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Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal case over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange has been reassigned to a judge recently known for handling defamation lawsuits against former U.S. President Donald Trump and a sexual abuse lawsuit against Britain's Prince Andrew.
Adam Kinzinger said in an interview the former president should be charged with conspiracy over the insurrection
Attorney David Henderson said Sunday that one prosecutor isn't going to "back off" from the former president.
Jordan Rubin said Sunday that the former president's "name hasn't been synonymous with accountability," and that "there's reason to think that will change."
Wrongful death suit names former president and two rioters in connection with Officer Brian Sicknick’s death
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US department of justice says 192 people have been jailed to date arising from January 6th riot by supporters of Donald Trump
The lawsuit claims Sicknick's death was a "foreseeable consequence" of Trump's alleged incitement of mob attack.
"Where in the hell is the Department of Justice?" former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner asked on Friday. "It's absurd...I know evidence of guilt when I see it."
Read more about For Trump, Georgia election case just one of many legal woes on Devdiscourse
The special grand jury in Fulton County was dissolved on Monday, handing over a report to the DA and bringing her one step closer to bringing charges.
A Georgia special grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state has delivered its report to local judges, paving the way for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to potentially bring criminal charges against the former president and some of his allies in the next few months.
On Tuesday, Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was sentenced to five months in prison.
Allen Weiselberg, former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has been sentenced to five months in jail after being found guilty of fraud.
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.
"Of course this was always going to end up with two special counsels," one user wrote on Twitter after the announcement.
The attorney general has pleased Trump by naming a special counsel to oversee the probe of classified documents found in Joe Biden's private office and home.
She initially sued Trump for defamation after he mocked her claims that he sexually assaulted her in late 1995 or early 1996 after they had a chance meeting in the department store and she agreed to help him pick out lingerie for a friend.Trump has repeatedly denied the encounter took place, calling her allegations a complete con job and saying shes not my type. No pictures
In allowing E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit to move forward, Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the legality of New York’s Adult Survivors Act.
Ex-president Donald Trump faces two defamation lawsuits by E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of raping her in a New York City department store decades ago.
Ruling made in second case brought against former president by writer who alleges he sexually assaulted her in Bergdorf Goodman
He learned how difficult it is to secure a conviction by a Washington jury on matters of the Trump-Russia investigation.
"It's a crime to remove and stored classified documents and put them in an unauthorized location," attorney and conservative commentator Gregg Jarrett said.
Former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon on Thursday asked to change his representation in the fraud case over the “We Build the Wall” funding campaign, according to ABC News. Bannon was indicted in September, accused of defrauding donors to “We Build the Wall,” which ultimately brought in more than $15 million. The campaign said it would donate…
A New York judge has given Steve Bannon until the end of February to find new lawyers to advise him in a criminal fraud case after the former Donald Trump aide's attorney said there were "irreconcilable differences" and communications have broken down.
In October, Donald Trump sat for a deposition at Mar-a-Lago with Roberta Kaplan, an attorney for magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, who has accused the former president of raping...
Attorney Norman Eisen pointed to "powerful" evidence against Trump as to why he believes he could face charges in Fulton County DA Fani Willis' investigation.
The former president is currently under investigation in Fulton County for alleged election interference pertaining to his "11,780 votes" phone call.
Two presidents. Two tranches of classified documents. Two special counsel investigations. But the similarities in the cases between President Biden and President Trump appear to take a sharp divide when it comes to important elements of the law prohibiting the mishandling of state secrets. Biden is under fire following revelations that since November, his staff…
Panel that considered whether ex-president committed crimes in trying to overturn 2020 election defeat could recommend prosecution
The judge said prosecutors failed to prove Joshua Black’s intent was to disrupt Congress – or even whether he was familiar with the proceedings occurring that day to certify Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
A special counsel was appointed to look into Biden's mishandling of classified documents. The DOJ previously appointed special counsel to probe Trump for possible
The former president has been posting frequently on Truth Social about the investigations he faces.
The meeting is the latest sign that Manhattan prosecutors' years-old investigation into Trump may be picking up steam.
A federal judge said Tuesday that a California woman found guilty of charges related to the Capitol riot "followed then-President Trump's instructions."
Special counsel investigations have become increasingly common, but some think the system is broken.
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Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors who have revived a years-old investigation into payments made to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged extramarital tryst.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors who have revived a years-old investigation into payments made to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged extramarital tryst.
Information revealed in former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz's new book could "damage an ongoing criminal investigation," according to the Manhattan DA's office.
Four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack in the second major trial of far-right extremists accused of plotting to forcibly keep President Donald Trump in power.
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge she is almost ready to decide whether to indict Trump.
A federal judge on Tuesday convicted a Pennsylvania restaurant owner of storming the U.S. Capitol, where she screamed at police officers to bring out then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi so the pro-Trump mob could hang her.U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden decided the case against Pauline Bauer after hearing testimony without a jury.
Grand juries are seen as essential tools to lend checks and balances to the justice system. But some also see them as tools of the prosecution.
"Decisions are imminent," Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Tuesday.
If you're not intently following the various classified documents scandals, it's easy to lose the thread. Here's what Elie Honig, a CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, has to say about the recent developments.
During the Trump-Russia probe, Trump's team looked into suspected financial dealings that involved the former president based on a tip from Italian officials.
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Grand jury could lay groundwork for possible criminal charges against former president by Manhattan district attorney’s office
Prosecutors’ efforts signal revival of probe into payment to Stormy Daniels
A grand jury could lay the groundwork for possible criminal charges against the former president by the Manhattan district attorney's office. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified before the grand jury, one source told Reuters.
Trump's ex-attorney could provide damaging testimony against the former president.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden sent letters requesting probes into allies of former President Trump who they say trafficked in stolen information from his laptop.
The request for a criminal inquiry, which comes as Hunter Biden faces his own tax evasion investigation by the Justice Department, does not mean federal...
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.
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Bragg has already tried to halt the publication of Mark Pomerantz’s “People vs. Donald Trump,” which hits shelves on Tuesday.
New book outlines efforts, ultimately aborted, to bring criminal charges against former president
Mark Pomerantz, who was on New York team investigating tax affairs, reportedly compares ex-president to John Gotti
At least 17 charged after authorities gained access to encrypted messages.
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.
One district attorney investigating Trump might be the impetus for another to also feel compelled to indict, said the former federal prosecutor.
Manhattan prosecutors are putting new legal pressure on Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who is currently serving a sentence in jail for tax fraud.The district attorney's office has warned that Weisselberg could face new fraud charges as prosecutors begin presenting evid...
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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.
Bill Whitaker speaks with the former Manhattan prosecutor who was investigating the former president's business dealings.
The Manhattan district attorney possessed sufficient evidence to convict former President Trump last year and was wrong to not seek charges, an ex-prosecutor in the case contends in his forthcoming book. Mark Pomerantz argued his team built a “solid case” for securing Trump’s conviction on financial crimes, and he offered a searing criticism of how…
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.
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Bragg said he has not read Mark Pomerantz’s new tome, “People vs. Trump: An Inside Account,” but is sickened by what he’s heard.
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"The People v. Donald Trump" hit book shelves Tuesday with a slew of never-before-revealed details about the battle to hold the former president accountable
Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s long-time personal attorney, said he will meet with the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday as investigators appear to be nearing a decision on whether to seek charges against Trump. Cohen said on his podcast “Political Beatdown” that the meeting with District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office will mark Cohen’s…
Cohen said he will be meeting with District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday.
A cooperating co-conspirator is the lynchpin of any prosecution, but in Trump’s case, when we reach the scene of crime, the rat just isn’t there.
A new book about the case against Trump "will be Exhibit A in all sorts of motions that Donald Trump could make" to dismiss charges.
“I believe that there is a case,” Cohen said outside Manhattan state court Wednesday before meeting with prosecutors for District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen said he was meeting yet...
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating Donald Trump and his role in January 6, 2021, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
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.
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The search of Pence’s home comes as Trump and Biden face investigations by two special counsels over the retention of classified records
Michael Cohen described Trump's handling of classified documents as "the true danger to our national security" as the DOJ investigations heat up.
Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb’s appearances come as the Justice Department ramps up Mar-a-Lago investigation
The former president attempted to "enlist Mike Pence as a co-conspirator in his criminal scheme," the former federal prosecutor said.
Prosecutor who helped convict John Gotti thinks Alvin Bragg let Trump slip from the hook. His memoir proves controversial
Elie Honig offers a powerful indictment of the former president and those who have failed to bring him down
Judge ruled certain sections will be made public this week, including one involving witnesses who may have lied under oath
Excerpts will include jury concerns that witnesses may ‘have lied under oath’
The special counsel investigating Donald Trump is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before a grand jury.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Republican firebrand known for his strong support of former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Justice Department has ended a sex trafficking case with no charges against him.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's efforts to investigate Trump is "a zigzag-like path," but he may need to zoom in soon, a former federal prosecutor says.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he will challenge a subpoena by the special counsel overseeing Trump investigations to compel his testimony...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Matt Gaetz , a Republican firebrand known for his strong support of former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Justice Department has ended a sex trafficking case with no charges against him.
Other Jan. 6 defendants have made similar attempts to call Trump as a witness, to no avail, after judges and prosecutors alike opposed the moves.
A majority of the grand jury members believe that "one or more" witnesses who testified on Trump's behalf may have potentially committed perjury.
The partial release of the grand jury report signals the investigation already contains legitimate evidence of perjury
A grand jury’s report into the election has been released as local US authorities consider whether to bring charges against the former president.
The grand jury's finding shows "there's something that in fact went on and people are covering it up or attempting to cover it up." Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened an investigation shortly after Trump's January 2021 phone call to a state official asking him to "find" more votes to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.
A special Georgia grand jury that was investigating the efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election recommended that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seek indictments for potential perjury by some of the witnesses called to testify, according to a jury report released Thursday.
The released excerpts from the special grand jury’s report suggest that the jurors probably recommended indictments on more charges than just perjury.
Additional papers marked as classified and a laptop have been voluntarily turned over to federal investigators in recent months, a source said.
The former federal prosecutor used the term in reference to trials from his career that involved a certain sort of damning evidence against defendants.
"It is not going to be some giant plot twist," juror Emily Kohrs said about the list of recommendations.
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.
It's a marvel of the American judicial system that Emily Kohrs, a 30-year-old woman who has described herself as between customer service jobs and who said she didn't vote in the 2020 presidential election, could play a pivotal role in the potential indictment of a former US president.
A law firm that represented former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon during his fight against a subpoena from the House January 6 committee and other cases is suing Bannon for nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal bills.
Mike Pence said he would fight the subpoena issued by a grand jury investigating efforts by Donald Trump to overturn his election loss to President biden.
Donald Trump's long-loyal daughter and her husband Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.
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.
Attorney Andrew Lieb predicts testimony from the former president's daughter and Jared Kushner over Capitol riot will be "spicy."
Lawyers for Donald Trump say the revelations offered by Kohrs shattered the credibility of the entire special grand jury investigation.
Trump said that "out of control" Emily Kohrs' media appearances "make the case dead for a second reason."
Investigation into Jan. 6 activities and handling of classified documents appears to have reached advanced stages
The following is a transcript of an interview with Drew Findling and Jennifer Little, attorneys for former President Donald Trump, that aired on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023.
An arrest warrant was issued for rapper and Florida native, Kodak Black, who authorities said violated his bail conditions when he failed a drug test earlier this month.
The FBI has arrested Jesse James Rumson, a Donald Trump supporter who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing the head of a panda costume.
An indictment might help him with many Republicans.
Attorney Andrew Weissmann discusses why 'Argentina 1985' demonstrates that Donald Trump should be criminally prosecuted
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Judge rules former president’s words during rally before violent insurrection likely ‘words of incitement not protected by the first amendment’
The former president is facing lawsuits filed by members of Congress and U.S. Capitol Police officers.
Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s former personal lawyer, believes he will be called to testify to the New York grand jury investigating the former president “very soon.” Cohen told reporters his prediction on the way to meeting with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which is investigating alleged hush money payments Cohen arranged on behalf of…
A new single released by a choir of men who are in prison for their participation in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, features a recording by former President Donald Trump as the backtrack.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to a $3.15 million settlement with the Justice Department over unreported interest in foreign bank accounts.
The suit against the former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign involved undeclared foreign bank accounts.
The investigation is focused on an alleged "hush money" payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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Manhattan prosecutors say Trump could face criminal charges for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels
Donald Trump is being investigated for a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.
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.
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If Mr. Trump is charged he would be the first former U.S. president to be indicted on a smaller matter, which opens up the possibility he could be charged in other, far more politically charged and historically significant cases
District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected a request from Trump’s team to disallow the tape and the testimony from the two women, Natasha Stoynoff and Jessica Leeds, who separately accused the former president of assaulting them in late 1970s and early 2000s.
A yearslong probe into a hush money scheme involving former President Donald Trump and adult film star Stormy Daniels has led to him being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in the scheme, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Four of the AWOL Trump supporters remain at large.
His appearance comes as the inquiry into the $130,000 the former president paid to Stormy Daniels comes to an end
Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments made on the former president's...
Michael Cohen is expected to testify before a grand jury next week in another sign that New York prosecutors are likely to indict former President Donald Trump as soon as later this month.
As a key witness to the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, Trump's lawyer-turned-nemesis may present the final evidence before a NY indictment vote.
There are rumours that the former president could get charged within weeks. We find out what charges he could face and what effect an indictment would have on his 2024 presidential campaign.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, testified on Monday afternoon before a Manhattan grand jury investigating a hush money payment he has said he orchestrated to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of the former president.
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen arrived Monday to testify before a Manhattan grand jury that is investigating the former president’s role in a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Photo: Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
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This is the first time Cohen will sit before the panel more than three years after he first started talking to prosecutors investigating Trump.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, is expected to testify on Monday afternoon before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments he has said he orchestrated to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of the former president.
Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s longtime fixer, arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday ahead of his appearance before a grand jury investigating the former president, according to The Associated Press. Cohen’s appearance marks a critical moment for the grand jury proceedings, with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office appearing to near a decision…
Mr. Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime fixer, is a key piece of the puzzle as prosecutors move toward an indictment of the former president.
Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina said it is unlikely the former president will accept an invitation, extended by prosecutors last week, to testify before the grand jury himself.
Prosecuting the former president would be a step toward mending the country.
A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a USD 1 billion fraud conspiracy.Guo Wengui, 54, was accused along with his financier and chief of staff of various crimes, including wire and securities fraud.
In the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign, Cohen paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, for her silence about an alleged affair with Donald Trump.
The Manhattan district attorney's office is expected to indict former President Donald Trump in a case centering on potential violations of state election laws.
Trump supporters stormed Congress to try and stop the 2020 presidential election result being certified.
James Boasberg replaced Beryl Howell on Friday as the judge overseeing pivotal grand jury probes in Washington.
Meetings have been going on throughout the week between city, state and federal law enforcement agencies in New York City about how to prepare for a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump as early as next week, multiple sources told CNN.
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.
Donald Trump is under criminal investigation for 2016 hush money payment his former attorney Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
A lawyer representing Donald Trump told Insider that the former president will surrender to law enforcement if he's criminally charged.
Trump said on Saturday evening that he may be arrested in New York City on Tuesday in connection with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation.
The former president said that he expects to be criminally charged on Tuesday, urging his supporters to protest.
The legal analyst likened Trump's rhetoric concerning his potential arrest to the statements he made leading up to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
A lawyer who once worked for Michael Cohen is reportedly expected to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump.
Robert Costello, a onetime legal advisor to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, will appear on Monday before the New York grand jury investigating former President Trump over his alleged involvement in a hush-money payment. Costello, who recently represented Rudy Giuliani and Steven Bannon during Justice Department investigations and the House Jan. 6 committee hearings, confirmed…
An indictment of a former President must be for serious offenses with indisputable evidence.
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.
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Law enforcement officials in New York are closely monitoring online chatter warning of protests and violence if Trump is arrested
A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump's attorney Evan Corcoran to testify before a grand jury over the former president's handling of classified documents.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump is the ultimate gravedigger charge, where Bragg unearthed a case from 2016 and is seeking to bring it back to life.
Former President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen said on Sunday his former client will “absolutely” go through the formalities of being fingerprinted and photographed if he is arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into a hush money payment before the 2016 election. “Do I think that Donald will be fingerprinted, swabbed,…
Attorney Robert Costello, once a legal adviser to Trump attorney Michael Cohen, will appear Monday before the New York grand jury investigating the former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Manhattan district attorney expected to file criminal charges against ex-president for $130,000 payment to adult film star in 2016
Lawyer testifies at request of Trump legal team, says key prosecution witness is unreliable
Michael Cohen, ex-personal attorney to Donald Trump, said his testimony was not needed on Monday as a rebuttal witness after the Manhattan grand jury investigating the former president over the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels heard testimony from a pro-Trump lawyer. “I did not,” Cohen said when asked by MSNBC host Ari Melber whether he…
“If they want to go after Donald Trump and they have solid evidence, so be it. But Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence,” Robert Costello said.
The GOP chairs of three House committees accused Alvin Bragg of preparing to to "engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority."
The decision whether to indict former President Donald Trump over hush-money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign lies in the hands of a Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing evidence in secret for weeks.
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An indictment of Trump, who is seeking the White House again in 2024, would be an unprecedented moment in American history, the first criminal case against a former U.S. president.
As Trump (and his businesses) are facing legal challenges on several fronts, here's a guide to his pending indictment involving a $130,000 hush money payment to ex-porn actress Daniels
The four were also convicted of conspiracy stemming from an insurrection at the Capitol in failed effort to keep Trump in office
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — House Republicans rallied to the defense of former President Donald Trump before his possible indictment , demanding that the Manhattan district attorney who is investigating him turn over documents and come for an interview.
Progressive policies pushed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have made him a convenient target for Trump, who has a history of claiming bias by those investigating him.
Trump has devoted his entire career to avoiding consequences. He's very good at it — but maybe not good enough
Read more about Trump's potential indictment caps decades of legal scrutiny on Devdiscourse
The Justice Department has convinced a federal judge that former President Donald Trump used one of his defense attorneys in furtherance of a crime or fraud related to the existence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
While the country anticipates the first-ever indictment of a former president -- assuming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charges Donald Trump with a crime -- it's worth looking at how grand juries and indictments work.
Donald Trump will not be indicted today because the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in his case, which had been scheduled to reconvene Wednesday afternoon, has been...
It appears that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will go another week in the legal effort to locate the nation of Kailasa on a map. Kailasa does not exist.
"The remedy would be to replace the attorney on the case," former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade told Salon.
Imagine a new Trump Justice Department if politicians are fair game for prosecution.
In the event of an indictment, it could remain under seal or be released earlier, depending on the judge and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Yahoo News spoke with several current and former prosecutors to help break down the strengths and weaknesses of the potential case being brought by the Manhattan district attorney.
In a letter Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said it will not heed the request of House Republicans to testify about the ongoing porn-star hush money investigation into former President Donald Trump.
The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments met on other matters Thursday, further delaying a vote on whether or not to indict the former president, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments turned to other matters on Thursday, delaying until next week at the earliest any vote on a historic indictment of the former president, according to a person familiar with the matter. The panel does not meet on Fridays.
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Threatening letter, unknown substance, sent Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is mulling indictment of Trump
The NYPD is investigating a suspicious package found at the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Post readers sound off on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pursuit of a felony charge against Donald Trump.
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.
"There is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump," a spokesperson for Trump told Newsweek in a statement.
A new survey conducted the same week as Trump's expected arrest found that the former president had increased his standing as the top GOP 2024 hopeful.
