A temporary fix allowing President Joe Biden to appear on this fall's ballot cleared the Ohio Senate on Friday as the Republican-dominated Legislature concluded a rare special session.
Donald Trump's lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump's stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump's left in the Manhattan courtroom as the verdict was read - the jury foreman repeating the word "guilty" 34 times.
Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be. But even if it involves time behind bars, that doesn't mean his campaign to return to the White House comes to an end.
Video of the assassination of Mexican mayoral candidate Alfredo Cabrera has shocked America. But that murder on Wednesday was only one of many. Some 30 political candidates have been murdered during the present election campaign, which will see voters go to the polls on Sunday. Mexico’s democracy is held hostage at the intersection of rampant criminality and vast corruption. […]
A lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult film star central to former President Trump’s hush money trial, said Friday that Trump's recent conviction "hit her hard." “I got a pretty instant report from the courthouse,” Attorney Clark Brewster said in an interview on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports. “And so, it hadn't hit the news yet...
Former President Trump’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen took a swing at Trump Friday, after his former boss was convicted in the criminal hush money case. “I want peace,” Cohen said Friday to host Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House." “You can’t have peace when Donald Trump is around, because one of the things he talks...
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a new motion Friday asking the judge overseeing former President Trump's classified documents case to block him from making public statements that could put law enforcement in danger. His latest request mirrors his first, filed last week, pressing Judge Aileen Cannon to issue a narrow gag order based on the former...
Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen, said the judge in former President Trump's hush money trial "totally overreacted" while admonishing him for his courtroom behavior during his testimony. Costello pointed out several instances he believes Judge Juan Merchan targeted him during his time in the Manhattan courtroom. One instance involved the judge allegedly...
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) urged others in the Republican Party to take the recent conviction of former President Trump in his New York hush money case seriously, and to think about what it could mean for the upcoming election. "You had 12 jurors who, from all appearances, really devoted themselves to seeking the...
Trump campaign announces haul of $52.8 million in fundraising in the 24 hours after the former president was found guilty on all counts in his criminal trial.