Below are some of the top political news stories of the day: Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.
A Delaware judge’s ruling sets the stage for a dramatic springtime trial on whether Fox News bears financial responsibility for airing false allegations that a voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald Trump. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis...
Democrats who previously spoke out against former President Donald Trump for threatening to jail political opponents appeared to celebrate news of the Trump indictment Thursday night
The indictment against former President Donald Trump involves a 2016 hush money payment. Democracy experts are concerned it could undermine public confidence in what they view as far more important investigations related to Trump's refusal to accept his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. That...
The district attorney's office defended the grand jury's vote to indict the former president, and said the chairmen's request for documents and testimony would interfere in the case.
Extremism researchers are keeping a close eye on the varied calls for everything from targeted attacks on the district attorney who brought the case to a new civil war.
Former President Donald Trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to sources. Follow for live news updates.
Former President Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury has sent the political and legal worlds into a frenzy. Here’s what we know so far about the case against Trump and what could happen ne…
An annual report on Social Security and Medicare says the financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions more young people are counting on will run short on funds to pay full benefits within the next decade. The Social Security and Medicare trustees report says Medicare...
Former AG Bill Barr says the indictment of former President could be a play by Democrats to let him win the GOP nomination in 2024 but sink him in the general election.
One thing that seemed to unite Americans this week was that nearly everyone had an opinion on the indictment of former President Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked on Twitter that former President Trump should “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop” on his way to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as a ta…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) blasted the Biden administration Friday after the Treasury Department issued new rules on the use of electric vehicle tax credits.
Prominent Democratic donor George Soros responded to Republican attacks on him over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) investigation that led to an indictment of former President Trump, …
Congressional Republicans flocked to Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) aid in his blocking of Department of Defense promotions in protest of its abortion access push.
Russia and the U.S. have clashed in the United Nations over Moscow’s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Ukraine, which called for Friday's U.N. Security Council meeting, denounced the planned deployment as a desperate Kremlin attempt to avoid military defeat and “threaten the...
President Joe Biden is urging Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges. “Let him go,” Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday when asked about his message to Russia on the arrest. Russia’s Federal Security Service has...
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the liberation of Bucha, the Ukrainian town that has become synonymous with Russia's brutal occupation and alleged war crimes.
Former President Trump is expected to surrender to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office Tuesday, avoiding a potential controversy over his arraignment from Florida.
The head of the U.N. World Food Program is warning that without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months. David Beasley praised increased funding from the...
U.S. stocks have soldiered on through a banking mess to notch solid first-quarter gains. Some investors say that performance could come under pressure if a widely expected recession hits.
At least one felony charge is among the charges former President Donald Trump is facing in New York, according to the Associated Press. The case is related to the alleged falsifying of business records regarding a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
To have the FSB arrest Gershkovich, send him to Lefortovo prison and make such a serious allegation leads John Sullivan to believe that his release, unfortunately, isn’t imminent.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is pressing Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to hold a vote on “common sense gun safety legislation” following this week’s deadly shooting at a Chris…
Following a remarkable winter in which back-to-back “atmospheric rivers” pummeled the West Coast, California’s snowpack levels have climbed to an all-time high, according to state meteorologists. T…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year. The charges remained under seal late Thursday, but the investigation centered on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
The indictment comes in a case related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, and marks the first time a former president has faced criminal charges.
Donald Trump has become the first former president to be indicted in a criminal case after a grand jury investigation into hush money payments made on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign. The unprecedented indictment comes as the Republican is facing other legal investigations and...
Turkey’s parliament has ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle to the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance. All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland’s bid Thursday, days after Hungary’s parliament also endorsed...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Reps. Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene and others have pushed back against the former president's indictment, calling it a political "witch hunt."
The indictment of former President Trump by a Manhattan grand jury rocked Capitol Hill on Thursday, with Democrats hailing the decision and Republicans blasting what they described as a political w…
Weeks after the failure of two banks, President Joe Biden is calling for independent regulatory agencies to impose tighter rules on the financial system. In a fact sheet, Biden says regulators can act under current law without additional steps taken by Congress. The recommended changes outlined...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not say during a press briefing Thursday whether the Biden administration would urge lawmakers to federally regulate artificial intelligence.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his state "will not assist in an extradition request" by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg while slamming the charges against former President Donald Trump as "un-American" and as a "weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda."
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump both tore into the move to indict their father, former President Donald Trump, on Thursday, calling it "third-world prosecutorial misconduct."
As Mike Pence approaches a likely 2024 run for president, he's opening up to audiences about the parts of his career before he served as Donald Trump's vice president. He hopes his 12 years in Congress and four years as Indiana governor will project the record of a conservative fighter. While...
Dominion Voting Systems has been ensnared in a web of conspiracy theories that have undermined public confidence in U.S. elections among conservative voters. The conspiracies have led to calls to ban voting machines in some places and triggered death threats against election officials. Those...
Former President Trump can still be elected president if indicted -- or even convicted -- in any of the state and federal probes he is facing, experts tell ABC News.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill the Legislature sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday. The governor said at a suburban Atlanta gun store that he will sign the bill.
Some of former President Trump’s fiercest Hollywood critics are celebrating his indictment on criminal charges Thursday, wishing one another a “happy indictment day.” In a history-making move…
Former President Donald Trump unleashed his fury over a Manhattan grand jury's vote to indict him for his role in an alleged $130,000 hush money payment, predicting the move will backfire.
House Republicans held their third hearing Thursday regarding what they claim is the “weaponization” of the federal government by Democrats. The hearing featured three Republican witnesses who alleged that the Biden administration has “coerced” social media companies to remove information it...
Former President Trump lashed out on Thursday after he was indicted in an alleged hush money scheme, maintaining his innocence and accusing Democrats and law enforcement officials of “weaponizing o…
A Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to issue an indictment of former President Donald Trump on charges for his alleged involvement in making hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign, according to his legal counsel.
Donald Trump is not expected to appear before a New York City judge until sometime next week, when he will be escorted into the courtroom under heightened security procedures that are still being worked out, according to a source familiar with some of the discussions about the matter.
Donald Trump is the first former president in history to be criminally indicted. Here are four important takeaways — including the impact on his political future.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited public school teachers from referring to students by pronouns different from the sex assigned to them at birth. The bill said teachers could use a transgender student’s preferred pronoun only if the child’s parents and a...
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said the indictment of former president Trump by a New York grand jury on Thursday was a bigger assault on the American system of government than the Jan. 6, 2021 attac…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday aimed at cutting Google and Facebook's clout in online advertising, an early sign that lawmakers will press on with efforts to rein in Big Tech in the new congress. The bill would prohibit big digital advertising companies, with...
The head of a police union in the Bay Area faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling thousands of synthetic opioids into the U.S. with the intent to distribute them.
Heather Kelley, a 35-year old-mother from Portage, Michigan, has been missing since December, law enforcement told ABC News, calling the case a "homicide investigation"
An official says Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest
The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights have signed an agreement to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is letting go of almost its entire work force with the satellite launch company finding it difficult to secure funding three months after a failed mission
Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a nationwide ban if it defies a government order to sell to an American company — unless the popular social media app can convince a high-powered panel that...
The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge slowed sharply last month, an encouraging sign in the Fed’s yearlong effort to cool price pressures through steadily higher interest rates
Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but it wasn’t a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner
The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News ruled Friday that the case will go to trial, rebuffing efforts by Fox to have it dismissed.
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