Former President Trump is reportedly on the brink of facing charges related to a hush money payment during the 2016 campaign, throwing a wrench into the nascent 2024 GOP presidential primary. Trump has already said in interviews that he plans to continue his campaign for the presidency even if he is indicted, and he was defiant in posts on Truth Social late Thursday that made clear he was undeterred by the latest specter of criminal charges. |
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Former President Trump is engulfed in a number of legal battles, but signs are growing that Manhattan prosecutors' Stormy Daniels investigation could soon produce criminal charges, which would be a first for a former U.S. president. |
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Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen will testify before a grand jury in Manhattan next week as New York investigators appear to potentially be close to filing an indictment against the former president. |
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BY REBECCA KLAR AND SYLVAN LANE | Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, marking the biggest bank failure since the 2008 recession and sending shockwaves across the tech world. The Federal Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created a National Bank of Santa Clara to hold deposits and other assets of the failed Silicon Valley Bank, but the abrupt closing is impacting tech firms that face immediate effects, like ensuring employees get paid. |
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Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Friday presented a set of spending cuts and budget proposals they want as a condition of even considering voting in favor of raising the national debt ceiling, laying down one of the first markers in the House Republican Conference for debt ceiling negotiations. |
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The February jobs report was a bit of a mixed bag with the unemployment rate rising even as the economy added more jobs last month than economists had expected. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.6 percent, though economists had been expecting it to remain at the January level of 3.4 percent — a more than 50-year low. |
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Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) says Fox News host Tucker Carlson's sympathetic coverage this week of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack increases the risk for future violence because it creates a space "where people feel like they can do it again." |
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As Americans prepare to move their clocks forward by an hour on Sunday, lawmakers are continuing their bipartisan push to make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. The Sunshine Protection Act, which slipped through the Senate last year but never received a vote in the House, would establish later sunrises and sunsets all year long. |
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Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) denied that he has done anything "of criminal activity" on Friday in response to an allegation that he orchestrated a credit card skimming operation in 2017.
Santos told reporters he is "innocent" and that he cooperated with the Secret Service, FBI and "everybody" that asked for his help in the investigation, according to reports. |
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BY SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE AND BILL WEIHL |
OPINION | Much has changed in Congress over the past decade — but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is still the No. 1 political obstruction in the path of climate progress. There's now fresh evidence that the Chamber's actions reflect a persistent pattern of opposing good climate policies, and that the most powerful trade association in the country is actively working against the interests of many of the companies it's supposed to represent. |
OPINION | The Republican Party is heading towards its most important primary elections in a long time. The party's ideological confusion, its departure from mainstream beliefs on some social issues, and what we might call the Trumpian "paradox" pose major challenges for the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan in the era of wokeism and inflation at home and autocratic imperialism abroad. |
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DAVENPORT, Iowa — Suzy Barker, a native Iowan dressed in an orange-and-blue University of Florida hoodie, waited in a crowd of fellow Republicans on Friday morning to meet Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. |
Ogles, a newly elected member of Congress, has been the subject of news reports by a Nashville television station for having exaggerated his background. When Ogles was one of the holdouts to approving Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House speaker, he claimed he was "an economist" — a claim he has made several times — along with other embellishments. But NewsChannel 5 in Nashville found that he had taken only one course in economics, at a community college, and received a C. Ogles first entered college in 1990 and did not get a degree until 2007. |
BY BERBER JIN, KATHERINE BINDLEY AND ROLFE WINKLER |
Tech startups and other businesses raced to line up sources of cash for payroll and other immediate needs after their deposits in Silicon Valley Bank, long a linchpin of tech financing, were locked up when federal authorities took control Friday morning. |
BY GERRY DOYLE, ANURAG RAO AND VIJDAN MOHAMMAD KAWOOSA |
When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Ukraine's military fought back with the equipment it had on hand: Soviet-era aircraft, tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery, and a scattering of Western-supplied weapons such as Javelin anti-tank missiles. |
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