New College scores millions in Florida’s budget amid DeSantis revamp

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida GOP lawmakers this week supported the drastic changes Gov. Ron DeSantis is seeking to transform New College of Florida into a conservative-leaning school by agreeing to send more than $34 million to the school and backing a slate of controversial trustees who are now leading it. The money is meant to provide scholarships for enticing potential...

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In Trump rape trial, both sides rest their cases

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll, the woman who has accused him of raping her, both rested their cases Thursday in the civil trial over Carroll’s battery and defamation lawsuit. Carroll called 11 witnesses since the trial started last Tuesday. Trump’s lawyers called none, and his lawyer said the former president waived his right to testify. But while...

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Biden is expected to tap Air Force chief to be nation’s next top military officer

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Gen. C.Q. Brown, the Air Force’s top officer and the first Black person to lead any branch of the military, to succeed Gen. Mark Milley as the next Joint Chiefs chair, two people familiar with the discussion said on Thursday. If confirmed, Brown would become the second Black Joint Chiefs chair in the nation’s history, after the...

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Opinion | Trump’s Election Denialism Is Already Winning

Presidents of the United States who have lost elections generally don’t go on to dominate their parties and win the office again. Donald Trump has found a work-around, by denying he was defeated in 2020. This effort has been overwhelmingly successful among its target audience of Republican voters and has tilted the playing field of the 2024 nomination battle in his favor. Trump...

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Is Justin Trudeau ready for the fight?

OTTAWA, Canada — Four thousand Liberals have two things top of mind as they huddle here for their biennial convention: Pierre Poilievre and the next election. The Conservative is a feisty and unifying force who wants to be Canada’s next prime minister. He trounced the competition in last summer’s leadership race and mobilized thousands of party members as he heralded a new...

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Sinema and Tillis pitch two-year border patch as Trump-era policy expires

A Trump-era policy is set to expire next week, sparking warnings of an increase of migrants along the southern border. And now, a bipartisan pair of senators is trying to buy the Biden administration more time. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are working on legislation that would grant a temporary two-year authority to expel migrants from the United...

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Trump will not present defense case in Carroll trial

NEW YORK — Donald Trump won’t present a defense case in a civil rape trial in Manhattan federal court, his lawyer said Wednesday. Lawyers for the former president had been poised to call one witness in his defense — a psychiatrist — but that person proved unable to testify due to a medical issue, according to Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina. Trump is being sued by E. Jean Carroll,...

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