By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The writer who accused Donald Trump of shattering her reputation by denying he assaulted her nearly three decades ago is expected on Thursday to finish testifying at a civil trial to determine how much the former U.S. president owes in damages. E. Jean Carroll, 80, […]
Judge Lewis Kaplan warns former President Donald Trump that he could be removed from the courtroom if he continues to loudly comment on the testimony being given by columnist E. Jean Carroll. The rebuke comes after the judge in the second civil defamation lawsuit brought by Carroll had instructed Trump’s lawyers to have their client […]
Idaho lawmakers sent a bill aimed at restricting library books that are “harmful” to minors to the House floor after nearly two hours of public testimony. More than 100 people attended a legislative committee’s hearing on House Bill 384, and 18 testified, most of them against it. All 11 Republicans on the legislative committee voted […]
(Reuters) – Donald Trump should not be forced to testify as to his own guilt or face strict warnings about crossing red lines in his remarks should the former U.S. president choose to testify in a defamation trial set to begin this week, his legal team argued on Sunday. Trump is due to face a […]
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial seems to have had it with the former president’s defense, interrupting Trump lawyer Chris Kise to correct some of his assertions during closing arguments Thursday. In one instance, while Kise argued that no rebuttal had been put forth to counter the expert testimony for […]
NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Testimony was given Monday by two potential expert witnesses and arguments were heard on several motions in preparation for the Jan. 29 trial of a Bolivar man accused of gross sexual imposition. The hearing for Justin D. McCauley, 25, took place in the Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court of Judge Michael Ernest. […]
New evidence obtained by special counsel Jack Smith from Donald Trump’s former aides could be “kryptonite” to the former president’s defense in the D.C. election subversion case, legal experts say. Trump “was just not interested” in stopping the violence on Jan. 6, longtime aide Dan Scavino told Smith’s team, according to ABC News. “So what?” […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. Gay is the second Ivy League president to resign in the […]
A Chicago man who spent more than a decade behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit was freed from prison two weeks after a judge overturned the conviction due to new evidence that undermined the prosecution’s case. Darien Harris, who is Black, was convicted in 2014 for the June 2011 shooting death of Rondell […]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Deposition testimony from billionaire Jimmy Haslam supports claims by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathway that Haslam tried to bribe employees at the Pilot truck stop chain amid a dispute with Berkshire over the future of the company, a Berkshire attorney told a judge Thursday. In a deposition Tuesday, Haslam denied offering a […]
A Chicago man whose murder conviction was overturned this month was released from jail after prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against him in a case that relied primarily on the testimony of a legally blind witness. Darien Harris spent 12 years in prison after he was convicted in the 2011 shooting death of Rondell […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he’s looking forward to questioning former pandemic chief Anthony Fauci over the origins of COVID-19 during a congressional hearing scheduled for next month. Paul has been the loudest voice calling for investigations into government action surrounding COVID-19 origins, specifically into U.S. government funding of biotech research in China. He’s a […]