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Biden to mark Jan. 6 by honoring defenders of democracy

Two years to the day after a mob of Trump’s extremist supporters stormed the Capitol, Biden was set to present the Presidential Citizens Medal to a diverse group of police and officials who did their jobs in the face of Trump’s scheme to cling to power.

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NYC judge flip flops on unsealing Trump's deposition in rape case

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered the unsealing of part of of Trump’s sit-down with E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers — but then granted a request by the former president asking for three days to oppose it.

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans ‘Latinx’

The former White House press secretary under Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting use of the gender-neutral term for Latinos in government documents after being sworn in Tuesday.

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Manhattan DA wants to review ex-prosecutor's Trump book

Alvin Bragg’s office claims the book’s author, Mark Pomerantz — a veteran white-collar lawyer who blamed the DA when he quit last year — shirked a legal obligation to get permission to pen “People vs. Donald Trump.”

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Trump kicks off 2024 campaign with stops in New Hampshire, South Carolina

Trump and his allies hope the events in states with enormous power in selecting the nominee will offer a show of force behind the former president after a sluggish start to his campaign that left many questioning his commitment to running again.

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Moving on from Trump & move on from his voters

“Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials…will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem,” writes McKay Coppins in a new Atlantic piece. “Aside from his most blinkered loyalists, virtually everyone in the party agrees: It’s time to move on from Trump.”

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The law closes in: Donald Trump is under Manhattan grand jury investigation again

Last year, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg flinched rather than following through with what his own office’s prosecutors believed to be a solid case that Donald Trump lied to banks about his holdings. As Mark Pomerantz — who led the grand jury investigation with Carey Dunne — makes clear in his new book, that was a serious mistake.

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Trump trails DeSantis by 13% in GOP 2024 president poll

But Trump runs dead even with DeSantis when other GOP wannabes like former Vice President Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo and others are also included in the options.

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Donald Trump reinstated on Facebook and Instagram

Meta had suspended Trump from its platforms after “his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol,” the company’s global affairs president, Nick Clegg, said in a previous announcement.

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Ex-VP Mike Pence faces decision about Jan. 6 subpoena

Pence has resisted speaking either publicly or under oath about what he knows about former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which culminated in the failed insurrection attempt.

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Progressive Democrats are their own worst enemy

During the past three election cycles, Democrats nationally have had a secret weapon: Donald Trump. Over that same period, while it’s gotten less notoriety, Republicans have also received unexpected help from an unlikely source: progressive New York Democrats.

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Donald Trump using legal woes to raise big money for 2024 campaign

If Donald Trump is indicted by a New York grand jury in the coming days or weeks, the former president may surrender in Manhattan having already secured a silver lining: a surge in fund-raising that has accompanied his expected arrest.

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Trump arrives in NYC ahead of historic criminal indictment

Day One of the Donald Trump indictment spectacle began Monday as the former president traveled from his Florida compound to his Fifth Ave. high rise ahead of a historic criminal indictment charging him in a political hush money scheme.

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‘MAGA’ favorite Dan Bongino leaving Fox News

Dan Bongino, the ultra-conservative personality and steadfast Donald Trump defender, is done at Fox News. The last episode of "Unfiltered With Dan Bongino" aired on April 15.

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A majority of Americans think Trump broke law in Georgia, poll says

Most Americans think Donald Trump broke the law with his pressure campaign in Georgia to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but less than half think he committed a crime in the Stormy Daniels hush money case that led to his New York indictment, according to a poll published Thursday.

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Mike steps up: Pence does what the law requires; in Trump World, that’s a big deal

Donald Trump tried to prevent him from telling the truth under oath, but tell the truth under oath he did: Mike Pence, former enabler-in-chief to the last commander-in-chief, did his legal duty and testified this week before a Washington federal grand jury about Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, up to and including the Jan. 6 lethal ransacking of the Capitol.

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Lawsuit accuses Giuliani of demanding employee perform oral sex while on the phone with Trump

Noelle Dunphy's 75-page suit cites audio recordings and accuses Giuliani, 78, in graphic detail of subjecting her to sexual assault and harassment throughout her employment, forcing her to engage in “violent sex” and attend work video conferences naked and work in short shorts he bought printed with an American flag.

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DeSantis accuses Trump of dodging questions on abortion ban

A day after Trump questioned whether Florida’s six-week ban is 'too harsh,' DeSantis challenged his fellow #FloridaMan to simply say whether he would have signed the bill or not.

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Mike Pence dodges DOJ charges in documents probe: reports

The Pence probe was not related to the investigation by special counsel Jack Smith into former President Donald Trump taking scores of secret documents to his Mar-a-Lago resort when he left the White House.

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TPS extension is welcome, but permanent solution is needed

The Biden administration announced last week that it will extend Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, who had been put in a legal limbo after a judge blocked the Trump attempts to terminate their status. Good, but not enough.