The incident comes after days of speculation that Donald Trump will be indicted by the Manhattan district attorney over alleged hush payments made to Stormy Daniels and another adult film star.
An envelope containing a suspicious letter and white powder was sent to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), whose office is investigating former President Trump, according to law enforcement. A New York Police Department spokesperson said the substance was deemed “non-hazardous” but declined to comment further on the matter. When asked about the item, the…
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WACO — Facing a looming indictment in New York, a grand jury investigation in Georgia and a Department of Justice special counsel probe into his handling of...
Letter sent to Manhattan district attorney seeks information in Stormy Daniels hush-money probe
Trump's GOP allies have rallied around him as he faces possible criminal charges in New York.
Monday was the first time in a week that the Manhattan grand jury heard evidence in the Trump case.
NEW YORK (AP) — A pivotal figure in the hush money payment investigation of Donald Trump was seen Monday leaving the Manhattan building where a grand jury has been meeting for months, though there was still no word on when the panel might vote on a p
Veteran prosecutor has pressed case over hush-money payment amid former president’s attacks
Mark Meadows’ testimony matters enormously.
If you don't follow through then it makes people not take it as serious and it becomes more of a theatrical thing.
The female protester began arguing with the couple before she allegedly threatened them.
The unnamed woman was waiving a neon-yellow sign that had "I STAND WITH TRUMP DO YOU?" scrawled in blank ink
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The New York grand jury hearing evidence about former President Donald Trump's role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to meet on Wednesday and is unlikely to consider the case again this week, a law enforcement source said.
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.
Slower schedule pushes any action on former president until at least next week, with future steps uncertain
More than a week ago, former President Donald Trump predicted -- incorrectly -- that he would be arrested in a New York criminal case.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify about conversations he had with former President Donald Trump before the Capitol riot, according to reports.
A lawyer for Donald Trump said tonight he has been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.
Former US president Donald Trump was last night indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The former president has been indicted in New York, his lawyer has said.
"They are what now?" exclaimed former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade.
The planned break for the Trump grand jury coincides with Passover, Easter and spring break for the New York City public school system.
In the first criminal case against a former president, Donald Trump has been indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 campaign.
The field of declared and prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidates on Thursday decried the indictment of former President Donald Trump on criminal charges for his alleged role in organizing hush money payments made to an adult film star during his 2016 campaign. Trump is one of a handful of declared GOP candidates running for the…
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The criminal indictment of Donald Trump shatters a precedent for U.S. presidents
After securing an indictment against Donald Trump, prosecutors still face an uphill battle to cinch a conviction, legal experts say.
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and has repeatedly attacked the investigation, called the indictment “political persecution."
Read more about Trump's legal worries extend far beyond charges in New York on Devdiscourse
As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican.
Former Manhattan district attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo says she is ready to see Donald Trump "held accountable for his behaviour."
When Donald Trump walks into Justice Juan Merchan's courtroom on Tuesday to face criminal charges, it will be a first for a former US president but familiar territory for the veteran judge who serves on Manhattan's criminal court.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down against him by a New York grand jury, two people familiar with the matter to
When Donald Trump walks into Justice Juan Merchan's courtroom on Tuesday to face criminal charges, it will be a first for a former US president but familiar territory for the veteran judge who serves on Manhattan's criminal court
When Donald Trump enters a New York courtroom on Tuesday, he'll face a seasoned judge who is no stranger to the former president's orbit.
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.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton cites ex-President Trump’s call for the death penalty in the Central Park Five case
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In addition to the New York probe, Trump faces a Georgia inquiry over whether he tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state
U.S. Justice Department and FBI investigators have amassed new evidence indicating possible obstruction by former President Donald Trump in the probe into classified documents found at his Florida estate, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing sources.
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Trump is expected to appear before State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on still-unknown criminal charges stemming from prosecutors’ long-running investigation into his business dealings.
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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.
Former president flies from Florida to face charges as mayor warns protestors that city is 'not a playground for your misplaced anger'
"The precedent of Jan. 6th would probably be uppermost in the court's mind" as Trump risks gag order: expert.
The former US president will be fingerprinted, his charges laid against him and will likely plead not guilty in a New York court on Tuesday
On a historic and unprecedented day for America, former president Donald Trump will be arrested and arraigned at a Lower Manhattan courthouse on criminal charges relating to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Donald Trump is the first former US president to face criminal charges.
Former US President Donald Trump is now officially a criminal defendant – the first time in US history a sitting or former president has been in this position.
Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be the Republican nominee in 2024, will appear in court today and is set to be formally charged, finger-printed, and have a mug shot taken in a watershed moment ahead of next year's presidential election.
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It’s all Trump all the time on broadcast, cable news networks
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A look at what happens next after Trump has officially been charged
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A divided nation could only look on with a toxic mix of wonder and horror as the unprecedented played out in front of them
The former president pleaded not guilty to all charges in a court appearance Tuesday.
Prosecutors state in a 34-count felony indictment that Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election through hush money payments to two women, including a porn performer, who said they had sexual encounters with him.
Prosecutors in New York City have finally laid out the full list of charges against Donald Trump, making him the first former president in US history to be charged with a criminal offence.
Post readers discuss Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's charges against former President Donald Trump.
Alvin Bragg said he’s charging Donald Trump with 34 felonies because Trump sought to "suppress negative information” to boost his chances in the 2016 election.
He placed ads in four newspapers in 1989 demanding reinstatement of the death penalty after a woman was mugged, beaten, and raped in Central Park.
Here are some of the most important moments from the hearing where criminal charges against Donald Trump were unveiled.
Donald Trump has lashed out at investigators a day after facing court on criminal charges, demanding funding massive cuts for the FBI and Justice Department.
What exactly are the ‘other crimes’ the former president is alleged to have committed that justify bringing the case?
Mark Pomerantz turned down a request to voluntarily cooperate with a congressional investigation.
The threats peaked after former President Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday.
Since presiding over the arraignment of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, New York judge Juan Merchan has come under danger, according to a law enforcement source, reported CBS News.Threats...
Trump's former attorney said that while he is "glad that accountability is finally at Donald's doorstep," it is still "a very sad day" for the country.
Trump could reportedly be affected after a federal court reversed a decision that would have overturned an obstruction charge used against January 6 defendants.
New Yorkers of every stripe came out to witness the historic day.
Experts suggest the quantity and gravity of upcoming investigations could ultimately bury his electoral chances
A Bronx judge letting the alleged killer of Corde Scott be released on his own recognizance and the Biden administration’s attempt to shift blame for the disastrous Afghanistan pullout to Trump.
Former AG Bill Barr called Donald Trump's indictment an "abuse of prosecutorial power" but said his other legal troubles could be fraught.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday that investigators probing the potential mishandling of classified documents by former President Trump likely have "very good evidence."
A 2018 sentencing memo was a precursor to the recent indictment of Donald Trump, Lanny Davis told Newsweek.
Mr Cohen’s spokesman, attorney Lanny Davis, said the lawsuit will not deter Mr Cohen’s cooperation with prosecutors.
On 6 January 2021, when he stormed the Capitol with a group of Donald Trump fans, Robert Sanford threw a fire extinguisher, hitting two police officers in the head. In addition, he threw an orange traffic cone that struck a sergeant of the Capitol Police
Alvin Bragg sued Jordan in an effort to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the criminal case against former president Trump.
Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller met with a federal grand jury to testify on conversations he had with the ex-president related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. CNN reported that Miller would likely be questioned about a phone call he had with then-President Trump minutes before the rally…
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.
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A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump's defamation trial over whether he raped a writer in the mid-1990s will begin as scheduled on April 25, rejecting the former president's bid for a delay but letting him learn more about how his accuser is paying her legal bills.
Mary Trump called the latest revelation in the Mar-a-Lago documents case "a proverbial smoking gun" that could lead to her uncle being convicted.
The court said that Trump himself ‘provoked’ some of the publicity and cannot claim prejudice to delay next week’s trial start
The Fulton County district attorney disclosed new interviews with Republicans who falsely claimed to be presidential electors.
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.
The House Judiciary Committee and its Republican chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, are seeking to question former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz about the Trump investigation.
A deposition of the former prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, is scheduled for Thursday.
Talks between Boris Epshteyn and DoJ prosecutors investigating Mar-a-Lago and January 6 cases represent possible peril for Trump
Former president denies allegations he sexually assaulted columnist nearly 30 years ago
District attorney called for ‘heightened security’ ahead of decision over former president.
A former advice columnist has accused the ex-US president of pushing her against a wall and raping her in the 1990s.
A former advice columnist has accused the ex-US president of pushing her against a wall and raping her in the 1990s.
The writer suing Donald Trump for allegedly raping her nearly 30 years ago told jurors at a civil trial today that the former US president sexually assaulted her and defamed her by lying about it.
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.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating Trump for alleged interference in the 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis plans to announce this summer whether she'll bring charges against former President Donald Trump or his allies for their attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.
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.
The jury will begin deliberating Wednesday to decide whether the onetime Proud Boys national chairman and four co-defendants are guilty of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors allege was a desperate plot to keep Trump in the White House
On the same day that Joe Biden officially launched his bid to secure a second term in office, a trial began accusing his main rival, Donald Trump, of defamation and sexual battery. It sets the stage for a messy 2024 rematch.
A former advice columnist has accused the ex-US president of pushing her against a wall and raping her in the 1990s.
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.
Donald Trump's legal team is expected to attack the credibility of former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, as a civil trial resumes over her claim that the former US president raped her and lied about it.
Michél was allegedly working for Malaysian businessman Jho Low to help him influence Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Michél faces 20 years in prison, but his attorney guarantees an appeal.
Two associates of former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon were sentenced to more than seven years in prison collectively in connection with defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a border wall scheme, according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina said he would tell Trump to stop. But concern about social media influencing the trial resurfaced after Trump's son Eric tweeted on Wednesday afternoon about Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn co-founder and prominent Democratic donor helping fund Carroll's case.
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accused of misconduct during both the Obama and Trump presidencies.
