Last January, there was another bipartisan collaboration between Alicia Munnell, an economist in the Clinton administration who now serves as director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, and Andrew Biggs, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Conservative think tank – published a paper calling for a reduction or end to…
A sign advertising a home for sale is displayed outside a building in Manhattan on April 11, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The dream of owning a home has become even more distant for renters as higher housing costs and higher interest rates stand in the way of America’s homeownership…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cheered on the sidelines of a basketball game in Shanghai on Wednesday night and chatted with students on the New York University Shanghai campus on Thursday and met with American business owners. This all underscores the nature of the economic, educational and cultural relationships that the United States explicitly…
After a year of legal wrangling and a week of jury selection, today marked the actual beginning of the first prosecution of a former American president – a courtroom drama with legal broadsides, a no-nonsense judge and 12 Manhattanites sitting in on the verdict. New York State told a twisted tale of hush money, illicit…
Fire extinguishers (R) are left in the park across from the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City after a man reportedly set himself on fire during the trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump on April 19, 2024 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images A Florida man set himself…
Former President Donald Trump returns from a lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court as jury selection continues April 18, 2024 in New York. Jabin Botsford | Reuters The New York attorney general’s office on Friday asked a judge to effectively void a $175 million bond posted by former President Donald Trump in order to receive…
Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom of the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, USA, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Reuters A full jury of 12 people was seated Thursday in the New York hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. A deputy was also selected. Five deputies…
He scoffed. He collapsed. He seemed to be sleeping. And the whole time he was basically stuck. When former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial began jury selection on Monday, he was something he never wanted to be: a criminal defendant scowling alongside his lawyers and bound by the rulings of a judge against whom…
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court with his legal team before the start of jury selection on Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York, NY. Jabin Botsford | Via Reuters Editor’s Note: This is developing news. Check back for updates. On Monday, prosecutors asked a New York judge to punish Donald Trump…
Two days before his first criminal trial was set to begin in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday again described the charges against him as a sweeping attempt by Democrats to keep him out of the White House and criticized a gag order placed on him by the judge in the New York…
