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Politics By Ryan King Published May 16, 2024, 6:04 p.m. ET Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are investigating whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office misused federal funds. The two Republican senators highlighted multiple reports accusing Willis’ office of squandering funds, including from the Justice Department Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and other initiatives, on frivolous items such as “swag” and unrelated travel. “In Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, OJJDP awarded Fulton County nearly $500,000 to establish the Fulton County Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention,” Grassley (R-Iowa) and Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote in a letter to…
The Republican chairs of the powerful House Judiciary and Oversight committees slammed the Biden administration this week, accusing the president and Attorney General Merrick Garland of politicizing the justice system.But as Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and James Comer (R-Ky.) pilloried the White House and the Justice Department, their committees were hobbled by attendance problems: At least five members were in New York on Thursday morning, standing behind former president Donald Trump at his criminal trial and inserting themselves, and their political views, into the same justice system the two chairmen claimed to be defending from politicization. This article was originally…
Former President Trump has said there’s a “good chance” he’ll announce his running mate at the Republican national convention in July. “What are the chances you will announce your vice president pick while in Milwaukee, at the convention?” Scripps News’s Charles Benson asked Trump in an interview released Thursday. “That’s probably a pretty good chance, I would say. I don’t say anything’s 100 percent, but you’re getting pretty close. I’ll be doing it in Milwaukee, we’ll be — we’re gonna have a great time,” Trump said. Now that Trump is the party’s presumptive nominee, speculation is intensifying over which GOP…
In a poll conducted by a PAC supporting the congressman’s Senate bid, Curtis leads with 41.5%, with Trent Staggs, Brad Wilson and Jason Walton trailing behind.(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) John Curtis campaigns at the Utah Republican Nominating Convention in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Curtis, who is running for U.S. Senate, leads in a new poll conducted by a PAC supporting his race. | May 16, 2024, 2:18 p.m. | Updated: 3:11 p.m.Rep. John Curtis appears to have a big lead over his Republican rivals ahead of the June primary election in Utah’s U.S. Senate…
Trump attorney Todd Blanche is pressing Michael Cohen over his prior testimony that he had spoken to Donald Trump about resolving the Stormy Daniels hush money payment in an October 2016 phone call.Blanche has been showing text messages and a call log that he says indicate Cohen was asking Trump’s bodyguard Keith Schiller for help with harassment he was receiving — not calling Schiller in order to speak with Trump about Daniels, as he testified Monday.Cohen insists that while “part of” the correspondence was regarding the harassment, “I know that Keith was with Mr. Trump at the time and there…
Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for freeThe stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White HouseThe US is gearing up for one of the most important presidential elections in the country’s history. On November 5, Joe Biden will face the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in a presidential election that will have global ramifications.The US is the world’s pre-eminent superpower and the winner of this year’s White House race will influence everything from Nato’s future and the security of Europe to global trade and the effort to halt damaging climate change.Given how many people…
CHARLESTON, W.Va (AP) — West Virginia voters ousted the Republican state Senate president on Tuesday, as well as a doctor who drew fire for breaking with his party over school vaccination policy. They were among at least eight incumbent GOP legislators who lost in the state’s primary elections.In the state’s eastern panhandle, U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret veteran Tom Willis defeated Republican Senate President Craig Blair, who has helmed the chamber since 2021. And State Health and Human Resources Chair Sen. Mike Maroney was defeated by Chris Rose, a utility company electrician and former coal miner. Maroney’s loss came…
The Apprentice Cannes Film Festival StudioCanal on Thursday unveiled the acquisition of Ali Abbasi’s Cannes competition entry The Apprentice for the U.K. and Ireland, with a release planned for later this year. The film is an exploration of Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America. Directed by Abbasi and written by Gabe Sherman, the film stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee and Berlin Silver Bear winner Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) as Trump, Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Jeremy Strong (Succession) as his firebrand mentor Roy Cohn, Martin Donovan (Tenet) as Fred Trump Sr., and Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) as Ivana Trump. The…
NEW YORK (AP) — He’s visiting Manhattan construction sites, decrying local crime and holding court in his gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse.After a years-long breakup with his hometown, Donald Trump is back in New York, this time as a criminal defendant. Stuck here most weekdays for the duration of his criminal hush money trial, the Queens-born presumptive GOP nominee has been conjuring images of his old days as a celebrity developer, reality TV star and tabloid fixture with weekly local campaign stops as he settles back into the place that made him, voted against him twice — and may end up…
Columbia University students hold a banner that says “By Any Means Necessary” with a Palestinian flag in the shape of the geographical borders of Israel during the demonstration, in New York, Nov. 15, 2023. (Photo: Derek French/SOPA Images/Sipa USA) A group of 16 Republican senators sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service, calling on them to investigate the fiscal sponsor of National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), as well as other organizations that financially support NSJP.NSJP is the main activist organization that initiated the anti-Zionist – and in many cases pro-Hamas – protests taking place across American university…