Trump makes history as first ex-US president to be convicited of crime, faces four years in jail
Donald Trump, 77, was found guilty of falsifying his New York-based real estate company’s books to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she alleges she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Date with fate: For Trump’s false records charges prison is rare, but not unprecedented
In deciding any sentence, Merchan may weigh the underlying seriousness of the charges due to their ties to the 2016 election, as well as Trump’s decision to go to trial rather than accept responsibility by pleading guilty.
US assails Putin’s misinformation and hints at arming Ukraine to strike inside Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and support for Ukrainian attempts to repel it are a major focus of the NATO foreign minister meetings on Thursday and Friday – the alliance’s last major diplomatic gathering before a leaders’ summit in Washington in July to mark the 75th anniversary of its founding.
Biden’s ‘retail politician’ style of campaign taps friend groups, social media with erratic results
Biden, 81, has spent decades honing his ‘retail’ politician style of wooing voters. Big, thundering speeches have never been his style but he lights up when meeting people one-on-one, thumping shoulders, hugging strangers and FaceTiming people’s moms.
Biden administrations sticks with Israel despite Rafah killings that have been condemned worldwide
Recent deaths in Rafah have tested President Joe Biden’s promise to withhold weapons from Israel if the US ally made a major invasion of Rafah that put displaced persons there at risk.
Not again: Scientists accuse US of creating deadlier, more contagious flu virus that can jump from birds to humans…like Covid
Scientist Brian Hooker told Iversen the CDC’s Influenza Division infected ferrets with the currently circulating H5N1 avian influenza strain, then infected human lung cells, to make the virus more infective to humans.
Their justification, he said, is to be prepared for a zoonotic outbreak, where a virus from a bird or other animal jumps to humans.
Accustomed to friendly crowds, Trump faces hostile audience at Libertarian convention
Libertarians, who prioritise small government and individual freedoms, are often sceptical of the former president, and his invitation to address the convention has divided the party. Trump tried to make light of that by referring to the four criminal indictments against him and joking, “If I wasn’t a Libertarian before, I sure as hell am a Libertarian now.”
Black Lives Matter: Four years after George Floyd murder, US police reforms drag on in Congress
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which was initially introduced in 2021 to stop aggressive law enforcement tactics, misconduct and racial bias, has faced repeated roadblocks in Congress and has yet to move forward.
South Dakota bans pronouns, ethnic tags by universities as it grapples with violent history of conflict with tribes
Policies targeting gender pronoun use have focused mainly on K-12 students, although some small religious colleges have also restricted pronoun use. Houghton University in western New York fired two dorm directors last year after they refused to remove gender pronouns from their work email signatures.
Trump’s allegations that agents in classified documents probe plotted to assassinate him irks prosecutors
Prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team said in court papers late on Friday that Trump’s statements falsely suggesting that federal agents “were complicit in a plot to assassinate him” expose law enforcement – some of whom prosecutors noted will be called as witnesses at his trial – “to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.”
