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...
In one of the few highlights for Democrats in what is now a bright red Sunshine State, voters in the Orlando area reelected a progressive prosecutor that Gov. Ron DeSantis had previously suspended. Democrat Monique Worrell received about 57% of the vote over Independent Andrew Bain, the man DeSantis picked to replace her with in...
While Democrats pore over their electoral failures and Republicans look to count their newly-won treasures, coalition, and power, many political players will be jockeying for position come January 2025. One woman is situated — perhaps higher and better than most — as a bright star-ascendant: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the lone Article II judge...
A Marine Corps veteran and self-proclaimed member of a Virginia militia group called the “Boys” was sentenced for entering the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6 riots. Li Duong, 30, was sentenced on Tuesday to 36 months of probation by U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman, a Bill Clinton appointee. Duong will also...