Tom Howell Jr.
Articles by Tom Howell Jr.
Biden forms strike force against ‘unfair pricing,’ caps credit card late fees
President Biden on Tuesday formed a strike force to crack down on unfair or illegal pricing by corporations and finalized a rule capping the average credit card late fee at $8 instead of $32, offering a preview of the economic plank of his State of the Union address. Published March 5, 2024
Biden forms strike force to crack down on ‘unfair’ pricing
President Biden is forming a strike force to crack down on unfair or illegal pricing by corporations. Published March 5, 2024
Pentagon online leaker pleads guilty, faces 16 years in prison
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of putting hundreds of highly classified Pentagon documents online in part to impress his gamer friends pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a likely sentence of 16 years in prison. Published March 4, 2024
Former Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty to perjury
Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday to perjury charges related to his testimony in the New York attorney general's probe of the real estate company's finances. Published March 4, 2024
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg expected to plead guilty to perjury: Reports
The former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, is expected to plead guilty Monday to perjury charges over testimony he provided to New York Attorney General Letitia James during her investigation into the finances of former President Donald Trump's real estate company. Published March 4, 2024
White House plans media blitz, widespread travel to promote State of the Union Address message
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to swing states, and the White House will do a media blitz with digital influencers, Hispanic radio and other outlets this week to spread its State of the Union message far and wide. Published March 4, 2024
V.P.? Everyone’s talking about Tim Scott — and he just wants to talk about Trump
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina says his only focus of the 2024 election cycle will be making sure that former President Donald Trump gets four more years in the White House, amid increasing signs the lawmaker is on the shortlist to be the Republican front-runner's pick for vice president. Published February 28, 2024
Witness battles Trump attorney over start of Willis affair; case’s future hinges on judge’s decision
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade's former law partner attempted to walk back his incriminating timeline for when Mr. Wade became romantically involved with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Published February 27, 2024
Hamas, Israel say Biden out of touch with premature cease-fire talk
President Biden has finally managed to unite Israel and Hamas on one point -- both sides say Mr. Biden's prediction of an imminent cease-fire and prisoner-swap deal is wildly optimistic and out of touch with the realities on the ground. Published February 27, 2024
Hamas shoots down Biden’s talk of temporary cease-fire in Gaza
Top Hamas leaders are throwing cold water on President Biden's assertion there is a temporary cease-fire in the works that would get Israeli hostages out of Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan. Published February 27, 2024
DNC runs billboards tying Trump to Alabama’s IVF upheaval
The Democratic National Committee is placing in eight swing states 40 billboards that tie former President Donald Trump's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court to an Alabama ruling that upended in vitro fertilization there. Published February 27, 2024
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seeks limited gag order on Trump before hush money trial
Manhattan prosecutors are seeking a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump to prevent him from intimidating witnesses and jurors ahead of his March criminal trial on charges he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments before the 2016 election. Published February 26, 2024
Trump appeals massive civil judgment against real estate empire
Former President Donald Trump formally notified the New York courts on Monday he will appeal a judgment that found his real estate business liable for rampant fraud and ordered him to pay $364 million in fines. Published February 26, 2024
Ronna McDaniel will step down as RNC chair on March 8
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Monday she will step down in March as former President Donald Trump coasts toward the presidential nomination and shapes the organization to his liking. Published February 26, 2024
Haley-Phillips ticket? He ponders third-party teamwork
Rep. Dean Phillips, the Minnesota Democrat leading a long-shot primary against President Biden, can see being Nikki Haley's running mate if she runs as an independent. Published February 23, 2024
Willis-Wade testimony doubted, thanks to cellphone records
Newly uncovered cellphone records show special prosecutor Nathan Wade visited the Atlanta-area neighborhood where District Attorney Fani Willis lived nearly three dozen times before he was hired by her office in 2021 to work on the election subversion investigation of former President Donald Trump. Published February 23, 2024
Biden announces 500 sanctions against Russia as payback for war, Navalny
President Biden says the U.S. is levying 500 new sanctions against Russia's military capabilities and the persons responsible for imprisoning Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who died earlier this month. Published February 23, 2024
Biden meets with Navalny’s widow and daughter in Calif. ahead of new Russian sanctions
President Biden met with the wife and daughter of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny Thursday ahead of an announcement of major new U.S. sanctions against Moscow on Friday. Published February 22, 2024
Biden condemns Alabama IVF ruling, vows to fight back
President Biden on Thursday drew a straight line between the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the broad right to abortion and a ruling in Alabama that said frozen embryos from in-vitro fertilization treatments are considered children and could be subject to wrongful death suits if destroyed. Published February 22, 2024
GOP contenders grapple with in vitro’s place in abortion debate
An Alabama court ruling that says frozen embryos created by in vitro fertilization are considered children -- and could trigger wrongful death laws if they are destroyed -- is scrambling the fraught politics around abortion in the heat of an election year. Published February 22, 2024