The latest case against former President Trump will stress-test American democracy itself, almost three years after the Capitol riot of Jan. 6 2021. In some ways, the nation is even more disunited now than it was then. There was relative unanimity in the hours after Jan. 6 that something disgraceful had transpired — and even many Republican politicians lined up to condemn Trump for his behavior. Now, many elected Republicans have backed Trump, condemning what they consider to be the "weaponization" of the justice system against him. |
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Fox News is furiously trying to talk former President Trump into showing up for the first GOP presidential debate later this month in August. The effort was reflected throughout the network's programming on Thursday, where several figures made the argument on air for why Trump shouldn't skip the debate on Fox. |
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The latest federal indictment against former President Trump has raised fresh speculation over whether he will participate in the first GOP presidential primary debate later this month. The former president and his team have signaled that he's leaning toward not participating in the event given his frontrunner status. |
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House Republicans flocked to former President Trump's side following his indictment on charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, criticizing it as politically motivated and accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of malpractice. But some of their responses were notably different from what they were saying privately and publicly around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — which marked the culmination of Trump's attempts to stop the certification of Joe Biden's win and keep himself in power. |
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The federal judge presiding over former President Trump's election fraud case has ordered his attorneys to respond to prosecutors' request for a protective order by Monday, according to a court filing Saturday. Judge Tanya Chutkan gave Trump's attorneys a single business day to respond to special counsel Jack Smith's request for a strict protective order which would prevent Trump from discussing case evidence in public. |
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis on Friday branded former President Trump's habit of insulting and belittling his political rivals as "juvenile" and "phony." "These insults are so phony," DeSantis said at WMUR's "Conversation with the Candidate" event on Friday. "These insults are juvenile. That is not the way a great nation should be conducting itself, that is not the way the President of the United States should be conducting himself. |
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) team slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) counterproposal for a debate as a "joke" on Saturday, claiming that the Republican presidential candidate's suggested rules are meant to "hide his insecurity and ineptitude." "What a joke," Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click said in a statement, according to Politico. "Desantis' counterproposal is littered with crutches to hide his insecurity and ineptitude — swapping opening statements with a hype video, cutting down the time he needs to be on stage, adding cheat notes and a cheering section." |
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Dangerous confrontations between Russia and the United States in the skies over Syria point to an escalating shadow war as Russian President Vladimir Putin suffers more losses in Ukraine. Experts warn that Putin is looking to strike against the U.S. for supporting Ukraine in its defensive war, with Moscow focusing its retaliatory actions in the Middle East to avoid a wider conflict with NATO in Europe. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND AL WEAVER |
The Senate's unprecedented lack of action on President Biden's nominees has left the administration at a personnel standstill, with a Cabinet official's confirmation process at a dead end and military leadership unable to move forward with promotions. Almost six months after the president nominated Julie Su to head the Department of Labor, the Senate has made little progress getting her across the finish line because moderate Democrats do not support her. Meanwhile, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is holding up hundreds of military advancements in protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy. |
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OPINION | The latest federal indictment of former President Donald Trump was handed down this week with all of the authority of papal infallibility. Pundits lined up to proclaim that case as the greatest prosecution in history. |
OPINION | For the last seven years, Donald Trump has dramatically lowered the standard for public discourse in the United States. The question is whether the two political parties must lower their standards, too. Politics is, and always has been, a blood sport. But even cage fighting has a rule against low blows. |
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Huntsville, a city with a proud history of aerospace innovation, was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics. |
BY SAM GOLDFARB AND MATT GROSSMAN |
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note has surged close to its highest level in more than a decade, lifted by new bets that a strong economy could support years of higher interest rates. |
Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday, as Kyiv's military exchanged fire with Russian occupation forces. |
BY ISAAC ARNSDORF AND JOSH DAWSEY |
Some of Trump's closest advisers are referenced in charges against him, potentially putting them in a bind as cases advance |
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