Four months after a civil trial jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that still more of the ex-president’s comments about her were libelous. The decision means tha…
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U.S. regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean
The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana.
Chinese ex-official’s wife says alleged repatriation pressure turned her life in US ‘upside-down’
A former Chinese official and his wife had left their homeland and kept their U.S. address private. Yet eight years later, two strangers were banging on their New Jersey front door and twisting the handle, the wife testified in a U.S. court Monday.
Judge raps Trump for ‘inappropriate’ post on rape suit trial
Donald Trump made an “entirely inappropriate” online statement about the trial of a rape lawsuit against him, the judge said Wednesday, warning the former president’s lawyers that he could bring more legal problems upon himself.
Trump indictment: What will the arrest process look like?
Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. Former President Donald Trump is expected to become one of them next week.
Maine man arrested on attempted murder charges in NYC machete attack
The man allegedly injured two police officers in an attack at Times Square on New Year’s Eve
2 plead guilty in scheme to sell Ashley Biden’s diary
Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday.
NYC can’t let noncitizens vote in city elections, judge rules
New York City can’t let noncitizens vote for mayor and other city officials, a judge ruled Monday, siding with Republicans who challenged the measure as unconstitutional.
Court hears arguments in Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) – Lawyers for former President Donald Trump appeared before a federal appeals court Friday to argue that the U.S. government should take his place as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who accused him of rape. T…
Donald Trump aims to countersue Summer Zervos, ‘Apprentice’ sexual assault accuser
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump wants to countersue a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of defaming her when he denied her sexual assault allegations. Saying that Trump is being harassed to keep him from speaking…