The Invention of Elise Stefanik
To rise through the Trump-era G.O.P., a young congresswoman gave up her friends, her mentors and her ideals. Will it be enough?
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To rise through the Trump-era G.O.P., a young congresswoman gave up her friends, her mentors and her ideals. Will it be enough?
Selling his soul to Trump hasn’t worked out for the would-be speaker.
The court said the former president had to provide the government the names of private investigators he hired to search his properties last year for any classified material still in his possession.
Donald Trump held separate rounds of calls to those opposing Kevin McCarthy as speaker and was surprised when he was met with resistance.
A New York judge declined to dismiss the state attorney general’s suit against the former president and called his lawyers’ filing frivolous.
In the struggles over the speakership, the old G.O.P. world, with all its dysfunctions, stalemates and futility, has come again.
Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the Tea Party to Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans to the raucous five-day stretch in the House that ended early Saturday.
The former president had a moment, but now the sun is setting on that moment.
The definitive challenge for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: to be president for all the people.
Ms. Hardaway, who rose to fame with one of her sisters as half of a pro-Trump duo, died in North Carolina, according to former President Donald J. Trump.
At issue is whether former President Donald J. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he made disparaging comments about a writer who had accused him of rape.
Jack Smith’s challenges include a newly empowered Republican House majority and the recent disclosure of classified documents at a former office of President Biden.
Mark F. Pomerantz, Carey R. Dunne and Michele Roberts, the former head of the N.B.A. players union, will launch a pro bono law firm, the Free and Fair Litigation Group.
The Justice Department began its case by telling the jury that five members of the far-right pro-Trump group had led scores of others in a coordinated attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
There are now two special counsels looking into presidents — Jack Smith was appointed in November by the attorney general to oversee the two investigations into former President Trump. Here’s more about the powers of a special counsel and why they are used.
In allowing E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit to move forward, Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the legality of New York’s Adult Survivors Act.
Special counsel investigations have become increasingly common, but some think the system is broken.
An inspector general’s report found no evidence that David Bernhardt had improperly favored a group that once employed him as a lobbyist.
A legal reckoning awaits a chief architect of Donald Trump’s effort to reverse his election loss. But in Mr. Eastman’s telling, he was far from a criminal.
The annual march, which was started in 2017 as a reaction to the election of former President Donald J. Trump, this year is focused on abortion rights.
Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.
Political implications of the documents cases. Also: The mass shooting in California; sending tanks to Ukraine; protests in Peru; college admissions.
The House Jan. 6 committee report offered fresh evidence that former President Donald J. Trump was at the center of efforts to overturn election results in Georgia.
The prosecutor asked that a report on efforts to overturn former President Donald J. Trump’s election loss not be released, saying that she was “mindful of protecting future defendants’ rights.”
Republicans have wrongly suggested that President Biden and his party are solely responsible for the situation, while Democrats have overstated former President Donald J. Trump’s role.
Nikki Haley is expected to join the 2024 race this month, but other G.O.P. contenders are taking a wait-and-see approach. Some anti-Trump Republicans worry that too much dithering could be costly.
Manhattan prosecutors warned that they might charge Allen H. Weisselberg with insurance fraud to pressure him to cooperate in an investigation of the former president.
The former president faces several potential Republican challengers in his bid for the White House.
The Florida governor’s influence on an A.P. Black studies course. Also: The killing of Black men; a formidable Trump; anti-boycott bills; living without plastic.
Mark F. Pomerantz, who resigned from the Manhattan district attorney’s office last year, wrote that he had pursued a racketeering case against the former president.
Concerns about the president’s age are being overcome by enthusiasm about his record so far, optimism about the G.O.P. field — and the absence of better options.
For now, allowing the former president to fade is wiser than attacking him.
The polls are surprisingly divided, but higher-quality surveys point to an answer.
Donald Trump has reunited with a former business partner to sell online trading cards, hoping to recreate a once-profitable mix of hype and celebrity. Initial sales hint at how difficult that will be in 2023.
Donald Trump and possible rivals, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, are making appeals to conservative voters on race and gender issues, but such messages had a mixed record in November’s midterm elections.
The Arkansas governor perfectly reflects the moral compromises of her party.
Prosecutors have started to lay out evidence that they say shows how members of the far-right pro-Trump group conspired to use force to stop the lawful transfer of power after the 2020 election.
It was not immediately clear under what circumstances the lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, appeared, but he has had a key role in the case examining Mr. Trump’s handling of government documents.
With the Trump name mostly anathema in New York, Bally’s is pinning its hopes for a Bronx-based casino on a vow to sever Trump’s name from a golf course there.
Releasing the introduction and conclusion of a special grand jury report could shed light on the extent to which Mr. Trump and others might face legal jeopardy in the case.
The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.
The released excerpts from the special grand jury’s report suggest that the jurors probably recommended indictments on more charges than just perjury.
The moves sets the stage for the agency to issue tighter controls on mercury, a neurotoxin emitted by power plants.
Matthew DePerno and Kristina Karamo, both Trump loyalists who resoundingly lost their midterm races, are the front-runners to lead the state party.
The top staff investigator for the House inquiry on the Capitol attack opened up about his biggest takeaways and why proving intent is the key to a criminal charge against former President Donald J. Trump.
