Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection on Sunday, cementing his grip on power. First elected in 2003 as prime minister, Erdogan has reshaped Turkey from its secular moderate democratic system to a more religious and increasingly authoritarian power structure. Erdogan’s rule has complicated Turkey’s relationships with Western leaders—he is currently impeding Sweden’s entrance into […]
Author: Russ Choma
Here’s What’s in the McCarthy-Biden Deal on the Debt Ceiling
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this weekend that they had reached a deal in principle to raise the debt ceiling, but as of Sunday afternoon, lawmakers were still waiting to see the text of the deal to be voted on. The agreement reportedly includes a debt ceiling extension through 2025—sparing the […]
Trump’s Tirades Couldn’t Save Ken Paxton From Impeachment
The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to impeach Republican Texas attorney general Ken Paxton. Paxton, a conservative star who has made a name as a culture warrior and MAGA firebrand, was impeached on multiple articles including bribery and abuse of public trust. The impeachment vote went through easily—121 to 23—with the […]
Donald Trump Can’t Keep His Mouth Shut. It’s Getting Him in Trouble.
Donald Trump was summoned to appear Tuesday before a Manhattan judge, who warned the former president that he could face additional legal trouble if publicly rants about the evidence against him in his criminal fraud case—a reccurring problem during the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault lawsuit earlier this month. Trump’s virtual appearance was brief, and […]
Donald Trump Sexually Abused and Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds
A federal jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleged that Trump raped her in 1996 in the dressing room of a New York City department store. The jury found that Carroll’s attorneys had failed to prove the rape allegation, […]
Jury to Decide Whether Donald Trump Raped and Defamed E. Jean Carroll
Attorneys for both sides in Donald Trump’s sexual assault and defamation civil lawsuit made their final pleas to the jury Monday, with rival attorneys for Trump and E. Jean Carroll, the writer who says Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in 1996, talking for hours, trying to sum up their cases. Carroll’s […]
Krysten Sinema Says She Won’t Become a Republican
Arizona senator Krysten Sinema, who this winter changed her party affiliation to independent , says she may be done with the Democrats, but she’s not about to become a Republican either. Speaking on CBS’ Face The Nation on Sunday morning, Sinema described both parties as “broken.” Sinema began her career in politics as a left-wing […]
Deadline Looms for Donald Trump to Decide Whether to Testify in E. Jean Carroll Rape Case
Lawyers will make their closing arguments on Monday in the lawsuit against former president Donald Trump accusing him of sexual assault and defamation. Writer E. Jean Carroll alleges that in 1996 Trump raped her in a dressing room at the high-end Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Carroll first told her story publicly in 2019, […]
Nine Dead in Mass Shooting at Texas Mall
A gunman murdered at least eight people on Saturday afternoon, opening fire at an outdoor mall in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The gunman was killed by a police officer on the scene. The shooting, which is to date the second-deadliest mass-shooting of the year, happened mid-afternoon at the outlet mall where large crowds of […]
Judge Rejects Trump’s Request for a Mistrial in E. Jean Carroll Case
The judge in Donald Trump’s civil rape and defamation trial denied a request by the former president’s attorney to grant a mistrial in the case on Monday. The motion, which was filed Sunday night by Trump attorney Joe Tacopina, amounted to a laundry list of complaints that Judge Lewis Kaplan hadn’t been fair to Tacopina, […]