Rudy Giuliani defended former President Trump after a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll and called the presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a “disgrace.” “Well, the judge is a disgrace to the greatest court in America. It’s called the mother court, United States District Court for...
Transgender people face an uncertain future in Ohio under a new law banning gender-affirming health care for minors and administrative rules that heavily restrict access to care for adults. The state’s GOP-controlled Legislature on Wednesday overrode Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, allowing a ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors...
Five years since Trump’s oil sanctions announcement, Venezuela has finally managed to escape the worst of the crisis. But the sanctions continue to take their toll.
Jewish lawmakers released statements Saturday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Their remarks come as antisemitism has risen in the U.S. and abroad since the onset of the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who is the grandson of Russian...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he would go “to the ends of the earth” for President Biden in a recent MSNBC interview. When host Alex Wagner noted Newsom was not running for president despite recent moves elevating his national profile, Newsom said there is “[n]o chance” of that happening. He then questioned why someone...
A former attorney for former President Trump criticized his lawyer Alina Habba in a CNN interview Friday, after a jury ordered the former president to pay $83.3 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll. “I would regret having her represent him,” Tim Parlatore told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. “I mean, I do think that...
Fortunately, all this attention has translated into prolific conversations on obesity in the healthcare system, legislatures and advocacy organizations.
President Biden released a statement commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day Saturday, as the war between Israel and Hamas wages on. Biden said the United States joins nations around the world to pause and mourn “one of the darkest chapters in human history,” grieve the lives taken by Nazis and honor the survivors and those who...
President Biden is once again betting big on South Carolina. Biden is looking to the Palmetto State — which catapulted him into the driver’s seat for the Democratic nomination in 2020 — to get a jolt of momentum and motivate Democrats, while he turns to a likely general election rematch against former President Trump. He...
Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s former chief of staff has launched a primary challenge against the lawmaker following his departure from her office last month.