NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticizing jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses. In court papers filed Friday, prosecutors with the Manhattan […]
A few days after Peyton Manning attended a fundraising event for an expansion of the Ascension St. Vincent children’s hospital that bears his name, a prominent health care advocate posted an open letter on LinkedIn, asking the former football star to re-evaluate his relationship with the national hospital chain. Ascension operates more as a profit-driven […]
The website for the Columbia Law Review is no longer accessible following the publication of an article critical of Israel that the publication’s board said did not go through the proper review process. At issue is the publication of an article that said Palestinians are living under a “brutally sophisticated structure of oppression” by Israel. […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva withdrew his country’s ambassador to Israel on Wednesday after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza. The move was announced in Brazil’s official gazette. Lula has been a frequent critic of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, which he compared […]
If drivers on Interstate 195 ever forget that the shutdown of the westbound Washington Bridge is contributing to their traffic, former candidate for governor Ken Block has found a way to remind them. The Barrington data analyst-turned-politician-turned-author bought space on an East Providence billboard last week to criticize Gov. Dan McKee’s administration’s handling of the […]
As the Manhattan hush money case against Donald Trump nears its conclusion, a new phase of pretrial activity begins Wednesday in the federal classified documents prosecution the former president is facing in Florida. US District Judge Aileen Cannon will hear arguments from defense attorneys on two separate bids to throw out charges in the case. […]
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said special counsel Jack Smith should be punished for issuing a scathing critique of a recent request for jury instruction proposals by the judge overseeing Trump’s classified documents case. Smith “should be sanctioned or censured for the way he is attacking a highly respected Judge, Aileen Cannon, who is […]
Claim: Donald Trump criticized pay raises for United Auto Workers (UAW) union members during a Fox News interview in 2008, saying, “They get their little five percent. They get another two percent. They get another three percent, four percent … and all of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the […]
Claim: Donald Trump criticized pay raises for United Auto Workers (UAW) union members during a Fox News interview in 2008, saying, “They get their little five percent. They get another two percent. They get another three percent, four percent … and all of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia on Thursday overturned a fine handed to a veteran human rights advocate for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sent Oleg Orlov’s case back to prosecutors, who have sought to imprison him for three years instead. Orlov, co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights […]