The first criminal trial of a former president has reached the end of week one, with plenty of drama along the way.
The jurors who will decide former President Trump's fate heard from former magazine executive David Pecker, Trump's longtime assistant Rhona Graff and a previously little-known figure from the banking world, Gary Farro. Here are the main takeaways from the first week of full trial proceedings. |
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Former President Trump's potential plan to exert more influence over the Federal Reserve is alarming experts and investors. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that a group of Trump allies is crafting ways to chip away at the independence of the central bank — a constant thorn in the side of the former president — should he be reelected in November. They also argue Trump would have the power to oust Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom he appointed to the job in 2017 and then berated through most of his term, despite legal protections from being fired without cause. |
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the U.S. Supreme Court should be moved to the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters, after some conservative justices suggested being open to arguments in favor of presidential immunity from prosecution for former President Trump. "They're politicians who are not even subject to popular election, unlike me," Raskin said during his Thursday appearance on MSNBC's "The ReidOut." |
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Pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses are getting very different responses from elected officials in red and blue states. Texas is seeing pushback after immediately responding to a peaceful demonstration with arrests, and Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has threatened expulsion for students who engage in unsanctioned activism, while New York has made clear the National Guard will not be called in as authorities negotiate with the flagship Columbia University encampment. |
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President Biden is sending billions of dollars to back Israel's war against Hamas, even as the destruction of Gaza and deaths of Palestinians fuels growing protest on college campuses.
The $26 billion in new aid to Israel, passed overwhelmingly in Congress and signed into law by Biden this week, also comes amid a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and a looming Israeli invasion of the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian civilians are sheltering. |
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| The White House heavily criticized comments that resurfaced this week from a student leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. "These dangerous, appalling statements turn the stomach and should serve as a wakeup call. It is hideous to advocate for the murder of Jews," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement Friday. |
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Former President Trump came out swinging against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday, despite weeks of amping him up over his likely November rival, President Biden. In a series of post on Truth Social, Trump suggested Kennedy was put in the race to help Biden win reelection and claimed his running mate, Nichole Shanahan, is not a serious candidate. |
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President Biden indicated Friday that he's willing to debate former President Trump ahead of November's election. "I am, somewhere. I don't know when, but I am happy to debate him," Biden told Howard Stern on his radio show when asked about the prospect. |
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| BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
Abortion politics is threatening to roil Florida Republicans' chances in competitive state Legislature races amid widespread voter backlash.
The Florida Supreme Court upheld a 15-week limit on abortion earlier this month, paving the way for a six-week ban passed by the state Legislature last year to soon go into effect.
Now, a handful of vulnerable Republican state lawmakers who supported the six-week restrictions could be imperiled in November as anger over the ban grows. |
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| BY ELIZABETH GRACE MATTHEW |
OPINION | Last week, President Biden's Department of Education released new guidelines for Title IX, the 1972 civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program — elementary, secondary or post-secondary — that receives federal money of any kind. "Sex" is now redefined as "gender identity," thereby protecting the rights of "trans women" (i.e., males who identify as women) to enter female-only spaces and join female-only organizations. Meanwhile, accusations of sexual assault against male students or faculty members can now be adjudicated by campus bureaucrats with no regard to due process protections for the accused. |
BY LIAM SIGAUD AND VITOR MELO |
OPINION | America's rural health crisis has gone from bad to worse. More than 90 percent of rural counties face a shortage of primary care physicians, forcing many rural residents to travel for hours even for basic procedures. Over the last two decades, nearly 200 rural hospitals have shut down. Hundreds more hospitals teeter on the brink of bankruptcy, threatening to deprive millions more people of vital nearby care. |
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The Republican Party sent a letter to the Secret Service on Friday urging the police agency to keep protesters farther away from the venue for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. |
BY ARUNA VISWANTHA, DUSTIN VOLZ, WARREN P. STROBEL, ALAN CULLISON, AND THOMAS GROVE |
WASHINGTON—Alexei Navalny's February death in an Arctic penal colony prompted a new wave of sanctions targeting Russia's economy, upended delicate negotiations to exchange prisoners between Russia and the West, and left Russia's limited opposition in disarray. |
BY SAM MAGDY AND DAVID RISING |
CAIRO (AP) — Hamas said Saturday it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a possible Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah. |
BY DAVID L. STERN AND KOSTIANTYN KHUDOV |
KYIV — City authorities on Friday urgently evacuated two hospitals, including a children's hospital, after the head of the Belarusian KGB claimed "terrorists" were being treated there — an accusation that Ukrainian officials called "a lie and provocation," but which set off fears of an imminent attack. |
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