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Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a state court in Manhattan to 34 charges linked to a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels just ahead of his 2016 presidential election victory to silence her about her claim of an alleged tryst with him a decade earlier. It is […]

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in Tuesday to face a criminal indictment in a New York state court, the first ever filed against a current or former U.S. leader. Trump’s lawyers say he will plead not guilty to charges linked to his $130,000 hush money payment to a porn actor, […]

“It’s been more than a half century since astronauts journeyed to the moon — that’s about to change,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as he stood before the current astronaut corps as well as veterans of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. The crowd was gathered […]

WYNNE, ARK. — Storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes killed at least 21 people in small towns and big cities across the South and Midwest, tearing a path through the Arkansas capital, collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois, and stunning people throughout the region Saturday with the damage’s scope. Confirmed or […]

Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury over hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the White House, a law enforcement source said on Thursday. The charges, arising from an investigation led by Democratic […]

Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022, after first doing so last year. Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced […]

Last year, the number of immigration cases topped more than 2 million, up from about 344,000 a decade ago, according to data compiled by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. The backlog has expanded even as immigration judges are adjudicating cases at a record pace, according to TRAC. The U.S. Justice Department is going on […]

NEW YORK — Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday that was first reported by The New York Times. According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of […]

What is an indictment? An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. It contains the basic information about the charges being filed. Why is it necessary? The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires that the government seek an indictment before prosecuting someone for a federal felony offense. What […]

NEW YORK — Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January. The […]