Former US vice president Mike Pence on Thursday testified in the federal investigation examining his former boss Donald Trump's role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol, according to US media
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.
Former Vice President Mike Pence testified on Thursday to a federal grand jury investigating the aftermath of the 2020 election
"It's the reason defense attorneys tell their clients to keep their mouths shut," former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said on Friday.
Juan Merchan tapped for hush-money prosecution because of experience hearing former president’s cases
Lawyers for accuser E Jean Carroll said they could finish presenting their case on Thursday.
Writer E. Jean Carroll says the former US president raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s
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Asked if he had affairs while married, Mr Trump said: “I don’t know”
But the judge left open the possibility that Trump could raise a last-minute bid to testify.
Read more about Trump calls accuser a 'nut job' in recording played for jury on Devdiscourse
The US Justice Department has asked a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes, to 25 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy and other charges over the 2021 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former US president Donald 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 judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was selected Friday to decide whether Donald Trump’s criminal case proceeds in state or federal court.
At least eight of the Republican "fake electors" in Georgia have accepted immunity deals in an ongoing criminal investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election there, according to a new court filing.
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Prosecutors for Georgia's Fulton County have granted immunity to at least eight people under investigation for conspiring to overturn Georgia's vote in the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing on Friday.
The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison for his conviction on seditious conspiracy and other charges over the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Writer E Jean Carroll has said the former US president attacked her in a department store dressing room in 1996.
Donald Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
‘Trump is a sex abuser,’ the papers proclaim after a jury returned a verdict in the former US president’s civil case.
A new first — and a new low — for the former president.
Jurors in the US have decided that former US President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the 90s.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday that it will ask a federal appeals court to block former President Trump’s deposition in a lawsuit brought by two former FBI employees who claim they were unfairly targeted for their work investigating the former president’s ties to Russia. The government said it plans to seek a…
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page sued the Justice Department after they were fired from the FBI.
Jonathan Freedland and Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan discuss how the media should now cover a 2024 presidential candidate who has been impeached twice, indicted by a federal court, and who was this week found to have sexually abused the advice columnist E Jean Carroll
A novel approach to holding Russia accountable for atrocities in Ukraine could ensure that lies and mass murder do not go unpunished
Rudy Giuliani has been accused of discussing selling presidential pardons and detailed plans to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a lawsuit filed...
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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.
Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok appeared to take a victory lap Monday while reacting to the release of Special Counsel John Durham's report.
There’s no excuse for the Justice Department and the FBI to continue to ignore this evidence.
The National Archives has informed former US president Donald Trump that it is set to hand over to special counsel Jack Smith 16 records that show Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources.
Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Jim Trusty implied Wednesday night that his client is not obligated to comply with subpoenas.Trusty spoke with CNN's Sara Sidner about the former president's refusal to comply with a subpoena in DOJ special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the classified...
Latest revelations from the special counsel’s probe into ex-President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents deepen a sense that a grave political moment is approaching.
Ex-Trump Organization financial chief already served 100 days in Rikers. Now he may be charged with perjury.
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that sentences can't be enhanced on facts outside of an indictment. Trump's team is likely to bring that defense in Manhattan.
The Atlanta prosecutor leading the probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results is expected to announce in August whether criminal charges will be brought.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) asked judges in the county not to schedule trials and in-person hearings in roughly the first half of August, a signal she may bring charges against former President Trump during that time. Willis also indicated about 70 percent of her staff will work remotely on various days in…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, announced remote workdays for her staff in August and asked judges to refrain from in-person hearings for parts of that month, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Ty Cobb is confident the Department of Justice has a "tight case" against the former president that will land him in prison.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon will stand trial in May 2024 for allegedly defrauding donors to the "We Build the Wall" online fundraising campaign.
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.
It sounds unthinkable. Another Trump presidency.
A document filed in former President Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal case indicates prosecutors have released to his attorneys a recording of Trump and an undisclosed witness.
Ken Paxton drew support from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz prior to the vote
New evidence "suggests an escalation in the seriousness of the charges Trump faces," former prosecutor says.
"This is squarely an Espionage Act case," said Ryan Goodman, formerly of the Department of Defense. "Former President Trump will be charged."
Audio could make Trump's declassification claims "irrelevant" because "it would still be a crime,": expert.
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman has reacted to reports the former president discussed possessing a classified document in July 2021.
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.
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Oath Keepers militant group member David Moerschel was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump's supporters.
A probe was launched in 2016 into whether Clinton mishandled classified information, but she complied with investigation procedures and was never charged.
Former FBI Director James Comey predicted that former President Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination for President even if he is criminally convicted.
The federal grand jury investigating Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents is scheduled to meet again sometime this week.
Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump recently had a meeting with special counsel Jack Smith and other officials from the Department of Justice. The meeting took place as...
Several sources with knowledge of the investigation believe that a charging decision in the documents case involving former President Donald Trump is imminent.
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
Lawyers for Donald Trump met with Justice Department prosecutors on Monday over an investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents, but Attorney General Merrick Garland was not present, according to reports.
“Looks like someone has received some very bad news from his legal team,” said MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing investigation into the former president, according to one source familiar with the matter.
Though it’s reading tea leaves for now, there is some support for the theory that Special Counsel Jack Smith is considering a parallel federal RICO charge.
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U.S. prosecutors inform Trump he is target of federal investigation
He is under investigation for concealing reams of classified information at his private estate and orchestrating a scheme to prevent federal authorities from finding them.
Read more about Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon issued subpoena in US Capitol attack probe -NBC on Devdiscourse
Former President Donald Trump called various state and federal prosecutors investigating him for possible crimes "fascists."
Former President Donald Trump said he has not been told he is being indicted, according a tweet by a New York Times reporter on Wednesday, following a meeting this week between Trump lawyers and Justice Department officials about investigations into Trump.
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.
Trump expressed disbelief, calling Thursday "a DARK DAY for the United States of America."
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he has been indicted in the investigation into his handling of classified documents after his presidency ended.
The former president posted on his own social media platform, Truth Social, suggesting that the indictment is linked to his handling of classified documents.
“I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!” the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Trump, who is seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is the only U.S. president, former or otherwise, ever to be criminally charged.
Donald Trump has been indicted after an investigation into classified documents found at his Florida estate.
Former US president Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury for retaining classified government documents and obstruction of justice, according to a lawyer for the former US president and another source familiar with the matter.
Read more about Trump indictment takeaways: Prosecutors detail schemes and lies to keep secret papers on Devdiscourse
The accounts in the 49-page indictment provide compelling evidence of a shocking indifference toward some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.
“Oh no oh no,” one Trump employee allegedly texted about a photo of sensitive documents.
Breaking the news on his social media platform, Truth Social, Donald Trump responded to federal charges of violating laws related to his handling of classified documents. Images: Truth Social/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
The court record includes descriptions of the former president showing his associates sensitive documents while knowing that they were classified.
What we learned about the prosecution's case.
Donald Trump is the first former president in history to face a federal criminal indictment.
Rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination defend Donald Trump against federal charges, accusing the Justice Department of political bias.
A commander in chief stands accused of endangering national security.
Details of the Justice Department’s months-long investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents went public on Friday after prosecutors successfully sought an indictment. Trump is set to make his first court appearance on Tuesday afternoon in Miami to face 37 federal criminal charges. Here are five takeaways from the federal indictment. DOJ lays…
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Prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Trump, alleging he mishandled classified documents that included some of the country's most sensitive security secrets after leaving the White House in 2021.
Former US attorney general William Barr has defended Special Counsel Jack Smith's 37-count indictment against Donald Trump, saying if the allegations the former president willfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true, then "he's toast".
The 49-page federal indictment of former President Donald Trump lays out a stunning timeline of events.
Analysis: Criminology expert on Jack Smith's "speaking indictment" of Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago case
"Most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA. That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement”
Former US attorney-general William Barr says Donald Trump is "toast" if allegations that he wilfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents are proven true under Special Counsel Jack Smith's 37-count indictment against the former president.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr called former President Donald Trump’s 37-count federal indictment “very very damning” Sunday morning, and he rejected Trump’s narrative that he is the victim of a “witch hunt.”
William Barr’s comments were made at a time when many other prominent Republicans have been hesitant to criticise the former president.
Live updates and the latest news coverage on the Trump indictment classified documents case.
“I mean, it’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very, very damning," Barr says during a Sunday Fox segment
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Indictment in a federal court is a first in US political history of a former president
Trump faces 37 criminal counts, 31 of which relate to secret or top secret classified documents. He is also charged with obstructing justice, conspiracy, concealment and false statements
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U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith has said former President Donald Trump will have a "speedy trial" in Miami on a 37-count indictment charging him with willfully retaining classified government records and obstructing justice.
The unsealed 44-page document outlines the types of highly sensitive documents Trump allegedly had at Mar-a-Lago and includes key pieces of evidence.
Yahoo News spoke with several legal experts for answers to some frequently asked questions regarding the case against Trump, the first former U.S. president ever to be indicted on federal charges.
Former US president Donald Trump is due in court on Tuesday to face 37 charges
Mr Trump appeared before a judge in Miami’s federal court on Tuesday in a stunning moment in American history
Today marks another historic and unprecedented day in American history - a former US president will appear in a federal courthouse in Miami this evening.
In an interview with 'Fox News Sunday' on June 11, 2023, former Attorney General William Barr rejected claims that Donald Trump's indictment is a continuation of the 'witch-hunt' that plagued his presidency. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
"It's reckless. It's frustrating, and it causes problems," Haley said of Trump's alleged actions outlined in the DOJ indictment.
Trump left his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Monday en route to Miami, where he will be arraigned on federal charges Tuesday.
"Defense always looks at delay, delay, delay, and Donald Trump is the champion of delay," CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman says.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has become the most high-profile person ever to face criminal charges under the Espionage Act for the unlawful retention of sensitive national defense records.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court on Tuesday to criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them.
Former President Donald Trump's arraignment on federal charges in Miami was historic.
