A second week's worth of testimony is slated to get underway Tuesday in former President Trump’s hush money trial. Last week saw hours of salacious testimony by ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who revealed the backroom deals that led to him being the Trump campaign’s “eyes and ears” in 2016 by burying allegations of extramarital...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing the prosecutor overseeing the federal investigations into former President Trump of trying to “unlawfully interfere with the 2024 presidential election.” Stefanik, the House GOP conference chair and a close Trump ally, filed the complaint with the Justice Department’s Office...
Protestors on Columbia University's campus took control of an academic building early Tuesday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue to spread at college campuses around the nation in opposition to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The demonstrators barricaded entrances and flew a Palestinian flag outside a window of the university’s Hamilton Hall, The...
Nearly seven months into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, White House officials are making progress in their push for a temporary cease-fire. Speaking Monday in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas should accept an “extraordinarily generous” proposal to release Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in exchange for a temporary...
The race to beef up global supply chains for metals and minerals crucial to the ongoing energy transition is heating up. Companies are jockeying for position within shifting production networks and legislatures are advancing packages to pull mineral processing away from China, where the industry has been concentrated for decades. At stake in the quest...