Former President Donald Trump opened the fourth day of jury selection in his hush-money trial Friday by calling on the New York court to lift the gag order on speaking about witnesses.
House Democrats late Thursday helped advance a $95 billion foreign aid package in a rare move that salvaged federal money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and bailed out embattled Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
When an illegal immigrant is encountered by Border Patrol near the southern border, federal immigration law mandates that all such persons, even those who express a fear of returning to their home country, “shall be detained” until they are either deported or granted asylum. In 1952, Congress created an exception to the mandatory detention of […]
Though the Founding Fathers were divided over whether a president should be able to face criminal prosecution — James Madison famously proposed explicating presidential immunities at the Constitutional Convention, his colleagues demurred — the Sixth Amendment proves they all agreed that all potential defendants, plebeians and presidents alike, deserve the right to “an impartial jury […]
President Joe Biden on May 9 will welcome his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House, rolling out the red carpet as part of a deal to get Erdogan to drop his veto over Sweden’s NATO membership. The invitation will not bring peace; rather, it is the equivalent of giving brass knuckles to a […]
The Senate recently confirmed Andrew N. Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak as commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission in a unanimous vote. Their appointment not only returned the agency to five members for the first since 2022 but also restored bipartisan representation. Ferguson and Holyoak are both Republican. For almost a year, the FTC had been run […]
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) announced on Friday that he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) resolution to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the top job, becoming the third House Republican to back his ouster. Gosar, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, revealed his support for dismissing Johnson minutes after the House...