Rep. Adam Kinzinger said he thinks the Justice Department will charge Donald Trump after the House Jan. 6 committee detailed his effort to overturn the election
Former President Donald Trump, who had endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker, declined to say Tuesday whether he still supports his longtime ally.
Hope Hicks, who was a senior aide to former President Donald Trump, texted an aide to Ivanka Trump that “we all look like domestic terrorists now” on Jan. 6.
Donald Trump failed to swing votes to Kevin McCarthy for speaker through his behind-the-scenes calls to lawmakers or his big public endorsement Wednesday.
After Facebook banned then-President Donald Trump in January 2021 following the Capitol attack, the company said it would reconsider his status on the platform
Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to five months' imprisonment for his role in the company's tax fraud scheme.
Republicans have seized on news that classified documents were found at an office used by Biden arguing the FBI unfairly targeted former President Donald Trump .
WASHINGTON — There is a deepening crack in Donald Trump's bond with conservative faith voters that potential rivals for the 2024 GOP nomination see as an opportunity.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, a critic of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, said that President Joe Biden should call in his predecessor to end the conflict with Russia.
As the RNC works on its audit on why the GOP lost in 2022, officials remain divided over a key part — a focus on “candidate quality" and Trump's endorsements.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has told the Senate Intelligence Committee it is “actively working” to brief lawmakers on the potential risks to national security following the discovery of classified documents in President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s possession, according to a letter shared with NBC News by a source familiar with the matter.
Rep. Jim Jordan argued that federal agencies are handling President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump's classified documents cases in different ways on NBC News' "Meet the Press" Sunday.
Congress and Justice are facing a reckoning over how to handle access to material related to the investigations into Biden and Trump classified documents.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden sent letters requesting probes into allies of former President Trump who they say trafficked in stolen information from his laptop.
Former President Donald Trump took a jab at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for defending the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6.
In his book, Mark Pomerantz, who led the Manhattan D.A.’s investigation of Trump's finances, says D.A. Alvin Bragg should've filed charges. Bragg says the case wasn't ready.
Donald Trump’s legal team recently turned over a folder bearing classified markings to the Justice Department that it said was found at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are expected to fight the special counsel's subpoena of former Vice President Mike Pence on executive privilege grounds, according to a source familiar with the Trump legal team’s discussions.
A decision from a Trump-appointed judge in Texas could come this month in a lawsuit that seeks to reverse the FDA’s approval of two abortion medications.
A Georgia judge on Monday ruled that portions of a Fulton County grand jury's report into possible interference in the 2020 election by former President Donald Trump and his allies be made public later this week.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he plans to "fight" a subpoena from the special counsel investigating Donald Trump's actions surrounding Jan.
Employees at Fox News knew that claims blaming Donald Trump’s 2020 loss on election fraud were outlandish and false, even as the network promoted them as credible, a newly unsealed court filing appears to show.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in a strong position to run against Donald Trump, according to former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who ran in the 2016 cycle.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a Trump ally who supported efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, is arguing in court against the DOJ accessing his phone data.
Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to testify to a federal grand jury on events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack.
A judge denied media requests to release records on Donald Trump's efforts to stop ex-aides from testifying to a grand jury about the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Republican senators from Ted Cruz to Josh Hawley to Rick Scott are all taking a pass on a 2024 presidential run after former President Donald Trump announced his campaign.
News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch declined to rein in Fox News hosts who spread false claims of widespread voter fraud in the days after the 2020 election despite privately expressing that he had seen little evidence for then-President Donald Trump’s claims and that he found half of them “bulls--- and damaging,” according to court documents unsealed Monday.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday withdrew a rule adopted in the last days of the administration of former Republican President Donald Trump that had expanded a religious exemption from anti-discrimination laws for federal contractors.
A progressive group wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Fox Corp. and Donald Trump's 2020 campaign for breaking campaign finance laws.
Nick Fuentes, the antisemitic white nationalist provocateur who dined with former President Donald Trump last year, was "removed" from the premises of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, the chair of the group that stages the event said Friday.
Former President Donald Trump has asked for a months-long delay before the start of the New York attorney general's $250 million civil fraud trial against him, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization.
The congressional leaders known as the "Gang of Eight" were "given a flavor” of what's in the classified documents found on the properties of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
Kellyanne Conway, who served as a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, and George Conway, a lawyer and frequent Trump critic, announced Saturday that they are divorcing after more than two decades of marriage.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to a $3.15 million settlement with the Justice Department over unreported interest in foreign bank accounts.
By early January 2021, Fox News hosts and executives were ready to move on from then-President Donald Trump and his insistence that the election was stolen.
Following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Katie Porter have a bill to restore bank regulations undone under then-President Trump.
Robert Costello, Michael Cohen's former legal adviser, said that he will appear before the Trump grand jury investigating a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News.
The New York grand jury considering possible criminal charges against former President Donald Trump related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election is not expected to be asked to vote on an indictment this week, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Former President Trump is appealing a judge's order that his former chief of staff and other aides must testify before a grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
Donald Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury last week. Get the latest news and live updates on Trump’s indictment and expected arraignment this week.
Donald Trump has a close, insular circle of aides who are helping him stay focused trying to avoid drama as he navigates the campaign and investigations.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against the House Judiciary Committee chairman, asking a court to block elements of the congressional inquiry into his case against former President Donald Trump.
The Manhattan district attorney whose office is prosecuting former President Donald Trump again received a letter containing white powder, two senior law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Donald Trump spent about eight hours at New York Attorney General Letitia James' office for a deposition in her $250 million lawsuit alleging fraud in the former president's real estate business practices.
Some Tennessee Republicans are worried the expulsion of two Black Democrats from the Legislature will overshadow a GOP donor retreat with Trump and Pence.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's effort to block the Judiciary Committee's subpoena of one of his ex-investigators will be presided over by a Trump-nominated judge.
Donald Trump is reaping the benefits of his past support for Republicans, who are now in a position to reciprocate as he tries to fend off Ron DeSantis in 2024.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus, who were big Donald Trump boosters in his presidency, are still on the fence about his 2024 bid — at least for now.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said she'll announce charging decisions stemming from her investigation into possible interference in the 2020 election by former President Donald Trump and his allies as early as mid-July.
