Washington — A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s closure of a historic golf course and park in Washington, D.C., that President Trump wants to overhaul into a new “world class championship” course. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ruled that the Trump administration cannot close East Potomac Park and its golf course, but…
A U.S. federal judge denied a motion on Tuesday to dismiss President Trump’s defamation case against the BBC, allowing the case to proceed. In December 2025, Mr. Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, the U.K.’s public broadcaster, over a documentary that featured edited parts of the speech he delivered on…
Washington — A federal judge said President Trump must sit for a deposition with lawyers for the BBC by Dec. 11 as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett set the deadline during a hearing in Miami on Thursday morning, according to the Associated Press. The judge…
Erin Moriarty: Trysten, where are we? Trysten Mullis: We’re at the farm that I grew up on. This is where … me and my brother and sister grew up … these big white buildings here are the hog barns. Trysten Mullis, along with his younger siblings Taylor and Wyatt, and his parents Todd and Amy,…
Washington — President Trump has formally invoked executive privilege to shield certain records from Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio as part of her ongoing legal challenge to the president’s effort to temporarily shutter the Kennedy Center for renovations. White House deputy counsel Joshua Hoyt informed a federal judge on Wednesday of Mr. Trump’s formal…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a dispute involving a government watchdog group’s attempt to get information from the Department of Government Efficiency as part of a fight over whether the controversial cost-cutting entity is subject to public records law. Arguments in the case, U.S. DOGE Service v. U.S. District…
Businessman Eric Deters said he has “no doubt it was pay to play,” claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle’s Senate confirmation hearing. …
Smith has sat down to answer lawmakers’ questions about the cases involving Mr. Trump twice before. In December, he testified for more than eight hours during a closed-door deposition before the House Judiciary Committee. During that deposition, Smith was asked about subpoenas his team issued for toll records for certain members of Congress. He told…
The use of artificial intelligence in the courtroom is drawing fresh attention after plaintiffs in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit claimed an expert witness used ChatGPT to create more than 80% of his expert report. In the Texas lawsuit filed by victims of a massive factory explosion there, the expert witness fell under intense scrutiny after plaintiffs’…
Washington — The House Oversight Committee voted 41-0 to recommend holding billionaire investor Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas as part of its investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. Black, a former business associate of the convicted sex offender, did not comply with subpoenas to appear before the committee on Sept. 3…
