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ftwitty/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Attorneys for Donald Trump said that Trump’s comments “calling into question” the election of 2020 were “the height of political speech,” in arguments seeking the dismissal of the former president’s Georgia election interference case Thursday. Trump’s lawyers were back in a Fulton County courtroom, where they argued that the election interference […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A judge sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating what prosecutors have called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. He must also forfeit $11 billion that the government can use to compensate victims, Judge Lewis Kaplan said. “This was a very […]

Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s tax case in California heard several defense motions to dismiss the charges Wednesday, and said afterward that he would issue rulings by April 17. After a relatively civil start to the hearing, tensions escalated as defense attorney Abbe Lowell […]

Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — In the wake of the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, engineering and infrastructure policy experts explained the critical need for bridge reform in the United States and an international standard for large cargo ships. The Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided with […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 82 years old. Lieberman died in New York City “due to complications from a fall,” his family said in a statement. “His beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed. Senator […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ROCKFORD, Ill.) — An adult male allegedly stabbed multiple victims in the Rockford, Illinois area on Wednesday, leaving four people dead, one in critical condition and four others in stable condition, authorities said in a press conference Wednesday. A postal worker is among the four individuals who died, Rockford Police confirmed. Late […]

Lincoln University (OXFORD, Pa.) — Lincoln University’s alumni association has issued a statement of “no confidence” in the HBCU’s Board of Curators after it reinstated President John Moseley, who was on paid, administrative leave while under investigation following the suicide of a school administrator. University alum and vice president of student affairs Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey […]

Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — Six construction workers are presumed dead after a cargo ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending the workers into the water. Eight workers were fixing potholes on the span when the ship hit the bridge around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The workers plunged into the frigid water, and two were rescued, […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A California man was sentenced to 11 months in prison for making threatening calls to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. David Carrier, 44, of Concord, had pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats against public officials in December 2023. […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, recently elected Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, said in a new interview that the national party doesn’t plan to pay his ongoing legal bills and maintained that donors could opt-out of contributing funds for that if they want to. Lara Trump also […]


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