Washington — Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who led the effort to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last fall, will easily defeat a McCarthy-linked primary challenger Tuesday, CBS News projects. With about 72% of the votes counted, Gaetz was leading challenger Aaron Dimmock, a former Navy officer, by a margin of 71% to […]
Jerusalem — In interviews over the weekend, President Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disregard for the “innocent lives being lost” amid his country’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel.” Netanyahu said Mr. Biden was “wrong on both counts,” claiming that both his political and military […]
A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former president’s attempt at an end-run around the state court where he was convicted and is set to be sentenced in two weeks. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruling — just […]
