Former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict in the New York hush money case is poised to energize his loyal base and motivate Republicans, and some independents, in key swing states to turn out in big numbers to support him in the presidential election.

A New York man has pleaded guilty to making 12,000 calls to harass members of Congress, including some that involved threats.

Former U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly is stepping down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and returning to Indiana two years after assuming the role.

A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all counts in the first criminal conviction of a U.S. president.

The National Association of Broadcasters is pulling a prize it had planned to give Robert De Niro next week to honor his charitable and philanthropic work.

The term “kangaroo court” has seemed an apt and amusing term to apply to the trial of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan during the past month. But now that, for the first time in history, a former president has been found guilty of felony indictments, it cannot be regarded as anything other than a […]

The most brazen and carefully orchestrated political persecution in the history of the United States was just given a rubber stamp of approval by 12 New Yorkers who delivered 34 guilty verdicts against former President Donald Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Judge Juan Merchan boldly colluded in a state courtroom to […]

DOES ‘GUILTY’ VERDICT CHANGE THE RACE? Former President Donald Trump’s supporters, nearly all of the Republican base plus millions who see Trump as a better choice for the White House than President Joe Biden, will see the guilty verdict against Trump in New York as deeply unfair and deeply politicized. But Alvin Bragg, the Democrat […]

The guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial shows how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has helped warp New York City’s justice system. Bragg’s case against Trump was nothing more than a bookkeeping crime trumped up into a felony under the theory that Trump purposefully misclassified hush money payments to […]

Former President Donald Trump may have been found guilty of all 34 felony counts levied against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, but the only real crime is not Trump’s supposed falsification of business records — it’s the rigged verdict resulting from a kangaroo court that ought to offend our sense of common decency. […]