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In a late-night filing Monday, Donald Trump’s attorneys pushed for his trial in the federal classified documents case to be delayed until after the 2024 election. The court filing, submitted on behalf of Trump and his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, reads: “Proceeding to trial during the pendency of a Presidential election cycle wherein opposing candidates are

The federal prosecution of Donald Trump, a former president, is certainly unprecedented. But trying sensitive cases has been done before — and rather quickly.Special counsel Jack Smith makes that latter point in response to Trump’s quest to push off his classified documents trial while he runs for president. Arguing for delay, Trump and his co-defendant

The latest inflation report is out — and it’s better than expected. Prices rose just 3% in June, compared to the same time last year. This is the lowest increase we have seen since March of 2021. Another key metric shows that wages are continuing to rise faster than inflation.  We have a lot of data

As of Thursday, Hollywood is officially closed for business. The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, “unanimously voted to issue a strike order against the studios and streamers,” the guild announced at a news conference Thursday afternoon.SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher stressed that what’s happening in the

A trio of former senior Fox executives recently published a statement expressing regret for their role in helping bring Fox News into existence. “We never envisioned, and would not knowingly have enabled, the disinformation machine that, in our opinion, Fox has become,” they wrote. While the executives didn’t work directly for the Fox News operation

The GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee was supposed to hold an FBI oversight hearing on Wednesday. Instead, its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and what I call his cadre of conspiracists looked more like a kangaroo court putting the entire FBI on trial. Bureau Director Christopher Wray did his best to professionally parry a barrage of

The Ray Epps conspiracy theory — that he was an undercover FBI agent who ginned up the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — was fueled in part by the fact that he was at the Capitol that day but was never charged. However, according to Epps’ newly filed defamation lawsuit against Fox News, charges are coming.That

Usually it’s defendants who appeal their sentences as being too high. But the Justice Department has signaled it’s challenging — as too low — the 18-year prison term for Stewart Rhodes and several other Jan. 6-related sentences for convicted Oath Keepers.Yet, while the government won’t lose anything for trying, the odds of getting an appeals

Another Supreme Court ethics controversy emerged Tuesday after The Associated Press reported that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff routinely “prodded” libraries, universities and other public institutions to buy her books ahead of speaking appearances and that she had failed to recuse herself from legal cases involving her book publisher. Given that the Supreme Court

We don’t expect Sen. Tom Cotton to act in good faith, but the Arkansas Republican’s complaint about the news media ignoring the latest Supreme Court ethics story — involving Justice Sonia Sotomayor — is almost too dumb to believe.In case you missed it — but if you consume media, you probably didn’t — The Associated