Analysis: Arab leaders’ Gaza demands give Biden another election-year headache

Key Arab leaders’ desire for what one senior White House official describes as a new “political horizon” for Gaza is only complicating President Joe Biden’s fraught efforts in the region — and his bid for a second term.

David DePape sentenced to 30 years in attempted Nancy Pelosi kidnapping, hammer attack on husband

A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, six months after a jury found him guilty of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and using a hammer to bludgeon her husband in a bloody October 2022 assault.

Vindicated by Supreme Court, CFPB director says bureau will add staff, consider new rules on banks

Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits and political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all.

The graduate! Barron Trump accepts diploma at heavily guarded ceremony in Palm Beach

Former President Donald Trump made it to his youngest son’s graduation on Friday morning, after all, arriving at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach with just minutes to spare, the Daily Beast reports.

Senegal’s new prime minister criticizes French military presence in the West African country

Senegal’s new prime minister, who was freed from jail weeks before the presidential election earlier this year and propelled his party to victory, has criticized the French military presence in the West African country.

Did Trump’s lawyers catch Michael Cohen in a ‘lie?’ Let’s take a look.

In earlier testimony, Michael Cohen said the purpose of an Oct. 24, 2016, phone call was to discuss with then-candidate Donald Trump the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ payment. But Trump’s lawyers presented evidence that Cohen texted and then called a Trump body guard about harassing phone calls.

Military recruits would not be tested for marijuana under House draft bill

New recruits and incoming officers into the military would not have to undergo mandatory cannabis testing under the House’s version of an annual must-pass defense policy bill.

Justice Alito’s home flew US flag upside down after Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ claims, report says

An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported.

Russia seizes more land than Ukraine liberated in 2023 counteroffensive

While Russia’s gains over the last several weeks have been comparatively small, analysts say they are straining Ukraine’s military over a broad geographic area.

Biden says landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation was about more than education

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that desegregated schools was about more than just race in education, President Joe Biden said Friday as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of the decision. It was about the promise of America, he said — that it is “big enough for everyone to succeed.”