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Republican donors are still talking themselves into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a viable alternative to Donald Trump, whom their internal polling indicates is still deeply unpopular in key states.

On CNN last night Donald Trump doubled down on his lies in support of the white supremacist haters convicted of violently killing one police officer and sending 140 others to the hospital on January 6th.

Pope Francis called Friday for politicians to find solutions to reverse Italy's declining birthrate, warning that young people faced a "Titanic effort" to start families in a precarious environment.

A YouTuber pilot who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane crashing into the ground could be jailed up to 20 years after agreeing to plead guilty to obstructing a US investigation, authorities said Thursday.

A US District Court judge has declared unconstitutional federal laws banning handgun sales by licensed dealers to people under 21 years of age, saying anyone over 18 should have that right.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough kicked off Friday's "Morning Joe" by focusing on comments Donald Trump made about the government documents he was hoarding at his Mar-a-Lago report during his CNN town hall on Wednesday, with Scarborough asserting the former president gave more ammo to special counsel Jack Smith.

Donald Trump's town hall hosted by CNN in New Hampshire sparked criticism for its content, but also for the reactions from the audience. Now it has been reported that the spectator reactions were controlled, and that, while applause were allowed, booing wasn't.

At former President Donald Trump's town hall in New Hampshire, he first tried to deny his infamous phone call demanding Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger "find" extra votes for him in the 2020 presidential election, despite it being caught on audiotape and widely available to the public, and then tried to claim he was justified in doing the request.

A legal expert believes Donald Trump may have walked into additional jeopardy at Wednesday night’s town hall, at which the former president described his handling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago as lawful.

A San Diego-area Border Patrol officer has been charged with federal crimes, including allegedly attempting to move 23 pounds of methamphetamine and allowing an unauthorized immigrant through a border gate, reported the San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday.

Following their town hall with Donald Trump at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday, CNN has come under furious criticism from media analysts, including some of their own reporters, for putting on the event at all, as well as for failing to get a handle on the former president's lies and his efforts to radicalize the crowd of Republican voters.

President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed Republicans in the House over their opposition to key elements of the Inflation Reduction Act, which the president asserts will reduce energy costs.

An renowned art advisor whose past clients include Leonardo DiCaprio has been accused of a Ponzi scheme, The Daily Beast reports.

Former President Donald Trump was ordered by a Manhattan Supreme Court Judge to submit to a meeting giving him instructions on how to comply with an order restricting him from using evidence in his criminal case to attack witnesses, reported the Associated Press on Thursday.

A lawyer representing an Idaho woman accused of killing two of her children and a romantic rival in part of a doomsday plot suggested during closing arguments on Thursday that her husband may have been behind the killings.

Justice Department officials are asking a federal appeals court to stop former President Donald Trump from being questioned as part of a lawsuit brought by a pair of former high-ranking FBI employees, reported The Washington Post on Thursday.

Documentarian Blake Zeff is revealing some of the tapes of his attempt to film a piece about embattled New York Republican Rep George Santos. On Wednesday, he spoke to MSNBC host Ari Melber sharing a clip of Santos attempting to make a joke about a "room full of Jews."

The two-time Donald Trump voter who asked the former president about his plans to woo women voters following the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade left the New Hampshire CNN town hall feeling unsatisfied with her question still unanswered, according to ABC News.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper tore into Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Thursday, following a radio interview in which he dismissed the threat of white nationalists in the military — while deliberately blocking appointments essential to military readiness in the Senate.

The Montana Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a Third Judicial District Court judge from Anaconda on Thursday for violating judicial ethics rules when he made sexual comments about a witness in the hallway of the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Courthouse last year.

NEW YORK — Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran whose chokehold killed Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway train, is to be charged with second-degree manslaughter and will turn himself in to police on Friday, sources told the New York Daily News. Penny, 24, is expected to turn himself in at the 5th Precinct stationhouse on Elizabeth Street in Chinatown, a police official said. Manhattan DA’s office spokesman Doug Cohen confirmed the arrest charge. After he turns himself in, Penny is to be arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Cohen said. Читать дальше...

During his town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump advocated for the the U.S. to default on its debt — something he called unthinkable when he was president himself. And he advocated for slashing government funding as the only option of preventing this, something that would be almost equally devastating to the economy.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) during a news conference Wednesday morning touted the findings of a congressional probe linking President Joe Biden to millions of dollars in payments from China and Romania to members of his family.

Thursday's episode of "Deadline White House" with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace compared CNN's Town Hall with Donald Trump to Fox News' platforming of people who are accused of defaming Dominion Voting Systems.

On Thursday, hours after CNN hosted a town hall with former President Donald Trump, the network interviewed Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) about the Jan. 6 attack and Trump's refusal to acknowledge he lost to President Joe Biden.