Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending the day’s proceedings at his hush money trial, in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday included references to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines if he wins the election in November.
The headline appears among messages flashing across the screen such as “Trump wins!!” and “Economy booms!” Other headlines appear to be references to World War I.
Republicans, including Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who negotiated the immigration package, say they will block it this week, dismissing the vote as a political exercise.
Ebrahim Raisi, was seen as a prime candidate to succeed the 85-year-old supreme leader, and his death makes it more likely that the job could eventually go to Khamenei's son.
Prosecutors in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president rested their historic case Monday after presenting 20 witnesses and more than 200 pieces of evidence.
President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee say they they raised more than $51 million in April, falling well short of the $76 million that Donald Trump and the Republican Party reported taking in for the month.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and several other officials were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed, state media reported.
A Senate inquiry has found BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen have bought parts made by a Chinese company sanctioned under a 2021 law for using forced labor.
The witness list is winding down. Closing statements could come as early as Tuesday. Then a New York City jury will gather in the first criminal trial of a former president to determine whether Donald Trump will campaign this fall as a convicted felon. The political impact of one of the most...
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.
Judge Juan Merchan cleared his courtroom to chastise a key defense witness for Donald Trump after he made an exasperated comment about the judge's rulings.
The prosecution rested their case against Donald J. Trump on Monday in the former president’s hush money trial, which is barreling toward a conclusion as soon as next week.
House Republican leadership said a Senate effort to revive a once-failed border security measure is "dead on arrival" in the lower chamber. But the legislation may not make it out of the Senate.
The biggest questions as Donald Trump’s first criminal trial resumes Monday are whether his attorneys have destroyed the credibility of star witness Michael Cohen — and how much of the damage prosecutors can fix.
At least 12 allies of former President Donald Trump were arraigned in Phoenix on charges that include conspiracy, fraud and forgery that are related to an alleged scheme to put forward phony electors in the 2020 election who backed Trump despite President Biden winning the state.
Rudy Giuliani is among the defendants on the docket after being served Friday night while leaving his 80th birthday party, and appeared virtually for the hearing. Other defendants include former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward, former White House chief of staff...
At least four anti-Israel agitators were hauled out of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing by Capitol police while Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified about his department's budget on Tuesday.
While Blinken began his opening statement, a man stood up shouting the name of a 6-year-old boy reportedly killed in Gaza.
"Blinken, you will be remembered as the Butcher of Gaza," the man yelled as officers pulled him out of the hearing room. "You will be remembered for murdering innocent Palestinians."
The nation's largest LGBT advocacy organization, GLAAD, has issued a fact check of Harrison Butker's commencement speech at a private Catholic college last week, saying the three-time Super Bowl winner's address was filled with "erroneous and dangerous claims," even suggesting the kicker was out of step with Pope Francis.
"Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s commencement speech was not only a clear miss, it was inaccurate, ill-informed, and woefully out of step with Americans about Pride, LGBTQ people and women," GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis...
The Biden administration was poised to send about a dozen detainees at Guantánamo Bay to Oman for resettlement last year, but it abruptly halted the secret operation amid questions from Congress about security in the Middle East after Hamas attacked Israel, according to administration officials.
None of the prisoners have ever been charged with crimes, and all of them had been cleared for transfer by national security review panels.
A military cargo plane was already on the runway at Guantánamo Bay ready to airlift the group of Yemeni prisoners to...
Two key players in Donald J. Trump’s criminal case in Georgia are on the ballot Tuesday: Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County district attorney prosecuting the former president, and Scott McAfee, the presiding judge in the matter.
The two candidates are considered the favorites in their respective races. But they are running for re-election a few months after the election-interference case against Mr. Trump and his allies hit serious turbulence.
Defense lawyers said Ms. Willis’s romance with a lawyer she hired to manage the prosecution — a...
The special counsel appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Trump to obstruct the government's classified documents probe, according to a filing.
A new court filing in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its overhaul of Title IX claims that a transgender track-and-field athlete at a West Virginia middle school displaced girls in competition over 700 times in three seasons.
On Thursday, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) a nonprofit civil rights firm, filed a motion asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Biden administration's new Title IX rules from going into effect on Aug. 1, and to allow state laws that ban transgender athletes from playing on girls' sports teams...
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