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(New York Jewish Week) – A group of 16 Republican senators is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate nonprofits that support National Students for Justice in Palestine – including the group’s fiscal sponsor, the suburban New York nonprofit Wespac.The senators’ letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, dated May 9, says the agency should investigate whether, by directing funds to NSJP, the nonprofits are supporting terrorism – which would violate their tax-exempt status.“We should not need to remind you of the heinous support NSJP chapters across the country have voiced for Hamas, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the letter says.…

4:36 p.m. ET, May 13, 2024 The key points of Michael Cohen’s testimony about how he was reimbursed for the hush money deal From CNN’s Eric Levenson Michael Cohen is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger on Monday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is in the foreground. Christine Cornell Michael Cohen finished the day’s testimony by explaining how he, former Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg and Donald Trump agreed to reimburse him for the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. After Trump won the election, Cohen pitched Trump on a set up in which he would serve as Trump’s personal…

Topline Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, rumored to be in the running to join former President Donald Trump’s 2024 Republican presidential ticket, defended him outside of his hush money trial Monday, marking the first of Trump’s VP contenders to make the trip to Manhattan criminal court—here’s who else is on the rumored list. Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena on January 20, 2024 … [+] in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Getty Images Timeline May 13Vance lamented the “psychological torture” he said Trump is enduring inside the “dingy” courtroom in a tweet…

Senator J.D. Vance, the Ohio Republican who is a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, hedged on Sunday when he was asked whether he would accept the results of the November election.“If we have a free and fair election, I will accept the results,” Mr. Vance told CNN’s Dana Bash during an appearance on the show “State of the Union.”Mr. Vance, 39, whom the Trump campaign has enlisted as a surrogate, signaled that Republicans were preparing for the prospect of election disputes.“We have to be willing, as Democrats did in 2000, as Democrats have done in…

According to the paper’s source, Cameron asked Trump: “What are the best conditions in which you as president can make a deal in January? It’s both sides holding their lines and paying a price for that.” That would be a far cry from the official U.K. line, and the report prompted a flurry of questions in Westminster on Monday. The British government has long argued that a peace deal is a matter for Ukraine — and Cameron himself has publicly said “peace comes through strength, not through appeasement and weakness.” Pressed by reporters Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for U.K. Prime…

At a Donald Trump rally, it is often an off-the-cuff one-liner that ends up driving headlines.In between, in speech after speech, the former president is laying out an aggressive and ambitious policy agenda for a second term — one that makes elements of his first term in the White House look mild in comparison.Most of the agenda items aren’t brand new — on immigration and other issues, Trump is making a lot of the same promises he did during his 2016 campaign that never came to fruition due to a lack of congressional support or limitations on his executive authority.…

Senate Republicans see some warning signs flashing after an embarrassing week for former President Trump, despite his strong poll numbers in battleground states against President Biden. Some Republican lawmakers think Trump needs to step up his appeals to disaffected GOP voters, especially women, after Nikki Haley won 128,000 votes in solidly Republican Indiana despite ending her presidential campaign in early March. GOP senators also are cringing over some of the salacious details being aired in Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial, where porn actor Stormy Daniels testified at length about her sexual encounter with the former president and described how she…

Former President Donald Trump’s four years in the White House were, in many ways, a revolution interrupted. They transformed the federal judiciary and led to the fall of Roe v. Wade, the end of many gun laws, and a sweeping transfer of power away from the elected branches of government and toward a Republican-controlled judiciary. Yet while Trump’s single presidential term remade much of US law, it did not allow the judiciary’s most reactionary elements to declare total victory. This June the Court will likely hand several high-profile defeats to the conservative movement. Even this Court is unlikely to ban…

4 March 2024Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The Colorado Supreme Court used a Civil War-era constitutional amendment to ban Donald Trump from the ballotThe US Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monday on whether states can use an anti-rebellion constitutional clause to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.Colorado used a little-known amendment to the Constitution to remove him from the state’s Republican primary ballot, citing the 6 January riot.Fifteen states including Colorado hold their primary elections on Tuesday. The court said it would post an opinion at 10:00 ET (15:00 GMT).It did not say which case this would…

Among Senate Republicans’ top targets this cycle, Arizona initially looked promising. While Senate Democrats are defending seats in even tougher territory such as Ohio and Montana, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s retirement in Arizona left Democrats fighting to protect a seat no longer anchored by a Democratic incumbent. But election denier and MAGA diehard Kari Lake, the likely GOP nominee, is upending Senate Republicans’ calculus in the state. Arizona Republicans are privately wincing at Lake’s chances, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently declined to name Arizona as a seat they are focused on flipping. Lake’s likely Democratic challenger, Rep. Ruben Gallego,…