U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Mike Herzog upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 30, 2024. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed harsh words to Israel. He criticized its operations in the Gaza Strip and…
This morning we have a new set of polls in the battleground states, including New York Times/Siena College polls in Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, and the first Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll in Pennsylvania. The results of the presidential election campaign would have been surprising a year ago, but they can hardly be called surprising…
Omar Marques | Light rocket | Getty Images Truth Social Ownership Trump media The company hired a new auditor over the weekend after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused its previous accounting firm of committing a massive fraud, according to a regulatory filing Monday. Trump Media said it hired Semple, Marchal & Cooper LLP…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett was attending a House Oversight Committee hearing last fall and was growing increasingly frustrated as she listened to Republicans accuse President Biden of criminal conduct without providing evidence when an idea occurred to her. Ms. Crockett, a freshman Democrat from Texas and a former defense attorney, summoned an aide and asked him…
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler declined Tuesday to comment on speculation about whether Trump Media was a financing vehicle for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “I’m not going to talk about a single company,” Gensler said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” responding to a question about whether Trump Media was simply a…
Sen. JD Vance, the Ohio Republican who is running to replace former President Donald J. Trump, demurred Sunday when asked whether he would accept the results of the November election. “If we have a free and fair election, I will accept the results,” Mr. Vance told CNN’s Dana Bash during an appearance on “State of…
Enlarge symbolArrows point outwards Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, Russian citizen and one of the leaders of LockBit. Courtesy: U.S. Department of the Treasury Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against a Russian citizen, Dmitri Yuryevich Khoroshev, for allegedly founding, developing and managing the ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit. At the same time, the US State Department offered…
After a long and often tense week in his criminal trial in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday took part in a time-honored ritual enjoyed by countless New Yorkers in need of a break: He went to the waterfront. Sandwiched between the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean, Mr. Trump stood before tens of…
Fani Willis, District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, photographed September 20, 2022, and former President Donald Trump, photographed August 8, 2023. Scott Iron | Getty Images A Georgia appeals court agreed Wednesday to hear a request by Donald Trump to expel Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the former president’s criminal election interference case….
In Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial, his lawyers insisted that he had “nothing to do” with the crimes against him. But testimony from prosecution witnesses in recent weeks has challenged that argument and underscored that Mr. Trump can obsess over two all-important aspects of his job: anything to do with the media and anything…