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom Tuesday to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents and refusing government dema
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday insisted he “followed” all proper regulations in the Department of Justice’s indictment of former President Donald Trump as he stood behind the “integrity” of special counsel Jack Smith.
Special counsel could bring new charges related to Trump's Bedminster conduct in New Jersey, experts say.
MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez filed paperwork Wednesday to launch his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, jumping into the crowded race just a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump appeared in court on federal charges in Suare
The case against Donald Trump will test the legal system’s ability to guard national secrets while guaranteeing a fair and open trial.
Former US President Donald Trump, who was indicted by the Department of Justice over potential mishandling of classified documents, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the charges against him.
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The resolution of one case looms as an ominous guidepost for the legal jeopardy Trump could face as he confronts 37 felony counts
The outcome of past cases against those accused of hoarding classified documents looms as a guidepost for the legal jeopardy Donald Trump could face.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team asked for a court order to bar Donald Trump and his defense from publicly disclosing materials shared in discovery.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is asking the judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president and his defense team from publicly disclosing some of the materials shared in the criminal case as part of the discovery process.
Both sides insist that they want equal justice under the law.
The ever-expanding field for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and the ongoing fallout from former President Trump’s indictment will likely dominate the Sunday talk show circuit this weekend. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who will make an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” formally announced his campaign for president on Thursday, becoming the latest…
He voted in favor of an earlier version of it when he served in Congress.
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Order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart also put strict conditions on the former president’s access to the materials
A federal judge passed an order Monday forbidding the former president from sharing information related to discovery materials on social media.
Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he hoarded classified documents detailing sensitive military secrets and schemed to thwart government efforts to get them back.
Former AG Bill Barr, in an interview with CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” walked through the severity of the charges against Trump.
The agreement announced Tuesday that will see Hunter Biden plead guilty to two tax charges has scrambled the picture for the 2024 election — a contest that, right now, looks odds-on to be fought between President Biden and former President Trump. Republicans argue the president’s son got a soft deal. Democrats contend that misdemeanor offenses…
The 37-count indictment against former President Donald Trump marks the first time a former president faces federal criminal charges.
“Every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse,” ex-U.S. attorney Harry Litman warns.
Former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for alleged illegal retention of classified documents will begin on Aug. 14, a Florida federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump is slated to face trial in the federal documents case just two months after the Florida indictment was mounted against him.
Donald Trump’s legal team turned over multiple recordings of the former president’s interviews with members of the media and book authors to federal prosecutors during their investigation, according to sources familiar with the matter.
A California man who drove a stun gun into a police officer's neck during one of the most violent clashes of the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 12 years in prison.
The Justice Department has asked judge to delay trial of former president from August to December.
Infowars host Owen Shroyer has pleaded guilty to joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol.
The special prosecutor handling the investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents is seeking to delay a trial until December, according to court documents.
With Donald Trump becoming the second American president to be taken custody by the authorities on criminal charges, here is an effort to decipher at least 10 legal terms that you are sure to encounter in the process.
Prosecutors said the legal procedures surrounding the use of classified information in a criminal case require some delay.
Special counsel Jack Smith has requested a delay in the classified and sensitive documents trial of former President Trump from August to December. Smith filed a request Friday to set Dec. 11 as the trial’s start date, about four months later than the initial Aug. 14 date that Judge Aileen Cannon set Tuesday. The filing…
US Special Counsel Jack Smith lays out a schedule in the lead up to the proposed December 11 start of jury selection, including a September 5 deadline for all defense discovery requests
The Justice Department has asked a judge to postpone until December the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump for retaining classified documents.
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.
A Friday filing also indicated Trump has been told he cannot discuss the case with 84 potential witnesses.
From Eugene Debs to Donald Trump, it’s been used to target politically disfavored opponents.
Judge Alvin K Hellerstein will listen to the arguments although he is not expected to immediately rule.
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.
Trump's defense team has until next week to respond to the DOJ's proposed trial date, which requested the classified documents trial start in December.
In her first pre-trial ruling, Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon rules against the government
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.
New Jan. 6 probe details reveal "evidence of wire fraud," law professor says.
"It's almost like he wants to be convicted," legal expert says.
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal judge to delay until Dec. 11 the start of a trial set for Aug. 14 to allow both sides more time to prepare. Walt Nauta, a Trump aide accused of helping the former president hide the documents from investigators, failed to enter a plea in Miami for a second time on Tuesday.
The charges were outlined in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court that did not implicate Mr Trump in any way.
The tape of a conversation with Donald Trump and others made at his golf club in New Jersey has become perhaps the most critical publicly known evidence in the federal indictment against the former president.
Ron DeSantis, in his latest move to get to the right of Trump, issued a surprise veto on Tuesday, of a popular criminal justice reform bill.
Trump claimed DA Fani Willis would soon drop the charges against him, striking a similar tone to the one he used days before his indictment in Manhattan.
The trio allegedly made $22 million by trading shares in a blank-check company ahead of it announcing plans to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group.
Trump's ex-attorney said on Sunday that even "God himself" couldn't successfully defend the former president in court.
Experts say Eastman, faces possible disbarment in California, under increasing scrutiny in federal and state inquiries
A personal aide to former US president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mishandling classified government documents.
Former Trump aide pleads not guilty to mishandling classified documents. Trial date set for Trump's documents case.
If you think it would be a national tragedy if indicted former President Donald Trump was our next president, it is about time to start getting very worried
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has spent more than $5.4 million in the first five months of his investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a newly released report. About $2.6 million of that total paid for personnel compensation and benefits, and…
Last month, Trump was indicted on several federal charges relating to his handling and possession of classified documents.
The Justice Department has spent over $9.2 million investigating former President Donald Trump since the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith in November, according to the first public accounting of his expenses.
The former president has hired a host of attorneys as he faces a string of criminal investigations and trials.
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.
The spat highlights how even the most incremental, procedural developments in the historic federal criminal case against Trump and Nauta could become mired in delay.
Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta on Monday night laid out some of the legal attacks they’ll potentially launch against charges related to the alleged mishandling of classified information brought against them by special counsel Jack Smith.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has indicated in letters to county officials that potential indictments in the case could come between July 31 and Aug. 18.
Former president Donald Trump is charged with 37 felony counts related to the mishandling of classified documents.
The prosecution of Donald Trump has created a bizarre dynamic for DOJ, which has a longstanding mission to protect the presidency in court.
Since 2017, at least seven cases involving the same provision of the Espionage Act ended in guilty pleas. Another went to trial, resulting in a guilty verdict.
Prosecution filing sharply rejects postponing trial until after 2024 election because of complexity of discovery and jury concerns
Trump attorneys have asked to delay the former president's federal trial, potentially until after the 2024 election.
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.
Justice Department wants to start this year, countering former president’s argument that he can’t get fair trial until after 2024 election
The Justice Department on Thursday pleaded with a judge to reject efforts by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to indefinitely delay his classified documents trial because of his busy 2024 campaign schedule.
The son-in-law and former adviser to the ex-president testified that Trump seemed to believe that he had won the 2020 election
Voters deserve to know the verdict of Donald Trump’s criminal trial before the former president appears on the ballot again in 2024.
Willis has been building a case against Trump and his allies for more than two years now.
In a unanimous ruling, the court brushed aside a long-shot request to shut down the grand jury probe led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
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Georgia Supreme Court denies Trump’s petition to block district attorney from prosecuting him over 2020 election claims
The 16 people are accused of submitting false certificates confirming they were legitimate electors despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state in 2020.
"Something is coming and she's very prepared for whatever is coming," reporter who interviewed Fani Willis.
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 Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media asked a judge to reconsider his detention on Monday, pointing out that he is charged with the same federal counts as former President Donald Trump and that prosecutors did not oppose Trump’s release.
Sending a target letter is often one of the final steps a prosecutor will take before charging a person with a federal crime.
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'False electors' accused of trying to rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump have been charged with felonies. Many facing potential prison time are senior citizens.
Federal grand juries in Washington have been hearing evidence in the criminal investigation into the former president’s efforts to reverse his election loss.
The former president did not say which crimes, if any, prosecutors specified in a letter notifying him that he may be indicted again.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came to the defense of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, assailing as politically motivated attempts to hold his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination legally accountable for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
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As charges pile up, "Trump may be campaigning as a defendant in four criminal cases," ex-prosecutor says.
The statutes mentioned in the letter offer some insight into the potential legal basis for possible future charges.
A New Jersey man who had his sentence commuted by former President Trump was charged Wednesday in a “multi-million dollar Ponzi-like fraud scheme.” Eliyahu Weinstein, who was previously convicted of defrauding investors on two separate occasions resulting in combined losses of about $230 million, had his 24-year sentence commuted by Trump on the last day…
Two years after Eliyahu Weinstein's release, prosecutors say he hasn't changed.
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Trump indicted in New York on falsifying business records to hide reimbursements to former lawyer for $130,000 payment to silence adult film star
A federal judge Wednesday denied former President Trump's legal move to transfer the Manhattan criminal business fraud case to federal court. Trump faces 34 felony counts related to hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels.
The date of May 20 next year is a compromise between defence lawyers and the prosecution.
As anticipation builds for former President Donald Trump to be indicted for the third time this year, investigators in the special counsel’s election interference probe are expected to speak with additional witnesses over the next several weeks, including at least one former Trump attorney.
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.
Three charges relating to the Capitol attack are reportedly being considered, among other legal challenges for the ex-president
Defense motions to dismiss the indictment. Wrangling over classified evidence. And other crucial legal battles before the case reaches a jury next year.
A federal judge has set a May 20th, 2024 start date for the trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Rick Newman explains "these are very serious charges and the case against Trump appears to be very strong." Newman details how a potential conviction could impact the Trump campaign and Republican Primary.
Special counsel prosecutors have recently questioned at least two witnesses in the investigation of Trump's post-election conduct, after sending him a target letter last Sunday.
