Donald Trump’s campaign took flight in the spring of 2023 for the least expected reason: A New York prosecutor indicted him for secretly paying an adult-film actress to hide an alleged adulterous tryst from voters. Rather than recoil, Republicans showered his campaign with fundraising, attention and rising poll numbers. Even his most bitter party rivals — including former vice president ...
The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is resigning after five tumultuous years capped by a new draft report by an independent watchdog group that found she tried to obstruct the largest of multiple investigations into her office. Gail Ennis, a Trump administration appointee who took office in January 2019, announced her departure in an email to her staff of 500 ...
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia announced Friday that he has changed his party registration to independent, fueling speculation he could run for office again in November after announcing his retirement last year. “My commitment to do everything I can to bring our country together has led me to register as an independent with no party affiliation,” Manchin ...
Thousands of Florida residents lose their right to vote every year when they are convicted of a felony. But by a quirk of the law, Florida resident Donald Trump likely will be able to cast a ballot in November despite his convictions this week. If the former president had been convicted in Republican-dominated Florida or most other states, he would ...
Toward the beginning of Donald Trump’s long, meandering Friday morning news conference against his criminal conviction the previous afternoon, he offered a familiar criticism of his unfortunate position. “It was a rigged trial,” he said, listing off complaints about the circumstances of the charges and the trial and the district attorney. Later in the diatribe, he returned to this idea: ...
The responses from most Democratic officials were restrained, even somber in tone, after a jury found former president Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial. “The verdict speaks for itself,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted Thursday, echoing many of his colleagues. But still, there were some Democrats who expressed ...
Here’s a quick review of statements made Friday by former president Donald Trump at Trump Tower, in order. Some of these claims we have examined before. We’ll keep the focus on his hush money case, not his other falsehoods. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, related to a $130,000 payment that then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen ...
Americans in 2024 again have a source of news that they agree is reliable and to which they turn regardless of party or age: the Weather Channel. After that, though? It’s a dogfight. Last May, YouGov released polling showing that the Weather Channel was afforded respect and viewership uniformly by Americans — a noteworthy achievement attributable to the most controversial ...
There is a reason that numbers nerds tend to like elections and sports: Each involves competition that can be tracked in intimate detail through data. There’s a human element, sure, voters voting and athletes athleting. But those activities aggregate into scads of data emerging over decades — data that can be pored over, reformed, dug through and assembled. In the ...
Repeated mishaps with the Pentagon’s Gaza pier have triggered new scrutiny over whether it is safe and sensible to continue using the floating operation to bring humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians, with the Biden administration insisting it can salvage the mission and former military officials split on whether doing so is wise. Deliveries over the pier were suspended Tuesday after ...