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A New York state Supreme Court struck down a Long Island county’s transgender athlete ban on Friday.  The executive order, issued in February by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, was shot down by Judge Francis Ricigliano after ruling that he did not have the authority to deliver one.  “With the stated goal of protecting women’s…

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…

Former President Trump made a negative comment about MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, whom he saw at a New York City courthouse during his first criminal trial and said he looks very bad. “I saw Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSDNC, at the Courthouse today. I haven’t seen him in years,” Trump wrote late Tuesday on his…

Former President Trump faced a new threat in his New York criminal trial on Monday. Judge Juan Merchan raised the possibility that he could send Trump to jail if he continues to violate a gag order. Merchan warned about that possibility after fining Trump for the 10th time for breaking the order, which prohibits the…

Conservative lawyer George Conway said former Trump aide Hope Hicks’ testimony at former President Trump’s hush money trial “absolutely” corroborates his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen’s story about Trump in the case. “She put in Donald Trump’s mouth, the fact that he understood that those payments were made on his behalf before the election by Michael Cohen,”…

A majority of Americans believe former President Trump is being treated differently than most criminal defendants in his hush money case, according to a new CNN poll. Trump’s hush money trial began last Monday, marking the first criminal trial of a former American president. He has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records…

Two of ex-President Trump’s legal cases clashed on Thursday when the Supreme Court had a hearing on his broad arguments for immunity from criminal prosecution while his trial proceeded in New York over a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The Supreme Court case has the potential to derail Trump’s other three…

Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, signaled she does not have high hopes for the former president’s success in the New York hush money trial. “But I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right…

All 10 House Republicans from New York on Monday called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign amid fiery pro-Palestinian protests on campus that have led to mounting criticism of the university’s leadership from all sides. Led by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the members said Columbia’s campus has been overrun by “anarchy” and that…

NEW YORK — A New York judge said Monday that Manhattan prosecutors can bring up several civil lawsuits involving former President Trump if he chooses to testify in his ongoing criminal trial. After listening to arguments on Friday, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that prosecutors can cross-examine Trump about six of the 13 prior court determinations they requested to…