And quick.
A presidential prosecution could help restore national confidence in the judicial system.
Now that the former president is a declared candidate again, there are questions about whether he can continue using donor funds to pay his lawyers.
The revelations from grand jury proceedings in Georgia are the latest signs that federal and local inquiries into the former president could reach key decision points in coming months.
The lawyers said public comments by the forewoman of the special grand jury that investigated election interference had “poisoned” the process. But they have yet to challenge anything in court.
Woody Harrelson was the host this week of an episode, which featured Jack White as musical guest.
A report said Donald Trump tried to get Disney to reprimand Kimmel for making fun of him. “In other words, President Karen demanded to speak to my manager,” Kimmel said.
Although Republican victories in New York helped the G.O.P. take control of the House, the state party is torn over how closely to align itself with ex-President Donald Trump.
At the four-day conclave of MAGA conservatives, only former President Trump provided a jolt of excitement.
Fallon said Donald Trump “made some pretty intense promises” in his headlining speech on Saturday.
A renewed demand that an oversight panel be shown documents found at the homes of Donald Trump and Joe Biden came as the F.B.I. revealed new data about its use of the surveillance law.
The man, Carlton Huffman, 39, said he had sought anonymity in his lawsuit against Mr. Schlapp, a powerful activist, out of fear of potential retaliation by Trump supporters.
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The former president was told that he could appear before a Manhattan grand jury next week if he wishes to testify, a strong indication that an indictment could soon follow.
Mike Pence and Nikki Haley somehow manage to propose ideas that are both implausible and unpopular.
A special grand jury looking into election meddling interviewed Robert Cheeley, a sign that false claims made by Donald J. Trump’s allies loom large in the case.
Mr. Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime fixer, is a key piece of the puzzle as prosecutors move toward an indictment of the former president.
Donald J. Trump’s event on Monday evening in Davenport, Iowa, is aimed in part at slowing any momentum from Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Boris Epshteyn is the latest aide to take on the role of slashing defender of the former president, even as the Justice Department seeks information about him in the Jan. 6 and documents inquiries.
The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans.
Prosecuting the former president would be a step toward mending the country.
If the former president faces criminal charges, his campaign plans to begin a broad offensive against Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney and a Democrat, accusing him of political bias.
DeSantis and Trump project weakness and moral ambiguity in the face of a weaker power.
The ruling found that the government had met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to get around attorney-client privilege if they believe a crime has been committed.
Inside the exclusive dinner clubs in South Florida, where money talks and Donald Trump sometimes plays D.J.
The ruling paves the way for testimony from Mark Meadows and others. Separately, a Trump lawyer appeared before a grand jury looking into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
The Manhattan district attorney is resisting demands by House Republicans that he provide information about the hush money inquiry, setting up a potential legal showdown.
The payoff to Stormy Daniels that has a Manhattan grand jury weighing criminal charges against Mr. Trump can trace its lineage to political skulduggery in 1968 and 1980.
Despite a pattern of dangerous, erratic behavior, the former president remains a strong front-runner for his party’s nomination. His durability stems from his most loyal supporters.
The grand jury that is hearing evidence in the hush-money investigation might not meet on Wednesday, and the timing of any potential indictment remains unknown.
The ruling in Washington was the latest setback to efforts by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to limit testimony to grand juries investigating him on various matters.
The former president is attempting to cast the investigations into his actions as politically motivated uses of the justice system. In office, he regularly sought to use government powers against his foes.
Across many court cases over the decades, Mr. Trump has regularly leaned on those tactics. Now facing criminal charges in Manhattan, he has already lashed out at the judge.
A salacious indictment against the 45th president is the latest chapter in a life made for the tabloids.
G.O.P. leaders have talked tough about investigating the New York prosecutor bringing charges against the former president, but behind the scenes, they are weighing how to move ahead.
Here are some of the most important moments from the hearing where criminal charges against Donald Trump were unveiled.
To some Republicans and Democrats, the charges appeared flimsy and less consequential than many had hoped. To others, the case had the potential to reverberate politically.
This case may be a legal stretch, but it would be a problem to give a boss impunity after imprisoning his underling.
Justice Juan M. Merchan cautioned Donald Trump against incendiary rhetoric. Then the former president went after the judge’s family.
The concurrent investigations create complications for separate teams relying on similar evidence, some of the same criminal targets and a small, shared pool of witnesses.
New Yorkers of every stripe came out to witness the historic day.
Former President Donald J. Trump now faces a very different legal challenge in the culmination of a more than two-year Atlanta investigation into election interference.
The disclosure will eventually provide the first look at the former president’s businesses since leaving the White House.
The appeal seeks to narrow the scope of testimony that former Vice President Mike Pence can provide the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, accuses Mr. Cohen of revealing Mr. Trump’s confidences and “spreading falsehoods” about him.
A handful of prominent Republicans, including Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis, have been testing the waters for months, mindful of the biggest fish out there: Donald Trump.
Reid Hoffman, a billionaire and critic of Donald J. Trump, is backing E. Jean Carroll’s suit against the former president.
After four members of Congress backed Donald J. Trump, Republicans close to the Florida governor are trying to keep others from wading into the brewing fight for the G.O.P. presidential nomination.
Mr. Trump’s threats of sweeping inquiries if re-elected came as local prosecutors in New York and Georgia were intensely scrutinizing him.
“This isn’t our moment,” said Mr. Pompeo, a former Trump administration official. But he declined to endorse the former president and obliquely criticized him.
While the former president reported a modest haul, he saw a big uptick in donations in the day after he was indicted.
The lawyer represents 10 Georgia Republicans who were part of a plan to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election and keep Donald J. Trump in power.
Heider Garcia, the top election official in deep-red Tarrant County, had previously testified about being harassed by the former president’s right-wing supporters.
Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, had tried to stop Mark F. Pomerantz from speaking with a U.S. House committee examining the criminal case against Donald J. Trump.
Why Biden is succeeding where Trump failed.
The former New Jersey governor is testing a campaign as Donald Trump’s most vocal critic in the Republican field.
Speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation, the Florida governor doubled down on his 2024 pitch, ignoring headlines about worried donors and Republican consolidation behind Donald Trump.
The former governor of New Jersey — who ran against Donald Trump in 2016 and is exploring a presidential campaign in 2024 — tried to thread the needle with his answer at a New Hampshire town hall.
Republican voters seem to be grading Donald Trump on a curve in his third presidential campaign, while Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida faces a more traditional form of scrutiny.
Republicans gathered in the state Saturday in a kickoff event that lacked the attendance of two front-runners, though their presence was felt.
Steve Daines of Montana, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, cited the former president’s accomplishments on issues like immigration.
In a letter on Monday, the prosecutor said she would announce any indictments from her investigation into Donald J. Trump and his allies between July 11 and Sept. 1.
Lawyers for the former president asked a House committee to pass legislation stripping the Justice Department of authority to investigate his handling of classified material after leaving office.
The former president’s new campaign is rolling unimpeded under the spotlights. In quiet courtrooms, he faces more serious threats.
Third parties aren’t going to save us.
No one would choose this ordeal just because she hates Trump.
Prosecutors are nearing charging decisions after investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election.
A new deal gives the LIV Golf series ties to both former President Donald J. Trump and an adviser to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Things are different, but maybe not enough.
The Florida governor, who has slipped in polls as his expected entrance to the presidential race nears, is moving beyond early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
A jury, which held former President Donald J. Trump liable on Tuesday for the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million, completed a verdict form that spelled out possible findings.
Readers react to the jury’s decision.
E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers tried to exclude the man, who listened to podcasts by the provocateur Tim Pool. He remained on the jury that found the ex-president liable.
The former president made it clearer than ever this week that on issues including Ukraine, the economy and the rule of law, his return to office would lead to a sharp departure from core American values.
After four years of investigating the Russia inquiry, John Durham turned in a report that was made public on Monday.
Readers respond to articles that defended giving Mr. Trump that forum. Also: The moral struggle in politics; helping the homeless; a study on masking.
A dysfunctional investigation led by a Trump-era special counsel illustrates a dilemma about prosecutorial independence and accountability in politically sensitive matters.
As Republicans and right-wing news outlets try to paint the bureau as politically biased, powerful members of Congress have trained their sights on a little-known former F.B.I. agent.
Millions of voters are dissatisfied with the prospect of another Trump-Biden matchup. Could there be an alternative?
In a phone call with top donors, the Florida governor took his most direct shots yet at Donald Trump. He is expected to officially enter the presidential race next week.
Among the 500 people singled out for travel and financial restrictions were Americans seen as adversaries by former President Donald J. Trump.
If they can’t outpace Trump, they’ll lie in wait to catch him limping.
The Florida governor, Donald Trump’s strongest challenger since 2016, entered the race on Wednesday and was set for a livestream conversation with Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, at 6 p.m. Eastern.
He has distilled Trump’s impulses into an ideology — and there’s nothing conservative about it.
Trying to regroup after a bumpy Twitter rollout, Ron DeSantis sought to make new headlines, suggesting that he might consider pardoning Donald Trump if he faced federal charges.
Ron DeSantis entered the presidential race last week along with Tim Scott, with others to follow. For the former president, the more candidates the better.
When a teen’s killing became a right-wing talking point, the rush to outrage obscured a more complicated story.
Let’s think back to Nixon vs. Reagan.
Erdogan’s manifest failures as a leader didn’t stop his re-election.
Readers cheer the accord and the president but voice frustration over the process. Also: The Trump tape; anti-Trump Republicans; Amazon workers.
Three lawyers representing the former president spent nearly two hours there after requesting a meeting to discuss their concerns about the department’s handling of the investigation.
The former governor, with his ready wit and considerable baggage, intends to jump into the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday.
Raise your hand if your name’s not Trump.
The former vice president — and now rival — to Donald Trump gave his most aggressive criticism of his former boss, portraying him as unfit to be president.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in Manhattan and is being investigated in Georgia over attempts to reverse the election results in that state.
The accounts in the 49-page indictment provide compelling evidence of a shocking indifference toward some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.
A commander in chief stands accused of endangering national security.
M. Evan Corcoran, who was hired to represent the former president after the Justice Department issued a subpoena for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, could be a key witness in the trial.
The former president has long stowed papers and odds and ends in cartons that he liked to keep close. His aides have called it the “beautiful mind” material.
