RawStory

U.S. News

Major storm could bring heavy snow from coast to coast: forecast

A massive storm could dump snow across the nation "coast to coast" in the first week of 2024, a new forecast shows.

MSNBC meteorologist Bill Karins Monday detailed the 5-day journey of a strong storm that one computer model shows traveling across country until it hits the East Coast on Sunday, he said.

Keep reading... Show less

Legal expert on why conservative lawyers' brief could kill Trump's J6 court delays

Former prosecutor and longtime legal analyst Harry Litman walked through the amicus brief filed by a group of conservatives and American Oversight, which cites the late Justice Antonin Scalia in a decision that could upend Donald Trump's desperation to delay his trial.

Taking to social media on Sunday after a follower asked him to explain it in simple terms, Litman said that the way Scalia wrote his majority decision would force Trump's appeals and delays to wait until after the trial is held.

Keep reading... Show less

Infant formula recalled in the U.S. after Israel’s testing found contamination

Six batches of infant formula got recalled in the United States market after Israel’s Ministry of Health found cronobacter contamination in formula made in a U.S. facility.

Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula powder can be fed to any child, but is designed mainly to be fed to babies with a cow’s milk allergy.

Keep reading... Show less

Justice John Roberts ignores Supreme Court ethics in end-of-year report

The reputation of the Supreme Court flowed quickly down the drain in 2023 as more reports detailed the scandalous breach of ethics unfolding at the High Court. The final report of the year from Chief Justice John Roberts left out mounting questions for the top judiciary and problems about whether the body is too far gone to repair its image.

Washington Post columnist Ann E. Marimow wrote Sunday that the yearly report from Roberts left out a lot, and it's not going to help as the Court enters 2024.

Keep reading... Show less

Wall Street Journal editor schools Fox about Biden's 'better and better' economy

The Wall Street Journal is known for its far-right leanings, but on New Year's Eve associate editor John Bussey revealed to Fox viewers that the top issue in 2024 will likely be the economy, and Joe Biden is winning.

He began by citing former President Donald Trump's criminal prosecutions he'll be facing in 2024 after already being found to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll by a civil court.

Keep reading... Show less

Ex-GOP strategist predicts what will happen if a Republican president pardons Trump

Lincoln Project co-founder and former Republican strategist Rick Wilson lambasted GOP presidential candidates on Sunday for being too scared to hold Donald Trump accountable if he's found guilty of felonies with which he's charged.

Among the questions Republican candidates are getting is whether or not they would pardon Trump were he to be convicted of federal crimes by a jury. Both former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that they would.

Keep reading... Show less

Legal expert details just how fast the Supreme Court will take up Trump's immunity

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman told MSNBC on Sunday that he expects the timeline for Donald Trump's "absolute immunity" claim to move quickly.

He began by saying that the appeals court is likely to strike down Trump's claim because the presidential immunity details that the action must be within the context of the job as president.

Keep reading... Show less

'Wrong side of history': GOP's Tom Cotton destroyed after blaming modern Dems for slavery

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was soundly trounced on social media Thursday when he tried to use Nikki Haley's flub about the Civil War to attack Democrats.

Cotton said that the Civil War began because Democrats supported slavery over the Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Over and over fact-checkers have said that Republicans may have supported the union in the war, but the parties shifted over time as the Civil Rights and Equal Rights Movement spread across the South. People of color demanded the right to vote without intimidation, eat in the same restaurants, use the same water fountains, and attend the same schools as whites.

Keep reading... Show less

'Bad things somehow help the Trump campaign': Ex-Pence adviser warns about ballot removal

Allison Gill's Thursday podcast, "The Daily Beans," addresses the Colorado 14th Amendment lawsuit and the impending case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Speaking to former Homeland Security adviser to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye, Gill explained that if the Supreme Court doesn't weigh in on the case in time, the Colorado Supreme Court said that Donald Trump must appear on the ballot anyway, despite its ruling.

Keep reading... Show less

'Blow it off the map': Lindsey Graham urges Biden to war with Iran

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is encouraging President Joe Biden to war with Iran after a drone attack injured three American soldiers in northern Iraq.

The Iranian-aligned militia group Kataib Hezbollah has claimed credit for the attack in response to an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Damascus that killed one of its top generals, Seyed Razi Mousavi, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Biden responded with targeted strikes against the Iranian-backed group.

Keep reading... Show less

GOP wins Georgia redistricting that gives party advantage with ‘Black district'

A Georgia judge has ruled that the Republican legislature's new electoral map that creates a majority-Black voting district and gives the GOP an advantage satisfies the Voting Rights Act,

The news was also posted on social media by Michael Li, a redistricting lawyer for the non-profit law and public policy institute Brennan Center.

Keep reading... Show less

Appeals court denies Donald Trump's attempt to delay E. Jean Carroll case

Donald Trump wanted to pause his defamation case with E. Jean Carroll while he fights his claim of "absolute immunity" at the appeals court and U.S. Supreme Court, but he lost the effort in court Thursday.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request by Trump to put everything on hold while the immunity claim goes through the court, as was done in his Washington, D.C. election subversion case, posted legal analyst Allison Gill.

Keep reading... Show less

For second week in a row Meghan McCain claims The View is obsessed with her

For a second week in a row, former co-host of "The View" Meghan McCain complained about something Ana Navarro said during a pre-Christmas appearance on the show.

The discussion earlier this month was about Hunter Biden and the way some people use their name for "influence-peddling."

Keep reading... Show less