Month: January 2025

Faced with the never-before-seen dilemma of how, when or even whether to sentence a former and future U.S. president, the judge in President-elect Donald Trump ‘s hush money case made a dramatic decision that could nevertheless bring the case to a muted end. In a ruling Friday, Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan scheduled the sentencing for 10 days before Trump’s inauguration — but the judge indicated that he’s leaning toward a sentence that would amount to just closing the case without any real punishment. Trump wants the conviction thrown out and the case dismissed, and communications director Steven Cheung said the president-elect will “keep fighting.”

A major winter storm forecast to produce heavy snow, significant ice and frigid temperatures was set to begin in the central U.S. on Saturday and move east over the next several days, according to the National Weather Service. A large system made landfall along the West Coast on Friday afternoon, bringing rain to the Pacific Northwest with snow expected in the Cascade Mountains, according to meteorologists.

Saturday and Sunday are First Alert Weather Alert Days due to snow and ice in the forecast.

The bomber left digital notes on a charred mobile phone in the rented Cybertruck, which he detonated outside the Trump International Hotel on January 1.

Kareem Badawi, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama, tragically died in a New Orleans terrorist attack.

Explosives experts told BI the design of the explosives that detonated outside the Trump Hotel didn’t appear sophisticated.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar set fire to his New Orleans rental property in an effort to destroy bomb-making evidence prior to the attack, the FBI and the ATF said.

During the chaos of the attack, Jeremy Sensky was struck by the speeding truck on bourbon, breaking both legs and throwing him from his wheelchair.

Lawmakers reminded Johnson they have the numbers to remove him from the speakership if needed.