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Trump critic Will Hurd joins 2024 GOP presidential race

Deriding Trump as a “lawless, selfish, failed politician,” Hurd said the controversial ex-president would hand the White House back to President Biden in a cake walk if nominated.

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Trump gets wild cheers at Faith and Freedom Coalition confab

Donald Trump was the keynote speaker at Saturday’s evening gala of the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, a night that was filled with overwhelming support for the former president.

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Trump campaign official cooperates with Jan. 6 prosecutors: report

Mike Roman, who led election day operations for Trump, has reportedly agreed to answer questions from the special counsel’s prosecutors investigating Trump’s plan to stay in power and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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It’s too easy to create realistic ways to cheat people from their votes

A video hit social media in May depicting Ron DeSantis in an unflattering turn as Michael from the old TV show “The Office.” The clip — likely created by a Donald Trump fan — mocked DeSantis as a weak fool. But instead of being funny, it was unnerving.

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Trump lawyers demand delay of Mar-a-Lago documents trial until after 2024 election

Trump, who holds a dominant lead in the Republican primary race, claims holding a trial in the normal time frame of a few months after his arraignment would prevent him from getting a fair trial and could interfere with his ability to run a successful presidential campaign.

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Roger Stone pal, Trump backer will press lawsuit over NYPD firing

Ex-NYPD officer Sal Greco said he was "pleased" that his case can proceed. He hopes to prove the police department “terminated me not only because of my friendship with Roger Stone, but my support for President Donald Trump. I look forward to my day in court.“

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Trump charging documents published, removed in Georgia

A Georgia court reportedly published papers charging former President Donald Trump with several crimes before the document vanished from the internet on Monday, a confounding episode in the 2020 election case in Fulton County.

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Nearly 13M viewers watched Fox News' GOP debate without Trump

Nearly 13 million people watched the Republican presidential debate on either Fox News or Fox Business. Frontrunner Donald Trump skipped the event in lieu of a taped interview with Tucker Carlson.

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Francis Suarez drops out of Republican presidential primary

Just 76 days after launching his campaign, Suarez pulled the plug on his effort to challenge former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others in the crowded field.

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Proud Boys Dominic Pezzola, Ethan Nordean learn Jan. 6 fate

Former Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola defiantly declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election on Friday after he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Fellow Proud Boy Ethan Nordean was handed a whopping term of 18 years.

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Judge poised to rule on Mark Meadows federal court push

U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones is expected to rule at any time on whether former President Donald Trump’s top lieutenant should be tried in federal court, where he might be able to get the conspiracy charges tossed altogether.

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Trump moves to oust Judge Tanya Chutkan from Jan. 6 case

Citing the tough-talking judge's remarks in other Jan. 6 cases, Trump's lawyers claimed she had shown bias against him that would prevent him from getting a fair trial.

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Trump co-defendant demands Georgia vote data

Harrison Floyd, one of Trump's 18 co-defendants, filed a motion demanding that Georgia hand over copies of Fulton County ballots that he claims could show he didn't lie about supposed widespread voter fraud.

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'You don't know anything'

Molly Michael told the FBI that Trump ordered her to feign ignorance after he discovered the feds were interviewing insiders about his refusal to hand over boxes of classified documents, ABC reported Monday.

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Biden gets highest disapproval rating of his presidency

Voters in an NBC poll released Sunday displayed their unhappiness with President Biden and with former President Donald Trump, giving each of the politicians a strong thumbs-down.

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Trump toady Jim Jordan will make a terrible House speaker

If anyone, inside the House or out, thought that Kevin McCarthy lacked leadership qualities and was divisive, he’s Abe Lincoln compared to Donald Trump’s guy, Jim Jordan.

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Donald Trump expected back in NYC next week for fraud trial: source

The former president, who last week attended the first three days of his trial in the civil case brought by state AG Tish James, plans to come back next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to a source with direct knowledge of his plans.

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Extremist Jim Jordan's rejection spells hope

Eight radical right-wingers toppled Kevin McCarthy. Now three times that many Republicans have said no to the right's favorite son, even though Donald Trump and Steve Bannon were pushing hard for Jim Jordan. That gives us hope that the sensible Republicans, who want to govern, not just smash things, can stick together and empower a speaker worthy of the job.

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MTA hires high-powered attorney in NJ congestion pricing suit

Roberta Kaplan — a prominent litigator known for securing gay marriage rights and representing writer E. Jean Carroll in her sexual assault case against Donald Trump — has signed on to argue the transit agency's case in a federal lawsuit brought by New Jersey.

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Who is Mike Johnson?

Johnson is among the most staunchly conservative members of Congress and a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump.

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Savannah Guthrie

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani recently slashed the asking price of his ritzy Upper East Side apartment amid mounting legal and financial woes in connection with his work as Donald Trump’s fixer. Not everyone has Trump-related bills to pay, but plenty of other big-name Manhattanites have had to mark down their homes lately.

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Trump leads Biden in 5 crucial swing states: Siena

Donald Trump would cruise to another term in the White House if the results of the New York Times/Siena College poll are repeated in 12 months at the ballot box.

