Reporters with a coveted assigned seat had to arrive around 7 a.m. for the court sessions that started at the earliest around 9:30 a.m. If competing for a seat in the overflow room, however, reporters started arriving as early as 3 a.m. There was a shared camaraderie among journalists on the line. ( Photo: Marie Pohl) Reporting from Inside the Trump Hush Money Trial On the morning of May 30, in a serendipitous gesture, one of the reporters on the press line handed out fortune cookies as... News 06 Jun 2024 | 01:41
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Cliffords, is introduced by Andrew Barret Cox, at a viewing party at the Three Dollar Bill for a new documentary about her life entitled “Stormy.” Photo: Marie Pohl Stormy Daniels Storms Into Town Ahead of Latest Trump Trial As the criminal trial against former president Donald Trump inches closer to a start date, one of the principal witnesses... News 23 Mar 2024 | 01:48
Michael D. Cohen, a lawyer once known as Donald Trump’s “fixer” is testifying against him in the civil fraud trial that NYS Attorney General Letitia James is pursuing vs the former president at a downtown Manhattan courthouse. Photo (from 2019): The Circus/You Tube Wikimedia Commons Cohen, Former Trump “Fixer” Testifies at Fraud Trial of Ex-President in NY Trial (AP)–Donald Trump`s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen faced off with him at the former president`s civil fraud trial Tuesday,... News 25 Oct 2023 | 01:03
Donald Trump said he is being unfairly targeted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James in the business fraud trial that began on Oct. 2 and could last until December. Photo: Michael Vadon/Wikimedia Commons Trump at Opening of Fraud Trial Denounces It As a “Scam;” Trial Could Last Until December (AP)–The fraud lawsuit that could cost former President Donald Trump control of some of his most prized properties went... News 03 Oct 2023 | 12:45
Donald Trump is appealing a Judges ruling in his New York Civil Trial which ordered him to place some his companies into receivership in New York due to what was ruled to be years of fraud. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons NY Judge Rules Trump Committed Fraud in Building Real Estate Empire (AP)–A judge ruled on Sept. 26 that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted... News 28 Sep 2023 | 12:04
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C on February 10, 2011. ( Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wiki Commons ) Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump in a writer`s sex abuse and defamation case (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the former president’s... News 21 Jul 2023 | 03:46
A former federal district court was appointed to hear arguments from attorneys for Donald Trump that the criminal case against his businesses now being prosecuted in NYS court should be transferred to federal district court. Photo: Wikimedia commons. Former Federal Judge to Decide Whether Trump Can Transfer DA’s Criminal Case to Fed Court NEW YORK (AP) A judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks... News 08 May 2023 | 12:54
One of the lawsuits filed by former magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in which she claims she was raped by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s will go ahead as scheduled on April 25, a Judge ruled, denying a request by Trump’s attorney for a one month “cooling off period.” Trump denies he ever met Carroll. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Judge: If news taints rape-trial jurors, Trump shares blame NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump’s rape trial will begin next week as scheduled after a federal judge on Monday rejected his... News 18 Apr 2023 | 04:45
Stormy Daniels, who said she was paid $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about a one night stand with Donald Trump, has met with prosecutors in the Manhattan DAs office but has not yet testified before the grand jury that on March 15th heard its second day of testimony from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Photo: © Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com, Wikimedia Commons Cohen Gives 2nd Day of Testimony to Grand Jury Probing Trump payments to porn star Stormy Daniels NEW YORK (AP) - The New York grand jury investigating Donald Trump was hearing more testimony Wednesday from Michael Cohen,... News 16 Mar 2023 | 04:08
NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (third from right) describes the clean-up operation at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in lower Manhattan to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (second from left) on Nov. 14, 2001. Photo: Department of Defense photo by R. D. Ward, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Giuliani’s Fall from America’s Mayor to Trump Sycophant There came a moment when Michael Bromwich began to think this was not the Rudolph Giuliani he had worked with to prosecute... News 31 Dec 2022 | 05:01
Poster for Max Marie’s performance at The Delancey. Photo: Diana Yee NY Life – Court by Day, Club by Night She sings the songs and writes them, too – She’s Max Marie, a NYC-based independent artist whose soulful energetic pop sound... Voices 06 Nov 2022 | 01:47
Donald Trump in late 1985 with model of “Television City,” a development proposal for the former West Side rail yards, now Riverside South. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Made in NYC One of the great ironies of the Trump era is how utterly many New Yorkers would love to disown him even though he is very... News 19 Oct 2022 | 06:37
Steph Del Rosso, writer of “53% OF.” Photo: Ella Pennington Old Venue Reopens With New Take On Women “I have many, many supporters. They’re all fantastic people. But they’ve had to deal with some very very bad things I’m gonna... City Arts 14 Jul 2022 | 03:41
Protesters in Washington Square Park on June 24. Photo: Leah Foreman Grief and Anger Over Roe June 24 felt like a usual Friday at first. The summer air hot, yet welcoming. The birds chirping, the horns honking, the... News 25 Jun 2022 | 12:36
Perfecting COVID Pills That giant whoooshing sound you heard last Thursday was not an approaching Atlantic hurricane. It was the global sigh of... News 05 Nov 2021 | 11:59