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'Remarkably poor judgment': Wall Street Journal takes a critical eye to start of Trump's 2nd term

Jan. 29, 2025 14:45 PM EST

Amid all of the enthusiasm in conservative media for President Donald Trump's first week back in office, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has notably applied some brakes. The Journal has editorialized against Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, called presidential...

Ailing Harvey Weinstein begs to have #MeToo retrial sooner after judge sets April 15 date

Jan. 29, 2025 13:59 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein begged a judge Wednesday to hold his #MeToo retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” with cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex. The disgraced...

Kash Patel’s podcast persona: Staunch Trump defender and fierce critic of the FBI he could soon lead

Jan. 28, 2025 16:18 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI agents who searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate found boxes of classified documents in his office and storage room and retrieved sensitive government secrets about nuclear systems and weapons capabilities. One person unmoved by the gravity of the...

Ramaswamy's expected run for Ohio governor would test experienced Republicans and tradition

Jan. 26, 2025 11:54 AM EST

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fresh off of his unexpected departure from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy has set his sights on becoming governor of his home state. The 39-year-old biotech entrepreneur who made an unsuccessful bid for the 2024...

Steve Bannon's border wall trial delayed until March 4 as new lawyers plot aggressive defense

Jan. 22, 2025 16:52 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon’s trial on charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S. southern border will start a week later than scheduled, a judge said Wednesday, after the conservative rabble-rouser hired new lawyers to pursue an aggressive defense strategy. ...

The Latest: Trump administration directs all federal DEI staff to be put on leave

Jan. 21, 2025 22:08 PM EST

Donald Trump began his presidency with a dizzying display of force, signing a blizzard of executive orders that signaled his desire to remake American institutions while also pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Here's the latest: ...

Elon Musk's prominence during inauguration ceremonies stamps tech titan's place in Trump's orbit

Jan. 20, 2025 17:20 PM EST

Getting humans to Mars has long been an obsession for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. On Monday, that project got a full endorsement from the newly sworn-in president. During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised he would “pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Jan. 17, 2025 22:23 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.; Steve Bannon, former strategist for President-elect Donald Trump; Jonathan Dekel-Chen and Gillian Kaye, parents of Israeli American held hostage by Hamas. ___ ...

Biden sets record by commuting sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges

Jan. 17, 2025 17:42 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh. The recent...

Self-exiled Chinese businessman's chief of staff gets 10 years in prison in $1B fraud

Jan. 06, 2025 19:03 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief of staff for a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for her role in the $1 billion fraud case. Yvette Wang, 45, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court less than two years after her arrest in...