Manhattan prosecutors want a New York judge to maintain key parts of a gag order against former President Donald Trump at least through his July 11 sentencing, saying the former president's rhetoric is inspiring his supporters to threaten prosecutorial staff and their families.
Lawyers for Donald Trump made a longshot argument Friday that the Justice Department prosecutor who charged the former president with hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate was illegally appointed and that the case should therefore be dismissed.
Former U.S. Olympic swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt are scheduled to testify before Congress on anti-doping standards ahead of the 2024 summer games in Paris.
Of all the immigration-related ideas for former President Donald Trump to go soft on, automatic green cards for college students may be the worst one at the worst time. Trump has proposed that foreign students who graduate from American universities should “automatically” get to stay in the country. “You graduate from a college, I think […]
The question of whether the Democratic Party will replace President Joe Biden atop its presidential ticket is a favorite topic in political circles these days, but the logistics involved make such a scenario exceedingly unlikely. The current flavor of speculation surrounds the June 27 presidential debate between Biden and former President Donald Trump. It is […]
Despite facing friendly fire from so-called national conservatives over a recent interview with the venture capitalists on the All-In podcast, former President Donald Trump’s latest insistence that foreign students be compelled to stay in the country after attending an American college exemplifies the former president’s pro-growth strain of “America First.” “What I want to do […]
It has been a bad week for Biden border crisis deniers. First, in Maryland, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office announced it had made an arrest in the killing of Rachel Morin, a mother of five. The suspect, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, crossed into the United States illegally in February 2023, and like millions of other migrants under […]
The next major culture war battle is taking shape in New York City, and it is all about the definition of the word “infertility.” The City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus is now arguing that the health insurance plan for city employees should extend in vitro fertilization coverage to gay men. Currently, up to three cycles of […]
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a powerful case for school choice during a recent event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “We already have a choice system in education,” she told the audience. “If you are of means, you will move to a district where the schools are good and the houses are expensive, like Palo Alto, California.” Rice explained that […]
People are having fewer babies than ever before. Birthrates have fallen for more than 15 years, and last month, the United States announced a record-low total fertility rate of 1.62 babies per woman in 2023. Yet, the Social Security Administration, in its newest calculations about the future of the trust fund, assumed the birth rate […]