NEW YORK — A lawyer for former President Donald Trump told a federal appeals court on Monday that the former president should be allowed to assert presidential immunity in response to a defamation lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll, … Continued
By The Associated Press American gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton has returned home following a lengthy hospital stay because of pneumonia, her daughter said Monday. Shaley Kelley Schrepfer, the oldest of Retton’s four daughters, posted an update on Retton’s condition … Continued
NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Monday to a charge he secretly acted as an agent for the government of Egypt during his tenure as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. … Continued
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a top Republican, is withdrawing his invitation to Harvard University over what he says is the school’s “anti-Semitic vitriol” in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel. “I cannot condone the dangerous anti-Semitism … Continued
HONG KONG — Gov. Gavin Newsom is in China this week trying to preserve relations between the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters. He’s following in the footsteps of his Democratic and Republican predecessors, Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, … Continued