Combination showing Republican presidential candidate and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (l.) and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigning in New Hampshire on January 23, 2024. Reuters Donald Trump made it clear Saturday that former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is not on his list of candidates,…
Former President Donald J. Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an Internal Revenue Service inquiry uncovered by The New York Times and ProPublica. Losing a yearslong audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million. The 92-story,…
Madeleine Westerhout, a former executive assistant to Trump, leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on May 9, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Prosecutors said Friday that they plan to call just two more witnesses in Donald Trump’s criminal trial and that they could rest their case until the end of next…
The Biden administration believes Israel most likely violated international standards by failing to protect civilians in Gaza, but has found no specific cases that would justify withholding military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday. In the government’s most detailed assessment of Israel’s behavior in Gaza, the State Department said in a written report…
A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously upheld the criminal conviction of former Trump White House senior adviser Steve Bannon of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and assist the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol . January 2021 investigated to provide documents. The appeals court rejected Bannon’s argument…
Happy Friday! They’ve endured a week filled with dramatic statements from Stormy Daniels, a brain worm, and a failed attempt to unseat House Speaker Mike Johnson. Today we’re covering another trip Trump took to court — and we’ll meet an unlikely replacement for the Biden administration’s Gaza operations. Donald Trump ran for president and was…
“It’s definitely an earthquake.” That’s how American diplomat Richard Haass described US President Joe Biden’s stunning declaration that his administration would stop supplying certain weapons to Israel if it carried out a planned invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. “This was building up for a while, and Rafah was the straw that broke the…
Seven months into Israel’s war in Gaza, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Biden’s White House have largely broken down, leaving the administration this week without a politically valuable chorus of support for his significant policy shift on the conflict have. Mr. Biden’s announcement that he had stopped a…
Bruce Garelick walks after a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on July 20, 2023. Amr Alfiky | Reuters A federal jury in New York convicted an investor on Thursday of insider trading in the shares of a shell company before it announced it would merge with it in October 2021 Trump…
On the 15th night of Ramadan, Majid Khan and his family of four sat down to a traditional Iftar meal in a suburb of Belize City to break up the daylight hours. There was a leg of lamb that Majid, a former Guantanamo prisoner, had slaughtered himself, sweets that a sister in Maryland had brought…
