PHILADELPHIA — As former President Donald Trump stood on a stage in the sand in Wildwood, he spoke to a sea of his fiercest fans gathered at the foot of Wildwood’s famous Great White roller coaster.

They poured onto the Wildwood beach hours earlier. Many came in pickup trucks decked out in Trump flags, with license plates from up and down ...Read more

Donald Trump pledged to double down on tax cuts if he wins a second term as president, drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden who has called for tax hikes on businesses and the richest Americans.

“Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut,” Trump said at a...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar won the DFL's stamp of approval during an endorsing convention in Minneapolis on Saturday, giving her the party's backing as she heads into a highly anticipated primary election rematch against Don Samuels.

Omar's voice broke with emotion Saturday afternoon as she thanked convention goers for supporting her....Read more

Donald Trump said Nikki Haley isn’t under consideration to be his running mate as the former president sharpens his focus on possible vice presidential candidates.

Trump’s comment on his social media platform followed an Axios report earlier Saturday that his campaign has been actively considering Haley, who served as his ambassador to the ...Read more

The world’s first conference on the abolition of torture drew more than 300 delegates representing over 70 countries and international organizations. It opened with the news that the United Nations General Assembly had passed a resolution condemning torture, along with a personal message from the U.N. secretary general.

Amnesty ...Read more

President Joe Biden raised millions of dollars for his reelection bid in Silicon Valley on Friday as he poked at former President Donald Trump and argued that his campaign was being underestimated.

“The press doesn’t want to write about it, but the momentum is clearly in our favor, with polls moving toward us and away from Trump,” he said...Read more

Susquehanna International Group LLP (SIG), the Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based, multinational trading firm headed by Jeffrey Yass, sold its shares in the company now called Trump Media & Technology Group after the former president's social-media business went public in March, according to data SIG reported May 7 to the Securities and Exchange ...Read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decried “the nastiness and the lies” he and his wife Ginny have “had to endure” in recent years.

“There’s certainly been a lot of negativity for my wife and I in the last few years,” Thomas said Friday at a conference of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Friday to oust First Vice Chairman Brian K. Pritchard from his leadership position after a judge ruled he voted illegally nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence.

The decision by 86% of the Republican Party’s state committee removes Pritchard, a ...Read more

The release from prison of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Dec. 6, 2023, has sparked concern over Peru’s commitment to human rights.

The move came a a day after the Constitutional Tribunal of Peru ruled that the 85-year-old, who was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, be freed on humanitarian and ...Read more

Former President Trump Friday vowed to roll back protections for transgender students “on Day One” if he wins the November election.

The ex-president told a conservative radio show that he would reverse an order recently enacted by President Biden that would prohibit discrimination in education on the basis of sexual orientation or gender ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the Donald Trump hush money trial wrapped up for the week Friday, New York Supreme Justice Merchan warned the DA to get Trump’s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen to dial back his posting on social media about Trump and the case.

Cohen has been outspoken about his feelings on his former boss ahead of his expected appearance next ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s primaries feature a multimillionaire House member and and a multimillionaire governor vying for open Senate seats in Maryland and West Virginia, while a multimillionaire Nebraska senator is funding a super PAC to aid a potentially vulnerable House colleague.

Of course, money does not guarantee success, and the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Leave it to Jon Stewart to put Donald Trump’s hush money trial into a very unique perspective.

The Emmy Award-winning funnyman ripped the obsessive media coverage of testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels during the former president’s New York City court proceedings this week.

“It has been another big week of wall-to-wall, ...Read more

ATLANTA — After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 allowing states like Georgia to institute abortion bans, states with abortion bans or restrictions started attracting fewer medical residents, the new doctors who work in training at academic hospitals.

Court decisions in 2022 and 2023 including by Georgia’s state ...Read more

NEW YORK — A bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money trial resumed.

Former top White House aide Madeleine Westerhout, who famously lost her job after saying she had a better ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio once called Donald Trump a “con artist” too “dangerous” and “erratic” to be entrusted with nuclear codes. But in a few months, Rubio could be calling Trump something else: his running mate.

The Florida Republican was one of a few people on Trump’s vice presidential shortlist who attended a ...Read more