U.S. not involved in any offensive operations, Antony Blinken says

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Foreign aid package that includes help for Israel pushes forward

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Alternate jurors and key legal arguments on tap in Trump hush money trial

Jury selection will continue — and could conclude — Friday in former President Donald Trump‘s historic New York criminal trial. With a full 12-person jury and one alternate juror sworn in Thursday, Judge Juan Merchan has called a pool of 96 potential jurors to his Manhattan courtroom in hope of finding five more alternate jurors […]

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best […]

How Trump tried to control his first week in court

Donald Trump emerged from a Manhattan courtroom Monday ready for a fight. After day one of a trial that has Trump facing 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to a porn star, the former president stood in front of reporters ready to unleash a grievance-laced tirade that, at times, did […]

Judge denies Trump co-defendants’ motions to dismiss charges in classified documents case

She also notes that his lawyers can challenge prosecutors’ evidence during a trial, “where the Special Counsel will bear the entire burden of proof as to all essential elements of the obstruction offenses.” Similarly, she dismissed the motion from Nauta’s lawyers, who had argued that obstruction charges against him were unconstitutionally vague. Cannon said that […]

Iranian attack on Israel was a ‘spectacular failure’

Iran’s missile and drone barrage against Israel last weekend “turned out to be a spectacular failure,” with nearly all of the projectiles failing to hit Israel, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday. Speaking at an event at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Burns said that the thwarting of the missile and drone assault showed […]

Here’s what you missed on Day 3 of Trump’s hush money trial in New York

Jury selection in Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Thursday revealed there are certain topics that are likely to capture the former president’s attention: Miami, real estate and media. When one New Yorker talked about his decades in law enforcement, Trump raised his eyebrows. The juror, who said he holds Yankees season tickets, added that […]

15 Kennedy family members endorse Biden for president

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