Donald Trump addressed the media Monday and said he will have to miss his youngest son’s high school graduation.

The former president was in court once again Monday and after the first day of his hush money trial, he addressed the media waiting for him outside the courtroom.

After thanking the media for being there, Trump first addressed the...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's claim that the FBI violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights by seizing his cellphone at a Hardee's drive-thru two years ago.

The court revealed Monday that it had denied a request from Lindell to hear his appeal of a decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Court ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday for jury selection at his historic hush money trial — the first criminal trial of a former president. The trial is the culmination of a multiyear investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Trump and his alleged efforts to influence the results of the 2016 presidential...Read more

NEW YORK — A small crowd of a few dozen flag-waving Donald Trump supporters mixed with a smattering of anti-Trump protesters outside Manhattan Supreme Court as the historic first criminal trial of a former U.S. president kicked off Monday.

Andrew Giuliani, son of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, stood among the fans of his “uncle figure�...Read more

ATLANTA — A federal judge has rejected Rudy Giuliani’s request for a new trial in a defamation case brought by two former Fulton County election workers.

In December, a jury in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia awarded Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss more than $148 million in damages because Giuliani falsely and repeatedly accused...Read more

NEW YORK — The key characters in Donald Trump’s hush money case — including Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, Michael Cohen, David Pecker, and Allen Weisselberg — all have interesting stories to tell about their roles in the infamous scheme.

Prosecutors allege the notorious hush money plan started with an August 2015 meeting at Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Trump made history last year as the first of the nation's chief executives to be indicted for a crime.

This week, he will add another chapter — becoming the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges.

And later this year, he could top even that if he becomes the first candidate with a criminal ...Read more

President Joe Biden loitered around the House floor after his State of the Union address last month, chatting and taking selfies with Democratic lawmakers as he basked in the limelight.

Rep. Sharice Davids wasn’t one of them. The Kansas Democrat steered clear of the throng surrounding the president and left the chamber shortly after the ...Read more

It has now been more than two years since German Chancellor Olaf Scholz entered a new compound word into the jargon of global politics: “Zeitenwende.”

Scholz’s Zeitenwende speech of Feb. 27, 2022 – the word loosely translates as “turning point” – came as the world was coming to grips with Russia’s full-scale invasion ...Read more

When former President Donald Trump soon returns to court in New York City, there are likely to be few visual surprises. Trump’s hush-money trial before New York Judge Juan Merchan is scheduled to start with jury selection on April 15, 2024.

Monday’s scene will likely echo the one from 2023, when Trump walked past cameras into a ...Read more

Democrats have a tendency to elevate short-term political gain above more comprehensive strategies — sometimes with results they later regret. Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” on federal judges comes to mind as an example of a gambit that came back to backfire spectacularly on the party.

Are they on the verge of doing the same thing again?...Read more

It has all the el­e­ments of a high-pro­file con­gres­sio­nal race in No­vem­ber: pro­voc­a­tive ads, mil­lions of dol­lars in fund­rais­ing and cam­paign spend­ing, and two can­di­dates — a fa­vored in­cum­bent and de­ter­mined chal­lenger — who have ex­changed ver­bal blows over na­tional hot-but­ton is­sues, ...Read more

For decades, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a “shadow war.”

Falling short of direct military confrontation, this conflict has been characterized by war through other means – through proxies, cyber attacks, economic sanctions and fiery rhetoric.

Events over the last few weeks in the Middle East have, however, ...Read more

Donald Trump has proven to be a master of turning legal lemons into political lemonade — and he’s on track to do the same thing when he finally goes on trial Monday in the Manhattan case stemming from hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and others.

He is certain to use the trial as a platform to promote his now-familiar ...Read more

Donald Trump is poised to become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial, a watershed moment for American democracy as the Republican nominee fights a divisive battle to retake the White House.

The New York trial starting Monday over the alleged falsification of business records to conceal a sex scandal during Trump’s 2016 ...Read more

Nearly two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five witnesses: “Hang with us.”

Federal lawmakers face a year-end deadline to solidify or scuttle an array of COVID-era payment changes for telehealth services that include allowing people to stay in their homes to ...Read more

Former President Donald J. Trump told thousands of supporters at a campaign rally in Lehigh County on Saturday night that Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a symptom of U.S. “weakness” and would never have happened if he were still president.

“God bless the people of Israel; they’re under attack right now,” Trump said, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday continued to hammer Arizona's new abortion ban and former President Donald Trump's role in overturning Roe v. Wade during a surprise appearance in Century City.

"Here's the thing about what they're doing and the cruelty of it: No exception in some states even for rape and incest. You are ...Read more