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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) leaves a meeting at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore on May 31, 2024, as part of his attendance at the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue summit. The US and Chinese defence chiefs will hold rare direct talks in Singapore on May 31, offering hopes for more military dialogue that could

Rep. Adam Schiff said that Trump is now a sexual abuser, business fraudster, convicted felon who is totally unfit for office. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Schiff said in reaction to the guilty verdict against Trump: Today was the day justice caught up with Donald Trump I

A New York jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to conceal a hush money payment made to a porn star ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Politically, the unprecedented criminal conviction of a former U.S. president — and presumptive major-party presidential nominee — plunges the nation

Well, this isn’t going to go over well with the Trump crowd. The cover of next week’s The New Yorker will show an illustration of Donald J. Trump with tiny hands ready to be handcuffed, done by John Cuneo. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Next week’s cover

Justice Juan Merchan instructs the jury before deliberations as Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 29, 2024

House Democrats sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts demanding that he answer questions about whether the Supreme Court will enforce their ethics rules on Alito. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wrote to Roberts:The Supreme Court Code of

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday rejected Democratic lawmakers’ requests that he recuse himself from key cases related to former President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot following reports that flags linked to Trump’s supporters were flown at his properties. Alito said in two letters to the lawmakers that he had

Trump was bordering on incoherent as he angrily spoke outside of the courthouse after jury deliberations ended for the day. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Trump said: It’s a Biden and witch hunt, it’s weaponization. So it seems that there are a lot of witnesses, a lot

Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 16, 2024.  Angela Weiss | Reuters Jurors in the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump are set to begin deliberating a potential verdict

Actor Robert De Niro took down a Trump supporter after he called 1/6 police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn traitors. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Video of De Niro: After the man can be heard calling the police officers traitors, De Niro said, They’re traitors? I

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives for a closed-door deposition before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and House Judiciary Committee in the O’Neill House Office Building on February 28, 2024 in Washington, DC. The meeting is part of the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.  Samuel Corum | Getty

Former Trump deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said that a guilty verdict would change the minds of some voters. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Video: Hogan Gidley on CNN admitted that a guilty verdict could change some voters’s minds about Trump, “They don’t really care about this

President of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa at a rally on May 25, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Chris Mcgrath | Getty Images News | Getty Images Some 30 years on from the peaceful transition from apartheid rule to democracy, South Africa could once again be on the

Republicans attacked President Biden for mentioning his late son Beau on Memorial Day. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Video of Biden: President Biden said in part, “Our losses are not the same: He didn’t perish in the battlefield, he was a cancer victim from a consequence of

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a statement in the rain outside 10 Downing Street, announcing the UK general election will take place on 4 July in London, United Kingdom on May 22, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ended months of speculation this week by announcing a national

Donald Trump paid tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice to their country by attacking all of the judges in his trials and calling them human scum. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Trump posted on Truth Social:Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 26: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (3rd, L) talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang (2nd, R) during a bilateral meeting at Presidential Office on May 26, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea.  (Photo by Ahn Young-Joon – Pool/Getty Images) Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images   China on

Pete Buttigieg devastated Trump for putting America last on EVs. Read: Samuel Alito Is The Insurrectionist Threat To Democracy On The Supreme Court Buttigieg said on CBS’s Face The Nation: The most important thing is that the revolution will happen with or without us. And we’ve got to make sure that it’s American led and

Adrian Fontes (D-AZ) declares victory in his campaign against Republican candidate Mark Finchem for Arizona’s Secretary of State in the U.S. midterm elections in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., November 14, 2022.  Jim Urquhart | Reuters Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is calling out threats against this country’s election officials as “domestic terrorism.” “One of the