Joe Biden announced he is running for president again in 2024 as a Democratic candidate. Among his challengers is Donald Trump, staying in despite his indictment.
Attorneys for the Proud Boys placed blame for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Donald Trump during closing arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial.
Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared Thursday before the grand jury as part of the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
E. Jean Carroll, who alleges in a lawsuit that Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, was questioned by a defense lawyer who suggested her claim was made up.
Donald Trump has joined media organizations to argue against the Manhattan district attorney's effort to limit the public availability of evidence shared with the former president's attorneys in the lead-up to next year's hush-money trial.
Judge Juan Merchan largely sided with the Manhattan DA by limiting what Trump can disclose about new evidence from the prosecution before the case goes to trial.
Trump officially signaled plans to appeal the $5 million jury verdict this week that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
The latest news and live updates on Title 42’s expiration this morning, marking the end of a Trump-era immigration policy set in place during the pandemic.
U.S. taxpayer resources that were "misused" by former Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton were repaid to the federal government, Sen. Chuck Grassley announced
Timothy Parlatore, a lawyer representing Donald Trump in a special counsel investigation of his handling of classified documents, is leaving Trump's legal team.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ended a GOP-led bid to keep in place a Trump-era immigration policy that made it easy to expel asylum-seekers at the border.
Trump ally Steve Bannon will stand trial next May on charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall along the U.S. southern border, a judge said.
New York prosecutors have informed attorneys for Donald Trump that the evidence in their hush money case includes an audio recording of Trump and a witness.
Former President Donald Trump has racked up more endorsements from prominent GOP officials than the rest of the current presidential candidates combined.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office has obtained a recording of Donald Trump discussing a classified document that he had taken from his time at the White House.
Donald Trump asked how the Justice Department could charge him in its probe over his handling of classified documents minutes after his attorneys left the DOJ.
Attorneys for Donald Trump were spotted at the Justice Department on Monday, the same week the grand jury investigating the former president is expected to meet
Trump White House official Steve Bannon has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Washington D.C. investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
A Trump appointee who has previously ruled in his favor will preside over a trial that could undermine public trust in the fairness of the court system for years to come.
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a motion by E. Jean Carroll to file an amended defamation suit against former President Donald Trump seeking at least $10 million, based in part on recent comments Trump made on CNN.
Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis see their large-scale door-knocking program as the centerpiece of an effort to overtake former President Donald Trump.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was booed while addressing a gathering of top conservatives after he accused Donald Trump of failing the Republican Party.
Donald Trump has expanded his lead over Ron DeSantis and the rest of the GOP presidential field after Trump’s latest indictment, per a new NBC News poll.
Rudy Giuliani was interviewed by federal investigators in special counsel Jack Smith's probe into Trump and his allies efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
A prominent group that represents LGBT conservatives says a video shared by Ron DeSantis ′ presidential campaign that slams rival Donald Trump for his past support of gay and transgender people “ventured into homophobic territory.”
A disciplinary board for the DC Bar Association recommended that the former Trump attorney be stripped of his law license over reckless fraud claims after the 2020 election.
Roger Stone, the political provocateur and strategist once pardoned by Donald Trump of multiple felony convictions, accompanied his longtime ally on the road on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden sentenced Tyler Bensch to probation and 60 days home detention instead of the nine months in prison sought by prosecutors.
A federal grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election has heard testimony from dozens of witnesses in an ongoing probe.
House Republicans unveiled a new bill they say will make elections more secure. Democrats say it is rooted in former President Donald Trump's election denial.
FBI Director Christopher Wray faces questions from House Judiciary Committee Republicans amid claims of agency weaponization against conservatives, Trump and allies.
Special counsel Jack Smith is opposing former President Donald Trump’s request to delay the trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents until after the 2024 election.
The GOP candidate and main Trump rival has taken a hostile approach to traditional media in recent years, but used softer approach during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign is planning a reboot, top campaign officials said, with a significant shift on messaging, events and media strategy.
Eight search warrants and affidavits were filed in connection with the federal case involving former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents, which resulted in a slew of criminal charges against him, according to recently unsealed court motions.
Trump's rivals hoped to appeal to conservatives fed up with losing, but they never called out his 2020 loss. Now GOP voters believe Trump can win again.
A majority of American Values 2024's funds have come from businessman Timothy Mellon, who previously spent millions backing former President Donald Trump.
In downtown Atlanta, the scene outside the Fulton County Courthouse is perhaps the biggest indication that something major could soon be happening inside.
Trump's lawyers said it would be more cost effective to "re-establish" a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, at his Florida resort than to travel to one.
Meadows, who was Trump's White House chief of staff, argues that the charges against him pertain to actions he took while serving in the Trump administration.
Former President Donald Trump has made up his mind not to attend the first GOP debate next week, according to two sources familiar with his thinking, and is seeking a sit-down interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a means of counter-programming the event.
Mike Pence, a GOP presidential candidate, said Sunday he did not know of any “broad-based effort” by Donald Trump to declassify docs before he left office.
It's extremely unlikely that a single violation of his release conditions, unless it’s egregious, would land Trump in pre-trial detention, legal experts said.
The latest news and live updates on Trump’s expected arrest in Georgia following his indictment by a Fulton County grand jury for his actions after the 2024 election.
Chris Christie said Trump’s trial in the special counsel's election interference case and other legal woes will kill the GOP’s chances of winning the 2024 race if the former president becomes the GOP nominee.
Brandon Fellows, a Donald Trump supporter, said at his trial Tuesday that he "felt very comfy" sitting in a senator's seat during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
The U.S. Interior Department said it would cancel oil and gas leases in a federal wildlife refuge that were bought by an Alaska state development agency in the final days of former President Donald Trump’s administration.
A group of voters on Tuesday filed suit seeking to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Minnesota, the latest in a string of efforts to cite a little-known provision in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to argue that Trump is ineligible to be president because he violated his oath of office with his conduct following his loss in the 2020 election.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon set specific parameters for how and when former President Donal Trump can review the evidence in case against him in Florida.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and Biden Latino Cabinet members addressed Latino congressional Democrats as recent polls show Trump has gained ground in polls of Latino and Black voters.
Lin Wood, a lawyer who advocated for Trump's false stolen election claims in 2020, will be a witness for the prosecution in Georgia's election interference case.
