President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia on Thursday, his third campaign stop in Pennsylvania this week. Biden is set to speak at a recreation center in North Philadelphia around 12:45 p.m., though no details around his remarks have yet to be released. However, CBS News reports several siblings of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr….
Former President Donald Trump isn’t exactly known for having a sense of generosity. There’s one area in which he’s been extremely giving, however: providing President Joe Biden with a smorgasbord of material to dunk on him with on the campaign trail. “If Trump’s stock in Truth Social — his company — drops any lower, he might do better under…
Donald Trump will struggle to argue that the “hush money” he arranged to keep an alleged affair he had a secret was only to protect his marriage to Melania Trump, a legal expert believes. Andrew Weissmann, attorney and former FBI General Counsel, made the remarks while discussing how the jury in the falsifying business records trial will soon…
A judge who wants to “Stop Republicans” should not hear the case of America’s No. 1 Republican. The Democrat double-standard machine is in sixth gear, its default position when it concerns Donald J. Trump. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan slapped a gag order on the former president in his so-called hush-money case. Merchan accused Trump of making “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” comments about…
Jimmy Kimmel busted one of Donald Trump’s favorite myths about himself wide open on Tuesday night with a blunt fact-check about the former president’s rapidly declining wealth. “If you bought Trump stock two weeks ago ― and shame on you if you did ― you lost half your money,” Kimmel said. “But if you hold on just…
A nonprofit legal organization filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration Wednesday, alleging it has deleted federal employees’ emails in violation of existing statute. In a sweeping complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the America First Legal Foundation (AFL), the group headed by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, accused the Department of Health…
Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. A process server working for Trump’s lawyers…
AHouse hearing on Joe Biden’s potential impeachment descended into chaos after Republican chairman James Comer and Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin clashed repeatedly, each claiming the other ‘needed therapy’ Wednesday’s hearing formed part of the ongoing Republican inquiry into Mr Biden, which accuses the president of “corruption” through alleged family business dealings with foreign powers, as well as unsubstantiated allegations of bribery. Another line…
As the opening remarks for former President Donald Trump‘s criminal trial near, there has been heavy speculation about who might be called to the witness stand in Manhattan. The hush money payment case, in which Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, involves several high-profile figures, including adult film actress Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie…
President Joe Biden will call on his administration to ratchet up pressure on the Chinese steel industry as he brings his economic competition pitch to Pittsburgh, the heart of the American steel industry, on Wednesday, part of a three-day campaign trail swing through battleground Pennsylvania. The domestic steel industry remains critical to building everything from cars to appliances, to…
When President Joe Biden came to Madison Area Technical College last week, he was hoping to fire up students here about his new plans to cancel student loan debt for millions more Americans. “I will never stop [fighting] to deliver student debt relief,” Biden vowed in remarks laying out his latest proposals. “By freeing millions of Americans from this…
Google employees in two different offices protested the company’s work with the Israeli government on Tuesday, objecting to a billion-dollar contract it signed with the U.S. ally in 2021. The protestors organized sit-ins in two locations, one in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the other in one of New York City’s offices. The sit-in Sunnyvale office was…
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….