No matter who wins the White House, the next president is increasingly likely to face an unusual hurdle in their first days in office: a divided Congress. Each of the last five newly elected presidents has entered office with his party holding the majority in the House and Senate, opening the door to an aggressive agenda. But now, Democrats need ...
With less than 10 weeks before the presidential election, Donald Trump had a message for voters in late August: He would be selling more digital trading cards for $99 each. “Fifty all new stunning digital trading cards — it’s really something,” Trump says in the ad. “These cards show me dancing and even holding some bitcoins.” Buy 15 or more ...
MOSINEE, Wis. — Former president Donald Trump wants to correct the record: Actually, women love him. “Somebody said women don’t like Donald Trump,” the Republican presidential nominee told the crowd at a recent rally in Johnstown, Pa. “That’s wrong. I think they love me, I love them.” Polling says otherwise. President Joe Biden won women by 15 points over Trump ...
Having first attempted to make his case in a court of law, former president Donald Trump on Friday afternoon turned to the court of public opinion. Earlier in the day, he had joined his legal team as they sought to overturn the verdict in the civil trial that found him liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll, an attack ...
Former president Donald Trump is near a crucial juncture of the 2024 campaign. Mail ballots are due to go out soon, his only scheduled debate with Vice President Kamala Harris is happening in four days and Trump is trying to reverse the momentum Harris has generated in her six-plus weeks as a presidential candidate. With that as the backdrop, Trump ...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump railed against women who have accused him of sexual assault. He baselessly blamed the Biden-Harris administration for his legal difficulties. He appeared to criticize the physical appearances of some of his accusers. “She would not have been the chosen one,” he said of one, later adding that he would “not want to be” involved with ...
NEW YORK — A judge on Friday delayed Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing until after the November election, which means voters will cast ballots without knowing whether the Republican nominee could face jail time for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors did not object to a request from Trump’s attorneys to delay the sentencing, which had ...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received concert tickets valued at $900 last year from a German princess known for her conservative Catholic views and sold stock in a beer company targeted by anti-LGBTQ+ activists, according to his financial disclosure form released Friday. Alito continues to own individual stock in more than two dozen companies — a practice that ...
He endured “Where’s Hunter?” chants during the 2020 campaign, and looked on as he became a focal point of presidential debates. He saw a member of Congress display nude photos of him during a congressional hearing. In a courtroom, he listened to testimony from ex-lovers as they recounted his various misdeeds. Now Hunter Biden hopes the worst of it is ...
A state appeals panel upended election preparations in North Carolina on Friday, ordering a halt to the distribution of mail ballots in the battleground state after granting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request that his name be removed from contention for the presidency. Friday was the deadline for local election officials to mail ballots to the roughly 130,000 North Carolinians who ...