Washington — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday appeared open to recognizing some level of immunity from federal prosecution for the official acts of former presidents as they weighed a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. But the court expressed skepticism toward Trump’s broad argument …
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Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release. The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as well as descriptions of torture …
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A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded an $83.3 million judgment by a jury that found Trump liable for defamation in January. The judge also denied a request to strike the damages in the case, which Trump had called …
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Washington — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. …
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Washington —House Speaker Mike Johnsonwas met with loud boos when he visited Columbia University on Wednesday to call for the resignation of the institution’s president as the campus has been roiled with accusations of antisemitism amidongoing pro-Palestinian protests. “I am here today joining my colleagues and calling on President [Minouche] Shafik to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to …
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Everyone but the judge and jurors are seated before Donald Trump and his team enter the courtroom each day in his New York criminal trial. Reporters and other members of the public have passed through two layers of screening. They, prosecutors and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg himself, are all in place, and quiet, as Trump approaches the room. The …
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Washington — President Biden on Wednesday met 4-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, an American girl who was taken hostage by Hamas after both her parents were killed in the group’s Oct. 7 attack. The president met with Abigail at the White House, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. Her parents were killed by militants when she was kidnapped. Her mother was …
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Summer Lee has defeated Bhavini Patel in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, the Associated Press projects. With 98% of ballotscounted Wednesday morning, Lee had just over 60% of the votes. It was one of the most contentious races on Tuesday’s ballot, featuring the incumbent Lee against Patel, an Edgewood councilwoman. The district includes Pittsburgh, …
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President Biden on Monday weighed in on the pro-Palestine demonstrations taking place at elite university campuses. “I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Mr. Biden told reporters after an Earth Day Event in Northern Virginia Monday. “That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” A reporter …
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As former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies seek to narrow President Biden’s cash advantage, wealthy GOP donors hope to raise more than $40 million at a fundraiser next week for their presumptive nominee and the Republican National Committee, a figure that would eclipse the eye-popping $26 million Mr. Biden raised in New York on Thursday. The fundraiser, set …
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