The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed that there were a record 302,034 total encounters at the country’s southern border in December 2023. Border Patrol recorded that 249,785 of them were between ports of entry on the border. Fox News first reported on the encounters in early January before the Biden administration confirmed...
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded to the news of former President Trump and her fellow GOP competitor’s verdict in his defamation case where he has been ordered to pay $83.3 million. “Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we’re talking about $83 million in damages. We’re not talking about fixing the...
Columnist E. Jean Carroll hailed a jury's verdict Friday requiring former President Trump to pay her $83.3 million in damages for defamation after he repeatedly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted her at a department store in the 1990s. "This is a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down,...
Most Americans say they would not back a candidate who has been convicted of a felony crime or a candidate who is over the age of 80, a new Gallup survey found. The survey asked voters their thoughts on voting for a person based on different characteristics and qualifications, even if the party of their...
The top Senate Democrat with oversight of foreign affairs said Friday he is greenlighting a sale of F-16s to Turkey following Ankara’s following through on Sweden’s accession to NATO. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that he will permit the sale of F-16s to Turkey, but...
Alina Habba, a lawyer for former President Trump, said Friday she was proud to represent him, after a jury ruled in favor of columnist E. Jean Carroll in her defamation trial against the former president. “I have sat on trial after trial for months in this state, the state of New York, Attorney General Letitia...
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A jury of nine New Yorkers handed down an $83.3 million verdict against former President Trump on Friday for defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll accused Trump in 2019 of sexually assaulting her decades earlier, and the jury was selected last week to determine how much the former president must pay for denying her story....