A lot of Democratic voters want Joe Biden to drop out after his disastrous debate performance. It’s a choice between gambling on a new nominee or risking defeat with Biden. Here are the biggest arguments for and against Biden dropping out. Democrats are in a state of panic after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance […]
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the long-running murder trial of Karen Read must decide whether she was a callous girlfriend who drove off after running over her Boston police officer boyfriend with her luxury SUV, or whether police framed her to cover up a brutal beatdown by his fellow officers. Karen Read shares her […]
The defense has rested its case in the Karen Read murder trial after calling its final three witnesses to the stand on Monday. Read, 44, of Mansfield, has pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend. The judge in the case is now talking […]
Months after a rare midtrial appeal halted a case against two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys charged with misconduct, lawyers Tuesday sparred before a panel of appellate court justices judges over the legal issues that brought the case to a halt in October. Nicholas Trutenko, 69, and Andrew Horvat, 48, are accused of wrongdoing […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial began deliberating Monday after they heard new evidence from a witness about his drug use in October 2018, around the time he is alleged to have illegally purchased a firearm. Prosecutors rested their case after they told jurors that Biden was a “habitual” user of drugs […]
Conflict over the state’s sale of the Idaho Transportation Department’s 44-acre campus in Boise continued in new legal filings Friday, when the Attorney General’s Office asked that the Board of Examiners retract previous statements made by its attorneys and that the board be removed from the case. The state of Idaho, another plaintiff in a […]
Opening statements in Hunter Biden’s felony gun trial are expected to begin Tuesday morning, kicking off the presentation of evidence in the historic case. Hunter Biden faces three felonies over whether he lied on a federal gun form in 2018 that asked if he was addicted to drugs. It is the first criminal case against […]
ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court could hear arguments in October on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday docketed the appeals filed by nine defendants […]
Seven defendants should be convicted for taking advantage of the pandemic to steal millions of dollars in taxpayer money and enrichment themselves instead of feeding children in need, a federal prosecutor told the jury Friday as closing arguments began in the Feeding Our Future trial. “It wasn’t a get-rich quick scheme … it was a […]
Closing arguments wrapped up at 8 p.m. on Tuesday after a marathon 10-hour session where both the defense and prosecution meticulously laid out their arguments in former President Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial. Court is set to resume at 10 a.m. Wednesday, when the jury will receive its instructions before beginning deliberations. Trump faces […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 21: Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 21, 2024 in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an […]
Former U.S. Capitol Police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, who were overwhelmed by the mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6, are interviewed during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 28, 2024 in New York City. Closing arguments were under way. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) […]