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By: Sterling Mosley | ​​​​​​​On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) filed a motion to hold presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in contempt for allegedly violating the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Merchan after Trump attacked witness Michael Cohen on Truth Social. On the first day of Trump's criminal trial, the prosecution moved to attempt to punish Trump with a $3,000 fine for the violations, citing three instances that each carry a $1,000 fine. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | On Monday, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump told reporters that the judge presiding over the hush money trail in Manhattan brought by District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), Justice Juan Merchan, may not allow him to attend his son Barron's high school graduation on May 17. Merchan made it clear to Trump that if he missed a court date without his permission, he would be arrested and sent to jail. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | During a closed-door GOP meeting on Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) that he would back the motion to vacate submitted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) earlier this month. Massie would be the first representative to back Greene's motion, and if he follows through, the House will yet again be plunged into a hotly contested speakership fight with an even smaller majority than last year. Read More

Abortion advocates in Florida are falling short of the needed support to get an amendment passed in November that would enshrine the practice as a right in the state’s constitution, according to a poll from USA Today. Read More

U.S.-based TikTok executives were totally “complicit” in efforts to hand over Americans’ data to China despite company assertions to the contrary, a former senior data scientist at the social media platform alleged, according to Fortune. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | On Monday, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump issued an urgent message to all Americans as the first day of the New York criminal trial brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) began. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | On Monday, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump traveled to New York City for the first day of his criminal trial in the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D). The defense and prosecution will begin to decide who will serve on the 12-man jury that will decide the 45th president's fate. During the hearing, Trump, who has repeatedly railed against the case as political persecution, was threatened by presiding Justice Juan Merchan that he would face jail time if he were to interrupt court proceedings or if he failed to appear while the trial was taking place. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | On Monday, a group of anti-Israel protestors blocked the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco and on Northbound I-880 in Oakland. The protest is part of a worldwide "economic blockade" to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Read More

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake of Arizona brought in $4.1 million in the first fundraising quarter of 2024, her campaign announced on Sunday. Read More

Voters are much more approving of former President Donald Trump’s time in office now than they did in the fall of 2020, a new poll found. Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | During an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), a surprising moderate amid an increasingly far-left Democrat Party, broke with Biden following the large drone and missile attack against Israel by Iran on Saturday.  Read More

During his arrival at a Manhattan court on Monday, Donald J. Trump blasted the New York hush-money case against him as a "political persecution" overseen by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D). Read More

By: Sterling Mosley | During a Sunday call to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that the Israeli Defense Force ((DF) had no choice but to retaliate against Iran following the Islamic Republic's drone and missile attack against Israeli territory on Saturday. Read More

A pro-Palestinian speaker demanded the Bakersfield City Council pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in an unhinged rant that included death threats to officials during a Wednesday meeting. Read More

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas vetoed a bill on Friday that banned doctors from performing sex-change surgeries on minors. Read More