A Federal Judge Has Gone to Great Lengths to Make Clear Trump Really Did Rape E. Jean Carroll
Elizabeth Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors…
Trump Still Won’t Behave In Court
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump muttered and snarled his way through a second day in a federal courtroom in New York, where he was to observe the proceedings of the $10 million defamation lawsuit filed against him by writer E. Jean…
Panama Tried to Close a Hated Mine. Not So Fast, Said Foreign Investors.
A demonstrator holds a sign that reads: “Yes to life, no to the mine,” during a protest against a mining contract between First Quantum Minerals of Canada and Panama’s government over the Cobre Panamá copper mineArnulfo Franco/AP/Canada’s National Observer This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
Trump Ends His Fraud Trial By Lashing Out at the Judge—Again
Trump closed out his New York civil fraud trial with a bang.Laura Brett/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Trump ended his $370 million civil fraud trial in a New York City courtroom today the same way he participated in much of it:…
Trump’s Own Appointees Will Decide If He Stays on the Ballot. That’s a Good Thing.
Donald Trump announcing his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme CourtAlex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Donald Trump’s lawyers head to the Supreme Court next month, they’ll be making their case to some familiar faces: three justices that Trump appointed. On…
How the Junk Science of Hair Analysis Keeps People Behind Bars
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death…