⠀ July 8, 2026, A federal judge ruled that E. Jean Carroll can receive the $5.8 million awarded to her after a 2023 jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 and later defamed her.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan directed the release of the money from a court escrow account, along with the interest that has accrued since the verdict, after the Supreme Court refused last week to hear the president’s appeal of the 2023 award.
A big shout-out to E. Jean Carroll for making Trump accountable for his actions.
“A president who is concerned about persuading voters would sign the bipartisan housing bill—but he chose not to do that because he doesn’t want to win, he wants to cheat,” says Chris Hayes on Trump derailing the bipartisan housing bill to push his anti-voter legislation.
Ag. Secretary Brags About Kicking 4.5 Million People Off Food Stamps
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has “good news” to share with you: As a result of her oversight at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 4.5 million people have been kicked off food stamps in the past year.
Rollins bragged about the move in an appearance on Newsmax Thursday night.
"The good news: In just one year alone, we've already moved 4.5 million people off of SNAP,” Rollins said, referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as she predicted more hunger to follow.
“We’re going to be pulling more and more people off,” she added.
Rollins then struck a religious tone, ignoring how many people on public assistance do work, but still have trouble making ends meet.
“Frankly part of this is the dignity of work, right?” she said. “This is a great, American, biblical, foundational principle that people should work unless they’re very old or disabled or a child.”
Rollins is no stranger to dubious assertions, having once claimed that food prices have fallen when they were actually rising, and that a meal consisting of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing” costs only $3.00.
An appeals court hinted Pete Hegseth's mission to punish Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding troops they "can refuse illegal orders" is going abso
A federal appellate panel strongly suggested Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's mission to punish Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for reminding troops they "can refuse illegal orders" is going absolutely nowhere.
On the heels of a ruling in the court below that practically begged Hegseth to stop threatening the First Amendment rights of millions of military retirees to punish his boss' political rival over a video, the D.C. Circuit heard the DOJ's best pitch on Thursday for reviving the disciplinary action.
U.S. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Florence Pan, and Cornelia Pillard, respectively appointed by Presidents George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, formed the panel, a fact that Law&Crime pointed out after Hegseth finally filed the promised appeal of his loss. Despite technical difficulties with the court's publicly posted audio stream, Pillard and Pan's grilling of a DOJ attorney was enough to glean which way the wind is blowing.
