El Paso juries returned not guilty verdicts in several criminal cases, including unrelated trials involving charges of murder and sexual abuse of a child. An El Paso jury also acquitted a woman of intoxicated manslaughter and convicted her of misdemeanor driving while intoxicated in a fatal 2021 crash, while another woman was sentenced by a […]
How did Joe Biden and Donald Trump perform in the first US presidential debate of the 2024 election season? Our writers give their views on the debate. Now I’m certain: Donald Trump will win in November. Joe Biden called for a summer debate to remind voters of Trump’s extremism. Instead he showcased his own senility. […]
Washington (DC News Now) — This week President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted on 3 felony counts for illegally possessing a gun and lying about this drug use on a federal background check. This came just over a week after former President, Donald Trump, was convicted for falsification of business records. The Hill’s […]
Republicans in Congress are embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of attacking the US justice system after the former president’s historic conviction. Almost no Republican official has stood up to suggest Mr Trump should not be the party’s presidential candidate for the November election – in fact, some have sought to hasten his nomination. Few others have […]
May 31—A jury’s guilty verdicts in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case involving payments to a porn actress came as a surprise to a renowned professor of American history at the University of Connecticut. “I anticipated a hung jury,” Manisha Sinha said Friday. “I thought one juror, at least, might not convict. … Trial […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that Donald Trump being found guilty in his New York hush money case reaffirms “the American principle that no one is above the law,” and he said “it’s reckless” and “dangerous” for his predecessor to suggest the legal system was rigged against him. “Donald Trump was given […]
Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system on Friday, as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Former US president Mr Trump spoke to reporters at his […]
Donald Trump has confirmed he will appeal the guilty verdict that made him the first US president convicted of a crime, though he will have to wait until after his sentencing on July 11th before taking that step. In rambling remarks at the Trump Tower lobby in Manhattan where he announced his first presidential run […]
Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail a day he became the first former or current US president to be convicted of a crime. The Republican presidential hopeful will stage a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan hours after he was convicted of trying to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush […]
Senior figures in the Republican Party have reacted with fury after a New York jury convicted former US president Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election. House Speaker Mike Johnson described the verdicts as a “shameful day in American history” and said the charges were “purely political”, while […]
PONTIAC, Mich. — The charges prosecutors brought against the mother and father of teenage school shooter Ethan Crumbley were identical and hinged on convincing jurors that while neither parent knew their son was plotting a deadly attack, they both failed in their legal responsibilities to help prevent it. But clinching convictions for involuntary manslaughter in […]
UPDATE Friday 4:38 p.m.: Verdicts have been reached in the trial of Ryan Wannemacher and Aaron Zahn. Zahn has been found guilty and Wannemacher not guilty in the JEA trial of the former executives. Zahn was found guilty on both counts. Count one is conspiracy to embezzle and steal municipal funds and conspiracy to commit […]