The U.S. Supreme Court backed on Monday state laws that allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, rejecting a Republican-led challenge to a five-day grace period in Mississippi and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday backed Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member, expanding his powers over the government and overturning its 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was the first U.S. central banker to be targeted for firing by any president. She is no stranger to being first, or to being targeted.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to let Donald Trump fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as it stood firm to preserve the central bank’s cherished independence against an unprecedented challenge by the Republican president.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.
Five people were shot and killed in a town in northern Germany on Monday, and police said they had detained two individuals, including the suspected shooter.
The United States said a high-level meeting on Iran would be held in Doha on Tuesday with President Donald Trump’s top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attending while technical talks would also continue on the sidelines.
Betsy Halsey, 63, still has memorabilia from America’s 1976 bicentennial in her childhood bedroom at her parents’ home. But the retired teacher is so appalled by President Donald Trump that she refuses to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night, where a friend said she met a foreign man and struck up a conversation.
If any company stood to gain from President Donald Trump’s trade war, it was Whirlpool and the workers assembling its iconic appliances in Iowa.