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Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial will go on after lawyers seek early verdict ending case

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers were thwarted Thursday in their longshot bid to put an immediate end to the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. The judge didn’t rule on the request, but he indicated that the […]

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Trump vows to unleash feds on critics

The once-and-maybe-future president is openly detailing plans to order authorities to prosecute rivals, a dramatic break with American traditions.

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Readers sound off on prison vegan options, white supremacists and Trump's Thanksgiving greeting

Otisville, N.Y.: The Federal Bureau of Prisons isn't doing all that it can to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For one thing, it doesn't reliably provide a vegan option for inmates who yearn for it due to religious beliefs or self-improvement goals. "Policy" is the only reason ever cited. In other words, it's only bureaucratic inertia and no real reason exists.

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LIz Cheney unloads on Trump and GOP 'enablers' in new memoir

The former congresswoman from Wyoming decries McCarthy and other former GOP colleagues as shameless hypocrites who followed Trump even when they knew he posed a grave danger to American democracy.

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Nikki Haley wins endorsement of big-money conservative Koch network

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley Tuesday won the presidential endorsement of the big-money conservative Koch Network in the latest sign that she could be the most potent challenger to former President Donald Trump. The former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor won the support of the billionaire megadonor Charles Koch and his right-wing Americans for […]

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Most voters say Biden, Trump mentally unfit for 2nd term: poll

American voters are broadly skeptical that President Biden is mentally fit to serve a second term, and most do not think his possible general election rival Donald Trump is mentally fit either, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday.

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Trump’s NYC hush money, fraud cases could reach boiling point Monday

Trump poised to make a last-ditch attempt to dodge legal jeopardy in the Stormy Daniels hush money saga — and faces the end of a grace period in his separate civil fraud case to put up a bond of almost half a billion dollars.

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Donald Trump wanted Ivanka to replace him on 'The Apprentice'

Donald Trump wanted daughter Ivanka to replace him on "The Apprentice" during the NBC hit's run — in a version that also would have seen sons Eric and Don Jr. serve as boardroom advisers.

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Michael Cohen's damning hush money testimony about Trump's role in Stormy Daniels' payoff: top moments

The former fixer paid off Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to buy her silence about her claim that she slept with Trump ten years prior. The D.A.’s lawyers charge that Trump then reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 payment — in the process of falsifying business records — all to conceal a scheme to influence the results of the election.

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Trump opens up lead over Biden in new poll of battleground states

Donald Trump leads by healthy margins outside the margin of error in three Sun Belt swing states while President Biden is virtually tied in three Rust Belt states that are also up for grabs, according to the survey carried out by Siena College, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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20 days of hush money trail testimony explained

The Manhattan district attorney’s office presented 20 witnesses in their monthlong case against Trump, laying out an illicit “catch and kill” scheme that included falsifying business records to pay back his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for silencing porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election.

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects 'Trump Too Small' trademark

The U.S. Supreme Court nixed a California man’s bid to trademark the slogan “Trump Too Small" for T-shirts. But the shirts are still available for purchase.

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Kamala Harris-Donald Trump presidential debate: Live updates

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to debate starting at 9 p.m. Tuesday in what could be the single most significant event of their battle for the White House. Follow along with the Daily News as we provide regular updates on all the political action before, during and after the 90-minute showdown.

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Trump names Susie Wiles as first-ever female chief of staff

President-elect Donald Trump has named Susie Wiles, the defacto manager of his victorious campaign, as his White House chief of staff, the first woman to hold the influential role.

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Comptroller Brad Lander

Lander gave the bleak assessment at a press conference announcing a report on the impacts of the 2024 elections — saying that if Trump cuts federal funding, key infrastructure projects, schools and housing could be imperiled.

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Hamas shares video of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander

In a heavily edited propaganda video, Edan Alexander pleads for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to free him and the other 100 hostages held by Hamas.

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Adams attempts to downplay fears NYC immigrant children are skipping school

Mayor Adams on Tuesday poured cold water on the idea that deportation fears since President Trump's inauguration have led to a drop-off in New York City public school attendance — despite early signs that some immigrant families are fearful about sending their children to school.

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UFT blasts Mayor Adams as ‘hostage’ to Trump’s DOJ, says students ‘paying the price’

New York City’s powerful teachers union on Wednesday accused Mayor Adams of being “hostage” to the Trump administration over the expected dismissal of the mayor’s corruption case — while local schools and their students pay the price.In an open letter, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said Adams has created a climate of fear […]

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Trump sparks backlash dressed as pope in AI image shared by White House

With just days left before the start of the papal conclave — where a new leader of the Catholic Church will be selected — Trump took to his Truth Social platform to share an AI-generated image of himself dressed up as the Pope, inspiring many memes and even more backlash.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brian Glenn are getting married

NEW YORK — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is engaged to Right Side Broadcasting Network personality Brian Glenn. The pair announced their impending...

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