Two of the seven jurors already sworn in earlier this week to hear the New York criminal case against former U.S. President Donald Trump were dismissed from the jury on Thursday, while dozens more prospective jurors were excused when they said they could not render a fair verdict in the case. In one instance, a […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, called on Israel Thursday to hold new elections, saying he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the country’s bombardment of Gaza. Schumer, long an ally of the Jewish state, said Netanyahu risks making his country a “pariah” in […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the leading 2024 Republican presidential contender, briefly took the witness stand Thursday at a New York trial to defend himself against allegations that he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll by disparaging her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Trump testified that […]
Writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former U.S. President Donald Trump was suspended Monday after one of the jurors called in sick. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told lawyers for Carroll and Trump that one of the nine jurors hearing the case was on his way to court when he began to feel flulike […]