Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but US District Judge Aileen Cannon … Read more
For the first two decades of the 21st century, many consumer products on America’s store shelves got less expensive. A wave of imports from China and other emerging economies helped push down the cost of video games, T-shirts, dining tables, home appliances and more. Those imports drove some American factories out of business, and they … Read more
A New York appeals court on May 14 upheld the gag order in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, finding that the judge “properly determined” that Mr. Trump’s public statements “posed a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony of witnesses and potential witnesses in this case as well.” Mr. Trump had asked the state’s intermediate … Read more
Former President Donald Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry uncovered by The New York Times and ProPublica. Losing a yearslong audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million. The 92-story, glass-sheathed skyscraper along … Read more
Nikki Haley was South Carolina’s governor from 2011 to 2017 and served under the Trump administration as the country’s ambassador. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is under active consideration by Donald Trump’s campaign to be his running mate, news site Axios reported on May 11, citing unidentified people familiar … Read more
The judge overseeing Donald Trump‘s criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president’s estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to stop making public statements about the case before his expected testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, … Read more
The criminal trial of Donald Trump on Friday will feature the continued cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, David Pecker, as defence lawyers try to discredit the idea that there had been a plot to protect Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.On Thursday, Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, described his own involvement in the … Read more
New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no crime. Jurors in the historic … Read more
Former US president Donald Trump is no longer one of the richest 500 in the world. His name is now missing from the list of Bloomberg Billionaires Index which daily ranks the world’s 500 richest people. Trump’s name got removed from the list after the stock price of his social media company, Truth Social, plummeted … Read more
A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump‘s latest bid to delay his hush money criminal trial while he fights a gag order, clearing the way for jury selection to begin next week. Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling is yet another loss for Trump, who has tried repeatedly to get the trial … Read more