NEW YORK — More than six years after his conviction for doing Donald Trump’s dirty work — cementing a bitter rivalry with the man he once said he’d “take a bullet” for — Michael Cohen testified on Monday at the former president’s hush money trial.

Prosecutors called Trump’s former personal lawyer to the stand as the marathon ...Read more

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Srinagar, a city in the volatile region of Jammu and Kashmir, voted Monday in the fourth phase of India’s national elections, amid rising concerns about low...Read more

When Donald Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles tried to discredit the adult film actor Stormy Daniels on the stand during Trump’s hush money trial, she took this absurd position: Assume a sex worker has no integrity.

“You have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real?” Necheles asked.

“Wow,” Daniels said. �...Read more

Here they go again.

Six months before election day, for the third straight presidential contest, Donald Trump and his Republican lickspittles are sounding alarms about virtually nonexistent voting fraud, laying the groundwork to claim that he wuz robbed should he lose to President Biden.

Trump has refused in recent interviews to commit to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A high-ranking White House aide is traveling to Pittsburgh on Tuesday to highlight a massive infusion of federal dollars as President Joe Biden ramps up his pitch to voters that he deserves another four years in office.

The top official is expected to trumpet the nearly $17 billion Pennsylvania has received so far during the ...Read more

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Srinagar, a city in the volatile region of Jammu and Kashmir, voted Monday in the fourth phase of India’s national elections, amid rising concerns about low...Read more

U.S. military assistance is finally on its way to Ukraine after months of being held up in Congress.

Reactions to the US$61 billion spending package, signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024, have ranged from applause to indignation.

While few people could deny it includes ammunition and equipment that ...Read more

There are several ways the oldest president in America’s history could diffuse the sticky issue of his age as he seeks a second term.

He could embrace it with humor, à la Ronald Reagan’s quip at Walter Mondale during the 1984 presidential debate (“I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience�...Read more

Aaron McDonald thinks back to when he came to Maricopa County nearly 20 years ago as a young ironworker hoping to get work building a new football stadium.

Driving in from Wyoming for the first time, he was struck by the overwhelming desert expanse that surrounded Phoenix.

Today, those sweeping vistas are dotted with industrial development ...Read more

Public opinion polls show the Nov. 5 presidential race has tightened in recent days, with President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump running nearly neck and neck. And in case you don’t trust polls, which underestimated Trump’s support in 2016 and 2020, you can check out the latest odds on one of the online gaming sites based offshore ...Read more

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency plans to reclassify marijuana from the most restrictive category — Schedule I, up there with heroin — down to Schedule III, in the company of testosterone and Tylenol with codeine. This does not mean that the federal government is giving its blessing to the use of cannabis as a recreational drug. But it does ...Read more

Rishi Sunak will pitch himself as the best candidate to achieve a “more secure future” for Britain in a political speech designed to re-capture the narrative ahead of the U.K. general election, just over a week after his party suffered heavy losses in local votes.

The prime minister will tell an audience in London on Monday that the country...Read more

On Saturday evening, at his largest campaign rally to date, former President Donald Trump promised the massive crowd on Wildwoods beach that he would cut taxes, reduce inflation, and straighten our country.

And he also praised fictional cannibal and serial killer Hannibal Lecter from the 1991 horror film Silence of the Lambs, and called him a "...Read more

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party won a local election in Catalonia, both affirming his decision to negotiate with the separatist movement in the wealthy Northeastern region and potentially upending his fragile ruling coalition in Madrid.

The regional Socialist candidate Salvador Illa matched expectations Sunday night, ...Read more

Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry.

The presumptive Republican nominee derided offshore wind projects as lethal for birds and whales during his oceanfront rally Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey,...Read more

One of the most bitter political feuds in the nation is expected to culminate in a Manhattan courtroom Monday with a showdown years in the making when Michael Cohen takes the stand at Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial.

Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer — whose payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 ...Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden’s prospects for reelection in November are being depressed by persistent voter concerns over inflation, according to a new poll for the Financial Times.

High prices are one of the biggest financial challenges for 80% of voters, according to the latest FT-Michigan Ross poll released Sunday. Voters are growing less ...Read more

In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant encounter with the beauty of the Grand Canyon, the stupendous chasm in Arizona.

As he stood at the canyon’s rim, the towering intellectual and civil rights activist described the sight that spread before his eyes. ...Read more

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