Michael Cohen: ‘Yes, I would like to see’ Trump convicted
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the key witness against Donald Trump, conceded under cross-examination Tuesday that he would like to see the former president become a felon and that he feels compelled to go online almost every day to attack
TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban
Eight TikTok creators sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a new law that would force the sale or ban of the popular video app, arguing that the law violates their First Amendment rights by potentially shuttering a medium of communication
Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats
Four years ago, tech adviser Jacob Helberg was raising money within his elite circle for the losing presidential campaign of Democrat Pete Buttigieg. But the pandemic, an artificial intelligence arms race against China, and taking up a crusade to ban TikTok
Blinken sits in with Ukrainian bar band for ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’
KYIV — Neil Young songs aren’t typically used as tools of diplomacy. Tuesday night in wartime Ukraine’s capital, not long before curfew, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deployed a left-handed guitar in the service of supporting Kyiv in its
Biden’s extremely big bet
America’s divided electorate has again advanced President Biden and Donald Trump to the general election to determine who will serve as president starting Jan. 20. The last time the U.S. presidential election was a rematch of the previous election, Dwight D.
Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t been served his Arizona indictment
PHOENIX — Rudy Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney turned lawyer for Donald Trump, has not been served with notice of his indictment by an Arizona grand jury last month related to his alleged attempts to thwart the former president’s 2020
Bannon should report for prison now, Justice Department tells judge
Former Trump political adviser and right-wing podcaster Stephen K. Bannon should report to prison immediately to begin serving a four-month prison term for contempt of Congress now that an appeals court has upheld his conviction, federal prosecutors argued to his
The ongoing violent threat of election denialism
A few days after the 2020 presidential election, Andrew Nickels called an elections clerk in Michigan. He left a voice mail. “We’re watching your … mouth talk about how you think that there’s no irregularities” in the election, he said, according
Deutsche Bank Joins Singapore’s Project Guardian Asset Tokenization Project
Deutsche Bank, a German multinational investment bank, joined Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Project Guardian on asset tokenization Tuesday in a press release. Project Guardian was launched by MAS in 2022 in an effort to fuel collaboration between MAS and
Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo Joins Paxos Board of Directors
Paxos, a leading regulated blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, appointed Christopher Giancarlo, the former Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to its board of directors on May 14. Giancarlo, a respected figure in the financial services industry