Peter Navarro is staying locked up, after the Supreme Court rejected his bid to stay out while he appeals his contempt conviction. It’s the former Trump White House adviser’s second such rejection in as many months. How is that even possible, you might wonder? Recall that Navarro was sentenced in January to four months’ imprisonment […]
FILE – Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer withdrew his name from the U.S. Senate race on Friday, April 26, 2024, ending a longshot bid to become the Republican nominee and return to Congress after being ousted by voters for supporting an effort […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday rejected a long-shot effort from House Republicans to get President Joe Biden to testify before lawmakers in the GOP’s stalled impeachment inquiry. In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, the White House dismissed the invitation sent to Biden last month, calling it a “partisan […]
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trial in Manhattan has denied a last-ditch attempt by the former president to postpone the trial until after the Supreme Court decides Trump’s bid for “presidential immunity” in one of his other criminal cases. The Wednesday ruling puts a stop to Trump’s effort to further […]
Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro asked the Supreme Court to take another look at his request to avoid prison, filing a long-shot request on Tuesday that the high court rarely grants. In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to let him remain free while he challenged his contempt of Congress […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden dealt challenger Dean Phillips a Super Tuesday defeat in the Minnesota congressman’s home state, while former President Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley in the state’s Republican primary. Minnesota has 75 Democratic and 39 Republican national convention delegates. But as one of the smaller of 16 states and one territory […]
Self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson has announced the end of her long-shot Democratic challenge to President Joe Biden. The 71-year-old one-time spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey contemplated suspending her campaign last month after winning just 5,000 votes in New Hampshire’s primary, writing that she “had to decide whether now is the time for […]
WASHINGTON — Marianne Williamson ended her 2024 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday after poor showings in the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries. “I read a quote the other day that said that sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful, too,” Williamson said in a video on YouTube. “And so today, even […]
Nikki Haley is the former Republican governor of South Carolina but, to try to slow Donald Trump’s seemingly inevitable march toward the GOP nomination, she might need a bloc of home state voters she’s never needed to court: Democrats. Trump’s dominating wins in Iowa and New Hampshire further instilled an aura of invincibility around his […]
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Monday kicked off a critical trip to the U.S., where he’ll meet with Biden administration officials, lawmakers and allies of former President Donald Trump in a high-stakes bid to unlock $60 billion in funding for Ukraine. The longest-serving chief in the alliance’s history will deliver a speech at the Heritage […]
As New Hampshire voters head to the polls on Tuesday, much attention will be paid to the Republican presidential primary, but another race could provide additional clues about the general election in November. New Hampshire Democrats are moving forward with holding their presidential primary on Tuesday, despite warnings from the national party. The Democratic National […]
The named defendant in the federal lawsuit was California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, but there was never a doubt that the target was Donald J. Trump. For a time, as the legal maneuvering proceeded through the fall, it appeared that Los Angeles could be treated to another of its celebrated courtroom dramas, this one […]