President Donald Trump’s own tweets came back to haunt him Friday after a federal judge rejected his latest attempt to escape his criminal hush-money conviction.U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein denied Trump’s bid to move the already-decided New York case into federal court, where the preside…
President Donald Trump spoke by phone with the crew of the International Space Station on Friday from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, congratulating them on their accomplishments before fixating on the facial hair of one astronaut in particular.Trump was in Houston to honor the four-p…
A former Brazilian model who says first lady Melania Trump’s lawyers threatened her has accused an ally of President Donald Trump in a United Nations passport-selling scheme she claims turned deadly, according to a new report.Amanda Ungaro, 41, who had a 20-year relationship with special envoy Paolo…
The Pentagon is coming down hard on a suicidal sailor and an airman who protested the Iran war — even as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth keeps rescuing troops he finds entertaining from discipline, a new report reveals.A 19-year-old sailor who jumped overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln on August 3…
A military judge ruled that confessions that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed gave to FBI agents cannot be used against him at trial, dealing a major setback to the government’s death-penalty case over the Sept. 11 attacks.The New York Times reported that Friday’s ruling comes just bef…
Two days after photos surfaced of sealant “chunks” coming up in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump attempted to save face by enlisting a Department of Interior official to praise the renovation work.The president’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been…
A document dump to a right-wing website exposed a secret and controversial hire made by the Trump administration, according to a new report.Hidden metadata in an internal Trump administration letter, released by Homeland Security, revealed that Pennsylvania election denial activist Karen DiSalvo was…
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama took a “satisfying slap” at the Supreme Court over its refusal to block the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting, ex-U.S. attorney Joyce Vance flagged on Friday.On Monday, the Supreme Court paused an injunction by a fede…
Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a profane rebuke from the attorney suing him over the Epstein files after he appealed a judge’s order to release documents.In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang, who sued Blanche in April, tore into him for defi…
A “mentally unstable” President Donald Trump is growing “increasingly out of control” as he stares down a major reckoning in November, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed on Thursday, a reckoning that could ultimately see the president finally lose his grip on power.“He is a president who is, in my v…