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
Representatives for the firm that posted a $175 million bond for Donald Trump pushed back against objections raised by New York’s attorney general, saying in a court filing late Monday that the deal is “adequately secured” by the former president’s cash. The filing sets the stage for a court hearing next week in Trump’s New […]Read More
Donald Trump has spent years alleging that the justice system has been weaponized against him. And the opening of his Manhattan criminal trial Monday quickly spawned a related talking point. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan asked the first 96 prospective jurors to indicate if they couldn’t be fair and impartial in the case. […]Read More
Stocks sold off Friday as inflation and geopolitical worries once again dented investor sentiment on Wall Street. A broad decline in major bank shares also weighed on the market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 475.84 points, or 1.24%, closing at 37,983.24. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.46% at 5,123.41. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back by 1.62% at 16,175.09. At one point […]Read More
Shares of Trump Media plunged more than 13% on Monday after the company filed to issue millions of additional shares of stock. Trump Media’s dramatic slide came as Donald Trump headed to a Manhattan court to begin jury selection for his criminal trial on hush money-related charges. Trump is the majority stakeholder in the company. Trump Media, which created the […]Read More
Apple’s smartphone shipments dropped about 10% in the first quarter of 2024, hurt by intensifying competition by Android smartphone makers aiming for the top spot, data from research firm IDC showed on Sunday. Global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% to 289.4 million units during January-March, with Samsung, at 20.8% market share, clinching the top phonemaker spot from […]Read More
Consumer sentiment about the U.S. economy has ticked down but remains near a recent high, with Americans’ outlook largely unchanged this year. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, slipped to 77.9 this month, down from March’s figure of 79.4. Sentiment is about halfway between its all-time low, reached in […]Read More
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