Judge Aileen Cannon gave the defense team until Tuesday to begin the process, underscoring how classified information will be fundamental to the trial.
Donald J. Trump and Boris Johnson are at the heart of political tempests at home, facing different accusations and far different results.
The move by the G.O.P.-led House was the first in what could be a series of votes seeking to punish those whom Republicans have deemed enemies of the party.
The office of the special counsel is negotiating with Michael Roman, who was closely involved in the efforts to create slates of pro-Trump electors in states won in 2020 by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The former vice president called on his rivals to back the ban, which is more strict than what former President Donald J. Trump has said he would support.
Readers discuss whether criticism of him is valid as he met with Biden. Also: Making sense of Trump; politicizing the homeless; annoying noise.
The special counsel argued that the August date set by the judge did not allow enough time to deal with the complications of classified evidence, but still proposed a relatively speedy timetable.
The order by Judge Aileen Cannon means the identities of some or all of the Justice Department’s 84 potential witnesses in the case against the former president could become public.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, said he was not inclined to move the Manhattan district attorney’s case against the former president to federal court.
The House speaker angered Donald J. Trump’s allies by saying he did not know whether the former president was the strongest candidate to beat President Biden.
The inquiry into Donald Trump’s handling of classified material revolved largely around his Florida club and residence, but investigators were also quietly focused on his New Jersey property.
Birthright citizenship is the constitutional provision that makes a multiracial democracy of equals possible.
Under both Donald Trump and President Biden, Washington has helped create the very anti-American partnerships it now bemoans.
Donald J. Trump loomed large over the campaign trail, even though he was among the few G.O.P. contenders who stayed away from it.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has vowed to be neutral in 2024. But Donald Trump’s team views her as neutral in name only when it comes to Ron DeSantis and his wife.
The former president’s legal team argued in a court filing that no trial date should be set until all “substantive motions” in the case were resolved, setting up an early key decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon.
Ray Epps, a two-time Trump voter, says Tucker Carlson repeatedly and falsely named him as a covert government agent who incited the Jan. 6 attack.
Stoked by former President Donald J. Trump, congressional Republicans have been trying to undermine the F.B.I.’s legitimacy with the public.
The office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, said there “is no basis in law or fact” for granting a motion from former President Donald J. Trump that could push the start of the trial until after Election Day.
The money was listed as pay for a “speaking engagement” by Ms. Trump in a new personal financial disclosure by her husband.
With indictment decisions imminent, the court refused to scuttle an investigation into whether the former president and his allies interfered in the 2020 election.
The former president did not say which crimes, if any, prosecutors specified in a letter notifying him that he may be indicted again.
Also, a global heat wave. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters have been charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, but the charge, which could be applied to former President Donald J. Trump, has come under scrutiny.
The prosecutor overseeing the investigation into election interference will make her case next month to a grand jury in Atlanta. Nearly 20 people have been warned that they could face charges.
Republican presidential candidates are supposed to face off in Milwaukee on Aug. 23. But Donald Trump, the field’s front-runner, may not show up, and others have yet to make the cut.
Readers discuss a column by Pamela Paul that lamented the prospect. Also: The perils of A.I., and limits on its development.
The Army colonel overseeing the court-martial trial had applied for a job with the Trump-era Justice Department, raising the appearance of bias.
The special counsel, Jack Smith, continues to push ahead on several fronts as he assembles evidence about former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to retain power after the 2020 election.
Support for a wall is now routine, and some presidential candidates say they would use military force to secure the border if elected.
Gov. Kim Reynolds next month will hold “Fair-Side Chats” with candidates including Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott and Perry Johnson, but not the former president.
The accusation that former President Donald J. Trump wanted security camera footage deleted at Mar-a-Lago added to a pattern of concerns about his attempts to stymie prosecutors.
Also, Ukraine retakes a village. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Almost every one of former President Trump’s 13 rivals who attended the dinner declined to even mention the primary’s front-runner.
The network’s statements were opinion, the ruling said, and did not support a claim of libel and slander.
Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, who were hired by former President Donald J. Trump despite past troubles, rely on him for their legal fees — and are now his co-defendants.
Also, a push to save Florida’s coral. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
The special counsel’s decision not to charge six people said to have played critical roles in the effort to keep Donald Trump in office seemed to give them a chance to cooperate with prosecutors. Some appear to be unwilling.
The special counsel layered varied charges atop the same facts, while sidestepping a free-speech question by not charging incitement.
Voters pressed them to weigh in. Reporters asked about pardons. Mike Pence was heckled. Republicans found it’s not easy to escape the fallout from Donald J. Trump’s legal peril.
Former President Donald J. Trump’s growing cast of lawyers is marked by a web of overlapping interests encompassing witnesses, co-defendants and potential targets.
In seeking a judge’s order, the government was drawing attention to the former president’s longstanding habit of attacking those involved in criminal cases against him.
No candidate is coming close to defeating him in the primaries.
Tonight, stream one these William Friedkin films.
Replacing his campaign manager, the Florida governor capped a turbulent period of layoffs, financial worries and a shift in strategy against Donald Trump, the presidential front-runner.
The former president’s legal team will get to suggest its own timetable for the case next week and will surely object to the government’s proposal.
Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.
