Will Scharf, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, insisted Sunday that the Biden administration was firmly behind Trump’s prosecution even as ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pushed back on that idea. Speaking on “This Week,” Scharf responded to Stephanopoulos saying, “Of course, the attorney general of Manhattan has nothing to do with the Department of Justice,” […]
New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik sparred with the president of Northwestern University, Michael Schill, over his school earning an “F grade” for its handling of antisemitism, as well as whistleblowers’ claims regarding Schill allegedly looking to hire an anti-Zionist rabbi for the school. “Isn’t it true that you asked the Hillel director whether it […]
Donald Trump’s defence lawyer has accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president’s hush money trial cannot be believed. “The details of your story keep changing, right?” lawyer Susan Necheles asked at one point. […]
Donald Trump’s defence lawyers have grilled Stormy Daniels on the transaction at the centre of the former president’s hush money trial, pressing her on why she accepted a 130,000 dollar payment to keep quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump instead of going public. “Why didn’t you do that?” lawyer Susan Necheles asked, wondering […]
(Bloomberg) — Brazil’s top economic officials are at odds over a closely-watched fiscal target just days before the government must finalize its 2025 budget outline, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. Most Read from Bloomberg The Finance Ministry, led by Fernando Haddad, wants to maintain its original aim for a primary fiscal […]
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went back and forth with Fox News’s Mark Levin this weekend after he called her “sleazy” amid allegations that she poorly ran the GOP side of the House Jan. 6 committee. An article in The Federalist accused Cheney of suppressing “exonerating evidence” against former President Trump, citing previously unseen committee […]
A New York man who climbed through a broken window during the 2021 Capitol riot and went on to relax in a Senate office with some marijuana has received a prison sentence of three and a half years. First, though, he exchanged some heated words with U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden. The judge admonished Brandon […]