The federal government unveiled billions in spending in its 2024 budget, and to help pay for it all, it’s proposing changes to how capital gains are taxed. CBC’s Nisha Patel breaks down how it works and who will be affected.
Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump can dish it out, but he has shown, once again, that he simply cannot take it.As proceedings began Thursday morning in the disgraced ex-president’s criminal hush-money trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche complained to New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan that the gag order put in place to prevent Trump from intimidating witnesses, jurors, and court staff was unfair to his client.“Everybody can say anything they want, except for President Tru
The author of a 2005 book about Trump says one key assumption his attorneys make often turns out to be disastrously wrong.
The Wisconsin political reporter challenged the former president, who has repeatedly made the false claim about his hush money trial.
During the 10th day of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, jurors heard a secret recording made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen that captured his boss talking about a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci, meanwhile, pointed out how the absence of family at the former president's trial is a big deal.
The former president made the chilling remark about the 2024 election to a Wisconsin newspaper.
"It's probably rough," David Urban told CNN's Erin Burnett.
The far-right congresswoman received an awkward reminder during her tour of George Washington University.
The late night host spots a report that the former president “really” doesn’t like.
Time magazine asked Trump whether he was comfortable with the government monitoring pregnant women to prevent abortions. Here's what he said.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Bank of Canada is getting closer to being able to start cutting interest rates from their current 23-year highs, Governor Tiff Macklem said on Wednesday. In testimony to the Senate banking committee, Macklem said inflation was coming down and Canadians wanted to know when the central bank would start cutting interest rates. Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.9% in March, a little higher than the previous month.
Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U.S. forces. The military officers ruling the West African nation have told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from the country, which until a coup last year had been a key partner for Washington's fight against insurgents who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russian forces were not mingling with U.S. troops but were using a separate hangar at Airbase 101, which is next to Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger's capital.
A law firm that has long defended Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses from employment lawsuits has abruptly asked to withdraw from a yearslong case over what it calls an “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.” The firm — LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland — has represented Trump’s political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, helping secure several settlements and dismissals and billing nearly $3 million in th
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down former president Donald Trump’s attorney Emil Bove’s cross-examination of attorney Keith Davidson, a key witness who negotiated the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal hush money agreements.
Western leaders are warning of a Russian attack on NATO. But the Kremlin is playing the long game.
"Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what's actually driving food prices higher in this country."
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Greene’s move is ‘wrong for the Republican Conference, wrong for the institution, and wrong for the country’
WKBW TV/YouTubeDemocratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy on Tuesday won the special election for the New York congressional seat vacated by a retiring Democrat, further narrowing the GOP’s slender majority in the House.Kennedy comfortably defeated his Republican opponent Gary Dickson in the race for the Buffalo-area district seat by a margin of more than 36 percentage points, according to the Associated Press. When Kennedy is officially sworn in to succeed the retiring Brian Higgins, the GOP House m
"BREAKING: Hollywood legend Kurt Russell just said that illegal immigrants should be forcibly deported from America," online posts claimed.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced she was voting against a bill to combat antisemitism, and in her reasoning, she invoked an antisemitic trope. The House voted to pass the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act on a 320 to 91 vote, with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting against the bill. CNN’s Melanie Zanona reports.