Donald Trump has called on congressional Republicans to let the government to shut down in a dubious effort to undermine the criminal proceedings against him.
Attorneys for Donald Trump and the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James will argue over the scope of the forthcoming trial in the state's civil suit against the former president before a New York judge Friday.
Judge Tanya Chutkan denied former President Donald Trump's request to recuse herself from overseeing former his Washington, D.C., trial on election interference charges.
Former President Donald Trump will not seek to move his criminal election interference case in Georgia to federal court, according to a court filing Thursday.
The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. Mark Milley tells NBC News’ Lester Holt that it’s vital for the American military to stay out of politics.
Former President Donald Trump wants a New York judge to dismiss the criminal case against him charging that he falsified business records relating to hush money payments, arguing prosecutors waited too long to bring their case.
Michael Benz, a former Trump state department official whose work has been cited in congressional hearings and promoted by Elon Musk, appears to have been a pseudonymous alt-right content creator.
Witnesses interviewed in the federal investigation around efforts to overturn the election withheld information on the basis of an assertion of attorney-client privilege, special counsel Jack Smith's office said in a court filing Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump wants to subpoena the successor to the Jan. 6 committee and several other entities in connection with the federal election interference criminal case, contending that there are "certain missing records" that could be relevant to his defense.
Trump falsely characterized Israel’s role in his administration’s assassination of a top Iranian general, say U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
Former President Donald Trump is distancing himself from attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of her guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case.
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said on Friday that he’s challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president because he doesn’t think Biden can win next year’s general election.
The Justice Department is seeking 10 years in prison for Federico Klein, a former Donald Trump appointee convicted of assaulting law enforcement on Jan. 6.
The lawsuit comes in response to challenges that cited a section of the Constitution in arguing that Trump is ineligible for the primary and general election.
Donald Trump and his children are taking the stand this and next week at the $250 million civil fraud trial against the Trump family and their company in New York.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether public officials can be sued for blocking or muting unwelcome voices, an issue that was not resolved during Donald Trump's time in the White House.
Trump's allies are attempting to flip lawmakers who previously endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Trump himself will host state GOP leaders at Mar-a-Lago next week.
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial on Friday imposed a partial gag order on members of the former president's legal team after he said they made "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his principal law clerk.
A little-known executive order issued by Donald Trump is expected to fuel a flood of lawsuits from students who say their schools are failing to protect them from antisemitic or anti-Israel conduct.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds touted Ron DeSantis’ accomplishments as she endorsed him — and said she believes he can win the 2024 election, while Donald Trump cannot.
Special counsel Jack Smith's office called Trump’s motion a “meritless effort” to evade allegations that he was responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
A federal judge on Friday declined former President Donald Trump’s request to postpone the May start date of the trial in the special counsel’s classified documents case.
The decision comes after a group of Michigan voters filed a legal challenge to Donald Trump’s candidacy, arguing that he had violated the 14th Amendment.
A New York appeals court temporarily blocked a gag order in former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial that barred him from complaining about the judge's law clerk.
Nikki Haley’s 2024 bid started to pick up momentum in the debates. Now, she is starting to vacuum up money, as GOP donors see her as a good Trump alternative.
Judge Tanya Chutkan has rejected Donald Trump's request to strike references to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from his indictment in the election interference case.
A federal judge overseeing President Donald Trump's upcoming election interference trial said in a ruling Monday that the former president's attempt to subpoena what his legal team dubbed "missing" records from the House Jan. 6 committee appeared to be a "fishing expedition" that was not in good faith.
Alice Bianco was duped into signing the non-disclosure agreement by Trump attorney Alina Habba in 2021, according to a suit filed this week in New Jersey.
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to dismiss civil claims seeking to hold him to account for the Jan. 6 riot, 2021 at the U.S.
An excerpt from the upcoming book “Swamp Monsters” by NBC News reporter Matt Dixon tells the tale of how Trump's team lobbied Roger Stone to help them out.
New York University accounting professor Eli Bartov said his $900K in expert witness fees were paid by the Trump Organization and Trump's Save America PAC.
Donald Trump is setting new expectations for the 2024 Iowa Republican caucuses, saying he wants to defeat Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley by a wide margin.
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, made antisemitic remarks again in an expletive-laden rant in which he also blasted his former business partners, Donald Trump and talked about his co-parenting situation with ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
Senators negotiating new immigration restrictions, along with aid for Israel and Ukraine, are exploring limits to prevent Donald Trump from from cracking down on the border.
Former President Donald Trump said he's "not an insurrectionist" in apparent response to the Colorado Supreme Court's removing him from the state's 2024 primary ballot.
The polls all agree: Joe Biden’s political standing is lower than Barack Obama’s a year before his re-election — and lower than Trump’s before his 2020 loss.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that if elected president he would pardon former President Donald Trump if he were convicted on the multiple criminal charges he faces.
WASHINGTON — Police and fire trucks showed up Sunday night at the house of Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case after she appeared to be the target of an attempted "swatting" attack.
Former President Donald Trump is moving to have the election interference charges against him in Georgia thrown out, arguing he's protected by presidential immunity.
Sen. Joni Ernst criticized former President Donald Trump for his use of the word “hostages” to describe his supporters who were imprisoned after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The Iowa caucuses on Monday night will provide the first test of how firm former President Donald Trump’s front-runner status is and whether any of his challengers can distinguish themselves as a viable alternative for the Republican presidential nomination.
As Republicans here seek a standard-bearer, Nikki Haley is making herself scarce, and GOP insiders say that could doom her long-shot bid to beat Trump.
Senate Republicans say the emerging border deal with the White House is the best immigration agreement they can get, even if Donald Trump wins re-election.
The former president filed a brief asking the court to rule that the Constitution's 14th Amendment doesn't prevent him from appearing on Colorado's Republican primary ballot.
Voters of Tomorrow said it bought the URLs GenZforTrump.org and GenZforHaley.org to educate people on the candidates’ “overwhelmingly unpopular” visions.
Former president Donald Trump is set to meet with the Teamsters Union on Wednesday in an attempt to slice into one of President Joe Biden’s prior lines of support.
