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Lara Trump, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee and daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, slammed former Maryland governor Larry Hogan on Sunday after he’d urged Americans to “respect” the verdict in the former president’s hush money trial.Hogan is running for a Senate seat in Maryland and represents one of the GOP’s best chances at…

CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of students protesting the war in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment.The disruption to the rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony was brief, with…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole.Speaking from his…

CNN  —  Chad Daybell was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of his first wife and two children of his second wife in a case Idaho prosecutors claim was fueled by power, sex, money and apocalyptic spiritual beliefs. Daybell could…

Justice Samuel Alito is flatly rejecting calls to recuse himself in two cases before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump because of two flags that flew outside his homes.In letters Wednesday to House and Senate Democrats, Alito said he had nothing to do with the flying of the flags, and that nothing about the incidents…

After six weeks and more than 20 witnesses, lawyers on both sides of Donald Trump's criminal trial are delivering their closing arguments Tuesday, making their final cases to the jury before deliberations over a verdict begin this week.Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass began his presentation in the afternoon, defending the credibility of the…

CNN  —  Before indicting Donald Trump last year for allegedly mishandling classified documents, federal prosecutors had to decide where to bring the charges: Washington, DC, or Florida.…

Image caption, A mobile home park in northern Texas smashed by the tornadoArticle informationAuthor, Holly HonderichRole, in Washington26 May 2024, 15:01 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoAt least 15 people have been killed as tornadoes and storms tore across central areas of the US, destroying homes and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.Seven people…

WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Biden reminded the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that their oath is to the Constitution, not any political party or president, delivering an implicit rebuke of former president Donald Trump.In his 22-minute commencement address, Biden did not mention Trump by name, but he made clear that…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Three people from an Oklahoma-based missionary group, including the daughter and son-in-law of a Missouri state representative, were shot and killed in a gang attack in Haiti as they were leaving an event at a church, the organization said Friday.State Rep. Ben Baker (R) and Missions in Haiti identified the victims as…