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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

E. Jean Carroll (center) leaves federal court, Friday, Jan 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

E. Jean Carroll says she will do ‘anything I can’ to help Biden

Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and her lawyer said Monday they intend to make former President Donald Trump pay every cent of the $83 million judgment they secured from a federal jury because of defamatory comments in 2019. Published January 29, 2024

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden seeks Gaza hostage deal in calls with leaders of Egypt, Qatar

President Biden on Friday called the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to discuss the war in Gaza and efforts to release the more than 100 hostages taken and still held by Palestinian Hamas militants during October raids on Israeli towns. Published January 26, 2024

Former President Donald Trump leaves his apartment building, Thursday, Jan 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump bolts New York courtroom amid Carroll trial summations

Former President Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom Friday as lawyers for columnist E. Jean Carroll delivered a summation in her defamation case against the 2024 GOP front-runner, injecting drama in the closing hours of the case before jurors deliberated. Published January 26, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2023. Even for a nation that has perfected the provocative, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s declaration that he would abandon the existential goal of reconciling with rival South Korea was a shock. But a closer look shows it’s the almost inevitable culmination of years of building tension. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. on guard vs. Kim Jong-un’s aggressive tilt

The White House on Tuesday said it's watching North Korea "very, very closely" as dictator Kim Jong-un cozies up to Russia, axes talk of reconciliation with South Korea and seems to prepare for military action. Published January 23, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, center right, stands with his wife Melania, second left, their son Barron, center left, and father-in-law Viktor Knavs, as the coffin carrying the remains of Amalija Knavs, the former first lady's mother, is carried into The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for her funeral, in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump attends mother-in-law’s funeral in Fla. while N.Y. trial resumes

An attorney for ex-President Donald Trump finished her cross-examination of E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who alleges Mr. Trump raped her in 1996, on Thursday while the GOP front-runner attended his mother-in-law's funeral in Florida instead of watching testimony in New York. Published January 18, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump appears at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Judge threatens to eject Trump over verbal shots in New York’s Carroll trial

A New York judge warned Donald Trump he might boot him from his courtroom Wednesday after the former president verbally interjected as columnist E. Jean Carroll testified he raped her in a department store in 1996 and ruined her reputation when she went public with the claim. Published January 17, 2024