Stormy Daniels Takes Witness Stand in Trump Trial as Judge Scolds Prosecutors

Published on May 7, 2024

A key witness took the stand on Tuesday in the so-called “hush money” trial of former President Donald Trump, prompting a response from the judge overseeing the case. Stormy Daniels, an adult film performer whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, appeared on the witness stand again claimed that she engaged in a 2006 affair with the former president. President Trump has categorically denied the encounter ever took place. Prosecutors say that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 to Ms. Daniels during the 2016 campaign in a bid to buy her silence about the alleged affair. At issue is the nature of the payments, and they have argued that the payments were falsely labeled to interfere with the 2016 election, adding that those payments should have been marked as campaign-related expenses....

Continue reading on website
Other news

IN-DEPTH: Biden Risks Losing Key Voter Group Over Campus Protests

May 7, 2024
WASHINGTON—Some Democrats are concerned that the ongoing college protests may jeopardize President Joe Biden’s chances of winning a second term. And there is an ongoing division within the Democratic Party over how to handle these demonstrations.Some want President Biden to take a harder line to quell the protests and combat anti-Semitism on college campuses, fearing that failure to do so could bo

Pentagon’s Drone Program Selects AeroVironment’s Switchblade 600

May 7, 2024
The Department of Defense has announced new details about its Replicator initiative, a project aimed at fielding thousands of all-domain attritable autonomous (ADA2) systems to counter the Chinese regime’s military in a possible conflict.Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced that Switchblade 600—a loitering munition produced by Virgina-based drone maker AeroVironment—is part of the