A group of female Pennsylvania voters who backed former President Donald Trump in 2020 and support at least some abortion rights said in focus group interviews that they don’t see their views on abortion as a barrier to voting for Trump again in 2024.
New online fundraising data show how Donald Trump turned his legal woes into campaign cash, while Nikki Haley used GOP debates Trump skipped to fuel her rise.
Why Republicans are holding caucuses and a presidential primary in Nevada this week — meaning Donald Trump and Nikki Haley won't be on the same ballot.
A Postal Service worker admitted in the settlement that he only heard "a fragment" of a conversation between a supervisor and a postmaster, who later filed a lawsuit.
During a two-hour oral argument, justices avoided wrestling with the contentious question of whether former President Donald Trump "engaged in insurrection."
Former President Donald Trump is turning to the justices in a last-ditch effort to prevent his prosecution in the federal election interference case from moving closer to trial.
ATLANTA — The Georgia judge presiding over the election interference case against former President Donald Trump gave the green light Monday for a hearing this week involving misconduct allegations against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and said her disqualification from the case is "possible."
Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application filed by Donald Trump that sought to further delay the former president's criminal trial arising from efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told backers of his unsuccessful presidential bid that Trump should not play “identity politics” when picking a 2024 running mate.
Former President Donald Trump is gearing up to fight a massive fine in the New York business fraud case that threatens to erase most of the cash he says he has on hand.
Donald Trump's foes fear he will seek retribution if he wins re-election. Meanwhile, he has remained silent on the Alabama IVF ruling that is roiling the GOP.
Donald Trump’s campaign surrogates are avoiding discussing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death ahead of the South Carolina Republican primary.
A prominent Republican National Committee member is proposing two resolutions that would put distance between the national party and Trump — at least for a little bit longer.
Nikki Haley plans to stay in the 2024 race despite losing in her home state. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges allies to provide Ukraine with weapons.
Donald Trump is weak among independents in GOP primaries but winning them in national general election polling. Here's why: They are very different groups.
Trump, who is also seeking the Teamsters' endorsement, visited their headquarters last month. The 1.3 million-member labor union endorsed Biden in 2020.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can claim presidential immunity over criminal election interference charges, adding a new hurdle to a trial taking place.
A focus group of Black Democrats in North Carolina who don't like Donald Trump or Joe Biden explain how they will decide who to vote for in the 2024 election.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Friday that she doesn't know whether Donald Trump would follow the Constitution if elected president again.
Donald Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion for a new trial in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation case and asked a judge overseeing the case to cancel the judgment of $83 million dollars against the former president.
Donald Trump is shaping the Democratic and Republican primaries on Super Tuesday. Nikki Haley's best-case delegate scenario still wouldn't be enough for the GOP nomination.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, was quietly demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department inspector general report found he'd engaged in “inappropriate conduct” while serving as the top White House physician for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, records obtained by NBC News show.
Some say these images shows how Black people can be used as stereotypical props. Others point to larger problems with AI-fueled misinformation and the election.
Donald Trump waded into another battleground Senate race Monday, endorsing former Rep. Mike Rogers, a one-time Trump critic, in Michigan's crowded GOP primary.
The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday.
The former president and seven of his co-defendants are seeking an "immediate review" of Judge Scott McAfee's ruling that allowed Willis to remain on the election interference case.
The Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro to avoid reporting to prison to serve a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is moving up the list of former President Donald Trump's potential vice presidential picks, according to six people familiar with the presumptive Republican nominee's search for a 2024 running mate.
Exit polls across seven states reveal the strengths and weaknesses of Trump’s coalition and the state of the Republican base heading into the general election.
A longtime employee of Donald Trump, who testified before a grand jury in the case involving the former president’s handling of classified documents, described a culture of loyalty around Trump that drives people toward extreme lengths to protect him.
A key deadline for the $464 million civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump and his co-defendants is fast approaching, and it appears it's one he might not be able to meet.
Donald Trump’s social media company could go public as soon as next week, paving the way for a potentially huge windfall for a former president who raked in tens of millions of dollars the last time one of his companies was listed on a stock exchange.
President Joe Biden’s directive to his campaign team is simple enough: Don’t talk about Donald Trump’s four criminal cases, people familiar with his campaign strategy said.
Former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Sunday that she disagrees with former President Donald Trump’s plan to free those charged and convicted of crimes in the Jan.
Biden calls for extending funding set to expire after 2025 and bashes Trump, an avowed Obamacare foe, who says he wants to improve the 2010 law without explaining how.
Donald Trump on Tuesday started promoting a line of pricey Bibles in a partnership with country music star Lee Greenwood, whose song “God Bless the U.S.A.” is omnipresent at the former president’s political rallies.
Kari Lake is struggling to win over her Republican skeptics in her Arizona Senate campaign. Biden is stockpiling cash as Trump faces a perilous moment.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office this week asked a judge presiding over the New York criminal case against Donald Trump to "clarify or confirm" that his earlier order restricting the former president's public statements about the case and those involved applies to family members.
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on Sunday excoriated former President Donald Trump over the $60 Bibles he is selling in partnership with country music star Lee Greenwood.
Former President Donald Trump has sued the co-founders of Truth Social, alleging they mismanaged the social media platform early on and should therefore lose their stock in the company, which recently went public.
Trump on Tuesday announced that his campaign would address the issue of abortion next week, a move that comes just after a Florida court paved the way for a six-week ban on the procedure.
Trump on Tuesday issued a demonstrative call for head-to-head debates with Biden, placing an empty lectern on the stage at a rally in Wisconsin to represent where Biden could stand.
A disciplinary panel reached a preliminary conclusion that former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark committed an ethical violation as it considers his bar status.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign is out with a fundraising email referring to Jan. 6 defendants as "activists" who have been "stripped of their Constitutional liberties," echoing Trump's rhetoric about the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's impending New York criminal trial on Friday denied his bid to subpoena NBCUniversal for information involving a key witness in the hush money case, adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the classified documents case are arguing that a potential trial date should continue to be pushed back.
The South Carolina Republican said the GOP presidential nominee is wrong to say the issue should be left to states, pressing his case that there should be some federal limits.
Donald Trump’s campaign is calling for more presidential debates to be held between the former president and Joe Biden, and for the proposed face-offs to begin as early as possible to ensure more Americans “have a full chance” to see the candidates in action before they cast their ballot.
