Sharply divergent views of federal election campaign law and the legitimacy of former President Trump’s May 30 conviction emerge at a hearing on Capitol Hill Witnesses called to testify before a GOP-led House committee on June 13 offered starkly divergent views of the validity of using federal campaign law in the New York prosecution of
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) denounced the rise of anti-Semitism in the progressive movement at an event with liberal Jewish leaders on Monday. Weeks earlier, the “Squad” member requested $1.5 million in taxpayer funds for a New York City law group accused of hostility towards Jews and Israel. Ocasio-Cortez requested an earmark on May 17
President Joe Biden wandered away from a group of foreign leaders at the G7 summit in Italy on Thursday, only to be corralled back to the group by Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni. Video of the incident shows foreign leaders visibly confused as Biden turns and walks away from them during a demonstration of Italian
WASHINGTON—In a feat they surely hope to replicate at the polls this November, Republicans beat Democrats by 20 runs on June 12 at the Annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. The Democrats fought valiantly; for a moment it seemed as if the contest would be closer than last year’s blowout. But by the end of
The justices agreed in judgment but disagreed in how they reached their conclusions. The Supreme Court ruled on June 13 against an attorney claiming that federal law violates the First Amendment by prohibiting him from trademarking the insult “Trump too small.” That phrase is a double entendre emanating from an exchange between then-candidate Donald Trump
Maine Superior Court judge Julia Lipez suspended sentence of man convicted at trial of sexually abusing two girls Judge Julia Lipez and convict Michael T. Smith (@libsoftiktok/X) One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had “a lot of good in him” during a court hearing
Russia on Thursday indicted American reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage after more than a year of imprisonment in Moscow. Gershkovich was detained in March last year while on assignment in Yekaterinburg for the Wall Street Journal. Russian prosecutors on Thursday alleged without evidence that Gershkovich was gathering intelligence for the CIA about a