Former President Donald Trump often arrives at his New York criminal trial flanked by elected officials who choose to while away the hours sitting in a courtroom. They sit in the first two rows of the court on Trump’s side, a section reserved for his team. On the prosecution’s side, the same section often has
Opening statements to continue in Sen. Menendez bribery case Opening statements to continue in Sen. Menendez bribery case 01:30 Washington — Nadine Menendez, the wife of Sen. Bob Menendez, is being treated for grade 3 breast cancer and will have a mastectomy, her husband disclosed Thursday. The New Jersey Democrat revealed his wife’s cancer diagnosis
Washington — The Justice Department officially proposed a new rule on Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, a policy move that would ease restrictions on cannabis on the federal level if ultimately approved. While the rescheduling of marijuana would neither make the substance legal nor decriminalize it across the nation, changing
The Biden campaign has accepted CBS News’ invitation to participate in a vice presidential debate this summer. The Biden campaign says that either the proposed dates of Tuesday, July 23, or Tuesday, August 13 would be acceptable for Vice President Kamala Harris to debate. The Trump campaign has not yet publicly accepted the invitation. And
The bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey continues Thursday, with the first witness expected to take the stand as soon as Thursday afternoon. Wednesday’s proceedings consisted of opening statements, as the defense and prosecution offered very different portraits of the Democratic senator. Menendez, who is being tried separately from his wife, Nadine
An FBI agent who led the search of Sen. Bob Menendez’s home, in which federal investigators discovered more than a dozen gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, testified Thursday in the New Jersey Democrat’s corruption trial. Prosecutors showed jurors two one-kilogram gold bars and several $100 bills that were confiscated from
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), rescuing the consumer finance agency from another effort by its critics to weaken it. The court said in a 7 to 2 decision that the agency’s funding structure complies with the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause. Justice Clarence Thomas