Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges arising from three separate corruption investigations, pending a hearing, Israel's attorney general announced Thursday evening.
The announcement, so close to April's general election, marks a dramatic moment in Israeli politics and is a major blow to Netanyahu as he seeks a fifth term in office.
He...
For Catholics, child rape is no big deal: Lawyer for convicted child rapist Cardinal Pell asks for leniency because the rapes were “no more than a plain vanilla sexual penetration case.”
In yet another demonstration of the complete moral failure of the Catholic Church, Robert Richter, the lawyer for Cardinal Pell, who was recently convicted of raping two choir boys, asked...
She scares them: Conservative Christians claim Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a witch guided by demons and leading an attack against President Donald Trump.
Frightened by a smart, articulate, attractive young woman, conservative Christians panic, worried that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is really a witch leading a demonic attack against President Trump.
Earlier this month, Dave Kubal, president of the Religious Right group Intercessors...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a bill Thursday to legalize marijuana across the country.
The 2020 presidential hopeful has made criminal justice reform and social justice issues central to his campaign and is framing the marijuana legalization bill as such.
“The War on Drugs has not been a war on drugs, it’s been a war on people, and disproportionately people of color and low-income...
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday got longtime “fixer” Michael Cohen to admit that Donald Trump committed federal and state crimes.
Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, was able to get Cohen to testify about federal insurance fraud and local tax fraud in New York and Florida.
“I want to ask a little bit...
The Florida Bar has opened an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) after the lawmaker appeared to send a threatening tweet on the eve of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony.
Francine Walker, a spokesperson for the Florida Bar, confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that the state's bar association has opened an investigation into whether Gaetz, a licensed attorney, violated professional conduct rules.
The...
Michael Cohen is poised to take a historic shot at his onetime boss and patron on Wednesday, claiming in prepared testimony that President Trump is a "racist" and "conman" who knew that an associate was in contact with WikiLeaks about its release of Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign.
Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, is scheduled to appear before the...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded Tuesday to criticism from Ivanka Trump by suggesting Trump's daughter learned about working "for tips & hourly wages ... 2nd-hand."
"As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, with a link to...
The Democratic-led House approved by a 245-182 vote a resolution on Tuesday that would terminate President Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border — a declaration he made to allow him to access funds to build a wall without congressional consent.
Only 13 Republicans joined Democrats to oppose the president, signaling that Congress will not ultimately have...
House Democrats are pushing ahead with a legislative effort to ensure special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report regarding possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow will be publicly released.
Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.) filed the Special Counsel Transparency Act on Tuesday. It is a companion to an identical bill introduced in the Senate by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
The bill would require...