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Prosecutors seek ‘narrow’ gag order on Trump

September 15, 2023, 6:31pm Politics

Federal prosecutors are seeking an order that would prevent Donald Trump from making “inflammatory” and “intimidating” comments about witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the criminal case charging the former president with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Read story

32 Trump Twitter messages were handed over in election investigation

September 15, 2023, 5:55pm Politics

Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, gave the Justice Department at least 32 of Donald Trump’s direct messages in February in response to a search warrant stemming from the government’s probe into 2020 election fraud, according to newly unsealed documents. Read story

FILE - Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021. The Pentagon's Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal but weren't included in the military's initial investigation.

U.S. military orders new interviews on the deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack as criticism persists

FILE - Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021. The Pentagon's Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal but weren't included in the military's initial investigation.

September 15, 2023, 12:22pm Politics

The Pentagon’s Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces’ chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal but weren’t included in the military’s initial investigation. Read story

Ukraine's Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak, left, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, right, listen as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023.

Zelenskyy is expected to visit Washington as Congress is debating $24 billion in aid for Ukraine

Ukraine's Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak, left, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, right, listen as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023.

September 15, 2023, 10:46am Nation & World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly. Read story

FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington.

The Justice Department says there’s no valid basis for the judge to step aside from Trump’s D.C. case

FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington.

September 15, 2023, 10:45am Politics

The Justice Department is challenging efforts by former President Donald Trump to disqualify the Washington judge presiding over the case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Read story

Biden’s Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he’s not getting much credit

September 15, 2023, 10:41am Health

President Joe Biden is trumpeting Medicare’s new powers to negotiate directly with drugmakers on the cost of prescription medications — but a poll shows that any immediate political boost that Biden gets for enacting the overwhelmingly popular policy may be limited. Read story

Former President Donald Trump throws a football to the crowd during a visit to the Alpha Gamma Rho, agricultural fraternity, at Iowa State University before an NCAA college football game between Iowa State and Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Ames, Iowa.

Younger voters will be critical in 2024. Biden and Trump are taking different paths to reach them

Former President Donald Trump throws a football to the crowd during a visit to the Alpha Gamma Rho, agricultural fraternity, at Iowa State University before an NCAA college football game between Iowa State and Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Ames, Iowa.

September 15, 2023, 10:40am Latest News

Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats in the Hampton University auditorium long before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage for the first stop of her fall college tour. Read story

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Antrim County, Mich., Sheriff's Office shows Michael Null. A jury acquitted Michael, his twin brother William Null and Eric Molitor, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a scheme that was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election.

Jury clears 3 men in the last trial tied to the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Antrim County, Mich., Sheriff's Office shows Michael Null. A jury acquitted Michael, his twin brother William Null and Eric Molitor, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a scheme that was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election.

September 15, 2023, 10:36am Politics

A jury acquitted three men Friday in the last trial connected to a plan to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a scheme that was portrayed as an example of homegrown terrorism on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. Read story