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The Republican candidate's trial over his mishandling of classified documents will begin less than six months before Election Day.
"QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley -- who breached the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots in a horned helmet and headdress -- is no "fanboy" of Donald Trump.
As Donald Trump looks to secure the Republican presidential nomination and win a second White House term, he will also have to navigate a legal minefield that could include as many as four criminal indictments and at least two civil cases.
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Sprawling racketeering case by DA predicated on influencing witnesses and computer trespass
Trump appointed Cannon to the bench, but that alone is not a good enough reason for her to recuse herself from the case.
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Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, has settled his lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of failing to cover millions of dollars of legal bills he incurred over his work for the former U.S. president.
US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said she was concerned about language in a legal agreement.
US District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by then-president Donald Trump, raised concerns about the language of the deal.
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The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign to build Donald Trump's signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/4 years in prison.
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.
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.
Smith and the grand jury have many options.
Exclusive: Fulton county DA has identified multiple state election crimes in the 2020 election investigation, sources say
US prosecutors have broadened their criminal case against Donald Trump, bringing new charges against the former president and accusing a second of his employees with helping to evade officials who were trying to recover sensitive national security documents he took from the White House.
Trump lawyers arrive at office of US special counsel
The allegations were made on Thursday in an updated grand jury indictment in Florida.
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Trump-appointed judge raises concerns about deal reached between prosecutors and US president’s son
Judge Maryellen Noreika, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, put the proceedings on hold as she asked the parties to work out their dispute.
Former President Donald Trump was hit with three additional charges Thursday in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents investigation.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump is facing accusations that he and aides asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the classified documents investigation.
Mr Trump was charged last month with illegally hoarding classified documents and concealing them from investigators.
A third defendant has been charged alongside former President Donald Trump and his valet in the classified documents case in Florida, court records show.
The Manhattan DA says he won't "sit on ceremony in terms of what was charged first," hinting that Trump could be tried on potential January 6 charges first.
Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker criticized special counsel Jack Smith after he laid three additional charges against former President Trump in a superseding indictment this week, calling the move “vindictive and petty.” “I think this last round of charges, to supersede this indictment, was to try to punish Donald Trump,” Whitaker said in a…
In spite of his popularity with Republicans, Trump clearly isn’t the GOP’s best chance to win back the White House.
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New allegations in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump deepen his legal jeopardy as he braces for possible additional indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
House Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman (N.Y.) said that the latest charges against former President Trump show a “quintessentially consciousness of guilt.” “Well, it’s very serious, less because of the additional defendant I think, but more because it demonstrates Donald Trump’s knowledge of what his conduct was and how wrong it was, and that he was…
Former US president Donald Trump has said that a new criminal indictment from Special Counsel in the US department of justice Jack Smith is imminent.
Trump says he hears his indictment will be announced at 5pm
Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer endorsed by Mr Trump in an unsuccessful run for Michigan attorney general last year, was charged remotely.
A definitive guide to the key players and legal risks in the four criminal probes of the former president.
Donald Trump has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the US and other crimes related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss
Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought the Trump indictment?
Donald Trump is now facing three criminal indictments, all filed since March - raising the prospect that the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 White House race could end up navigating a series of trials as he campaigns.
The latest charges will add to the former president's legal troubles - he is already facing criminal cases in Miami and New York over national security concerns and allegedly falsifying business records.
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Republican former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was indicted on Tuesday for his wide-ranging efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is not the only person to face prosecution over efforts to undo his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. election.
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Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with four felonies over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Today’s indictment marks the third criminal case facing the former president as he barrels ahead with his 2024 campaign. Here’s a timelien of the key dates.
Former President Trump is expected to be arraigned for the third time Thursday. Trump faces four charges in Washington pertaining to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He denies wrongdoing. But even amid the detail in the 45-page indictment made public on Tuesday, there are a number of questions still unanswered.…
Mr Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential primary frontrunner, is facing charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States
Of the more than six dozen felonies that Trump is accused of, many often result in harsh sentences.
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With his third indictment, Trump will be campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination and, potentially, the White House while defending himself in court
Donald Trump is set to appear in court hours after a couple with an attempted $4.5 billion bitcoin money laundering effort.
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on federal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith, the most serious allegations he faces.
The former president is facing his most serious charges so far in what marks the third criminal case brought against him in the past six months.
The former president has remained defiant despite the third indictment against him this year.
Prosecutors allege Mr Trump conspired to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
The special counsel layered varied charges atop the same facts, while sidestepping a free-speech question by not charging incitement.
The order would limit what information Mr Trump and his legal team could share publicly about the case.
Trump’s lawyers are anticipating the former president’s fourth indictment in five months.
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Pending motion rendered unnecessary because of judge’s ruling in earlier motion by Trump’s team, lawyers for former US president say
The special counsel has done his level best to make it matter. It still might not.
The order would limit what information former President Donald Trump and his legal team could share publicly about the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
Test your knowledge on Donald Trump's latest legal debacle, concerning criminal charges relating to the aftermath of the 2020 US presidential election
Former president Donald Trump is facing 561 years in prison if he is convicted of all the charges he is facing.
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against Donald Trump in Washington to step in after the former president published a post online that appeared to promise revenge on anyone who goes after him.
Clint Lorance’s bid to become a lawyer is being opposed by his own troops, who saw him murder two innocent Afghan civilians.
Rep. Jamie Raskin's (D-MD) statement comes as recent polling states that former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are neck-and-neck for 2024.
The Republican presidential candidate told CNN on Sunday that the latest charges could serve as a so-called smoking gun and aid the prosecution.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said he is willing to testify against former President Trump at his Jan. 6 trial. Barr, who was appointed by Trump, responded “of course” when asked on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if he would be willing to appear as a witness in Trump’s trial over federal charges related to alleged…
In downtown Atlanta, the scene outside the Fulton County Courthouse is perhaps the biggest indication that something major could soon be happening inside.
Prosecutors are seeking to protect witness testimony and other findings from disclosure beyond defense team
The protective order sought by prosecutors would limit what Donald Trump can say about the evidence they present.
The details were included in a decision from the federal appeals court in Washington.
His comments came even as prosecutors sought a protective order to limit the evidence that Mr Trump and his team could share.
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US District Judge Tanya Chutkan scheduled a hearing for Friday at 10 a.m. ET on the scope of a protective order – the rules imposed for the handling of evidence – in the special counsel’s election subversion case against former President Donald Trump.
Legal experts have cast doubts that former President Trump and his legal team will succeed in attempting to move his case on Jan. 6 charges out of Washington, D.C., especially before jury selection is even conducted. Trump has floated the idea of moving his case to nearby West Virginia in the hopes he might face…
Donald Trump's aides set to enter pleas in US classified documents case
New court papers reveal that the special counsel investigating former President Trump secured a search warrant for his Twitter account.
A US judge has warned former president Donald Trump against posting messages that may be interpreted as intimidating to witnesses in his criminal case.
It comes as Trump is also gearing up for a possible fourth indictment, in a case out of Fulton County, Georgia, over alleged efforts by him and his Republican allies to illegally meddle in the 2020 election in that state. The county district attorney, Fani Willis, a Democrat, has signaled that any indictments in the case would likely come this month.
Allegedly fraudulent electors in Michigan who attempted to cast electoral college votes for former President Donald Trump in 2020 were arraigned Thursday for their roles in efforts to overturn the presidential election.
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.
The Justice Department lawyers predicted their case will take between four and six weeks.
Filing sets aggressive timeline with 2 January 2024 trial date but ex-president’s lawyers are expected to seek delay
Prosecutors in Donald Trump's Jan. 6 case referenced other criminal charges he faces over his alleged hoarding of classified documents.
“Your client’s defense is supposed to happen in this courtroom,” U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan told the former president’s lawyers in Washington, D.C., on Friday, “not on the internet.”
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is expected to begin presenting her case against former President Trump to a grand jury early next week. Two witnesses in the case said on Saturday that they have been asked to appear before the grand jury on Tuesday. Independent journalist George Chidi said in a post on…
Georgia prosecutor expected to seek indictment from grand jury next week over Trump's efforts to overturn election results. (100 characters)
Former President Trump is increasingly enmeshed in a tangled web of legal troubles, facing state and federal probes across the country. Trump is a party in more than a half-dozen civil lawsuits and faces 78 criminal charges across three cases, ranging from an alleged hush money cover-up to his purported efforts to overturn the 2020…
The Fulton County, Georgia, court's website briefly posted a document listing several criminal charges against former US President Donald Trump that appeared related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state, before taking the document down without explanation.
Witnesses including a former lieutenant governor say they expect to testify on Tuesday, an indication that a Georgia grand jury will begin hearing the election interference case...
A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump and his allies is expected to seek an indictment from a grand jury next week.
Trump is bracing for a potential fourth indictment in Georgia after a journalist and a former state politician said they had been called before a grand jury.
"Star trial attorney" Fani Wllis has a strong "track record" of prosecuting racketeering cases, professor says
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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.
Criminal charges filed against Donald Trump include allegations that he violated an anti-organised crime law known as RICO that is more expansive than its federal counterpart.
Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted for his alleged efforts to illegally overturn the Georgia vote in the 2020 presidential election which put Joe Biden in the White House.
Who are the Trump allies indicted in the Georgia election scheme?
The former US president has now been charged in Georgia, along with 18 allies.
Prosecutors turned to a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president of a sweeping criminal conspiracy.
It is the fourth criminal case to be brought against the former US president and the second to allege he tried to subvert the results of the vote.
A document posted on the Fulton County court website – which was later removed – has that former US president Donald Trump could be facing criminal charges including conspiracy to commit forgery.
Prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the US state of Georgia presented evidence to a grand jury Monday for what could be a sprawling, multi-defendant indictment.
"This is going to go so very badly for Trump," predicted MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang.
A group of conservative legal experts on Monday filed an amicus brief in support of the Jan. 2 proposed trial date in the federal criminal case against former President Trump over his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election. The group, which comprises former attorneys and judges who served or were appointed during…
Officials denied reports the state of Georgia had filed charges against Donald Trump, even as prosecutors prepared a fourth indictment against him.
