On Saturday — two days after a grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump, securing his place in history as the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges — a small group of supporters gathered in Orange County, California, to protest the indictment.

During the gathering near the Huntington Beach Pier on Saturday afternoon,...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City officials plan to close key streets in lower Manhattan as a security measure when former President Donald Trump appears in court on Tuesday to be arraigned, said a person familiar with the situation.

Several streets surrounding the Manhattan courthouse, including Centre Street and Baxter Street, are expected to be ...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese won a historic victory at a by-election in the state of Victoria, becoming the first government in more than 100 years to take a district off the opposition outside a national vote.

The ruling Labor party’s candidate Mary Doyle was set to win the district of Aston in eastern Melbourne, according to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is considering asking to move his criminal case from Manhattan to the more conservative New York borough of Staten Island out of concern that he won’t be able to get a fair trial, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The lawyers haven’t made a final decision and are ...Read more

NEW YORK — In a fiery Saturday address, the Rev. Al Sharpton invoked ex-President Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty in the Central Park Five case — noting the Manhattan mogul will appear in the same courthouse where the exonerated defendants were found guilty.

Sharpton connected the dots between Trump, the 1989 arrests and the ...Read more

On Saturday — two days after a grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump, securing his place in history as the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges — a small group of supporters gathered in Orange County, California, to protest the indictment.

During the gathering near the Huntington Beach Pier on Saturday afternoon,...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Would Florida’s proposed six-week abortion ban be a total ban in practicality?

For a woman to terminate a pregnancy in the six-week time frame under the currently proposed law, numerous steps would need to happen. Here’s a look at the process a woman would face if Florida were to adopt one of the strictest abortion...Read more

SEATTLE — Don't vacation in Idaho.

That's the advice a Washington-based legal advocacy group is telling some abortion providers because of a just-passed Idaho bill criminalizing "recruiting, harboring or transporting" minors for abortions without parental consent.

That's not because this first-of-its kind bill — which calls such aid to ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the 24 hours after former President Donald Trump was indicted in a Manhattan District Court, his campaign was reported to have generated $4 million in donations.

Over 25% of these new funds came from first-time donors, said Trump’s team, adding in a statement that the cash is “further solidifying President Trump’s status ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis seem destined to battle for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Even though DeSantis has not yet announced his candidacy, there’s a new controversy between the two men seemingly every day. This timeline, which we plan to update frequently in the coming weeks and months, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is considering asking to move his criminal case from Manhattan to the more conservative New York borough of Staten Island out of concern that he won’t be able to get a fair trial, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The lawyers haven’t made a final decision and are ...Read more

The news that a Manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment of Donald Trump — the first criminal charge against a former president in the nation’s history — is monumental in itself. We should pause for a moment to appreciate the giant step that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has taken toward accountability for a man who has ...Read more

Indicting a former president on criminal charges is an extremely serious matter. The charges brought against former President Donald Trump Thursday by the district attorney in Manhattan mark the first time that a past commander in chief has ever been indicted with a crime.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg has placed himself in an extraordinarily ...Read more

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Donald Trump, who has shattered nearly every political precedent, is now the first ex-president to be indicted.

The charges, which are thought to be focused on an alleged hush-money payment to...Read more

The criminal indictment of a former president, regardless of the charge, is a momentous and sobering development.

The decision Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury to bring charges against Donald J. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency he falsely says was stolen from him, also raises concerns about possible violence and further ...Read more

The indictment of Donald J. Trump is not a time for his enemies to gloat. It’s not a time for his fervent supporters to violently take to the streets, nor is it a time for the former president to incite them to do so.

It’s a time, rather, to consider how this country reached this stunning point.

It’s not like we didn’t know this was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Manhattan district attorney’s office hit back Friday against “unfounded allegations” from House Republicans that the investigation of Donald Trump was politically motivated, as other members of Congress reacted further in the wake of the first indictment of a former president.

A letter Friday from the office of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ex-President Donald Trump “is no longer untouchable,” porn star Stormy Daniels said Friday in her first interview since Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury.

“This p--sy grabbed back,” she told The Times of London, referring to the now infamous Trump quote “grab ‘em by the p--sy,” during a conversation with ...Read more

CHICAGO — Less than a week before the mayoral runoff election between Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, three CTU members filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the union.

Questioning the union’s approximately $2.2 million in donations to Johnson’s campaign for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump is unprecedented, but only as far as U.S. history goes.

Around the world, numerous former heads of government have ended up in the dock and often behind bars, in democracies young and old.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as president of Brazil on Jan. 1, about ...Read more