Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A change in the nation’s political landscape means the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case should be recused, defense attorneys argued in a court filing made public Thursday. Trump is reviving a longshot effort to have Judge Juan Merchan recusedRead More →

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former president Donald Trump is facing criticism for recent comments made about the Jewish community in which he claimed a Jewish American who votes for a Democrat is “an absolute fool.” The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a global Jewish advocacy group, condemned Trump’s comments. “AtRead More →

Montinique Monroe/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secret Service faced an array of challenges — and made some potentially dangerous mistakes — while trying to protect the president, vice president and vice president-elect on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob supporting then-President Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol,Read More →

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans and Democrats agree: Ohio Sen. JD Vance has had a rocky rollout as former President Donald Trump’s running mate. What’s less clear is how much it matters to voters. Since Vance was picked to join Trump on Republicans’ ticket, he’s been hit with aRead More →

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is celebrating a prisoner swap that freed several wrongfully detained American citizens held in Russia, including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, saying Thursday “their agony is over.” “Today, three American citizens and one American green card holder who were unjustly imprisoned in RussiaRead More →

Paul Whelan, a former US Marine accused of spying and arrested in Russia stands inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on Aug. 23, 2019. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday were engaged inRead More →