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Donald Trump’s lawyers have rested their defense in the former president’s New York hush money trial, bringing the case one step closer to final arguments. (AP Video: John Minchillo)
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money criminal trial, moving the case closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate.
Former President Trump said his defense team in NY v. Trump has "won" the case "by any standard" while calling on presiding Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss it.
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.
The U.N. World Food Program is warning that the new U.S. pier project for delivering aid to Gaza may fail unless Israel starts providing the conditions the humanitarian groups need to operate.
Rudy Giuliani and 10 others pleaded not guilty in an Arizona court Tuesday to charges of allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
VP Harris criticized Trump for his since-deleted social media post referencing a "Unified Reich" if reelected, calling it "appalling," but "unsurprising."
Lawyers for Trump uncovered two rounds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago following the infamous 2022 FBI raid at former president's resort home in Florida.
The Biden administration says it's releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer.
Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis is running for reelection in the Democratic primary in Georgia today as her prosecution of Donald Trump remains tied up in a state appellate court.
Former President Donald Trump seemed open to supporting regulations on contraception and said his campaign would release a policy on the issue soon, though he later walked that statement back.
Former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith was set to testify in NY v. Trump, but he was not brought before the court after the presiding judge limited what he could discuss.
Key Republican senators sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after news reports showed an upside-down American flag – a symbol used by some supporters of former President Donald Trump who challenged the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory – flying outside his home in 2021.
A new report released by States United Action said nearly one-third of the lawmakers in Congress supported in some way Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 results or otherwise cast doubt on the reliability of elections.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the seizure of broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press by Israeli officials "concerning to hear," and said the White House would look into it.
The US has assessed that Russia likely launched a counter space weapon last week that is close to, and capable of attacking, a US government satellite orbiting nearby, US Ambassador Robert Wood said at the UN on Monday.
The defense rested its case in Donald Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday morning without the former president taking the witness stand to testify, bringing proceedings one step closer to closing arguments.
The National Rifle Association, whose image was sullied by former leader Wayne LaPierre's spending excesses, elected former GOP Rep. Bob Barr and Doug Hamlin to its top posts.
Washington — A federal judge in Los Angeles agreed Wednesday to postpone Hunter Biden's federal criminal trial on tax fraud charges until September.
The case was originally scheduled to go to trial on June 20, but Biden's legal team asked the court for the delay.
In court filings, his attorneys argued that a series of scheduling conflicts and pending appeals would overlap with his criminal case in Delaware, where he faces three felony gun charges and is expected to go to trial on June 3. Biden has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied...
Washington — Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday she will vote for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, even though she has previously called him "not qualified" to lead the nation.
Haley, in her first political public appearance since suspending her campaign, announced she will be voting for Trump, despite all of her intense and extensive criticism of the indicted former president's actions and character. Haley, a former South Carolina governor, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump...
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Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.
This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former...
The judge presiding over Hunter Biden’s tax case in Los Angeles agreed on Wednesday to delay the start of his trial to Sept. 5, giving his lawyers room to prepare for a separate trial on a firearms charge in Delaware early next month.
While the move came as a relief to President Biden’s son, it pushes a trial likely to highlight Hunter’s Biden’s effort to leverage his family’s name into profit into the homestretch of the campaign season, around the time mail-in voting starts in some states.
Both of former President Donald J. Trump’s federal trials...
In her first public appearance since she dropped her Republican presidential bid in March, Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, on Wednesday said she would vote for former President Donald J. Trump, stopping short of an official endorsement.
Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, a conservative think tank, Ms. Haley delivered a scathing critique of President Biden and Republicans on foreign policy. During her speech, she made no mention of the elephant in the room: Mr. Trump.
But in a fireside chat afterward, the moderator...
Former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she will vote for former President Donald Trump in November during her remarks in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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