Donald Trump loses bid for new trial in E. Jean Carroll abuse case
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury found the former U.S. president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the ...
Trump and Johnson are birds of a feather
They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...
Trump’s defense team still taking shape as he appears in court
Donald Trump was accompanied by two of his attorneys on Tuesday when he appeared in a Miami courtroom and pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges. But his defense team ...
Trump risked national secrets, US prosecutors allege in indictment (Updated)
U.S. prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Donald Trump on Friday, accusing the former president of risking some of the country’s most sensitive security secrets after leaving the ...
DeSantis chooses his words carefully in escalating war with Trump
In the first full week of his 2024 presidential campaign, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis worked hard to define himself as a candidate to voters — and just as hard to define the ...
Ron DeSantis joins White House race, launch marred by Twitter failings
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suffered a chaotic start to his 2024 presidential election race on Wednesday when glitches marred an online forum hosted by Twitter owner Elon Musk that was meant ...
US special counsel faults FBI’s handling of 2016 Trump-Russia probe
The FBI lacked “actual evidence” to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and relied too heavily on tips provided by Trump’s political opponents to fuel the probe, U.S. ...
Jury convicts Proud Boys members of seditious conspiracy in US Capitol attack
A jury on Thursday convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group including its former leader Enrique Tarrio of seditious conspiracy, finding they plotted to attack the U....
Trump jurors see new video of ex-president defending lewd “Grab ’em” remarks
Jurors in Donald Trump’s civil rape trial on Thursday saw a video deposition in which the former U.S. president defended private comments he made in 2005 about grabbing women ...
Trump paints doomsday scenario if Biden wins White House again
Donald Trump will use his first campaign event since President Joe Biden officially entered the 2024 election race to portray their differences in stark and apocalyptic terms, arguing a Biden re-election ...
Judge rules Trump free to skip rape accuser’s trial, jurors won’t hear why
Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will not be told his absence was meant to ...
Biden report on Afghanistan blames Trump for degraded US operations
President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of after-action reports on the U.S.’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan that laid blame on his predecessor Donald Trump, saying “...
Trump criminally charged, a first for a US ex-president
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to ...
Who is Stormy Daniels and what did she say happened with Trump?
Here are facts about Sormy Daniels and her alleged relationship with Trump.
STORMY DANIELS, ADULT FILM STAR
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is 44 years old and from Baton ...
Trump to face anonymous jury in high-profile New York defamation trial
A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump will get an anonymous jury in rape accuser E. Jean Carroll’s upcoming defamation trial, citing the threat of juror harassment, ...
Possibility of Trump’s arrest builds sympathy among his supporters
The possibility that Donald Trump may be charged for allegedly covering up hush money payments to a porn star during his 2016 campaign is garnering sympathy for the Republican former president, ...
Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, calls for protests (Updated)
Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as prosecutors consider charges over a hush money payment to a porn star, and ...
Trump cannot exclude ‘Access Hollywood’ tape from rape accuser’s trial
A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to exclude an “Access Hollywood” tape of him making vulgar comments about women from a defamation lawsuit by the ...
US Justice Dept seeks rejection of Trump immunity claim in Jan. 6 lawsuits
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday urged an appeals court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is automatically immune from lawsuits over his supporters’ assault ...
Trump seeks to dismiss rape accuser Carroll’s second defamation claim
Donald Trump on Thursday urged a federal judge to throw out the writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation claim in the second of her two lawsuits against the former U....
Georgia judge to release parts of report on Trump’s efforts to overturn election
Portions of a Georgia special grand jury’s report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election should be publicly released, but any recommendations on criminal charges ...
Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts to be reinstated
Meta Platforms Inc META.O said Wednesday it will reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after ...
Two failed populist coups: compare and contrast
Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia last Sunday, but ...
2022: the year when history began again
Historians will judge 2022 a momentous year. If when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 it heralded the end of history, by that logic Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ushered in ...