The House was brought to a halt for over an hour on Wednesday after Republicans demanded that the words of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) be “taken down” from the congressional record after McGovern, during House floor remarks, listed the number of criminal trials former president Donald Trump faces. As House members were debating a procedural […]Read More

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen arrived for his cross-examination by Donald Trump’s defense lawyers known as someone convicted of lying to Congress and cheating on his taxes. The former Trump lawyer left the Manhattan criminal courthouse witness stand after several days of testimony having admitted that he stole tens of thousands of dollars, lied to […]Read More

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed two women of color as President Biden’s 200th and 201st judicial nominees, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to diversify and remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, a Latina who previously served as an assistant U.S. […]Read More

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who suspended her run for the Republican nomination for president in early March, announced she will vote for Donald Trump but reiterated that he should not assume that her supporters will back him. “I will be voting for Trump. Having said that, I stand by what I said in my […]Read More

A candidate for president of the United States is on trial for allegedly helping facilitate a hush money payment to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal during his 2016 campaign, and then fraudulently disguising those payments in violation of the law. He’s also charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He’s […]Read More

One of the lines of argument used by Donald Trump and his supporters to attack the criminal trial that’s underway in Manhattan is that no jury in such a pro-Democratic place could possibly be fair. As jury selection was underway in the trial, which is likely to go to a jury next week, Trump’s allies […]Read More

Pro-Palestinian college protests have faded somewhat from the news, as law enforcement has cracked down on encampments and schools break for the summer — though the protests continue on some campuses across the country. While the protests might have earned some concessions from administrators, it’s become clear that they’ve failed in one key respect: winning […]Read More

A rebel Republican bloc aiming to curb far-right extremism in North Idaho made significant gains Tuesday, flipping dozens of local seats, but fell short of the votes needed to change the hard-line GOP leadership in an area with historic ties to the far right. The primary-election showdown in Kootenai County, a mountainous region near the […]Read More

When Yahoo News presented Americans with a number of phrases describing the 2024 presidential election, the one that received the most agreement from poll respondents was one focused on the importance of defending democracy. Six in 10 respondents in the poll conducted by YouGov offered at least some agreement with the statement, which read: “Whether […]Read More

The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 200th judicial nominee Wednesday, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney, was approved to become a federal judge in the District of […]Read More