A Midtown Manhattan mixed-use skyscraper tied to the Trump Organization
The BBC has asked a Florida federal court to allow subpoenas to be served on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in President Trump’s $10bn defamation suit over a 2024 Panorama edit. The BBC says the trio have "personal knowledge" about the January 6, 2021 speech; Trump’s lawyers argue service is blocked by Secret Service protection and call the effort politically motivated.
The Supreme Court has refused to rehear Donald Trump’s defamation and sex-abuse verdict cases involving E. Jean Carroll. The latest order leaves the $5 million defamation verdict intact and maintains a separate $83.3 million defamation award under review. The decision follows two earlier denials of petitions to reconsider.
The president has repeated a personal story that he was at the World Trade Center site after the 2001 attacks, saying firefighters lifted him from the U.S. Steel Building as it "creaked." First responders who were on the scene have said they never saw him there. He has continued to insert himself into anniversary remembrances while praising the country's strength.
The Queen's estate home has traded hands multiple times since its construction in 1940. It has recently sold for $1.93 million after a lengthy period of neglect and renovation. The buyer, Trump Birth Home LLC, has moved to update the property that previously fetched higher prices in the market.
Rep. Robert Garcia has launched an oversight inquiry after ProPublica reported that Russian boxing official Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr.'s May wedding weekend in the Bahamas. Garcia has requested documents from the White House and Trump Jr., seeking communications, financial records and guest lists tied to Kremlev's payments.
Sen. John Curtis has asked the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. over his business ties, foreign gifts and a Russian oligarch-funded wedding party. Curtis has demanded the same scrutiny for Hunter Biden and cited reporting that Umar Kremlev paid substantial costs for Trump Jr.'s Bahamas celebrations in May.