Two days before the start of Donald Trump's New York criminal trial, the former president attacked his former attorney Michael Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness in the case.
Donald Trump has sought to turn his legal peril into a boost for his presidential campaign, animating his supporters and attempting to sow doubt about the motives of his opponents.
The task of finding 12 impartial jurors was off to a bumpy start on Tuesday as attorneys for Donald Trump, a former president known for his unfiltered use of social media, pressed New Yorkers about whether they could fairly judge him.
If the prosecution and defense in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial can agree on one thing, it's this: he's not quite like any other defendant.
House passed a long-awaited aid package, but it comes with risks for Speaker Johnson and President Biden. Plus, China's youth are waking up and smelling coffee.
In an interview with NBC News, Christopher Wray said that, as long as he is FBI director, he is “going to make sure … we do the right thing in the right way."
Testimony in Donald Trump’s historic hush money case resumed Tuesday, with prosecutors urging the court to hold the former president in contempt for attacking witnesses and others, and former tabloid impresario David Pecker returning to the stand with details that linked Trump’s circle to a slew of salacious stories.
Former President Donald Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and his former attorney Rudy Giuliani are uncharged co-conspirators in a Michigan "false electors" scheme tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a state investigator testified on Wednesday.
Two new witnesses took the stand Monday on the 12th day of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, shortly after the judge overseeing the case again cited the former president for violating the gag order he imposed last month.
Trump said Tuesday that he has no regrets about challenging the 2020 election results and asserted that when it comes to “straightening out elections," it’s important to "follow your heart."
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, took the witness stand in the former president’s criminal trial Tuesday, providing sometimes graphic testimony about their alleged 2006 tryst in a hotel suite and the efforts to buy her silence in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
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Donald Trump said Thursday that he “wouldn’t do what Biden did” in response to Biden's plan to pause weapons shipments to Israel if its military invades Rafah.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, a former U.S. attorney with a long history of voting in favor of prosecutors, has shown signs of empathy for defendants.
Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche bounced around to different topics trying to undermine Cohen's credibility during cross-examination in the hush money trial.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding documents from the New York attorney general related to the hiring of a lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a new report said an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days after the Jan.
After days of trying to dismantle Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen’s credibility, the defense began presenting its own case, calling two witnesses that may make up the totality of its presentation.
Unsealed court filings in the classified docs case shed new light on the battle between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump's lawyers over the Mar-a-Lago search.
Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she's planning to vote for Donald Trump in November, despite her criticism of him during the campaign for the GOP nomination.
Attorney General Merrick Garland rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that the Biden administration authorized the FBI to use deadly force against him during a search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents.
A focus group shows how a key group of Arizona Latino voters rate Biden and Trump on the border, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign and an abortion ballot measure.
Former President Donald Trump held a rally in the South Bronx on Thursday as he seeks to reach out to Black and Hispanic voters who could put him over the top in this fall’s election against President Joe Biden.
The Trump campaign has been trying to exploit the drop in the polls for Biden among Black and Latino voters, but the president's team says it has a plan to hang on to them.
Donald Trump discussed two witnesses in the criminal case against him Friday while complaining about his conviction, comments that could violate the judge's gag order against him.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in November’s election, has joined an unusual club: presidential contenders who have also been convicted of a crime.
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump blasts Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan in response to his call for Americans to respect the verdict in the former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
Former President Donald Trump's gun license is expected to be revoked now that he has been convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, according to a New York Police Department spokesperson.
Rep. Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican speaking at a Black voter outreach event for former President Donald Trump, suggested that Black families were more unified and better off during the Jim Crow era.
A federal judge will consider whether former Trump adviser Steve Bannon should have to begin his four-month prison sentence for defying Jan. 6 Committee subpoenas.
Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC.
BARI, Italy — For all the ambitious plans that President Joe Biden and his counterparts unfurled at the summit meeting that ended Saturday, the cold reality is that many of the leaders may not remain in office long enough to see them ripen.
Robert Morris, a former Trump adviser, made the statement after Cindy Clemishire said the megachurch pastor in Southlake, Texas, abused her in the 1980s.
The double haters, voters who dislike President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, will be key to the outcome of the 2024 election. Polls show how they are different.
There is no trial date in sight in the classified documents case against former President Trump. Judge Aileen Cannon has burned court time listening to long-shot defense arguments.
With the first presidential debate just one week out, President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump have begun cramming for the clash next Thursday night in Atlanta.
GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas, a former White House physician, suggested Sunday that President Joe Biden should submit to drug tests immediately before and after Thursday’s presidential debate.
President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu hinted Sunday that Biden will hit former President Donald Trump on his legal troubles at Thursday’s presidential debate in Atlanta.
Trump is considering announcing his vice presidential pick before Thursday's debate with President Joe Biden, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Live updates and the latest news on the 2024 election as Joe Biden and Donald Trump prepare for their debate and the Supreme Court considers immunity for Trump.
Former President Donald Trump made false claims about late-in-pregnancy abortions, including about the former Virginia governor, during Thursday's debate with President Joe Biden, experts say.
The court's ruling has ramifications for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' prosecution of Trump and his allies over election interference allegations.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he'll work with colleagues on a bill "classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts not subject to immunity."
President Joe Biden was trailing former President Donald Trump — albeit within the margin of error — in many national and battleground polls before Biden’s debate debacle.
The national Republican Party is set to abandon a decades-long push for a federal abortion ban and soften the stance on same-sex marriage in its platform.
The latest news and live updates on the 2024 presidential election, including Biden’s comments fighting calls to withdraw and continued speculation on Trump’s VP pick.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s relationship with Donald Trump is back in the spotlight — at a moment of upheaval in the presidential race and after a video of a phone call between the two was posted online and then deleted by Kennedy’s son.
The latest news and live updates on Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the 2024 presidential race. Biden has officially announced his withdrawal from the current election
A Supreme Court ruling finding Donald Trump had immunity for official acts while president doesn't impact his hush money conviction in New York, state prosecutors argued.
The second man injured during the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, James Copenhaver, was discharged from the hospital.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed two candidates in Arizona’s competitive Republican primary for the state’s 8th Congressional District in a Truth Social post Saturday night.
