Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a measured approach Thursday on how to handle the pro-Palestinian demonstrations erupting on university campuses, saying he’d wait to see if university presidents “can get control of the situation” before taking more forceful measures. McConnell made the comments in an interview with “Face the Nation” moderator and chief foreign
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, revealed new details about his efforts to bury negative stories to shield Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including a $150,000 deal with a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump. Appearing for his third day on the stand in Trump’s criminal trial
Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release. The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as
Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity claim in 2020 election case Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity claim in 2020 election case 02:04 Washington — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday appeared open to recognizing some level of immunity from federal prosecution for former presidents as they weighed a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to
Washington —The Supreme Court convened Thursday for over 2 1/2 hours to consider whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution, jumping into a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of his 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. At issue in the case known as Trump v.
A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded an $83.3 million judgment by a jury that found Trump liable for defamation in January. The judge also denied a request to strike the damages in the
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is returning to testify Thursday in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, his third day on the stand. CBS News will have live updates of the trial below. Court reconvened at 9:30 a.m. The proceedings are overlapping with another significant legal development for the former president. In Washington, the