Scandal-plagued New York Republican Congressmember George Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges at a courthouse on Long Island Wednesday. He is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, lying on federal disclosure forms, and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary.
Under a law passed last year in New York that allows sexual abuse survivors to sue their abusers in civil court even after the criminal statute of limitations has passed, a jury has found former President Donald Trump to be liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll at a department store in the 1990s. After just three hours of deliberations, the jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million. Following the ruling, Trump appeared in a televised town hall on CNN, where he mocked E.
The intra-party debate comes as the Biden administration and Democrats at the national level grapple with how to expand health care access for noncitizens.
The state of emergency is over and that will affect everything from from free vaccines and tests to food assistance programs.
Gov. Roy Cooper has vowed to veto the bill, but his veto could be overriden.
In an unhinged town hall, Donald Trump repeated familiar lies and tested new talking points.
Donald Trump and George Santos are facing justice. But basic decency is still under attack.
Over and over again, genetic mutations are preventing a protein once thought to be key to the virus’s success from being expressed.
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Eleven people were arrested at a protest in New York on Monday demanding justice for Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man who was choked to death on a subway car last week by another passenger. Neely was well known as a dancer and Michael Jackson impersonator. He was crying out that he was hungry, when he was fatally attacked on the train by a 24-year-old former marine named Daniel Penny, who was questioned by police but released without charges.
The controversial congressman’s hometown newspaper illustrated the news of his arrest with a blistering front page image.
The former New Jersey governor slammed the ex-president after the CNN town hall debacle.
“You’re the chairman, I’m just a lowly Democratic freshman,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.).
The former president hasn’t changed much since the last time we did this.
The House minority leader told MSNBC what the MAGA wing really believes.
Independent advisers concluded that HRA Pharma’s application indicated that the benefit of allowing Opill to be sold without a prescription outweighed the risk of consumers taking it improperly.
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
As President Biden ends Title 42, the Trump-era policy blocking asylum seekers, and plans stronger enforcement measures on the border, we speak with Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora, whose best-selling memoir, Solito, details his odyssey as a 9-year-old child traveling unaccompanied through Guatemala, Mexico and eventually through the Sonoran Desert, before he makes it to Arizona and reunites with his parents with the aid of other migrants.
A jury on Tuesday found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. We speak with one of the people who testified at trial: Jessica Leeds, a retired businesswoman who says Trump sexually assaulted her on an airplane in the 1980s — one of dozens of women who has accused him of sexual misconduct over the years.
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday sided with the writer E. Jean Carroll in her civil case against former President Donald Trump, finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and awarding her $5 million in damages. The jury did not find that Trump had raped her, as she has claimed. Trump says he will appeal. The closely watched trial stemmed from an incident in the 1990s, when Carroll says Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in New York.
The agency is slated to make a decision on approval of the daily hormonal pill by this summer.
Gov. Roy Cooper has vowed to veto the bill, but his veto could be overriden.
Rochelle Walensky acknowledged the agency did not meet expectations during the pandemic and launched a reorganization.
Donald Trump has been found liable by a jury for an act of sexual violence perpetrated nearly 30 years ago.
A lot went wrong with COVID, but the responses that worked could help guide us in future pandemics.
Drivers will have to share access to public chargers. That could get ugly.
