, not Ivy League colleges. So when one of them was allegedly deployed at Columbia University, it ignited a media frenzy. Pro-Palestinian protesters told the Columbia Spectator they had been sprayed with “skunk,” a crowd-control chemical developed by the Israeli Defense Forces, at a rally in January.
Speaker Johnson says he’s not resigning amid challenge over foreign aid – CBS News Watch CBS News House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not resign as he faces a new threat of removal by his own party for considering a vote on sending aid to Ukraine. A motion hasn’t been officially filed, but it
It seems not even a criminal investigation can stop Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) from spending campaign cash on her husband. Bush paid $15,000 to her husband, Cortney Merritts, during the first three months of 2024, a Federal Election Commission filing released Monday shows. Merritts is at the center of a Department of Justice investigation