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Home > Article VOL. 47 | NO. 23 | Friday, June 2, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from after he left office in which he talks about holding onto a classified Pentagon document related to a potential attack on Iran, according to media… Continue reading Reports: Prosecutors have tape of Trump discussing holding classified doc after leaving office

Home > Article VOL. 47 | NO. 23 | Friday, June 2, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and pharmacy chains SuperValu and Safeway overcharged government health-care programs for prescription drugs by hundreds of millions of dollars. The decision gives the whistleblowers another chance to… Continue reading Supreme Court revives claims SuperValu, Safeway overcharged governments for generic drugs

VOL. 47 | NO. 23 | Friday, June 2, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dispute about the pressure that organized labor can exert during a strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete. The decision united liberal and conservative justices in… Continue reading Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute involving truck drivers, wet concrete

VOL. 47 | NO. 22 | Friday, May 26, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors are turning the former president’s words against him in a tug of war over precisely where he will be tried. Trump’s… Continue reading Trump’s legal team, Manhattan prosecutors spar over where he will stand trial

VOL. 47 | NO. 21 | Friday, May 19, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump speaks about his legal woes in a way that would make most defense attorneys wince. A recent sampling: In a March interview on Fox News Channel, the Republican former president said he had “the right to take” classified documents with… Continue reading Trump’s stream-of-consciousness speaking style draws legal attention amid probes

Home > Article VOL. 47 | NO. 21 | Friday, May 19, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Tuesday asked for a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland as a Justice Department investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents shows signs of winding down. In the letter, which Trump posted… Continue reading Trump lawyers seek meeting with Garland as Mar-a-Lago investigation winds down

VOL. 47 | NO. 21 | Friday, May 19, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump threw up his hands in frustration Tuesday as a judge scheduled his criminal trial for March 25, putting the former president and current candidate in a Manhattan courtroom in the heat of next year’s presidential primary season. Trump, appearing… Continue reading Trump makes video appearance in New York criminal case, trial date set for March

VOL. 47 | NO. 21 | Friday, May 19, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and public servants who fled the mob’s attack told a judge on Wednesday that they are still haunted by what they endured, as the judge prepares to hand down sentences in… Continue reading Officers describe Jan. 6 chaos, fear as judge weighs prison time for Oath Keepers

VOL. 47 | NO. 21 | Friday, May 19, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — If the fight with Congress over raising the government’s debt limit is such a dire threat, why doesn’t President Joe Biden just raise the borrowing ceiling himself? It’s theoretically possible, but he’s all but ruled it out for now. The administration has… Continue reading Why Biden is wary of using the 14th Amendment to address the debt limit crisis