President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Todd Blanche, the criminal defense lawyer in his New York hush money trial, to hold the No. 2 role in the Justice Department. | Mark Peterson/Getty Images Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), an accused sex offender known for his firm loyalty to Trump, will not lead the Department of Justice….
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Trump supporters wear matching T-shirts outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse as former US President Donald Trump appeared for his arraignment on June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida. | Alon Skuy/Getty Images A federal judge in Florida on Monday threw out the criminal case focused on how former President Donald Trump…
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Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh (right) and Neil Gorsuch at a White House ceremony in 2018. | Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images All of the United States’ most important governing institutions are failing at once. Congress, of course, has long been barely able to function. Every year, it struggles merely to fund the rest of…
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Former President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts before the 2020 State of the Union address. | Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if…
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These headlines seem to have had an impact. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Donald Trump has been a convicted felon for a little over a week and he has already lost a small but significant chunk of support, according to the polls. In recent days, the New York Times and Sienna College recontacted 2,000…
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Tucker Carlson will no longer be on Fox News. The announcement Monday that Carlson and Fox had parted ways came after Fox had agreed to pay out three quarters of a billion dollars to Dominion in a defamation lawsuit that rested heavily on Carlson’s on-air reporting about election fraud coupled with his off-air text messages…
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Editor’s note: Madison Schilling submitted her artwork to The Denver Post after her teacher at Green Mountain High School in Lakewood encouraged her to share it with a broader audience. Her hope is that it will help adults and teens cope with a difficult year of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. To send a…
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On Tuesday, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who’s been serving time in Colorado prison. Trump also pardoned former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik and granted clemency to financier Michael Milken.
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As Democratic presidential candidates did battle this week in New Hampshire, Mike Bloomberg zipped ahead to focus on Super Tuesday states. On the other side of the aisle, President Donald Trump took some flak from former chief of staff John Kelly over the removal of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the White House. Vindman testified…
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It’s been a big week for President Donald Trump. Last Tuesday he delivered a State of the Union address that included a Presidential Medal of Freedom for Rush Limbaugh and Nancy Pelosi ripping up a ceremonial copy of the speech. The next day he was acquitted of impeachment charges by a GOP-controlled Senate and he…
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