An accused Jan. 6 rioter and onetime City Council candidate in Topeka, Kansas, asked a judge to delay his trial until after Donald Trump takes office, warning him of a “dangerous cycle of retribution.” William Alexander Pope, who’s representing himself in his trial, warned U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee, in...
A federal judge in Texas has struck down a policy aimed at allowing undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to stay in the country instead of being deported while waiting for green card status. The so-called “parole in place” policy was announced by President Joe Biden in June, and the “Keeping Families Together” program...
The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected election denialist Kari Lake‘s last-gasp effort to become the governor of the Grand Canyon State — in brief but decisive fashion. Without a word of reasoning or analysis, the state’s highest court declined to review the petition in the case stylized as Lake v. Hobbs — in a minutes...
The Biden administration is finally calling it quits in the Washington, D.C., criminal case against former and future President Donald Trump. In a motion filed Friday morning, Jack Smith asked to vacate any and all briefing dates remaining on the docket’s schedule. “As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant...
A Republican Party operative tapped to become chief of staff in the second Trump administration previously caught the eye of special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago documents probe. On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump announced that Susan “Susie” Wiles will fill the hugely influential role, one often considered the most powerful unelected position in the...
Donald Trump winning the presidency this week has opened a door for erstwhile presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to try and get fluoride out of the nation’s water systems — with there being plans to let him “go wild” with ideas and regulations, according to the president-elect, despite there being “scarce” to suggest he...
A conservative attorney rumored as a potential top cabinet appointee for president-elect Donald Trump issued a stark warning to New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday. “Let me just say this to ‘Big Tish’ James, the New York attorney general: I dare you. I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President...
Argentine authorities have arrested three people in the death of singer Liam Payne, prosecutors announced. They did not name the suspects but said the charges relate to supplying the One Direction star the cocaine and abandoning him before his fatal fall from a third-story hotel in Buenos Aires. The first suspect is a friend, who...
A Utah farmer and one-time MMA fighter who hit police guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with wood and metal poles is going to prison. Odin Meacham, 30, was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge John...
Donald Trump is the once and future president of the United States, but he still owes one woman in New York nearly $90 million. An attorney representing writer E. Jean Carroll sought to remind the country that the 45th and 47th president is still on the hook for that amount — and that his decisive...