Month: April 2024

At a Friday press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, former president Donald Trump suggested that Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza could escalate into a world war. “What’s going on in Israel could end up in a world war,” Trump said. Trump then continued by criticizing President Joe Biden, saying he “doesn’t know what the…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeThe trial in the New York criminal case against Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection, the first of the four criminal cases against the former president to reach this pivotal stage.The charges against Trump stem from an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s…
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Watch CBS News By Nidia Cavazos Updated on: April 12, 2024 / 8:26 PM EDT / CBS News Vice President Kamala Harris is in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday to cast former President Donald Trump as the architect of the restrictive abortion bans emerging nationwide in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down…
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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group — the former and possibly future president’s eponymous social-media company — have lost around half their value since going public last month. It’s easy to see why: Massive operating losses — and let’s face it, aside from Trump himself, just who…
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is catching up to former President Donald Trump’s polling lead, highlighting just how close the 2024 presidential election will be, according to a new poll from the New York Times and Siena College.Trump leads Biden by just one percentage point with both men at 46% and 45% respectively. The survey…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timePALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump told reporters Friday he would “absolutely” testify in his upcoming hush money trial that is set to begin on Monday.“Yeah, I would testify, absolutely,” he said in response to a question from NBC News.Trump, who is…
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William Brangham William Brangham Ali Schmitz Ali Schmitz Alexa Gold Alexa Gold Matt Loffman Matt Loffman Leave your feedbackThe nation is about to enter uncharted territory. On Monday, for the first time in American history, a former president will be tried in a court of law. Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying…
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Kaitlan Collins reacts to Trump’s news conference  CNNsource

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsWe can expect that former president and criminal defendant Donald Trump is going to claim every day — maybe even multiple times a day — that his criminal trial scheduled to begin in Manhattan on Monday was orchestrated by President Joe Biden. Trump used that line of attack at a…
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Help keep Salon independentWall Street commentary during this election year has a distinct flavor of Soviet-style disinformation, at least to this point. The elephant in the room has been air-brushed out of the photo. The vanishing pachyderm in that metaphor is the question of what Donald Trump will do to American democracy if he again becomes…
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The former president initially disavowed the attack on the Capitol, but he is now making it a centerpiece of his general election campaign.The former president initially disavowed the attack on the Capitol, but he is now making it a centerpiece of his general election campaign.Former President Donald Trump has recently taken to publicly celebrating the…
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Trump repeats attack on ex-lawyer on eve of trial despite gag order  Reuterssource

SEARCHThe former president declared during his Saturday rally that Iran’s attack “would not have happened” if he were president.Politics ReporterFormer U.S. president Donald Trump said that the unfolding Iranian attacks on Israel are the result of the Biden administration exhibiting “weakness” on the world stage at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday night.“Before going any further, I…
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These Mormon women in Arizona are losing faith in Trump’s Republican Party  NPRsource

The first criminal trial of an ex-president in U.S. history will decide whether his scheme to pay off a porn star was a crime designed to thwart election laws.

How is the jury chosen for Trump’s NY criminal trial? Experts explain the ‘challenges’  Miami Heraldsource

Amid a fiercely competitive 2024 election rematch against incumbent President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump will become the first former president put on criminal trial. Trump faces felony charges in four cases, but the first one to go to trial — and perhaps the only one likely to be completed before Election Day in November…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick shares his plan for combatting adverse Chinese influence on the U.S. economy and security during a speech at the Independence Visitor Center, Dec. 7, 2023, in Philadelphia. Former President Donald Trump endorsed McCormack…
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Smerconish: Can Trump get a fair trial in Manhattan?  CNNsource

Trump blasts Iran’s attack on Israel, claims it ‘would never have happened if I were president’  New York Post source

A coalition of media outlets published a statement Sunday urging President Biden and former President Trump to publicly commit to debates ahead of the November election. “General election debates have a rich tradition in our American democracy, having played a vital role in every presidential election of the past 50 years, dating to 1976,” the…
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Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is NPR’s weekly quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what’s real news and what’s made up.Lehigh Valley residents mull over candidate choices, democracy, abortion, and women’s rights as…
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‘I’m going to be watching Donald Trump’s behavior’: former prosecutor previews hush money trial  NBC Newssource

The first criminal trial of any U.S. president is set to begin Monday, when former President Trump stands trial for his role in a hush money deal with a porn actress ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump for months has sought to push back the start of his first criminal trial, launching a series…
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President Biden and former President Trump are both fighting for the suburban woman voter, but she’s no longer the “soccer mom” caricature that gained traction in the ’90s.  The label connotes a stereotypical picture of a white, college-educated woman, married with a couple of kids. She’s a type of suburban woman voter, but far from the only one.…
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