President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. When the Democratic president wasn’t trying to blunt the populist appeal of his Republican…
Seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush-money case were selected quickly Tuesday afternoon after a sluggish start, a pace that could clear the way for trial testimony to begin next week. Three women and four men have been chosen so far for a jury that will be the first ever to decide criminal charges against a…
As former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial gets underway in New York this week, the CBS News Confirmed team has been tracking potentially misleading narratives that have gained some traction on social media. Here are three of the viral claims that have emerged during the trial so far and what to know about them. …
House Speaker Mike Johnson is drawing closer to peril after another conservative hardliner publicly came out in support of forcibly removing the Republican leader from his job. Shortly after unveiling a plan to deliver foreign aid to key U.S. allies, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., forcibly came out against the House speaker’s proposal in a closed-door conference meeting on…
Joe Biden loves nothing more than peppering speeches with references to his blue-collar roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, his reelection campaign is taking him right to the heart of that political mythology with a hometown visit. The 81-year-old US president will reach out to working- and middle-class voters with an address in the former…
In documents submitted late Monday night, lawyers for the former president said the cash sum Trump posted to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from seizing his assets was secured by Knight Specialty Insurance Company (KSIC) and is collateralized by Trump’s Charles Schwab account, which contains just over $175 million in cash. Trump was…
Day two of jury selection in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial began Tuesday, with the former president giving reporters a preview of his potential defense: the hush-money payment actually was a legal expense — as far as he knew. And “some accountant” at Trump Organization handled the paperwork he’s now on trial for. “I was paying a lawyer and…
President Biden will travel to Scranton, Pa., on Tuesday to hit former President Trump over his tax policies as he kicks off his Pennsylvania campaign swing. Biden will start the three-day swing in his hometown of Scranton to outline what he argues is Trump’s three-point tax plan if he wins another term in the White House….
A former Hunter Biden business associate told Fox News Digital that Casey Owens was ‘definitely a resource’ to the younger Biden in Treasury role Then-Vice President Biden boasted about his Harvard-educated niece previously studying Chinese and living in China while delivering a speech in 2011 touting “a rising China” being “a positive, positive development, not…
After New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan told former President Trump he would face arrest if he did not attend daily court sessions in his hush money trial, Fox Nation host Piers Morgan said the presumptive GOP presidential candidate should attend his son Barron’s graduation, and challenge the judge’s warning. “Donald Trump should go to his…
Legal counsel for Ohio’s top election official, a Republican, sent a letter on Monday signaling that the secretary of state’s office can’t accept a proposed workaround to certifying President Joe Biden on the state’s November general election ballot amid a conflict with the Democratic National Committee over convention scheduling and confirming Biden as the party’s official nominee….
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham explains why President Biden isn’t “credible” as a global leader in her monologue on “The Ingraham Angle.” LAURA INGRAHAM:“Death to Israel. Death to America.” Now, these are the voters, by the way, that Joe Biden was desperately trying to court over the weekend by telling Israel to bring down the temperature after…
While the rest of the world can’t peel their eyes away as Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial gets under way in New York, the former president himself appears to be far less enthralled by the proceedings. Jury selection got under way on Monday in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president, as he faces 34 felony…
As former President Donald Trump entered the courtroom on Monday for the first day of jury selection in his felony hush-money trial, he made a statement but took no questions—especially not the one about his current wife. “Where’s Melania?” a voice called out. Trump’s third wife did not show up at Manhattan Criminal Court this morning, and, if…
LIVE – Updated at 17:00 Donald Trump is making history once again as the first American president to ever stand trial on criminal charges. The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in a bid to conceal a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, in…
Ahead of Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial on Monday, CNN legal analyst Jeremy Saland said prosecutors would “absolutely” like to see the former president take the stand. Trump is set to become the first former president in United States history to stand trial in a criminal case on Monday. Following an investigation by Manhattan District…
Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed on social media after a speech in Pennsylvania where he made a series of confusing statements about the Battle of Gettysburg. What Happened: Trump’s speech at a rally in Schnecksville, Pa., on Saturday, was widely criticized on social media. The former president’s comments about the historic battle were described as “nonsensical” by some…
Donald Trump’s trial in New York will be a “paper case” relying on business records between the former president and his ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to a legal expert. Joyce Vance, a former federal prosecutor and legal analyst who is a frequent critic of the former president, made the remarks while previewing Trump’s historic falsifying business…
The New York attorney general may start seizing Donald Trump‘s assets if he fails to post a $175 million bond on Monday. Trump posted a $175 million bond on April 1 to prevent Attorney General Letitia James from seizing his assets while he appeals a civil fraud judgment against him, but this was rejected by a…
Melania and Donald Trump’s marriage has long been thought to be an enigma of sorts in the public eye. While the couple has been together since the late 1990s, many have speculated that their relationship is built less on love and more on convenience. From their large age difference (Melania is more than 20 years…