He earned the support of both of Delaware’s Democratic senators when then-President Trump, now a critic, nominated him in late 2017.
After a setback for President Biden, Democrats pointed to Donald Trump’s indictments and suggested that swing voters would ultimately not care about the sins of a candidate’s son.
The leading Republican presidential rivals will be circling each other at the event on Saturday, just months before the crucial Iowa caucuses.
Prosecutors brought at least three witnesses before a grand jury considering efforts by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia’s results in the 2020 election.
Legal repercussions have arrived for the leaders of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential contest, in what could serve as a warning to those who meddle in future elections.
Some of the jurors’ identities have been shared on social media, with suggestions that they be harassed or made “infamous.”
The former president’s apparent decision to skip the first debate is a major affront both to the Republican National Committee and to Fox News, which is hosting the event.
Fox News leaned on the former president privately and publicly to join the debate. But all the while he was proceeding with a plan for his own counterprogramming.
A March trial could become the center of gravity of the G.O.P. primary, structuring the campaigns of Donald Trump and his rivals.
Letitia James, the attorney general, asked a judge to find, without a trial, that the former president had fraudulently overvalued his assets.
In New Hampshire, Republicans are feuding over whether the 14th Amendment bars Donald J. Trump from running for president. Other states are watching closely.
The roughly 91,000 migrants who were arrested after crossing together as families exceeded a record set in May 2019, the height of the border crisis during the Trump administration.
Women urge retailers to better meet the needs and tastes of a range of customers. Also: Trump supporters; ChatGPT plagiarism; China’s economic woes; the value of college.
Offering a look at both parties’ political strategies this year, the ads focus largely on issues like education, the economy, jobs and taxes, as well as local scandals and crime.
With leaders of the far-right groups that helped drive the attack on the Capitol sentenced to long prison terms, attention is shifting to the fraught process of prosecuting Donald Trump.
The biography, by Walter Isaacson, portrays Mr. Musk as a complex, tortured figure.
The Russian leader, whose government meddled in the American presidential election won by Donald J. Trump, also offered words of praise for Elon Musk.
Looking past the Republican primary, Donald Trump and his campaign are already gearing up for a possible rematch with President Biden.
Molly Michael, a former assistant to Donald Trump, told investigators he had instructed her not to tell them about classified files he kept at Mar-a-Lago: “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
“I would like not to be a hermit,” the former White House aide says upon the publication of a memoir about her journey down a political rabbit hole.
As criminal cases proceed against the former president, heated rhetoric and anger among his supporters have the authorities worried about the risk of political dissent becoming deadly.
The former press secretary in the Bush White House will moderate the next Republican debate. She’s managed to rise at Fox without being a Trump supplicant.
Officials have increasingly voiced concerns about threats of violence related to the former president’s trials, as he faces charges that would make it illegal for a store to sell him a firearm.
A day after President Biden appeared on a union picket line, the former president will speak at an auto parts factory, but it’s unclear whether any striking workers will be in the crowd.
But Trump supporters probably won’t admit they were fooled.
Also, a threat to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
Republicans’ impulses to disrupt and destroy keep winning out.
The former Trump adviser has helped create the spectacle of G.O.P. dysfunction, using it to build his own following and those of the right-wing House rebels who took down Kevin McCarthy.
He’s not just seeking publicity. He’s laying the groundwork for his eventual appeal — and for 2024.
Soon after leaving office, the former president shared sensitive information about American submarines with a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter.
Representatives Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise sought support from members of the fractured Republican Party, and then former President Donald J. Trump weighed in.
Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a judge to throw out charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that a president could not be criminally prosecuted for official acts.
The former congressman, who had staked out an anti-Trump position, failed to gain traction in a crowded field.
Fund-raising campaigns — including one selling “MAGA honey” — are underway for many of the 18 defendants in a case that could take years to resolve.
The Republican rivals exchanged barbs this week over the U.S. response to the Hamas attack on Israel.
The president’s re-election campaign announced a substantial quarterly fund-raising haul, but it’s far short of what Donald J. Trump raised in the same quarter of his 2020 re-election campaign.
Ms. Winfrey wanted to form the independent ticket to stop Donald J. Trump, according to a forthcoming book. Mr. Romney listened to the pitch but passed on the idea, the biography says.
The Ohio Republican defines himself by his penchant for punching back, whether against allegations that he was derelict in a sex abuse scandal or attempts to prosecute the former president.
The order pits the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate against the responsibilities of a judge to protect witnesses and to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.
Mr. Jordan, the combative ally of former President Donald J. Trump, fell 17 votes short of the majority he would have needed to prevail, despite a right-wing pressure campaign to win over Republican critics.
For the first time, prosecutors have the cooperation of someone who was closely involved in Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after his election defeat.
A hearing brought to an apparent end the back and forth over whether a co-defendant in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta, understood that his lawyer might have conflicts.
The lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty in the Georgia election tampering case and is an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal election case.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who imposed the order, agreed to put it on hold for eight days as the parties filed additional papers.
Mr. Chesebro, a buttoned-down Harvard lawyer, evolved from left-leaning jurist to key player in the Trump false electors scandal. What happened?
