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Judge in Trump’s hush money trial signals he may fine him again over gag order
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 2: Former U.S. President Donald Trump and attorney Todd Blanche (C) return after a brief break in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 2, 2024 in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an effort to hide a potential sex scandal, both before and after the 2016 presidential election. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges. (Photo by Charly Triballeau-Pool/Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Trump calls judge ‘crooked’ after facing a warning of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
Former US president Donald Trump walks out to speak to the press during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 30, 2024. Judge Juan Merchan, presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial, fined the former president on Tuesday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could result in jail time. (Photo by JUSTIN LANE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN LANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Trump does not rule out building detention camps for mass deportations
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, U.S., 30 April 2024. Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. JUSTIN LANE/Pool via REUTERS
u.s. politics
Judge fines Trump $9,000, threatens jail for contempt in hush money trial
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on April 30, 2024. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Victor J. Blue / POOL / AFP) (Photo by VICTOR J. BLUE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s lead witness in hush money trial
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 26: Former U.S. President Donald Trump (L) appears in court with his attorneys Todd Blanche, and Susan Necheles during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 26, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images)
analysis
Trump’s New York trial is a political spectacle unseen in America since Watergate
David Shribman
u.s. politics
Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield his old friend Trump from damaging stories
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 25, 2024. Trump is back in court to watch his alleged tabloid co-conspirator, former publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, continue testimony about their bid to kill salacious stories that could have derailed the Republican's 2016 White House campaign. (Photo by Spencer Platt / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SPENCER PLATT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Grand jury indicts 18 in Arizona fake elector scheme; Trump is unindicted co-conspirator
FILE - Arizona Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, is sworn in during the opening of the Legislature at the state Capitol, Jan. 11, 2021, in Phoenix. Hoffman is one of 11 Republicans in Arizona who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in the state during the 2020 presidential election were charged Wednesday, April 24, 2024, with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, marking the fourth state to bring charges against "fake electors." (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
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Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after months of wrangling with Republicans
President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
opinion
Will Trump’s first trial change the course of the election?
Eric Posner
u.s. politics
Tabloid publisher testifies he agreed to help be ‘eyes and ears’ for Trump by buying up scandalous stories
Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in New York. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)
u.s. politics
Voter enthusiasm put to the test in battleground state of Pennsylvania
FILE PHOTO: Combination picture showing former U.S. President Donald Trump attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023 and U.S. President Joe Biden participating in a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo/File Photo
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Judge in hush money trial conducts hearing on request to hold Trump in contempt for violating gag order
Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)
u.s. politics
Trump case ‘a criminal conspiracy’ of election fraud, prosecutors argue on first day of historic trial
Former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sits in court on the first day of opening statements in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, U.S. on April 22, 2024.
explainer
U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next
FILE - Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest outside of the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference case. The conservative-majority Supreme Court's next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
u.s. politics
On first day of Trump hush money trial, prosecutors say he corrupted 2016 election
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Pool
world
Donald Trump cancels North Carolina rally because of weather
Former President Donald Trump arrives at his trial, Friday, April 19, 2024, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)
u.s. politics
Opening statements set for Monday in Trump’s hush money case after judge rejects latest bid to delay
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
u.s. politics
Manhattan court selects jury for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial
Former US president Donald Trump holds press clippings as he speaks to the press at the conclusion of the third day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 18, 2024. A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgement of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president. (Photo by Brendan McDermid / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN MCDERMID/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
u.s. politics
In rebuke to RFK Jr., Biden wins Kennedy family endorsement
US President Joe Biden walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 17, 2024, after a 2-day campaign trip to Pennsylvania. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Trump pushes Arizona lawmakers to ‘remedy’ state abortion ruling that he says ‘went too far’
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
world
Arizona abortion ruling upends legal and political landscape from Phoenix to Washington
Arizona state representatives convene on House floor at the Capitol, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Phoenix. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother's life is at stake. (AP Photo/Matt York)
u.s. politics
Biden holds four-point lead over Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: President Joe Biden joins family caregivers, care workers, early childhood educators and advocates to celebrate progress made by care champions while calling for additional legislative action at a rally in Union Station on April 09, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait Action)
world
Timeline of Donald Trump’s upcoming legal dates
Former President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Todd Blanche, right, before a hearing at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, on Feb. 15, 2024. Trump faces four criminal cases, and Blanche is at the center of his defense team. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
u.s. politics
Trump signals support for 15-week national abortion ban
(FILES) Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. Donald Trump said March 17, 2024 he favors a national abortion ban after a certain number of weeks, with exceptions -- but did not confirm how many weeks, leaving his stance on a top US election issue murky. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump urges U.S. Supreme Court to endorse ‘absolute immunity’ for ex-presidents
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during his caucus night watch party in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
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Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison to serve contempt of Congress sentence
MIAMI, FLORIDA - MARCH 19: Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro holds a press conference before turning himself into a federal prison on March 19, 2024, in Miami, Florida. Mr. Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress last year, surrendered at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility to begin serving his four-month sentence after speaking to the media. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Trump says Jewish people who vote for Democrats ‘hate Israel’ and their religion
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
world
Trump fails to secure bond for $454-million judgment in civil fraud case as asset seizures loom
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)
opinion
The Trump-Biden rematch shows how far America’s political parties have fallen
Jason Opal
world
Biden jokes about Trump’s mental fitness at Washington’s Gridiron dinner
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden meets supporters and volunteers during a campaign event at a home in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S., March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
politics
Majority of Canadians are hoping for a Biden win in upcoming U.S. election, poll finds
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 15: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the annual Friends Of Ireland Speaker Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. Biden joined Varadkar and members of Congress for the traditional St. Patrick's Day Friends of Ireland luncheon. The Friends of Ireland caucus was founded in 1981 by the late Irish-American politicians Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-NY) and former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill (D-MA) to help broker peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Judge in Georgia lets prosecutor Fani Willis stay on Trump case but deputy steps down
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)
opinion
Joe Biden’s popularity deficit: It’s not (just) the economy, stupid
Tony Keller
world
Prosecutors say they’re open to delaying start of Donald Trump’s March 25 hush-money trial
Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. A New York judge says Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
u.s. politics
Judge dismisses three of 10 charges against Trump in Georgia 2020 election interference case
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo