WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Senator Rick Scott of Florida this week joined the ranks of Republican incumbents struggling to strike a balance on reproductive rights, saying he opposes November ballot initiative to overturn his state’s six-week abortion ban, but believes Congress should leave those decisions up to the states. Scott, who is seeking …
NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Weiselberg, a retired executive of Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil case for fraud filed against the former president by the New York attorney general. Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty last month to two …
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Top line The $175 million bond posted by former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud case came under scrutiny Thursday as the New York attorney general’s office asked the insurance company that helped secure it to prove that are financially stable enough to pay the bond – posting the bond risks having it canceled …
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But many people are still willing to pay those high costs, based on their belief that Trump Media’s stock price will fall dramatically from Wednesday’s close of $48.81. Investors who want to borrow Trump Media shares to sell short on Wednesday will have to pay annual financing costs of between 750% and 900% of the …
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A day after the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for the state ban on six-week abortions to take effect, President Biden’s re-election campaign launched an ad reminding voters of former President Donald Trump’s role in ending federal abortion rights. “For 54 years they tried to get Roe v. Wade overturned and I did it …
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The most public legislative about-face during Trump’s presidency has certainly been his party’s failure to repeal Obamacare. It’s now half-forgotten, but the repeal bill passed the House and failed in the Senate by just one vote when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) decided against it at the last minute. This single vote prevented anything like that …
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s presidential primary Tuesday clears the way for a general election campaign that Democrats see as an opportunity unlike any in the state’s recent history. New legislative districts passed last month erasing the Republican advantages that have given the GOP dominance in the Wisconsin Assembly, even though Democrats have won 14 …
Former President Donald Trump and eight other defendants accused of illegally trying to interfere in the 2020 elections in Georgia filed a formal filing on Friday to appeal the judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis to stay on the case. Trump and other defendants tried to get Willis and her office to …
Former President Donald Trump and eight other defendants accused of illegally trying to interfere in the 2020 elections in Georgia filed a formal filing on Friday to appeal the judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis to stay on the case. Trump and other defendants tried to get Willis and her office to …
Two weeks after Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis survived bidding by advocates to disqualify her from Georgia election interference caseshe almost took the case personally, focusing intensely on legal strategy and getting her team in fighting shape for trial. In a significant step in that direction, according to a source close to her, Willis …
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