The judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s federal firearms charges trial agreed on Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the president’s son testifies. It is unclear whether he would take the stand during the trial that could […]
Home for sail. California may have mostly missed out on the total eclipse, but a ferry impressive sight of another kind awaited those peering out onto the San Francisco Bay earlier this week: A two-story wood-shingled home being towed across the water. The surreal situation was the result of a years-long legal battle between a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government’s efforts to retrieve them. But nine months after he was indicted, there are […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, broad exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a deep divide in the country and rattled the government coalition, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fellow War Cabinet members staunchly opposed to his proposed new conscription law. By the end of the […]
George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election after a controversial and chaotic campaign. Mr Galloway’s campaign team claimed early on in the night that the former Labour and Respect MP would win “comfortably”, and so it proved. The Workers Party of Great Britain leader received just under 40 per centof the vote. In his victory […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden lamented the partisanship that permeates Capitol Hill and politics writ large, telling governors at the White House that she wished more lawmakers would follow their lead. She spoke on Friday in the White House’s East Room to state chief executives who were in Washington for the winter gathering […]