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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (ARLINGTON, Va.) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ annual banquet has been canceled after “extremists threatened to plant bombs and kill hotel staff due to CAIR’s support for Palestinian human rights,” the organization announced. CAIR said the Arlington, Virginia, hotel where it has held its annual banquet every year for over 10 […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay more than $1 billion in damages to families affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, despite Jones’ filing for bankruptcy, a federal bankruptcy court judge has ruled. Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection in December after he […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the special counsel’s classified documents case told the judge overseeing the case Friday that he wants his attorney to continue to represent him despite any potential conflicts of interest. Longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that he […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are accused by New York Attorney […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s comeback campaign has both cemented his status as primary front-runner and fundamentally altered the way candidates have historically approached the GOP presidential primary by skipping party-sanctioned debates and opting out of retail politics writ large. To knock him down a peg, though, most of his rivals are […]
kali9/Getty Images (HAGERSTOWN, Md.) — Maryland authorities said they’re searching for a man who allegedly targeted and gunned down the judge who oversaw his divorce proceedings. Pedro Argote, 49, allegedly shot Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, in the judge’s driveway in Hagerstown, Maryland, Thursday night while the victim’s wife and son were home, according to […]
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office (ATLANTA) — Kenneth Chesebro, a key co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, has taken a last-minute plea deal in which he has agreed to testify in the case. Chesebro pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing of false documents and will receive […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office has dismissed the case against one of the 16 so-called “fake electors” charged in the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. “After conversations with the Attorney General’s office, all charges against our innocent client, Jim Renner, were […]
Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After House Republicans twice rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker this week, he pressed his case ahead of a third vote Friday morning. Jordan, a conservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump loyalist, House Judiciary Committee chair and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, received his party’s nomination last […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden on Thursday made his case to the American public that success in Ukraine and Israel is “vital” to the U.S., the White House prepared a sweeping $105 billion foreign aid package that includes some $60 billion in assistance for Ukraine and $14 billion […]
