Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys requested that the trial preferably be delayed until after the 2024 election. Former President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith filed motions on Thursday, asking the court for different trial dates in the classified documents criminal case in Florida. Mr. Smith’s motion, filed on Thursday evening, requested a new
Republicans have accused him of leveraging his family name for profit and effectively selling access to his then vice president father. Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, said in closed-door testimony in Congress that it was his “skill” that got him on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma—and other numerous boards—rather than the
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) has scheduled a hearing to consider a resolution holding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents detailing the August 2021 military withdrawal and civilian evacuation from Afghanistan. For months, Mr. McCaul has been seeking a variety of State Department
After a four year battle over the district lines, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a new congressional map into law. After days of speculation, New York lawmakers on Feb. 28 approved a new congressional map, ending a three-year legal battle over the district lines—or, perhaps, kicking off another round of litigation. The new
President Joe Biden expressed doubt on Thursday that a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict is just days away, tempering his own prior predictions amid recent diplomatic complications. Speaking with reporters while visiting an ice cream shop in New York on Monday, the president expressed high hopes for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying,
The bill is the fourth continuing resolution of this fiscal year, angering some Republicans who believe more should be done to curb government spending. The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Thursday night and sent it to the desk of President Joe Biden for signing, narrowly averting another potential government shutdown that would have
The leadership of the Democrat majorities in both houses of the Maine State Legislature showed zero interest in a comprehensive election security reform bill put forward by Republican State Rep. Heidi Sampson. “They dispatched my bill in three and one-half minutes without explanation,“ said Ms. Sampson in an interview with The Epoch Times. ”They flat-out