NEW YORK — He was a publicity hound and a tabloid star. He was a developer who bragged about his acquisitions and exaggerated his wealth, emblazoning his name on towers that scraped the sky. He was a Queens boy made good — with no small amount of help from his father’s money — bursting onto […]Read More
President Biden plans to unveil on Wednesday a series of new protections for the U.S. steel industry, as he moves to combat what the White House calls “unfair” Chinese competition and shore up his political fortunes in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. In remarks scheduled for the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh, the […]Read More
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. (D) and his wife, superintendent of the city’s public schools, were accused Monday of physically and emotionally abusing their teenage daughter. Marty Small, 50, and La’Quetta Small, 47, were each charged with a second-degree count of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. […]Read More
Bob Graham, a consensus-building moderate Democrat who as a two-term Florida governor and a three-term U.S. senator became one of the most popular politicians in the state’s history and then one of the Senate’s most ardent opponents of the Iraq War, died April 16 at the age of 87. His daughter Gwendolyn Graham confirmed the […]Read More
Newly unsealed court documents show that Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) may seek to blame his wife, Nadine Menendez, for withholding information in a case that led to federal bribery charges. In passages unsealed Tuesday, the senator’s lawyers wrote in a legal brief that they plan to try to show the “absence of any improper intent […]Read More
The United States will impose sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone program, as well as entities supporting the Iranian regime or military, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said additional sanctions on Iran would be forthcoming in retaliation for its attack against Israel over […]Read More
NEW YORK — The judge overseeing former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial said opening statements could begin as soon as Monday, as the jury selection process sped up and Trump got an earful from the people who might soon decide his fate. Lawyers for Trump on Tuesday repeatedly argued that old social media posts by […]Read More
A former Army financial counselor accused of siphoning millions of dollars from deceased soldiers’ life insurance funds pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, accepting a deal with prosecutors that could put him in jail for years after acknowledging he scammed grieving widows and children, the Justice Department said. After publication of a Washington Post investigation, […]Read More
The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Tuesday over whether prosecutors improperly stretched federal law to charge hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a decision that will impact those rioters and, potentially, Donald Trump’s election interference trial in D.C. The court’s conservatives, who make up a majority on the nine-member […]Read More
For the better part of the past eight years, Donald Trump has laid the groundwork to get voters to dismiss any adverse result in a court of law as the product of a political “witch hunt” or a “weaponized” justice system. Now the effort is reaching its culmination, with Trump suffering multiple major losses in […]Read More