E Jean Carroll has testified that Donald Trump "shattered" her reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. The judge threatened to kick the former president out of the federal court in Manhattan after he was overheard criticising the plaintiff's testimony. This is Ms Carroll's second civil defamation case against Mr Trump. The writer is seeking $10m (£8m). Mr Trump‚ 77‚ has denied her accusation and continues to do so. Last May‚ a jury found him liable...

As the other GOP presidential candidates crisscrossed New Hampshire Wednesday in advance of the first-in-the-nation primary‚ Donald Trump was sitting in a New York district courthouse‚ earning the scorn of a judge who repeatedly warned the former president he would throw him out of the courtroom if Trump couldn’t control his outbursts. Jurors are hearing E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump. And during the morning session Wednesday‚ the former president grumbled out loud during...

For nearly a week‚ frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life painful for electric-vehicle owners‚ with reduced driving range and hours of waiting at charging stations. In Oak Brook‚ Illinois‚ near Chicago‚ on Monday‚ television reporters found Teslas that were running out of juice while in long lines for plugs at a Supercharger station. The temperature hit a low of minus 9 Fahrenheit (-23 Celsius). Outside of Ann Arbor‚ Michigan‚ Teslas were plugged in at six of...

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed inclined on Wednesday to limit or even overturn a key precedent that has empowered executive agencies‚ threatening regulations in countless areas‚ including the environment‚ health care and consumer safety. Each side warned of devastating consequences should it lose‚ underscoring how the court’s decision in a highly technical case could reverberate across wide swaths of American life. Overruling the precedent‚ Solicitor General...

At an undetermined date‚ in an undisclosed location‚ the Biden administration began operating a secretive new court to protect Europeans’ privacy rights under U.S. law. Officially known as the Data Protection Review Court‚ it was authorized in an October 2022 executive order to fix a collision of European and American law that had been blocking the lucrative flow of consumer data between American and European companies for three years. The court’s eight judges were named last November‚...

It seems a long way from the misery of Gaza's shattered buildings. Situated a short walk from the Golden Horn‚ an estuary of the Bosphorus in bustling Istanbul‚ AG Plaza boasts terraces‚ pools and commercial space‚ and is designed to attract tech companies that want to benefit from the city's Commerce University campus. Yet the two places are indeed linked. The glistening project in Turkey's cultural capital was built by a company controlled by what the U.S. Treasury Department describes as...

As Donald Trump strengthens his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination‚ some U.S. allies are worried about an American turn toward isolationism‚ a shift that would reflect an electorate largely focused on domestic issues. That was shown in polling in Iowa where Trump scored an overwhelming victory on Monday‚ with foreign policy the top issue for just one in 10 participants in the state's caucus‚ according to a poll by Edison Research. That compared to four in 10 who...

Israel is accused of having targeted a group of Palestinian civilians with no links to armed groups and who posed no threat to Israeli forces‚ according to witnesses in the occupied West Bank. Seven men - four of them brothers - were killed in an Israeli air strike early on 7 January‚ as they sat around a fire next to the road through al-Shuhada village‚ 10km (six miles) from the city of Jenin. The BBC has spoken to relatives of the men killed‚ witnesses in the area at the time‚ and a...

New filings in the ongoing case against President Joe Biden’s embattled son confirm that the laptop tied to Hunter Biden was‚ in fact‚ his — and that the Justice Department knew it. New York Post reporter Miranda Devine — who has been working on the Hunter Biden story since the very beginning — laid out some of the new details in a thread posted to X. She noted that in addition to the Bidens and the Justice Department being fully aware that the laptop was Hunter’s‚ they had even been able to...

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to side with small fishing companies challenging decades-old precedent that instructs courts to give deference to agency interpretation of laws when the language is ambiguous‚ legal experts said. The court’s conservatives — namely Justices Samuel Alito‚ Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — repeatedly took issue with the government’s inability to define just when the “ambiguity” that requires deference to an agency’s reading of a law kicks in. But the...