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Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks to speak to the press after he was convicted in his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 30, 2024.
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Forty-seven percent of Americans said they think the charges against Trump in this case were politically motivated, while 38% say they were not. At the same time, the slight majority at 51%, think Trump intentionally did something illegal in this case. Twelve percent think Trump did something wrong but not intentionally, and 19% believe he did not do anything wrong.... Read the Full Story!
Polls have closed in an election that will likely give Mexico its first female president, but the heat, violence and polarization continued almost right up to the end.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a contender for Donald Trump's running mate, said Sunday that November's election will not be decided by the former president's guilty conviction in the New York "hush money" trial.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill to secure President Joe Biden’s spot on the state’s November ballot after it passed the Republican-controlled state legislature.
Asked about the possibility of being sentenced to house arrest or jail, Trump warned that “it would be tough for the public to take” in an interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
While in office, Trump took issue with the social media app being controlled by a China-based parent company, trying unsuccessfully to ban the app in the U.S. with an executive order.
Democrats locked in competitive Senate races are leaning into their party’s legislative accomplishments in ads touting investments in infrastructure and manufacturing, as well as the lowering the cost of some prescription drugs, such as insulin.
Donald Trump and other Republicans say President Joe Biden’s policy to promote electric vehicles is unfair for consumers and amounts to government overreach.
House Speaker Mike Johnson harshly criticized President Joe Biden ahead of the White House's anticipated crackdown on illegal immigration at the border.
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a new interview that he didn’t make a “lock her up” call for the imprisonment of his Democratic opponent of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
Recent polls contain a surprising combination of results: Democrats appear to be leading in six tough Senate races even as President Joe Biden trails former President Donald Trump in the same states. What are these Democratic Senate candidates doing right? To answer that question, I studied...
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers posted a photo of himself shaking hands with former President Trump on Saturday night after being mocked on social media.
Israel's defense minister says Israel is looking into an alternative local governing body for Gaza, proposing a future beyond Hamas but giving no idea who those challengers might be.
After the conviction of Donald Trump on all 34 felony counts in a hush-money trial in a New York court, TikTok users turned to the platform’s livestreaming feature to discuss the verdict. For hours, late into the night Thursday and into Friday morning, thousands of people around the world...
President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden goes on trial Monday on three felony gun charges in what federal prosecutors have characterized as "a simple case."
The unprecedented criminal conviction of former President Trump has opened a dark chapter in the history of America's criminal justice system, according to several legal experts.
A New York jury on Thursday pronounced Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election. Trump is now the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 and may be sent to prison.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz is...
Most American agree with the verdict in former President Trump's "hush money" trial and believe he received a fair trial, according to CBS polling. Skyler Henry has more on the numbers.
As the White House finalizes plans for a U.S.-Mexico clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once a threshold is met, the
The Gila River Indian Community has issued a temporary ban on dances after a tribal police officer was fatally shot and another wounded while responding to a reported disturbance at a Santan home
Rob Burrow, a former rugby star who was widely praised for his fundraising and awareness campaigns after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2019, has died
Oregon authorities have closed the state's entire coastline to mussel harvesting due to an outbreak of shellfish poisoning they described as “unprecedented.”
Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine tabulators based on unfounded conspiracy theories stemming from the 2020 presidential election.
The three counties, each with fewer than 6,000 residents, would be among the first in the U.S. to require old-school hand counts, which long ago were replaced by ballot tabulators in most of the country.
A number of other states and local governments have...
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