The U.S. intelligence community believes the Kremlin will direct its propaganda efforts to support former President Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump held his first solo news conference in more than a year Thursday, boasting of his willingness to talk to the press and challenging Vice President Kamala Harris to more debates.
Former President Donald Trump’s plane landed in Billings, Montana, after suffering a mechanical issue en route to a rally and fundraiser in Bozeman, Secret Service said.
Trump Media, the social media company whose majority shareholder is former President Donald Trump, on Friday reported a net loss of more than $16 million for the most recent financial quarter, mostly due to legal expenses, as well as consulting and licensing expenses.
Céline Dion’s management team and record label, Sony Music Canada, said the use of her world-renowned hit “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Montana on Friday was “unauthorized.”
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said it's investigating whether anything was stolen, as well as the identity of the alleged suspect who was captured on surveillance video.
Latest news and live updates on the Democratic National Convention and the 2024 presidential election campaigns as Harris and Trump prepare for November.
Polls show that a Kennedy withdrawal would probably help Trump more than it hurts him. But if it does, it’s at the margins — though small margins have decided recent elections.
Trump’s campaign is expecting that Kamala Harris will get a “bump” coming out of the Democratic National Convention but generally does not see it changing the overall trajectory of the race.
Israel and Hezbollah trade strikes on Lebanon border. Kamala Harris plans Georgia bus tour. JD Hurricane Hone moves past Hawaii. Astronauts to return on SpaceX.
The Republican vice presidential nominee's remark was in response to a question about an “incident” that occurred when Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery this week.
Former President Donald Trump’s appearance alongside Puerto Rican reggaeton star Anuel AA forms part of a larger emerging pattern in his campaign’s outreach to voters of color — and signals the campaign might see an opportunity in battleground Pennsylvania.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday he and most other Republicans would be "open" to supporting former President Donald Trump's proposal to have either the government or insurance companies pay for in vitro fertilization services.
Former President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 election, even as two criminal cases involving those allegations hang over him.
Iran’s cyber operation targeting the Trump campaign Trump is likely still active, an FBI official said, even after the U.S. exposed a successful Iranian hack.
Former President Donald Trump repeated a broad range of false claims, internet rumors and outlandish conspiracy theories during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, many of which might have seemed unintelligible without a deep understanding of obscure corners of far-right social media.
Former President Donald Trump said during a campaign rally Thursday that he would eliminate taxes on overtime pay if he wins a second term in November.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The dozens of bomb threats and the onslaught of public attention that has befallen a small Ohio city since President Donald Trump and others pushed the false claim that Haitian migrants were stealing and eating pets has children living in fear, worried parents said Thursday.
Despite digressions involving cats and a hiccup on abortion policy, Donald Trump has grown close to JD Vance, talking with him almost every day and cheering on his frequent TV appearances.
Ryan Wesley Routh had previously been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump's recent comments about reproductive rights, saying he needs to trust women to make their own decisions.
An American journalist who runs a Substack newsletter published a document Thursday that appears to have been stolen from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said that he would meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday morning at Trump Tower in New York.
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has not been able to reach President Joe Biden to discuss Hurricane Helene's impacts on his state.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The man accused of plotting to kill Donald Trump at the former president's Florida golf course eariler this month pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday.
Republicans could pass both a health care overhaul that would replace Obamacare and extend Trump tax breaks in one bill if they win Congress and the White House.
The group, organized by former Trump national security adviser Robert O'Brien and former National Security Council chief of staff Alex Gray, wrote in a letter that "securing peace" is "the legacy of Trump."
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is planning to more aggressively attack former President Donald Trump in the remaining weeks ahead of the election.
Harris criticized Trump for amplifying a false claim about the distribution of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to victims of Hurricane Helene.
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump America PAC is offering people $47 if they successfully get one registered swing-state voter to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution.
In an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that aired Monday morning, former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her policies on the southern border and suggested that migrants have “bad genes.”
Trump rallied a raucous crowd as he seeks to halt Harris’ gains in the polls on handling the economy, launching a wave of insults at her and painting a dark vision of the future if he loses the election.
AURORA, Colo. — Former President Donald Trump painted a dark picture of Colorado’s third-largest city at a rally here Friday as he once again claimed it had been overtaken by a Venezuelan prison gang.
Former President Donald Trump's voters will decide whether Sen. Jon Tester wins another term in Montana — and whether Democrats can hang onto their Senate majority.
Tens of thousands of evangelical Christians gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to pray for America’s atonement and for Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
As she steps up her appeals to Black voters, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on a popular Black radio program Tuesday, saying she is still open to slavery reparations and slamming former President Donald Trump for allegedly sending Covid tests to Russia “when Black people were dying” back home.
While Vice President Kamala Harris branches out to Fox News and CNN, former President Donald Trump is mostly avoiding the mainstream media in the stretch run.
Black conservative radio host Shelley Wynter broke down the Black male electorate into “house African Americans and field African Americans” during an appearance Wednesday on CNN.
Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to former President Donald Trump calling her a “s---” vice president, telling the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC that “the American people deserve so much better.”
The national and battleground state polls have revealed several important dynamics that have defined the 2024 campaign between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Trump and Harris have pulled back on stops at small businesses that are meant to feel more spontaneous, amid security concerns and reluctance from local owners.
A racist comment former President Donald Trump is reported to have made about murdered soldier Vanessa Guillén is drawing backlash from some Hispanics, but it could be tempered by her sister’s support for Trump and the current political divide among Latinos.
In her first stop on 2024 campaign trail, former first lady Michelle Obama delivered an urgent message to men, arguing that the election could have life or death consequences for the women they love.
The racist comments have drawn intense anger and reignited the criticism over Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria's devastating aftermath in Puerto Rico.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeatedly blasted comments made a day earlier by President Joe Biden that appeared to call supporters of the former president “garbage.”
Outrage has followed the release of a video from a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania that seemed to depict Kamala Harris tied to a golf cart carrying a man wearing a mask of Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named co-campaign chair Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff, one of the most important nonelected posts in Washington.
The election of President-Elect Donald Trump has triggered a surge of social media posts and internet search interest in South Korea’s fringe feminist “4B movement."
