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The Frederick News-Post » Politics
2d ago
Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump. A jury on Thursday in New York on Thursday convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election. Republicans rushed ..read more
Prosecutor says Trump tried 'to hoodwink voters' while defense attacks key witness in last arguments
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
2d ago
Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have finished their closing arguments after a marathon day in court. A prosecutor told jurors that Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016. Meanwhile, a defense lawyer branded the star ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
2d ago
The U.S. is lifting some financial restrictions on Cuba in a move designed to boost private businesses on the island. One of the key changes announced Tuesday would allow Cuban private business owners to open bank accounts in the United ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
2d ago
The Pentagon says the U.S.-built temporary pier taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians has been damaged in rough seas and weather and will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired. Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters Tuesday ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
1w ago
The Olympics, those weeks-long extravaganzas of athletic competition that happen every four years, have long been more than just games ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
1w ago
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
1w ago
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials apparently has crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of his country. It sparked a massive rescue operation Sunday in a fog-shrouded forest as the public was urged to pray. Raisi ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
1w ago
President Joe Biden has offered his most direct recognition of the anguish American college students are feeling over the Israel-Hamas war. Biden said during a commencement address Sunday at historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta that he has heard the ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
1w ago
An Israeli airstrike has killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting again rages across the north. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from the two other members of his War Cabinet over the war that ..read more
The Frederick News-Post » Politics
2w ago
The corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has begun in Manhattan federal court as dozens of prospective jurors who claimed jury service would be a hardship were questioned one by one over a six-hour stretch. The questioning by a judge ..read more