WASHINGTON — Donald Trump relied on a small cadre of wealthy donors to contribute $23.6 million, about one-third of amount he and the Republican Party raised in March, the latest disclosures to the U.S. Federal Election Commission show.

Real estate and aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren and Linda ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden paid $146,629 in federal income taxes on a combined $619,976 in adjusted gross income in 2023 — meaning the first family paid an effective federal income tax of 23.7% — according to tax filings released by the White House.

The amount represents a slight uptick in both income and ...Read more

The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a "Sopranos" episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation's sins and troubling divisions, its characters converging in a New York courtroom where, for the first time in history, a former president will stand before a jury in a criminal trial.

Donald Trump is ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A campaign to overturn Missouri’s near-total abortion ban has raised nearly $5 million as it gathers signatures across the state to force a statewide vote.

The campaign, called Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, has raised $4.98 million since launching its campaign in January, according to the coalition’s quarterly...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial got underway Monday at Manhattan Supreme Court, where the former president was dealt a set of legal blows — when he wasn’t nodding off at the defense table — and a stern warning that he can’t pick and choose when he wants to turn up.

The trial officially got underway at 2:30 p.m. ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit North Carolina this weekend, six days after his criminal trial began in New York City.

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, is scheduled to hold a campaign rally Saturday at Aero Center Wilmington.

Doors open at 3 p.m., and Trump is set to give remarks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Racing against the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda, members of Congress are pressing for a solution for wind turbines that interfere with plane radars before more offshore wind projects are approved.

As turbines continue to expand in size and number, they create clutter on radar systems that increase the false alarm ...Read more

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