It is easy to lose sight of how unusual the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be. It is unusual, most obviously, in that it features the same two major-party candidates who were on the ballot four years ago. It is unusual in that both candidates are broadly unpopular, something that seems standard in the modern era but is ...
The fact that Donald Trump has been indicted four times means we all must use shorthand to differentiate between the cases. So one case is the “classified documents” case. We’ve got the twin federal and Georgia “election subversion” or “Jan. 6” cases. Then there’s the first case charged: the Manhattan “hush money” case, which will also be the first to ...
NEW YORK — An appeals court judge on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s latest bid to delay the start next week of his New York criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business documents to help cover up an affair before the 2016 election. Appellate Judge Cynthia Kern denied Trump’s request to delay the trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday, and a ...
It took little more than a day for Donald Trump’s political gambit on abortion to come undone. On Monday, the former president declined to support any new national law setting limits on abortions. Going against the views of many abortion opponents in his Republican Party, Trump was looking for a way to neutralize or at least muddy a galvanizing issue ...
Federal judges have begun ordering the early release pending appeal of Jan. 6 defendants who challenged their sentences even though the Supreme Court is a week away from hearing arguments on whether a key charge brought against them is legally sound. A Maryland man who carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol will be let go one year into his ...
U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon agreed Tuesday to end a long-running dispute with prosecutors over whether government-agent witnesses in Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal trial should be publicly identified in court filings. Her order was the second time this month she has criticized Justice Department lawyers while ruling mostly in their favor. Special counsel Jack Smith has spent ...
After more than a year of delays, a Florida woman was sentenced Tuesday to one month in prison and three years of probation for stealing and selling President Biden’s daughter’s diary, portions of which were made public shortly before the 2020 general election. Aimee Harris, 41, pleaded guilty in 2022 to providing Ashley Biden’s personal belongings to the conservative group ...
Former president Donald Trump disappointed some supporters this week when he appeared to rebuff pressure to back a federal ban on abortion, declaring in a video that “now it’s up to the states to do the right thing.” But antiabortion activists say they remain confident that Trump will advance their cause if he wins a second term in the White ...
A near-total abortion ban slated to go into effect in the coming weeks in Arizona is expected to have a seismic impact on the politics of the battleground state, testing the limits of Republican support for abortion restrictions and putting the issue front and center in November’s election. Arizona’s conservative Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a near-total ban on abortion, ...
Shares of Trump Media have erased all their gains since they began trading under the ticker DJT last month. As of Monday afternoon, the stock was priced at about $36 — down from a high of $66 seen March 27. But experts say it’s hard to draw any firm conclusions about what the stock price’s movement means. That’s because so ...