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Jury selection for the remaining alternates continues Friday in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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G-7 foreign ministers, Arab nations, and other major powers condemn further escalation in the Middle East.
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Jury selection concluded Friday in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, with 12 jurors and six alternates selected.
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 Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and TikTokTo the chagrin of middle-schoolers everywhere, the most extreme restrictions on TikTok are on a glide path to passage in Congress.
The bill—which is now set to get a vote on Saturday and is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support—has animated distraught TikTok creators of all ages to call congressional offices and demand they oppose a ban on the popular video app.
While the legislation is largely understood and referred to as a bill to ban TikTok, the truth is far more complex. The measure would not immediately ban TikTok. Rather, it would force its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-based entity within nine months of becoming law, giving the president the option of stalling the elimination of TikTok for another 90 days.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump's first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.
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It will take less than a week, U.S. officials say, for a resupply of some weapons to reach Ukraine once a $95 billion foreign bill clears Congress.
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers tried to divine the political leanings of prospective jurors in the former president's Manhattan criminal trial from their answers to questions about what media they consume.
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Democrats stepped in to support bringing the aid package to the floor, in a remarkable breach of custom on a key vote that paved the way for its passage.
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 Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe New York Attorney General's office has asked the judge in Donald Trump's civil fraud case to reject the $175 million bond he obtained to stave off even steeper fines.
In a 26-page filing signed by Attorney General Letitia James, lawyers for the state argued that Trump, the Trump Organization, and its top executives had failed to prove that the management of the bond met the "requirements of trustworthiness and competence," and argued that Judge Arthur Engoron should find the bond to be "without effect."
The AG's office argued that California-based Knight Specialty Insurance Company was a "small insurer that is not authorized to write business in New York" and had "never before written a surety bond in New York," before they penned the massive loan to Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Some prospective jurors grew emotional during questioning Friday; the 12 jurors and six alternates picked said they can be impartial in judging Donald Trump.
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Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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 Jabin Botsford / GettyDonald Trump's defense team reportedly believes that young Black men will help save the former president from a guilty verdict.
Lawyers for the former president, who has the dubious distinction of being the first ex-commander in chief to be criminally tried, have been "hoping to spot sympathizers and will focus on younger Black men and white working-class men" as jurors, according to a recent New York Times report.
The notion that young Black men might be more easily persuaded than other jurors—less prone to critical thinking and seeing through the defense's smoke and mirrors—jibes perfectly with all the racist notions Trump has expressed over the years. Even in the midst of his own criminal trial, Trump's anti-Black racism remains on full display.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Pool/Getty Images The first week of Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York City ended with a power move by the judge, who ordered the former president to take a seat—where he remained fuming in his chair until the judge left the courtroom.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan was wrapping up a contentious hour of debate with lawyers on both sides Friday afternoon, when he clarified that a contempt hearing—where he might punish Trump for repeatedly ignoring a gag order and continuing to publicly speak threateningly about witnesses and jurors—would commence Tuesday morning.
But just as the judge neared the end of his sentence, Trump abruptly stood up—apparently thinking the day was over. Immediately, Merchan turned his face to the former president and said in a firm voice: "Sir, can you please have a seat."
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Jury selection continues Thursday in former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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Republicans and Democrats voted to advance a measure to extend a warrantless surveillance law, but skeptics in both parties were still pushing to make substantial changes before a final vote.
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In a speech to union steelworkers in Pittsburgh, the president will announce several new measures meant to raise new barriers against floods of Chinese imports.
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We speak with two doctors who've just returned after two weeks at the European Hospital in Gaza. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and Dr. Mark Perlmutter are co-authors of a new piece for Common Dreams titled "As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel's Genocide in Gaza." They describe a hospital "hanging on by a thread," with the majority of patients being young children, and bombing targeted at Muslim Palestinians "concentrated at the time of evening prayer." "Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got," says Perlmutter. "This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population." He also says, of U.S. responsibility in this genocide, "We're buying the bullets and the gun for the gunman who's going to the school and killing the children." "If our support stops, the occupation stops," adds Sidhwa, urging other Americans to push political leaders and public discourse against the country's support of Israel. "We have to raise the domestic cost for these policies." Dr. Sidhwa and Dr. Perlmutter worked with the Palestinian American Medical Association in collaboration with the World Health Organization in Gaza. Collectively, they have previously volunteered medical assistance in the West Bank, Haiti and Ukraine, and after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Boston Marathon bombing.
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