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 Mark Peterson/Getty ImagesAs if Donald Trump wanted to actually spend more time in court, his campaign is now threatening to sue the makers of The Apprentice after it was reported the biopic, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, features a scene in which Sebastian Stan's Trump violently rapes his first wife.
"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers," campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Daily Beast on Monday night. "This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked."
Cheung went on to blast the film as "election interference by Hollywood elites" on the same level as the criminal charges brought against Trump in four separate cases over the last year, which Cheung termed "the illegal Biden Trials."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 David Dee Delgado/ReutersHad he still been a daytime anchor on MSNBC, Carlos Watson would no doubt have spent Monday marshaling reports about the Trump hush-money trial in downtown Manhattan.
Instead, Watson was on the other side of the East River, sitting as a defendant in Brooklyn Federal Court, awaiting the start of jury selection in a multi-million dollar fraud case that could leave him facing as many as 37 years in prison.
A 54-year-old Harvard and Stanford educated superachiever, Watson had gone from anchoring a morning news show in 2009 to co-founding the digital startup Ozy Media in 2013, when it seemed there a fabulous fortune to be made online with news articles, newsletters and podcasts. He also produced television, including The Carlos Watson Show, on which he interviewed notables ranging from Bill Gates to Scarlett Johansson to NASCAR'S Danica Patrick.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Victims and others affected by the infected blood scandal are waiting to hear how much they will be paid.
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Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial continues in New York. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, along with other top officials. Today on "Post Reports," the reactions to his death from within Iran and worldwide - and what it will mean for the country's leadership.
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After sending reporters out of the courtroom, Justice Juan Merchan threatened to hold Robert Costello in contempt if the witness continued to stare at him.
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The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for five senior officials, including Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's Yahya Sinwar.
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The report finds the infected blood scandal could and should have been largely avoided.
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Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions.
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Trump's lawyers landed a significant credibility blow when Michael Cohen admitted he "stole" from the Trump Organization. But at what cost?
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three leaders of Hamas: Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. The charges against Netanyahu and Gallant include starvation of civilians, extermination, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, among other crimes. The charges against the Hamas leaders include extermination, murder, taking hostages, rape, among other crimes. "It places Israel's leaders of this genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Strip in the dock," says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani, who explains why this will be "very significant" for Israel's allies and signatories to the ICC. "They now have to make a choice between Israeli impunity and obligations under the Rome Statute."
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The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.
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The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and Planned Parenthood Votes are joining together to help their preferred candidates for 2024 as state-level party battles gain steam.
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More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the infected blood scandal - and 3,000 have since died.
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 Stephen J. Cohen/Getty ImagesBob Ritchie, a.k.a Kid Rock, will readily admit he lives in his own world—"and it's great," as he insisted to a Rolling Stone journalist in a recent interview. The rules of that world, though, apparently dictate that Ritchie can do as he likes, including get "belligerently" drunk in front of someone with a tape recorder.
After switching from white wine to bourbon and Coke midway through a sitdown with Rolling Stone, the MAGA-loving rocker began "shouting" at the journalist, David Peisner, who reports that his subject proceeded to pull out a handgun and wave it in his face.
"And I got a fucking goddamn gun right here if I need it!" he writes Ritchie yelled. "I got them everywhere!" To be fair, the preceding two hours of the interview were also pockmarked with bizarre exchanges, including a moment where Ritchie railed against immigrants before crying out "9/11!"
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The prosecution rested its case. And Trump rested his eyes.
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 Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDonald Trump followed up his endorsement by the National Rifle Association on Saturday with a speech stoking fears of the government under Joe Biden "coming for your guns" and a bizarre monologue set to dramatic music resembling a song favored by QAnon.
Addressing thousands of members of the NRA at their annual meeting in Texas, the former president stuck to his usual talking points, hailing the reversal of Roe v. Wade as an "amazing thing," comparing himself to Al Capone, and insisting "genius" runs in his bloodline.
Then, as he wound down, in a disorienting shift, sentimental music began to play and Trump furrowed his brow and shook his head to deliver the grim message that America is "a failing nation."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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For nearly 40 years, the Commission on Presidential Debates has made the rules for the most-watched events in politics. This year, both campaigns said no thanks.
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See results and maps for key races in the May 14 state and presidential primaries.
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Even after Hamas accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal Monday, Israeli forces moved in with tanks to seize the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Israel says the ceasefire deal falls short of its demands, and Hamas has called for "international intervention." Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy says the limited information and political maneuvering of all parties raises more questions than answers right now, but the core issue is whether all parties can maintain a sustained end to hostilities. "In addition to testing each other, the Hamas and Israeli parties are testing the United States of America and the Biden administration in an unprecedented way," says Levy. "Hamas detects that the U.S. may finally be serious about offering a sustained calm." While Levy says growing external pressure from global protests are "having an impact," he doubts U.S. and Israeli leaders feel they must change course yet. "The pressure does not feel sufficient that Netanuahu's politics needs him to accept a ceasefire. He still thinks he can wiggle out of this," says Levy. "If this deal doesn't go through, I fear we're in for the much longer haul."
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We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by senators elected by a minority of Americans. Berman says the court's makeup is the product of two skewed institutions: how we elect our presidents through the Electoral College and how we appoint U.S. senators — both of which are flawed because they violate one person, one vote, violating the principle of equal representation, and empowering white, rural, conservative and wealthy citizens at the expense of more diverse and progressive parts of the country. "Our institutions are so antiquated, so undemocratic, that we need fundamental reform to change them, to democratize them," Berman says.
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A judge is holding a hearing Thursday on a motion to dismiss the Georgia 2020 election case against Donald Trump. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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An analysis of public records shows Tesla has won the highest percentage of electric vehicle charging awards of any company from the president's infrastructure law.
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President Biden has tried to contain a surge of migration by embracing, or at least tolerating, some of his predecessor's approaches.
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