ATLANTA (AP) — A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in their long-running investigation of the 2020 presidenti
Trump himself is expected to follow suit with a motion to transfer the case out of Georgia state court.
Meadows and Trump were among 19 indicted Monday in a case accusing them of acting as a "criminal enterprise."
Former President Donald Trump could face six trials before Election Day in November 2024, putting the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in a situation unlike any before.
Trump Georgia indictment: RICO charges could be a double-edged sword
Democratic prosecutors have rolled out four indictments against former President Donald Trump, including the latest by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, announced Monday night.
Donald Trump is charged with violating Georgia’s RICO Act. His former lawyer Rudy Giuliani used the federal version of the law to prosecute mobsters.
Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is seeking to move the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecution against him to federal court so that he can try to get the case dismissed under federal law.
The two most recent indictments filed against Donald J. Trump are mirror images in many ways.
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The Fulton County Georgia court clerk on Tuesday acknowledged that it had released on its website a document about Donald Trump being criminally charged, as Reuters reported on Monday.
Trump was hit with a sweeping fourth set of criminal charges on Monday when the Georgia grand jury issued an indictment accusing him and others of efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Michael Caputo had to liquidate his kids' college funds to pay for his legal fees. He warns that the price tag will be even higher for Trump's 18 co-defendants.
18 people were indicted alongside former President Donald Trump on Monday.Legal experts told Insider that some of them might flip on Trump and cooperate with
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is requesting a March 4 start date in the trial of former President Trump and 18 co-defendants over an alleged plot to subvert the state’s 2020 election results and keep Trump in power. Willis also proposed that their arraignments occur during the week of Sept. 5, writing that the…
The Georgia prosecutor who obtained an indictment this week against former President Donald Trump and 18 others wants to take the case to trial in March.
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Trump lawyers asking for April 2026 date for case charging former president of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election
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Police in the US state of Georgia are investigating threats related to former president Donald Trump's election interference investigation in Georgia, after names and addresses of grand jury members were posted online.
State charges unsealed earlier this week against Donald Trump and 18 others in the Georgia election subversion probe opened a new chapter in the former president’s post-White House legal saga and forced the nation to turn its attention to yet another complex criminal case concerning efforts to undermine Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
Former US President Donald Trump was criminally charged this week in a sweeping Georgia indictment that accuses him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election.
Fulton County’s sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 additional co-defendants also includes details involving 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” – people who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges took part in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
Private information about members of grand jury that indicted former president has been published online
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was arrested on Monday morning on a charge of transmitting threats to kill or injure.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said that he thinks Donald Trump should drop out of the 2024 election as the former president faces four indictments.
Ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows’ admission could complicate the ex-president’s defense in his classified documents case
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to surrender on Thursday in Atlanta in connection with his indictment in Georgia on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, he said on social media on Monday.
I will state that I will shoot Donald Trump Sr. AND Barron Trump straight in the face at any opportunity I get, Fiorenza said in a May 21 email to the head of an educational institution in the Palm Beach, Florida, area, according to an affidavit accompanying the complaint.
Trump and the other co-defendants have until noon on Friday to turn themselves in to be booked.
Former US President Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed in Atlanta on Thursday in connection with his indictment in Georgia, he said on social media yesterday.
It will be Mr Trump’s fourth arrest since April, when he became the first former president in US history to face indictment
Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, allegedly made first threat in email in May and allegedly sent another in June, officials say
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Tracy Marie Fiorenza (41), from Chicago area, was arrested on Monday on a charge of transmitting threats to kill or injure
A Georgia judge barred Trump from intimidating any witnesses or codefendants in the Fulton County election interference case.
A Chicago woman was arrested on Monday on charges of emailing threats to shoot former President Donald Trump and his son Barron Trump, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago said. A formal complaint was filed against Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Ex-president and 18 associates were indicted last week on charges they were part of a conspiracy to subvert election results
Former President Donald Trump has agreed to bond being set at $200,000 in his Georgia election interference case, according to court documents filed Monday.
Trump and 18 others were indicted on state felony charges last week and have until noon on Aug. 25 to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail.
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Former Trump staffer, gets new lawyer, retracts former testimony concerning security footage at Mar-a-Lago
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 first co-defendants in the election racketeering case targeting former US president Donald Trump have surrendered to the authorities in Georgia.
Exclusive: Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings
The former US president is expected to turn himself in and have a mug shot taken at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia.
Six of the eight Republican presidential hopefuls at their party's first 2024 debate have indicated that they would support former US President Donald Trump as the 2024 White House nominee, even if he is convicted of a crime.
Explained: The next steps in Trump's criminal case in Georgia
Thursday night's booking in Fulton County was the fourth time that the former president has been arrested this year.
Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday night for his fourth indictment on charges stemming from his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Former US President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign is selling merchandise featuring his first mug shot, just hours after he surrendered in a Georgia election subversion case. The merchandise includes T-shirts, mugs, koozies, and bumper stickers, and is accompanied by the words ‘NEVER SURRENDER!’
Only one of former President Donald Trump's 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case has been jailed as a result of the charges.
A federal judge is expected to set a date for what could be one of the most momentous trials in American history: the United States of America versus Donald J Trump.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to set a tentative trial date over January 6 charges.
As Trump is released from jail on a $200,000 bond, an expert explains the US cash bail system
Trump has not been silenced. The limits on his speech protect fundamental rights − including his right to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and the public’s right to a working justice system.
"Donald doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about you one bit," Michael Cohen said in a warning to the former president's co-defendants.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will lay out the first details of her sprawling anti-racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and 17 other co-defendants at a federal court hearing on Monday morning.
Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Monday will have her first major courtroom faceoff after indicting former President Trump and 18 others in the Georgia election case. At a Monday morning hearing in Atlanta, prosecutors are set to battle with attorneys for former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who…
Trump's key defenses, Steven Lubet writes, would hinge on either asserting that he genuine believed his fraud claims, or that he was misled by lawyers.
Alina Habba told Fox News Trump didn't need to "prep" for his trial because he's "incredibly intelligent."
Trump is complaining that the charges “are too late” and the trial is “too soon,” says legal scholar.
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Attorney Sidney Powell, one of 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, has waived a formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty, a court filing shows.
Sidney Powell, a one-time attorney for former President Trump’s 2020 campaign who helped promulgate false claims of election fraud, has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia election interference case. Powell and 18 others — including Trump — are accused of joining a criminal conspiracy to keep the former president in power after he lost the 2020 presidential race…
It’s a coincidence of the 2024 calendar and US history.
The ruling compounds the legal jeopardy for Giuliani at a time when he and Trump are both among 19 defendants charged this month in a racketeering case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. It also creates the potential for a massive financial penalty for Giuliani as the case proceeds to a federal trial in Washington to determine damages he may be liable for.
Former President Donald Trump and other defendants have already filed waivers and entered not guilty pleas.
Dominic Pezzola told his trial there is no place in his future for politics – before falsely claiming the former US president won the 2020 election.
Two senior members of the Proud Boys militia were handed hefty prison sentences Thursday for their role in the 2021 assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.
One inmate is dead and two more injured following a stabbing incident at the troubled Fulton County Jail, the same prison where Donald Trump was recently booked and could attend if convicted in Georgia.
"I respect the process and I respect the outcome. I don't agree with it, and that's why I'm appealing," Joseph Biggs at his court sentencing.
A former organizer of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison for spearheading an attack on the U.S. Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday and sought to sever his case from other defendants who are accused along with him of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
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Giuliani was charged last month along with former U.S. President Trump and 17 co-defendants for trying to overturn the U.S. 2020 election
ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani on Friday pleaded not guilty to Georgia charges that accuse him of trying, along with former President Donald Trump and others, to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
A leader of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday while another member got 10 years for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.
Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola sobbed in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Friday as he asked a federal judge for leniency in his Jan. 6 sentence and vowed to stay out of politics in the future. However, after receiving a 10-year prison sentence, Pezzola reportedly raised his fist and shouted, “Trump won,” as he left the courtroom,…
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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.
Pro-Trump Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola, who used a police shield to smash a Capitol window during the Jan. 6 insurrection, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday.
The former Trump lawyer also waived his right to appear at an arraignment set for 6 September
Former New York City Mayor and Donald Trump attorney Rudy Guiliani pleaded not guilty to charges of undermining the 2020 presidential election Friday along with six other co-defendants.
District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected the Trump legal team's arguments for more time, and set the federal election interference trial for March 2024.
A WSJ poll finds indictments are helping Trump in the Republican primaries, but not with all voters.
Glenn Kirschner broke down his concern that judges haven't "stepped up to address" the threat of the former president.
Donald Trump has dared, taunted, provoked and goaded our Department of Justice to prosecute him from the moment it was learned he had stolen our country's national security documents.
A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the 6 January 2021 assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump who were trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.
Judge Tanya Chutkan scheduled Trump's trial to begin on March 4, 2024, in the Department of Justice's probe into the events that led to the Capitol riot.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed by Trump, on Tuesday gave Tarrio the longest prison sentence for anyone associated with the Jan. 6 riot.
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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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A leader of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison over the U.S. Capitol attack, equaling the longest punishment in the case so far, while another member sentenced to 10 years yelled "Trump won" as he left court.
Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, is the latest key player in the January 6 insurrection to be sentenced.
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A Georgia judge on Wednesday said he was “very skeptical” that Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants could stand trial together as soon as next month in a sprawling criminal case accusing them of conspiring to reverse the former U.S. president’s 2020 election loss.
Ruling indicates similar bids by Donald Trump and others to move election racketeering case to more favorable venue will fail
Meadows is facing two criminal counts, accused of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday urged a federal appeals court to intervene in his failed bid to move his Georgia criminal case to federal court.