As they vie to be the race’s Trump alternative, the two Republican rivals have been trading barbs, zeroing in on each other’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Anthony Pratt, one of Australia’s wealthiest men, made his way into Donald Trump’s inner circle with money and flattery. What he heard there has become of interest to federal prosecutors.
Javier Milei, a libertarian economist often compared to Donald Trump, will face off against Sergio Massa, Argentina’s economy minister, in a runoff next month.
Melania Trump and Michelle Obama were seated side by side.
The testimony of witnesses from Deutsche Bank lent support to a central plank of former President Donald Trump’s defense in the civil fraud case against him.
Readers worry about Donald Trump’s plans if elected — or not elected. Also: Pro-Palestinian students; Mideast myths; standards for prosecutors; neoliberalism today.
Current and former European diplomats said there was growing concern a second Trump presidency could mean an American retreat from the continent and a gutting of NATO.
Though the former president often draws attention for his more extreme policy proposals and rhetoric, a set of core conservative issues appear to resonate even more with his supporters.
It’s the first court to find that the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment applies to Mr. Trump, in addition to affirming that he engaged in insurrection.
The 4-3 decision was harshly criticized by Trump supporters, who called it undemocratic. But some observers say the court is notably nonpartisan.
The court filing was the latest development in a battle between Mr. Trump and the special counsel, Jack Smith, over whether the former president can be prosecuted for his actions while in office.
Nearly a week before the state’s caucuses, a frenzy of campaigning belies a seemingly static G.O.P. race, with former President Donald J. Trump the prohibitive front-runner.
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The former president’s lawyers may question whether the documents he took from the White House were related to national defense and whether the country’s security was damaged.
Donald Trump is hoping for a record-setting victory in Iowa. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are seeking strong showings, and momentum. Caucusing begins at 7 p.m. Central time.
Presidential candidates often enmesh themselves in the state’s politics to woo voters, but the nature of this race means much less focus on local issues.
Nikki Haley’s attack comes a day after Donald J. Trump appeared to repeatedly confuse her with Representative Nancy Pelosi. The two rivals have been escalating their rhetoric with just days left before New Hampshire’s primary.
A judge in Georgia also delayed a deposition of Fani T. Willis, the district attorney accused of having a romantic relationship with a prosecutor she hired.
In the final day of campaigning before the primary, Nikki Haley is dashing from event to event. Tuesday could be her final chance to prevent Donald J. Trump from securing the Republican nomination.
Also, a Russian military plane crashed near Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
What Donald J. Trump meant as a barb at his rival, Nikki Haley, may have ultimately highlighted the look, and the message, she was going for.
The judgment for E. Jean Carroll, and another potentially much larger one on the horizon, could compel the former president to sell some of his assets.
Prosecutors accused Charles Littlejohn, 38, of stealing the tax documents of thousands of the country’s wealthiest people and said his actions “appear to be unparalleled in the I.R.S.’s history.”
A monitor drew attention to “deficiencies” in the Trump Organization’s financial reporting ahead of a verdict in a case brought by New York State that seeks $370 million.
Watching Donald Trump ascend, the newly energized Biden campaign is aiming to make the general election all about him. It’s also hoping for some big endorsements.
Ms. Haley has recently shifted her strategy, casting Donald Trump, 77, and President Biden, 81, as part of the same bygone era of politician.
Urging South Carolina Democrats not to ignore their uncompetitive primary, she pointed to a list of Biden achievements and said Donald Trump posed a “profound threat.”
There’s no doubt Donald can’t shake off Taylor.
A former White House official has a warning about Donald Trump.
President Biden blamed Republicans’ fear of their 2024 front-runner, Donald Trump, for thwarting the legislation.
The former president also signaled that he could call for changes at the Republican National Committee soon after the South Carolina primary on Feb. 24.
The move to shield the identities of several witnesses suggested a mounting sense of frustration with Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is overseeing the case.
Party leaders, national security institutionalists and centrists make up the 17 Republicans who joined Democrats in breaking a filibuster against the military aid, defying former President Donald J. Trump.
The legislation passed its final hurdle as a coalition of Republican senators, resisting pressure from the right wing and former President Donald J. Trump, joined Democrats to move it toward a final vote.
Also, a Columbia surgeon published flawed studies. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
Defense lawyers argue that the romantic relationship between top prosecutors in the Trump election interference case in Georgia merits disqualification.
Even after Mr. Trump had begun to lose, and face real financial and business consequences, he was working out a way to benefit from being placed on trial.
Also, Russia said Aleksei Navalny died in prison. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Fearful of antagonizing the former president, congressional Republicans downplayed the remarks, instead lauding the former president’s record and criticizing President Biden.
His winding social media post on Monday contained no reference to Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, who has been widely condemned after the death of one of his most vocal critics, Aleksei A. Navalny.
Also, Putin threatened nuclear war over NATO intervention. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
Also, Apple was fined $2 billion for thwarting competition. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
Its ruling on Trump’s eligibility for the presidency contradicts the clear language of the 14th Amendment.
Dan Rodimer, who promoted former President Trump’s endorsement in two failed bids for Congress, was charged with killing a man at a Las Vegas Strip resort in October.
The former vice president under Donald J. Trump said that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was not the sole factor in his decision.
Because the defendants want to pursue an appeal now, ahead of any trial, Georgia law requires them to get permission from the judge who wrote the ruling.
