An accused Jan. 6 rioter fromFloridawho allegedly harbored a member of the Proud Boys extremist group while they were on the run from police has tried and failed to get theDonald Trump treatmentthis week, unsuccessfully filing to postpone his federal trial after claiming a high member of the future president s administration had promised him...
A state judge inNew Yorkhas postponed the trial of former White House chief strategistSteve Bannonwho is facing charges for allegedly conspiring to hoodwink donors of asupposed charityaimed at privately building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and laundering the loot. Judge April Newbauer on Monday said that jury selection in the case will begin on...
Failed Republican U.S. Senate candidateKari Lakehas reached a settlement agreement with a localArizonaelection official she falsely claimed rigged the 2022 election and caused her loss in the state s gubernatorial election. The agreement brings an end to thedefamation lawsuitbrought against Lake by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer last year. Two people familiar with the mattertoldThe...
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly sent a $10 billion warning shot across the legal bows of Penguin Random House and the New York Times — threatening to sue the print giants for ten figures — over allegedly “false and defamatory statements” that were published about him in articles before the election, the companies say. “There...
A Virginia man wearing a tricorn-style hat, gas mask, and body armor who clashed with officers guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is going to prison. Micaiah Joseph, 34, was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee, to 37 months — or just over three years — in...
A megaphone-wielding 28-year-old Missouri man who shoved a cop during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and later bragged about his actions that day is going to prison. Kyler Joseph Bard was sentenced on Friday to just over a year imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta, a Barack Obama appointee. Bard is set to report...
Rudy Giuliani has replaced his lawyers in the case where many of his assets are being liquidated to satisfy a massive default judgment won by two defamed Georgia election workers. In a letter motion submitted late Friday, the former New York City mayor’s new attorney, Joseph M. Cammarata, announced his hiring — along with several...
CNN‘s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery must conduct a financial deep dive and then hand relevant information over to a Navy veteran who is suing the network in a high-profile, and potentially high-dollar, defamation case, a judge in Delaware ruled on Friday. In the event the requested documents do not exist, however, the company must...
A Florida woman who was inside the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots and later boasted to a relative that she “f—— stormed the capital” and was “proud of it” is going to prison. Anna Lichnowski, 37, was sentenced to 45 days in jail, three years probation, $5,000 in fines, and 200...
Residents of a Florida city will soon align with the wishes of at least one of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet choices, as local leaders opt to remove fluoride from the water supply. In a 3-2 vote, the Winter Haven City Commission approved a measure on Tuesday “authorizing the discontinuance of adding fluoride to the City...