Hunter Biden returns to court in California for jury selection in his tax evasion trial

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Hunter Biden’s criminal tax trial starts today in California.

Jury selection for the case involving President Joe Biden’s son stems from special counsel David Weiss’ yearslong investigation charged the first son with three felonies and six misdemeanors.

The allegations, which Hunter pleaded not guilty to, include that the 54-year-old first son owed $1.4 million in taxes, which has since been paid.

Weiss says in the incident that Hunter 'engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019… and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.'

The case will kickoff at the United States District Court for the Central District of California and is presided over by Judge Mark Scarsi.

Hunter Biden departs federal court in Wilimington, Delaware on June 11, 2024 in another case related to an illegal firearms purchase

A smirking Vladimir Putin said Thursday he supported Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election just a day after Washington accused Moscow of tampering with the vote.

'Firstly, (US President Joe) Biden recommended all his supporters support Mrs Harris,' Putin said during a question and answer session at Russia's Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

'Here, we are going to do that too, we're going to support her,' he added, with a wry smile.

'She laughs so contagiously that it shows that everything is fine with her,' the Russian leader said, as members of the public laughed.

'(Former US President Donald) Trump has imposed as many sanctions on Russia as any president has ever imposed before, and if Harris is doing well, perhaps she will refrain from such actions.'

Former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris among veterans a new poll finds just days after the candidates clashed over the ex-president's incident at Arlington National Cemetery last month.

The survey conducted by Change Research and released to The Hill found the Republican presidential nominee leads his Democratic rival 51 percent to 41 percent among veterans.

It also found Trump leads Harris 49 percent to 44 percent among active duty, guardsmen and reservists with just over sixty days to go before the election.

When it comes to the families of veterans, the gap was tighter with Trump up 47 percent to Harris' 45 percent.

Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Reporter

Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance ridiculed former Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Vance focused on Cheney’s support for wars in the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

‘This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other peoples’ children to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that somehow we were going to turn Afghanistan into a thriving liberal democracy and for that, Liz Cheney was willing to kill thousands of your children,’ Vance said, referring to the casualties in the wars that began during her father Dick Cheney’s vice presidency during the George W. Bush administration.

Vance reacted to Cheney’s endorsement during a Turning Point USA rally in Arizona, speaking to Charlie Kirk. He lumped both Harris and Cheney as part of the political establishment who supported wars overseas.

‘Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney make interesting partners,’ he said. ‘They get rich when America’s sons and daughters go off to die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of wins war.’

Cheney voiced her opinion about the 2024 presidential race during an event at Duke University on Wednesday, arguing that as a constitutional conservative she

would support Harris, rather than Trump. She argued Trump posed a ‘danger’ to the United States.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump's speech outlining his economic proposals on Thursday will include recommendations from billionaire Elon Musk.

The policies would introduce even more aggressive slashing of regulations than Trump implemented during his first White House term and wooud likely dramatically rescind unspent funds that President Joe Biden's administration appropriated.

Musk is reccomending the federal government create a government efficiency commission to conduct “a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make “recommendations for drastic reform."

Trump's economic platform outline will come during remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday afternoon.

'I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go,' Musk tweeted this week amid speculation of his role in Trump's economic policies.

Trump has an advantage over Vice President Kamala Harris among voters who think the former president would better handle the economy and inflation crisis.

Donald Trump sparked a wild theory about his upcoming debate with Kamala Harris by claiming that ABC News will help the vice president cheat.

The former president was speaking during a town hall on Fox News Wednesday, when he predicted that the Disney-owned television network would provide Harris with questions for the debate ahead of their showdown.

'They're going to get the questions, I've already heard they're going to get the questions in advance,' Trump told Fox host Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 'I'm not sure it's gonna help her that much.'

Trump and Harris are set for their first debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 10 with ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Trump said he only agreed to the debate at the 'unfair' network because the vice president wouldn't agree to any others.

Historian Allan Lichtman has finally revealed his prediction for the 2024 election winner, after determining that Kamala Harris has met the critical objectives for victory.

The American University professor, 77, has fashioned his own election model that has correctly forecast every presidential winner since 1984.

He relies on an unorthodox system - ignoring the polls and pundits - based on what he calls '13 keys' to the White House, a model he developed in 1981 alongside his geophysicist friend Vladimir Keilis-Borok.

The model is based on 120 years of presidential election outcomes and even enabled Allan to call Trump's unexpected 2016 victory a month before the election.

He then used his tactic to correctly predict the outcome in the 2020 elections.