Mr. Navarro, a former adviser to President Trump, must report to a Miami prison on Tuesday for a four-month sentence after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena.
Like the “Lost Cause” ideology, Donald Trump’s propagandistic mythology negates the truth.
The billionaire Wall Street financier is also a major investor in ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, which faces a possible ban in the United States.
Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and his former ambassador to Israel have amplified policy proposals embraced by Israel’s far-right wing, but U.S. activists say their anger still rests with the current administration.
His Bible sales pitch comes as he appears to be confronting a significant financial squeeze, with his legal fees growing while he fights a number of criminal cases and lawsuits.
The former president and the current one are now on the same page about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s political future. It was not always that way.
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The rules give federal officials more leeway to protect species in a changing climate. Industry groups are expected to sue.
The defendants in the election interference case are once again pressing their argument that Fani T. Willis should be removed from the prosecution.
Trump’s God Bless the USA Bible focuses on God’s blessing of one particular people. That is both its danger and, no doubt for some, its appeal.
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Mr. Kennedy has become the most prominent independent or third-party presence in the 2024 race.
At rallies, Donald Trump frequently laments migrants from a list of countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East as he stokes fears around the surge at the border.
The party is unifying around a blunt message that Vice President Kamala Harris pushed for privately ahead of her Friday trip to Arizona, where Democrats hope to keep Republicans reeling.
Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who still work for the former president, will be in federal court in Florida on Friday asking a judge to throw out charges that they helped obstruct the investigation.
The former president initially disavowed the attack on the Capitol, but he is now making it a centerpiece of his general election campaign.
Lawyers chose seven jurors to help decide the case against the former president, who is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a sexual scandal involving a porn star.
Speaking in Scranton, Pa., his hometown, the president used a speech about economic fairness as a new avenue of attack against his Republican rival, who was in a courtroom two hours away.
The former president has had several private interactions with foreign heads of state and their emissaries. He plans to meet Wednesday with Poland’s president.
Both the prosecutors and defense are trying to frame it differently.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon denied requests by Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to have the charges against them dropped.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers tried to divine the political leanings of prospective jurors in the former president’s Manhattan criminal trial from their answers to questions about what media they consume.
“Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will,” an unnamed associate told Donald J. Trump, according to an interview the person gave the F.B.I. in the classified documents case.
The prosecution’s opening statement sketched a seamy scheme meant to further the election of Donald J. Trump. His lawyer said the government’s case is merely “34 pieces of paper.”
The judge questioned the credibility of Donald J. Trump’s defense lawyer, and a key witness told of a plan to buy and bury stories that might have harmed the candidate.
David Pecker told jurors of a universe in which favors for celebrities were demanded and dispensed. His cross-examination will continue Friday.
He grew wary of his role suppressing bad stories about Trump.
He won the right to services like school and health care for people illegally crossing the border into the U.S. He also fought the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.
The former president and his vanquished rival met in Florida, months after Ron DeSantis dropped out after a contentious Republican contest.
Prosecutors believe Donald J. Trump’s official acts in trying to overturn the election should be admissible evidence even if the Supreme Court rules they cannot be the basis of the charges.
Donald J. Trump was fined for contempt and warned of jail time before a lawyer testified about how he struck deals to silence two women who said they had trysts with the former president.
The former Trump spokeswoman testified about his 2016 campaign’s damage-control efforts after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which the candidate spoke of groping women, became public. Prosecutors say it made Mr. Trump’s aides more eager to quash damaging stories, like Stormy Daniels’s account of an affair.
Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”
Judge Aileen Cannon had previously made clear that the trial would not start as scheduled this month but she declined to set a new timetable, saying many pretrial issues still have to be resolved.
Also, TikTok sued the U.S. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
Hogan’s Senate run will test whether there is a path forward for a Trump critic in 2024.
In hotly anticipated testimony, Donald J. Trump’s former fixer discussed how he buried stories his boss didn’t want anyone to read.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has sent supporters a steady stream of fund-raising solicitations featuring exaggerated portrayals of his days in court.
With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.
Michael D. Cohen’s story of an arrangement struck in the White House with Donald Trump was the only personal account tying the former president to falsified documents.
Prosecutors vehemently denied the accusations in newly unsealed motions that show how the former president’s defense team has used often-baseless assertions to undercut the indictment.
In roughly 24 hours on Tuesday, former President Donald J. Trump reposted a video with an echo of Nazi Germany, hinted at restricting contraception and made news in two of the criminal cases against him.
Donald J. Trump’s first rally in New York in eight years will be in the Bronx. Borough residents had mixed reactions.
A prosecutor got into a heated exchange with Judge Aileen Cannon over a minor point, as the case continues to crawl.
A guilty verdict in New York would be a gift for Democrats — but if it comes, the Biden campaign is unlikely to tear up its 2024 playbook.
The seemingly transactional relationship between hip-hop artists and a politician with legal troubles.
Republican whining about a weaponized justice system is a projection.
As Representative John Rose castigated the former president’s criminal conviction, his young son locked in with the C-SPAN cameras, making a series of contorted faces in a moment that circulated widely online.
The state appeals court tentatively set oral arguments for October on whether the prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case should be disqualified.