Members of the GOP in immigrant-heavy states tried to reassure constituents that Trump is focused on dangerous criminals and not on "hard-working" immigrants.
President-elect Donald Trump involved himself publicly in the Senate leadership race for the first time, writing in a post on TruthSocial that anyone running to be the next Senate Majority Leader should agree to let Trump make recess appointments to his cabinet.
A group of Democratic-leaning advocates say their polling shows that Trump did not win a majority of Latino men and that Latinos still support progressive policies.
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named former congressman and Fox Business host Sean Duffy as his pick for transportation secretary in the next administration.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday asked Scott Bessent, a top fundraiser to his campaign, to serve as secretary of the Treasury Department, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.
A GOP senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw troops in Kabul in the first sign of Trump retaliating against officers involved in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
President-elect Donald Trump announced he would pick Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to to the acting secretary of defense during the first Trump administration, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI recently told Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the bureau’s next director, that he was the target of an Iranian cyberattack
Former President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his pick to run the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, amid allegations of excessive drinking and abuse of women.
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Devin Nunes, the CEO of Trump’s TruthSocial platform, as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Jimmy Carter dies at 100. 179 people were killed in South Korea in a deadliest place crash of 2024. Trump praises H-1B visas. Putin apologizes to Azerbaijan.
A Colorado man will spend New Year's Eve behind bars, accused of bias crimes for allegedly trying to strangle a TV news reporter while saying, “This is Trump’s America now,” officials said.
President-elect Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have blamed the deadly New Orleans truck attack on President Joe Biden's border policies even though the attacker was a U.S. citizen.
A decorated Army veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder called U.S. government leadership “weak” and appeared to acknowledge he purposely blew up a Tesla Cybertruck at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, police said Friday.
The New Orleans attacker visited the city weeks earlier. New York becomes the first U.S. city to implement congestion charges. And Trump is fixated on Lincoln.
President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately blamed water shortages in Los Angeles on policies meant to preserve an endangered fish called the Delta smelt.
Flags have been lowered to half-staff at many federal and public buildings across the country in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29.
On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to convey the enormous scope of the law enforcement effort to bring the rioters to justice, calling it “one of the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive investigations in our history.”
Federal agency workers say that professional groups meant to support employees, many of whom are from marginalized backgrounds, are under threat from President Donald Trump’s DEI executive order.
Follow the latest coverage as President Donald Trump participates in the National Prayer Breakfast. Live updates as the Senate weighs Cabinet nominees and federal workers consider buyouts.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.
Legal and constitutional experts warned Sunday that the United States could be headed toward a "constitutional crisis" or a "breakdown of the system" after Vice President JD Vance suggested judges don't have jurisdiction over President Donald Trump's "legitimate power."
The Trump administration has made overtures to a country that Rubio has railed against during most of his career, especially in relation to Russia's backing of countries like Cuba.
Two Harvard researchers said in a lawsuit that the Trump administration removed their work from a public website because it referenced the LGBTQ community.
President Donald Trump’s economic approach is putting members of his administration and Republicans in Congress on the defensive as the stock market continues to struggle
Johnson has backed a bill to bar district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, an alternative to House Republicans' taking politically perilous impeachment votes.
While the stock market broadly fared better on Monday than in the prior two trading days, Apple got hammered once again, losing 3.7%, as concerns mounted that the company will take a major hit from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
After the Trump administration announced a $2.2 billion freeze on grants to Harvard, some critics have questioned why it can’t just make up for federal funding with endowments.
Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Monday after the federal government said it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants and sought what university officials described as "unprecedented and improper" control over the Ivy League institution.
Live updates and the latest news as Ex-Rep. George Santos is sentenced on felony fraud charges and President Donald Trump travels to Rome to attend Pope Francis' funeral.
Trump on Friday reflected on his phone call earlier in the week with Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos saying he’d use the same tactic with CEOs of other major retailers if they raise prices due to tariffs
Live updates and the latest news as Trump touts his UK trade deal, names Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney, and Pope Leo XIV's social media gets scrutiny.
WASHINGTON — The incoming director of the Justice Department's "Weaponization Working Group" revealed Wednesday he was under investigation by D.C.'s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, accusing the official in charge of investigating bar complaints of "weaponizing" his role, according to an letter viewed by NBC News.
House Republicans are locked in a tense standoff over how to tackle SALT, a sticky issue that could make or break the party's big bill for Trump’s agenda.
Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
As House Republicans scramble to corral the votes to pass a massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, their Senate counterparts are making clear the emerging package won’t fly as written when it reaches them.
President Donald Trump said he spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and various European leaders after his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump is set to speak Monday with Vladimir Putin, in what the U.S. president said is an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of the war in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump called two of the children of imprisoned reality television couple Todd and Julie Chrisley from the Oval Office on Tuesday, informing them of his plans to pardon their parents as soon as Wednesday.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking the temporary protected status of roughly 5,000 Venezuelans who are in the U.S.
Two South Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman’s longline several miles from shore have been pardoned by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan to broker dozens of trade deals with some of the United States’ closest trading partners has begun to show cracks as the clock on his 90-day pause for most country-specific tariffs winds down to just over one month.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Wednesday to provide hundreds of migrants sent to CECOT, a maximum-security terrorism confinement center in El Salvador, with habeas relief, ordering the government to give them opportunities to challenge their detentions and removals under President Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
President Trump was briefed on June 8 by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen., on Israel’s concerns over Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities, prompting a shift in his stance toward supporting military action.
President Donald Trump on Sunday will attend the FIFA Club World Cup final, a match that will offer Trump a preview of the globe’s premier soccer tournament that North America will host next year
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Donald Trump wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency “remade” rather than dismantled entirely.“I think the president recognizes that FEMA should not exist the way that it always has been.
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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the president’s authority to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was “being looked into.”Asked in an interview on ABC News’ “This Week” whether he believes President Donald Trump has the a…
Jaime Alanis Garcia, a cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in Southern California, died Saturday, according to his family.
The number of people reported missing in the wake of historic July 4 flooding in Kerr County, Texas, has dropped from a peak of more than 160 to three, with many now verified as being safe, officials said Saturday."Extensive follow-up work" and "extraordinary…
Outcry rang out in Israel over the weekend after Hamas released video appearing to show a visibly gaunt Israeli hostage alongside images of emaciated babies as international fury grows over the rising deaths of Palestinians from starvation under Israel's offe…
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U.S. emissions rose last year, new research says: The country spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.
