A New York appeals court on Wednesday declined another bid by former President Trump to delay his hush money trial for the third time this week. The former president’s lawyers took aim at three rulings by Judge Juan Merchan: Refusing to recuse, not delaying the trial until the Supreme Court rules on Trump’s presidential immunity...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday denounced former President Trump’s exhortation for Congress to kill the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as “crazy and reckless” and warned there will be “blood on people’s hands” if the intelligence community’s surveillance authority expires and there’s a terrorist attack on the United States. Barr, who served in Trump’s Cabinet in...
Actors from the CBS comedy series “Ghosts” connected with their spectral characters through historical artifacts and exhibits at the Library of Congress Tuesday, where the show's fourth season premiered to a sold-out theater. Cast members present for the showing played characters hailing from eras associated with Prohibition, women's suffrage, precolonial America and more. Richie Moriarty,...
The Biden administration straddled the line on a controversial Canadian oil pipeline in a court filing Wednesday, saying a lower court’s order to drain portions running through tribal land may violate a 1977 treaty but agreeing with a Native American tribe that the operator is trespassing on tribal land. In an amicus brief in the...
The U.S. Capitol Police hired three special prosecutors to investigate threats made to members of Congress and help prosecute threat cases involving members, the agency confirmed Wednesday to The Hill. The three attorneys are spread across the U.S., with one in Washington, D.C.; San Jose, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla., the agency confirmed. The first position...
Story at a glance Costs for home healthcare for the elderly and bed-ridden have gone up by 14.2 percent over the past year, according to new Consumer Price Index data released Wednesday. That represents the largest percent increase in home healthcare costs during a 12-month period since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began collecting...
Donald's Trump's request to delay his hush money criminal trial has been denied, marking the third time this week his lawyers' attempts to delay the trial have failed.
EXCLUSIVE: House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan wants the intel community to obtain a warrant before it searches Americans’ data through Section 702 of FISA, to safeguard constitutional liberties.