Ex-Prosecutor: Looks Like Trump Ran ‘Fraud Business With A Sideline In Real Estate’
A former state prosecutor said there “really isn’t a whole lot of room” for Trump to wiggle his way out of the New York civil suit against him.
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Telepathy? Trump Claims He Could Declassify Documents ‘By Thinking About It’
The former president makes a wild new claim about the extent of his powers while in office.
Ukraine update: ‘Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations charter’
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden stepped to the podium at the United Nations General Council and took both Russia and Vladimir Putin to task. Biden pulled no punches in going after Russia for its “brutal, needless war” in Ukraine, for overt threats of nuclear war, and for violating the most basic principles of the United Nations.
What started with the murder of one woman has turned into protests that threaten to overturn Iran
On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from northern Iran, was in Tehran to visit with her brother. She was walking with him near the entrance to a metro station when members of a “guidance patrol,” also known as the morality police, surrounded them. The religious police complained that Amini wasn’t properly wearing her hijab—a head covering women are required to wear under Iran’s strict religious dress codes.
First hearing with ‘special master’ Judge Dearie turns into special disaster for Trump’s legal team
Judge Raymond Dearie conducted his first hearing as “special master” over the documents the FBI removed from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, and it was not a good day for Donald Trump’s legal team.
The party of stolen valor just dropped a new lead character. Meet Ohio House candidate J.R. Majewski
J.R. Majewski, who is running against Democrat Marcy Kaptur for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, has been campaigning on a hero’s story—one in which after Sept. 11, he was deployed to Afghanistan and suffered under “tough” conditions. The only problem is, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press (AP), Majewski never stepped foot in Afghanistan.
Trump’s overinflated real estate empire, massive fraud end in civil suit from New York AG James
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a $250 million civil lawsuit against Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr., as well as two Trump executives, Allan Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, for “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentations,” and seeks to bar any of the Trumps from operating a company in the state of New York ever, or from engaging in any commercial real estate transactions in the state for five years.
Michael Cohen: New York’s Trump Lawsuit News Makes All His ‘Pain And Anger’ Worth It
New York Attorney General Letitia James noted the investigation started only after Trump’s former personal attorney shed light on the financial misconduct.
Ginni Thomas Agrees To An Interview With Jan. 6 House Committee
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly lobbied lawmakers in Wisconsin and Arizona to overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump Docs Probe: Court Lifts Hold On Mar-a-Lago Records
A federal appeals court has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
The Next Shock Wave in Puerto Rico
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.For the forthcoming November issue of The Atlantic, the author Jaquira Díaz wrote about the ongoing impact of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico.
Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. Several days after President Joe Biden declared that “the pandemic is over,” Anthony Fauci weighed in on the president’s controversial remarks during an interview at The Atlantic Festival, an annual live event in Washington, D.C.
The Constitutional Case Against a Federal Abortion Ban
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This Is Neptune?
Did you know that Neptune has rings?It’s true. The planet we’re now told is the farthest from us has a set of narrow bands made of dust. Planetary scientists know this, as do hard-core astronomy fans, probably. But for those of us who have certain textbook images of the solar system in our mind, the knowledge that Neptune is a ringed planet might come as a surprise.
It’s Just Fraud All the Way Down
At times in his prepresidential life, Donald Trump represented himself as a real-estate mogul, a television star, a business visionary, and a salesman par excellence. But according to a complaint filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Trump Organization was actually just a massive fraud with incidental sidelines in property development, merchandising, and entertainment.The basic scheme alleged in the complaint is straightforward.
Galvanized by Dobbs, more doctors are distributing abortion pills by mail
A new president could reverse an FDA rule change that made it possible.
“The American Dream & Other Fairy Tales”: Disney Heiress Tackles Inequality, Family Legacy in New Film
Half of full-time workers in the United States cannot make ends meet. Thousands of them work for the Walt Disney Company. One of them reached out to the dissident heiress Abigail Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney built what is often called the “happiest place on Earth.” Now she’s made a documentary about how the family business exploits its workers: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
Adnan Syed Freed After 23 Years in Prison. Same Flaws in His Murder Case Plague Thousands of Others
Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial,” was released Monday after a Maryland judge vacated his murder conviction due to evidence withheld during the trial that might have helped exonerate him. Syed spent 23 years in prison after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee as a teenager in 1999. He has not been declared legally innocent, and prosecutors could decide to retry the case, but that appears unlikely.
COVID, Climate & Conflict Fueling Global Hunger as World Leaders at U.N. Urged to Take Action
An open letter signed by over 200 humanitarian groups calls on world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to urgently take action on world hunger, citing that one person dies of hunger every four seconds. We speak with Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, one of the letter’s signatories, who just returned from Somaliland, where a famine may be declared as early as next month.
The Fed is declaring war on inflation. It could lead straight to recession.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation.
Biden declared the pandemic ‘over.’ His Covid team says it’s more complicated.
Biden’s “60 Minutes” remarks surprised his own health advisers, and came as the administration seeks more Covid response funding.
Fauci: “We are not where we need to be if we are going to quote ‘live with the virus’”
Fauci’s comments follow remarks from President Joe Biden, who declared “the pandemic is over” during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday evening.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signs abortion ban into law
The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and incest victims until eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children.
Biden’s monkeypox adviser is trying manage a virus while dodging talk of Satanism
Demetre Daskalakis has become caricatured as a tattooed oddity among buttoned-up bureaucrats. The truth is far different. “I wish I were that interesting,” he says.
U.S. inflation falls for 2nd straight month on lower gas costs
Despite the signs of moderating price increases, inflation remains far higher than many Americans have ever experienced and is keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve.
G-7 announces price cap deal on Russian oil in win for Yellen
The plan touted by the U.S. Treasury secretary aims to diminish the Kremlin’s revenue while preserving the global oil supply.
Powell’s ‘dangerous’ words risk resistance from lawmakers
“Jerome Powell’s rhetoric is dangerous, and a Fed-manufactured recession is not inevitable — it’s a policy choice,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.
‘We’re in a housing recession’
The housing market has cooled so much as the Fed withdraws its support for the economy that some analysts say it may be in a slump.
Powell blows away doubts about his war on high inflation
In a closely watched speech, the Fed chair foreshadowed further interest rate increases and warned that rates might need to stay high for some time to kill price spikes.
“Racism Is as British as a Cup of Tea”: Kehinde Andrews Says Many Black Britons Don’t Mourn the Queen
As Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, “I Don’t Mourn the Queen.