Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday on all counts in a federal bribery trial that involved three New Jersey businessmen and the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Menendez was charged with 16 counts in the 18-count indictment that alleged the longtime politician was engaged in a wide-ranging corruption scheme in which he
A sniper from a local tactical team deployed to assist the U.S. Secret Service at former President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday took a picture of the gunman and saw him looking through a rangefinder minutes before he tried to assassinate the former president, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the events
It’s hard to overstate how instrumental and influential Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance, has been in helping shape Vance into the man he is today, according to his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” Now that Vance is the GOP nominee for vice president, she could become the second lady of the
JD Vance’s career has followed a classic American rags-to-riches trajectory: After growing up in poverty in rural Ohio, he was accepted at an Ivy League university, finished a law degree, and leveraged his new connections into wealth and a seat in the U.S. Senate. While that part of Vance’s biography may be familiar to voters,
President Biden’s reelection team and his party are resuming campaigning and counterprogramming to the GOP convention this week, after a brief pause in advertising and “outbound communications” in light of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. While Mr. Biden postponed a planned speech Monday in Austin, Texas, he is keeping a scheduled campaign
Sen. Bob Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday in a sprawling bribery scheme in which he was accused of selling out his office for lucrative bribes, including cash and gold bars. A federal jury convicted Menendez on all 16 felony counts after prosecutors portrayed him as the puppet-master of a complex bribery
Former President Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate and doubts about whether the other is fit to run: money in presidential politics is still king. Vance, a relative newcomer to