BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
Former President Trump endured a series of legal setbacks in recent days, underscoring the mounting risks he faces as his various legal cases intensify. Trump took the stand in New York this week, sworn in as a witness for unexpected testimony in his financial fraud case to respond to allegations he violated a gag order by making a comment about the judge's clerk while complaining about the ongoing trial. |
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Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Trump, must testify in her father's civil fraud trial in New York, a judge ruled Friday morning. The sweeping fraud case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), accuses Trump, the Trump Organization, Trump's adult sons and several executives of decades of fraud, suggesting they falsely inflated and deflated the value of their assets to receive lower taxes and better insurance coverage. Trump and his sons have denied any wrongdoing, calling the case a "witch hunt." |
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Former attorney Michael Cohen said he "felt nothing" when he came face-to-face with his former boss. Cohen, in an interview with CNN that aired Friday, suggested he was somewhat worried about how he would feel when he saw former President Trump while testifying in the New York civil fraud trial. |
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Republicans are discovering the downside of electing a previously obscure figure to be second in line to the presidency. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), largely unknown outside the Beltway — and not especially well-known within it — finally succeeded this week where three more prominent Republicans had failed. |
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BY ARIS FOLLEY AND ELLEN MITCHELL |
The bipartisan effort to aid Ukraine is facing an increasingly complicated road ahead in the coming weeks as House conservatives, now led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), set the stage for a thorny battle over the proposed funding. Johnson, in his first interview with Fox News on Thursday, said he told the White House the consensus of the GOP conference "is that we need to bifurcate" aid to Ukraine and Israel. |
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More than 60 House Republicans are putting pressure on newly-minted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to pass the Farm Bill. The omnibus appropriations bill expired at the end of September amid broader disarray in the chamber — casting the future of a wide swath of American food and nutrition programs into doubt. |
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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is criticizing newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for comments suggesting Johnson could support additional U.S. support for Ukraine. "To his great credit, the new Speaker has been a stalwart on the Ukraine issue — voting consistently against an endless conflict with no plan from the Biden administration," Vance said on X, formerly Twitter. "It's concerning to see him change his tune so quickly after being elevated to this role." |
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Robert Card, the suspected gunman in Wednesday's mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, has been found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities confirmed Friday. His death comes after a mass shooting — which occurred in two separate locations, a bowling alley and restaurant — left at least 18 dead and 13 injured. The incident led local and federal law enforcement on a multi-day statewide chase in search of Card. |
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BY LAUREN IRWIN AND SARAH FORTINSKY |
Eighteen people died on Wednesday night in the latest mass shooting that has rattled the local community in Maine and the nation. The shooting took place in two locations, Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, in Lewiston, both of which are temporarily closed. The victims' ages ranged from 14 to 76. While much still remains unknown, here is what we know so far about the victims. |
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BY DON AVIV AND JEREMY HUREWITZ |
OPINION | One extraordinary thing about the recent unrest in the Middle East is the realization of just how many self-proclaimed foreign policy experts there are out there. People who never post on social media about any other aspect of international affairs have apparently been hiding their knowledge about one of the most complicated and long-standing challenges the international community faces. |
BY REP. WILEY NICKEL (D-N.C.) |
OPINION | On Oct. 27, 2018, an act of unspeakable violence was committed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. An armed man, fueled by an irrational hatred of Jews, murdered 11 innocent people. This tragedy is a stark reminder of the need to confront and condemn antisemitism, which continues to manifest itself in ways both overt and subtle. The Tree of Life Synagogue massacre was the most violent attack against Jews in U.S. history. Five years later, on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel suffered the single deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust — this time, not at the hands of Nazis, but Hamas terrorists. |
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BY TIFFANY HSU AND STUART A. THOMPSON |
It was a gruesome image that shot rapidly around the internet: a charred body, described as a deceased child, that was apparently photographed in the opening days of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Some observers on social media quickly dismissed it as an "A.I.-generated fake" — created using artificial intelligence tools that can produce photorealistic images with a few clicks. |
BY CHAO DENG AND ARI FLANZRAICH |
After an intense wave of overnight strikes in the Gaza Strip, Israel says its ground forces continued to fight Hamas. Israel's military said its ground forces continued to fight inside Gaza early Saturday, after an intense wave of airstrikes and ground raids overnight targeted Hamas's extensive network of underground tunnels and killed leaders of the militant group involved in the planning of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. |
BY MICHAEL PHILLIS AND MIKE STOBBE |
About four decades ago, when the Environmental Protection Agency was first trying to figure out what to do about lead in drinking water, Ronnie Levin quantified its damage: Roughly 40 million people drank water with dangerous levels of lead, degrading the intelligence of thousands of kids. But new regulations were going to be costly and complicated. So, "instead of trying to deal with it substantively, they just tabled it," Levin, a former EPA researcher, said of some of her colleagues at the agency in the 1980s. |
BY CAROLINE KITCHENER AND DAN DIAMOND |
Amelia Huntsberger pulled up a list of the top administrators at her northern Idaho hospital, anxious last fall to confirm she could treat a patient with a potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication. But it was a Friday afternoon — and no one was picking up. |
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The Hill's Evening Report |
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