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Donald Trump has tightened his V.P. list to dependable and loyal campaigners.
Even the weak regulatory grasp of capitalist democracy is too strong for, well, capitalists.
As he vies to become the oldest person to be elected president of the United States, former President Donald J. Trump said this birthday was one he wanted to ignore.
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In the dark months following the Jan. 6 attack, Donald J. Trump opened up to an entertainment journalist, revealing his fixation with celebrity, acceptance and the TV show that made him.
Judge Aileen Cannon posed tough questions to prosecutors who want to bar the former president from making inflammatory remarks about the agents who searched Mar-a-Lago in the documents case.
A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.
The Republican nominee has the opportunity to rein in some of the worst rhetorical impulses of his party and point it in a new direction.
As long as Democrats see nothing of him but his lies and outrages, they’ll miss what makes him strong.
Thomas Crooks was a brainy and quiet young man who built computers and won honors at school, impressing his teachers. Then he became a would-be assassin.
Democrats are eager for her to deploy lines of attack that come more naturally than they did for President Biden, including on issues like abortion rights and the rule of law.
In the seven weeks they have been campaigning against each other, the vice president and the former president have attacked each other on social media dozens of times. Only Mr. Trump frequently gets personal.
A Democratic strategist explains how a deadlocked presidential race may play out in the Electoral College.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is known for his tight grip on members of his party, but the rare rejection of his demand to raise the debt limit reflected a disconnect that could plague his policy agenda.
Donald Trump has long sought to make anything he controls bigger.
President-elect Donald J. Trump was the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades, but by only a 1.5-point margin, the narrowest since 2000.
The New York mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.
“We’re not leaving the fight,” he told supporters and members of his staff as he prepared to leave Washington.
President Trump’s tariffs will have major effects on Mexico’s auto industry, agriculture and energy, but the country has some means for responding.
The injunction issued Thursday by a judge in Seattle came a day after another injunction stemming from a lawsuit in Maryland.
The decision, effective immediately, came a day after President Trump signed an order barring transgender girls and women from playing in women’s sports at federally funded educational institutions.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Mr. Trump took a moment to speak of bipartisan comity. Just hours earlier, he torched the federal bureaucracy, the global order, the media and Democrats.
Top officials are grappling with how to handle potential price increases caused by the administration’s policies.
The president initiated an investigation that could lead to tariffs on lumber imports, nearly half of which comes from Canada.
The officials plan to meet next week to discuss the first steps of an agreement, after President Trump cast doubt on U.S. support for Ukraine in recent days.
President Trump’s threat to impose 200 percent fees on European wines could harm importers, distributors, retailers and restaurants without necessarily helping U.S. producers.
President Trump and Elon Musk took in the Division I wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday. But some of Mr. Trump’s supporters expressed complicated feelings about his billionaire adviser.
The measure is intended to bring car factories to the United States but could increase prices for consumers significantly. The president said the tariffs will start next week.
As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn’t be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out opposing voices.
New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.
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At a hearing this week, witnesses described behavior by Jonathan Braun that could result in his being locked up again.
The administration has not provided a reason for most cases, but some students have been targeted because of their pro-Palestinian activism.
So far, the goals of many of President Trump’s negotiations have been unrealized, even those he said would be accomplished in a matter of days or weeks.
In refusing to reveal much of anything about the administration’s efforts, department lawyers insisted the information constituted state secrets that needed to be protected.
During his whirlwind trip to Italy, President Trump’s interactions with world leaders, as they paid their respects to Francis, were being watched closely.
Emails and testimonials from workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau document the administration’s efforts to lay off 90 percent of the employees.
Even with a temporary reprieve, tariffs have begun to squeeze importers. See how.
In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.
A Justice Department lawyer mirrored Trump officials’ aggressive position in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador in March.
Whether the ultraconservatives dig in and force big changes to the megabill carrying President Trump’s agenda or capitulate, as they have in the past, will determine the fate of their party’s signature legislation.
President Trump went on a social media posting spree after four days overseas, where he basked in the kind of lavish praise that so delights him.
The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim Trump made to invoke a wartime deportation law.
The device, called a forced-reset trigger, allows semiautomatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds. The Biden administration had sought to block them from being sold.
Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is just one of several companies that have said they will be forced to pass on the costs of President Trump’s global tariffs to consumers.
Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, defeated George Simion, a nationalist aligned with President Trump who had been seen as the front-runner.
The bombardment, which Ukrainian officials said mostly targeted Kyiv, came just a day before President Trump was expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
President Trump’s associates and crypto entrepreneurs are rushing back to the market for the once-hot, but mostly troubled, investment vehicles called special purpose acquisition companies.
It is the Trump administration’s latest effort to remake the department’s civil rights division, which has historically worked to fight discrimination against minorities.
Also, the nation’s third-largest school district has embraced A.I. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
President Trump said he would give the European Union more time to negotiate a trade deal before 50 percent tariffs take effect.
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
An outline by the Trump administration would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while a broader arrangement is worked out that would block the country’s path to a nuclear weapon.
President Trump’s effort to punish Harvard over antisemitism is complicated by his extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols.
Mass protests erupted across the U.S. in response to Trump’s immigration raids, with Los Angeles seeing significant unrest and National Guard deployment.