Ukraine will be told it is currently too corrupt to join Nato, in a major blow to Volodymyr Zelensky. The alliance will request “additional steps” from Kyiv before membership talks progress, a senior official in the US State Department said. The position will be set out in writing in the Nato communique to be signed […]
A corrupted, partisan United States Supreme Court is how we will lose our democracy. Right now, two Supreme Court justices have a demonstrable inability to be impartial on partisan matters, including those related to former President Donald Trump. Furthermore, they have received financial benefits from parties they have ruled in favor of. The justices have […]
Gov. Mike DeWine (Photo by Graham Stokes for the Ohio Capital Journal / Republish photo only with original story) No matter how I slice it on the role of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in the biggest public corruption scandal in Ohio history, I’m forced to conclude he is either knee-deep in the corruption, or he […]
(Bloomberg) — Vietnam’s finance ministry may offer cash rewards as much as 50 million dong ($1,964) to individuals offering tips to help the government in its ongoing anti-corruption campaign. Most Read from Bloomberg The ministry floated the proposal in a draft circular regulating anti-corruption steering committees in cities and provinces, according to a statement on […]
As Donald Trump’s hush money trial comes to a close, Alina Habba is fretting about how Memorial Day weekend might be an opportunity to sway jurors. While appearing on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Habba, previously an attorney for Trump but now his legal spokesperson, told host Sean Duffy that jurors should have been sequestered […]
Spain has demanded a public apology after Argentina’s president said the Spanish prime minister’s wife was “corrupt”. Without directly naming her, Javier Milei made the remarks about Begoña Gómez, wife of Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez, at a far-right political rally in Madrid. Prosecutors called for a preliminary inquiry into Ms Gómez over corruption allegations to […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina’s President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife during a far-right rally in Madrid. Milei had called Sanchez’s wife Begona Gomez “corrupt” during a rally in Madrid organised by the far-right Vox party and […]
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., abused his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to “put greed first,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during opening statements in the senator’s bribery trial. Asst. U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates in New York that the senior senator from […]
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said: “This was a planned, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help […]
You’re reading Guardian US’s free Trump on Trial newsletter. To get the latest court developments delivered to your inbox, sign up here On the Docket: Opening statements The former president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial got going in earnest today with opening statements from prosecutors and defense. The prosecutors sought to make the case that […]
Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said: “This was a planned, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help […]
Donald Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial. The opening statements marked the first time that prosecutors have presented a criminal case against a former president to a jury as they accuse Trump of […]