Former President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen said on Sunday his former client will "absolutely" go through the formalities of being fingerprinted and photographed if he is arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into a hush money payment before the 2016 election. “Do I think that Donald will be fingerprinted, swabbed,...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday announced the state is manufacturing its own insulin and capping the cost at $30. California's CalRx initiative has partnered with nonprofit generic drug manufacturer CIVICA to make the drug and bring the price down by around 90 percent, according to the governor's office. "California will be manufacturing some...
Former President Trump's call on Saturday encouraging protests in light of a possible arrest has sparked concerns about political violence should his base respond to the call. Trump on Truth Social said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as the Manhattan District Attorney investigates a hush-money payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during...
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to former President Trump, said on Sunday that he was asked to appear as a rebuttal witness at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Monday but added he did not know any other details on the matter. MSNBC's Alex Witt asked Cohen if he expected any other witnesses to...
Former President Trump on Sunday accused President Biden of having ‘stuffed’ the Manhattan District Attorney’s office probing a hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels with officials from the Department of Justice, despite it being a city-run office. Trump' took to his Truth Social platform to claim Biden “'stuffed' the D.A.'s Office with...
Anthony Cole, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) official, said on Sunday that former President Trump’s remarks about his possible looming arrest in New York was an attempt to “intimidate local prosecutors” and would “poison” the jury pool. “What I think is happening here is [Trump] trying to, number one, intimidate local prosecutors and number...
The ways in which the CIA attempts to reinforce ethical behavior on an organizational basis are comparatively novel, and may provide lessons for corporate America.
After former President Trump called on his supporters to demonstrate against what he claimed was his looming arrest stemming from a New York investigation, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said there was “no reason” to protest a potential arrest. “There’s no reason to protest this,” Warren said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.” “This is...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said that he would respect a court's decision regarding his testimony in front of the federal grand jury investigating former President Trump's role in the Jan. 6, 2021 rioting at the Capitol, saying he was not asserting executive privilege to block it. Pence has thus far refused to...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said continued rhetoric by former President Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol is the reason the two split despite leaving Washington after their first term "amicably." “Despite the fact that the president and I actually parted amicably when we left the White House on Jan....
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said during an interview on Sunday that Congress should lift the cap on federal insurance on bank deposits from $250,000, as lawmakers mull policy changes in the aftermath of the historic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. “I think that lifting the FDIC insurance cap is a good move,” Warren said on...
In four short months, the GPT family of artificial intelligence chatbots have upended higher education like nothing since the arrival of Wi-Fi connections in classrooms. ChatGPT and its smarter, younger cousin, GPT-4, can create a realistic facsimile of a college term paper on command, or populate the answers to a midterm. At the start of...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took aim at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Sunday, saying he “took a flamethrower" to bank regulations during the Trump administration. “Donald Trump ran for president saying he would lighten the regulations on these banks,” Warren said during an interview on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “And then Jerome Powell just...
Less than half of Americans can name all three branches of government.
The House is losing its top antitrust reform champion later this year when Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) resigns. The congressman announced last month that he will retire from Congress in June to take a role as president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, a community foundation and largest funder of nonprofit organizations in the...
Democrats are gearing for another hard-fought Senate race in Nevada next cycle after the state narrowly decided who would control the upper chamber in the midterms. Last year, Democrats were able to retain Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-Nev.) seat by less than a point but lost the governor’s mansion after former Clark County Sherriff Joe...
A GOP-backed push to lay out a plan for the government to prioritize certain payments if the Treasury runs out of emergency measures to prevent a default is picking up some traction as both parties dig in their heels on the debt ceiling battle. But while the idea of so-called debt prioritization is gaining legs...
“I regret…” I hear these words whenever I think about the Iraq War. They’re in reference not to any failures of policy, intelligence or strategy, but to loss. They’re the words the First Captain used when I was a cadet at West Point to tell us another graduate had been killed. Speaking to the entire...
The accelerating probe into former President Trump’s involvement in a hush-money scandal has a new face, one eager to hit the airwaves ahead of any potential criminal charges. Joe Tacopina made the rounds on TV this week, enthusiastically defending the former president in the court of public opinion as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that overturned a federal law banning those under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the law was no longer constitutional based on the Supreme Court’s decision last June in New...
In the United States, women are encouraged to be part of the solution: lean in, we’re told, negotiate a higher starting salary, raise your hand for projects, and write emails without too many exclamation points. But removing the “just checking in” language from emails is not going to address the underlying systemic causes of gender...
Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday that he considers the Manhattan district attorney’s potential indictment of former President Trump to be “deeply troubling” but emphasized that “violence will not be tolerated” as the former president calls for protests. Trump said in a post to Truth Social that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday in...
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said on Saturday that former President Trump’s calls for a protest against the Manhattan district attorney’s probe signals a desire for “another violent clash” on his behalf. “It’s eerily similar to the battle cry that he put out just prior to the January 6th insurrection, you know, especially including the...
Democrats on Capitol Hill are defending their vote for a 2018 banking deregulation bill that President Biden and other members of the party are blaming for last week’s stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Forty-nine Democrats — 33 in the House and 16 in the Senate — plus Sen. Angus King (I-Maine),...
Thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq — and the legal authorities underpinning the war remain on the books.