Prince Williams trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came at a crucial time for the U.K. but the former Prince Andrew loomed.
Former President Barack Obama called the kind of rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and his administration “a clown show” in a podcast interview that aired Saturday
The Vatican will not participate in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace“ initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday while adding that efforts to handle crisis situations should be managed by the United Nat…
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Amid an ongoing standoff between Senate Republicans and Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send Immigrations and Customs Enforcements agents to airports around the U.S.“If the Radic…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC seeded two anonymous groups that spent more than $14 million to influence pivotal House Democratic primaries in Illinois on Tuesday — marking a new salvo in the battle over policy on Israel within the D…
Like many Americans, Ms. Rachel said she first became aware of the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after federal immigration agents detained a 5-year-old in Minneapolis.
An Underground Railroad museum in upstate New York alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated its federal grant on the basis of race, pointing to President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle diversity-focused initiatives.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended strikes on Iran's infrastructure since the U.S and Israel's joint operation began, saying "sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday defended U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s infrastructure, saying “sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.”His comments came just hours after President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was giving Ir…
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Sen. James Lankford did not rule out supporting putting U.S. troops on the ground in Iran, saying in an interview on NBC News’ "Meet the Press" that "we've got to be able to know what the objectives are and what they're actually carrying out."
Iran said Sunday it is ready to face U.S. troops on the ground, accusing Washington of secretly planning an assault while seeking negotiations to end the war.“The enemy, openly, sends messages of negotiation and dialogue, but secretly is planning a ground att…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Before President Donald Trump arrives in China last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping will have another visitor: a Taiwan opposition leader, who
In his first year back in the White House, President Donald Trump avoided using his famous “You’re fired” phrase when it came to members of his Cabinet.
A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily extended a lower court judge's order allowing the construction of Trump's White House ballroom to move forward.
NEW ORLEANS — In rapid succession on Friday, three people stood from seats to disrupt a Democratic National Committee meeting, protesting U.S. funding of Israel and chiding the chair for breaking a promise of transparency.“Why you afraid of AIPAC?” one woman …
President Donald Trump‘s administration plans to launch next Monday the system it will use for issuing refunds to American importers for $166 billion the companies paid in tariffs that the U.S.
Pope Leo VIX has said he has no interest in debating President Donald Trump, pushing back at reporting about the escalating war of words between the two men
Iranian military officials said Saturday that conditions in the Strait of Hormuz have reverted to "strict control," citing the continued U.S. blockade of its ports, just one day after declaring the waterway “completely open.”“Control over the Strait of Hormuz…
A federal judge has blocked a $6.2 billion merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna until an antitrust lawsuit is resolved.U.S.
The Justice Department has demanded that Wayne County, Michigan, turn over all ballots from the November 2024 election, another escalation in the Trump administration’s voting inquiries.
The price of oil jumped sharply and stock futures tumbled Sunday evening as traders digested renewed tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the critical Strait of Hormuz.U.S.
“My house is demolished.”Imad Komeyha and his family spent 12 hours traveling from northern Lebanon back to Kfar Sir, a village in the south, only to find their house in ruins, laid to waste amid Israeli airstrikes
President Donald Trump is set to attend White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner for the first time as commander-in-chief, surrounded by the journalists he routinely berates and threatens
A federal judge is asking the Justice Department and President Donald Trump's private attorneys to explain whether his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, an agency he oversees as president, is the type of dispute federal courts can cons…
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to call for the "revival of the American dream," and blame Democrats as well as Republicans for failed economic policies in a speech Saturday night, according to excerpts shared with NBC News."Democrats never bo…
Two top Republican lawmakers expressed their concern Saturday about President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from NATO ally Germany.
Maine Democratic Party convention-goers were relieved to focus on the general election, but some had mixed feelings about their prospects against GOP Sen. Susan Collins.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to lower the cost of gas, including suspending the federal gas tax
The president also said he’s not considering the political implications of the Iran war on the midterms, when Republicans will be defending slim majorities in each chamber.
Sen. Bill Cassidy’s primary loss Saturday brings an end to a two-decade career in public office that was ultimately defined by tensions with President Donald Trump
Sen. Bill Cassidy’s primary loss Saturday brings to an end a two-decade career in public office that was ultimately defined by tensions with President Donald Trump
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A GOP bill seeking $1 billion for the Secret Service to help finance President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is in jeopardy as it faces pushback from a top Senate official.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., warned in a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press” that the Republican Party will be “very vulnerable” during the midterm elections
Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado announced Saturday that she plans to run for president again and intends to return to her home country before the end of 2026
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is urging European countries to mirror U.S. travel restrictions implemented in response to Ebola as the U.S. prepares to host the largest-ever World Cup amid growing concerns about the spread of the disease, according to …
Hundreds of supporters signaled they weren’t phased by the new allegations about Graham Platner’s past relationships, giving the Democratic Senate candidate a warm welcome on Friday.
President Donald Trump did not rule out the government paying people who were charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News chief Bari Weiss of tilting coverage in favor of how President Donald Trump characterized events in Minnesota and described a newsroom in turmoil under her leadership during an emotional New York…
New York Knicks fans can cheer on their beloved team pretty much anywhere in the city’s five boroughs on Monday night — except outside of Madison Square Garden.
TIJUANA, México — Iran’s soccer team arrived in Mexico on Sunday morning for training ahead of the World Cup, before three group matches in the United States later this month
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the former senate majority leader, was hospitalized on Sunday, according to his spokesperson.“Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning,” spokesperson David Popp said in a statement.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will take a two-month break from hosting his eponymous ABC program, tapping comedian and frequent Donald Trump foe Rosie O’Donnell as one of several guest hosts to fill in during his absence.“I hope you’re paying attention this su…
The gloomy, overcast weather on Saturday didn’t disturb visitors who attended the first weekend of President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, an event commemorating America’s 250th anniversary on the National Mall.
An underground church pastor has been released from prison in China and has arrived in the United States, less than two months after President Donald Trump publicly raised his case with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The convictions against the four Proud Boys are some of the last remaining cases to stand after President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons from January 2025.