The recusal motion against US district judge Tanya Chutkan based on two public statements alone faces major legal hurdles
Former President Donald Trump is asking a court to dismiss several criminal charges against him in the Georgia 2020 election interference case.
Trump must review classified documents case evidence in secure location, judge says
The trial is currently scheduled for March 25, 2024 — just three weeks after the start date of Trump's Washington trial on charges related to the 2020 election.
Georgia prosecutors argued Wednesday that Mark Meadows cannot move his criminal charges to federal court because he no longer works at the White House. Meadows, former President Trump’s White House chief of staff, is trying to move his two charges so he can assert immunity. After a federal judge previously rejected his attempt, he is…
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team say the order is necessary to preserve the integrity of the case and to avoid prejudicing potential jurors.
The racketeering trials for Trump and 16 co-defendants won't begin next month. A judge separated the cases from two co-defendants whose trial will start Oct. 23.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a judge to place a gag order on ex-president Donald Trump, saying his inflammatory rhetoric threatens to undermine his coming trial for election subversion.
On Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed filings revealing the government’s week-old request.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked a judge to limit the extent former President Trump can discuss his looming trial on charges related to his effort to block the transfer of power in the 2020 election, citing a history of targeting those who “present an obstacle” to him. The order asks federal district court…
Speaking to moderator Kristen Welker at his Bedminster estate, Trump expressed little concern over his legal woes
Judge appears inclined to reject ex-DoJ official’s effort and throws out written testimony from Clark
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James Ray Epps, the subject of relentless conspiracy theories by the far-right, is facing a criminal misdemeanor charge for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson accused Donald Trump's ex-attorney Rudy Giuliani of groping her on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Ray Epps, a onetime Donald Trump supporter who was the target of a conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for his role in the riot.
The special counsel's office is gearing up to put Donald Trump on trial in two criminal cases next year.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Trump and others of systematic fraud and is suing the Trumps and the Trump Organization for $250 million.
Three-quarters of voters are concerned about Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness, while nearly 2-in-3 worry about Donald Trump's multiple trials, per a new NBC News poll.
"Trump is 'letting them do the heavy lifting,' said Caren Morrison, a Georgia State University law professor who has attended key recent Trump-related court hearings.
Judge Tanya Chutkan's first trial since the former president’s indictment offers insight into how she’ll handle the case.
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.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election subversion criminal case will not disqualify herself from the matter, rejecting a longshot bid from the former president’s team to remove her from the case.
Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Part of the plea deal for Scott Hall, a bail bondsman who breached election equipment, requires him to testify against other co-defendants.
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Scott Graham Hall pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties
Former Republican poll watcher Scott Hall pleads guilty to five criminal counts and must testify against co-defendants
Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and three GOP activists who falsely posed as presidential electors all lost their bids to transfer the case.
Prosecutors asked the judge to restrict Trump’s ability to attack them and potential witnesses ahead of a hearing about the issue
Read more about Bail bondsman charged alongside Trump in Georgia becomes the first defendant to take a plea deal on Devdiscourse
Hall becomes the first co-defendant to plead guilty in a case that alleged criminal conspiracy to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia state in 2020 US elections.
Donald Trump faces fresh legal danger today as a civil fraud trial against the former president and two of his sons begins in New York, threatening the Republican frontrunner's business empire as he campaigns to retake the White House with four criminal cases looming.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told 60 Minutes about the process of the special counsel investigations into former President Donald Trump and Hunter Biden on 60 Minutes.
It is the most pointed attack yet by defence lawyers on the federal case.
"Not a good sign for those who want a trial in May," former Mueller prosecutor warns.
Stories about Trump’s newest Jan. 6th arguments, Elizabeth Warren v. SCOTUS, and more.
Former president treated court appearance as a campaign stop, despite facing a possible fine of $250m for boosting value of his assets
"It ultimately comes down to Judge Cannon, who has thus far appeared receptive to Trump's arguments": attorney
Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, replied with variations of "I don't recall" to dozens of questions in a New York courtroom on Tuesday.
Prosecutors questioned former chief financial officer about the value of Trump’s triplex apartment in Trump Tower
Prosecutors in Trump’s D.C. election case are seeking special procedures to protect the jury.
Smith's latest move may force Trump to waive attorney-client privilege.
Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly attacked the case as politically motivated, was not in attendance for Weisselberg's testimony.
Judge overseeing Trump's Georgia criminal case has handled things very differently, Joyce Vance says.
Cannon scolded DOJ for making sudden request to place partial restrictions on Trump co-defendant's lawyer.
Cohen had been expected to testify next week in a civil fraud case against Trump, who was planning to attend to hear testimony from his former attorney.
A federal judge said jurors at an upcoming defamation damages trial will be told that the former Trump lawyer intentionally tried to hide financial documents.
Michael Cohen, a key witness against former President Donald Trump, said, "I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition."
Prosecutors want to rein in Trump’s rhetoric about potential witnesses, prosecutors and others involved in his election interference case.
Order aimed at reining in former president’s diatribes against likely witnesses in his 2020 election interference case.
Trump attorneys “engaging in stunts, games, and frivolous tactics in violation of New York State ethics rules"
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee denied eight motions from co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, pro-Donald Trump lawyers who are the first to go to trial.
The former president said the order barring him from going after witnesses, prosecutors and court staff was "unconstitutional."
Why a gag order has been issued — and the penalties Trump could face if he violates it.
Former President Donald Trump is appealing a court order restricting him from making public statements about those involved in the federal case against him in Washington.
Sidney Powell was charged alongside Donald Trump and 17 others with violating the US state’s anti-racketeering law.
A court employee was arrested on a contempt of court charge after trying to approach Donald Trump as he sat inside a courtroom during his fraud trial.
A woman has been taken into custody after trying to approach former President Donald Trump Wednesday during his civil fraud trial in New York.
Lawyer Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty to reduced charges over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia.
Former Donald Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell’s stunning plea deal in the Georgia election subversion case on the eve of her trial will significantly change the landscape of the ongoing state and federal prosecutions against the former president.
Stories about Biden's emergency budget request, Taylor Swift's “Eras” tour movie, constipation on Bachelor in Paradise, and more.
Donald Trump faces new legal dangers in his Georgia trial after key allies, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, plead guilty in election fraud case.
Their decisions to transform from Trump diehards to a key witness against him have likely shattered any sense of invincibility that Trump or others charged may be feeling
With co-defendants of Donald Trump accepting plea bargains, an expert in criminal law explains what these legal agreements are and how they work.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith in exchange for his testimony in the federal 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Mark Meadows, the final chief of staff to Donald Trump, has reportedly testified before a grand jury hearing evidence in the election-interference probe.
Former president and his fixer-turned-foe come face-to-face in courtroom five years after bitter split
Prosecutors are increasingly pitting ex-members of Donald Trump's legal team against him.
Trump knows the walls are closing in.
Exclusive: Fulton County DA has discussed plea deals with at least 6 more Trump co-defendants
Former president President Donald Trump is accused of overstating his wealth for years on financial statements.
A courts committee says it lacks authority to modify a broadcasting ban in time for the historic criminal cases against the former president.
Special counsel says ex-president trying to send ‘threatening message to a foreseeable witness’ in election interference case
A judge ruled Friday that Ivanka Trump must testify in person in Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial.
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Judge rejects Ivanka Trump’s argument that she no longer lives in New York and has stepped down from her role at the Trump Organization
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal election subversion criminal case has reinstated the gag order she issued on the former president she issued earlier this month.
An Alabama man has been charged with making threatening voicemails to Fulton County officials in Georgia because of their connections to the case against former President Donald Trump.
An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former...
An Alabama man has been indicted for allegedly making threats against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat.
If we are to have equal justice in America, we must start with the premise that no one is too big to jail.
While the Constitution is “hazy” on a lot of things, on this point it’s abundantly clear, law professor says.
Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand on Thursday. Legal analysts say it didn't go well.
Evidence submitted at trial shows that both sons signed statements certifying that they had provided accurate information to Mazars, the outside accounting firm that prepared the financial statements. Judge Arthur Engoron has already ruled that Trump, his two adult sons and the company fraudulently inflated asset values to win favorable financing terms.
Trump documents case "may very well suffer death by a thousand Cannon continuances," ex-prosecutor predicts.
D.C. court’s gag pause comes hours after New York judge in civil fraud trial expanded separate gag order
Can Donald Trump run for president again after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack? The answer may depend on the definition of insurrection.
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily froze the limited gag order issued against Donald Trump in the former president’s election subversion criminal case in Washington, DC, allowing him to again speak freely with criticism of possible witnesses in the case.
Federico Guillermo Klein, a former State Department official, was convicted earlier this year on 12 counts related to the riot.
Arthur Engoron forbids Trump’s lawyers from discussing ‘confidential communications’ between him and his staff
Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge on Friday to bar media outlets from televising the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
"If he is not careful he may walk himself right into a perjury charge," Glenn Kirschner said about the former president's son.
These lawyers have a nearly impossible task, which they're doing badly.
TV ads focused on his legal troubles backfired, so they never aired.
Former President donald Trump is trying to have the federal 2020 election-related indictment against him dismissed.
In new court documents, the special counsel articulated his clearest case yet for Trump’s prosecution for election subversion.
Edward Rodriguez, a Donald Trump enthusiast who bear-sprayed officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Monday.
Former residents of Lord’s Ranch, run by Ted Suhl, convicted of bribery in 2016, say abuse was ‘systematic and widespread’
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, spent nearly an hour Thursday considering former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s attempt to overturn his conviction and sentence for contempt of Congress.
A Capitol riot defendant argued he should be allowed to have weapons because former President Donald Trump can.
Judge Aileen Cannon pushes back several major deadlines for ex-president to file pre-trial motions in positive move for him
Trump shared a post on Truth Social calling for "citizen's arrest" of Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engoron.
Jonathan Miller, an attorney for Misty Hampton, said he shared the witness proffer videos with one of the two media outlets that reported on them.
The Georgia prosecutor pursuing a case against former President Donald Trump and others has asked a judge to revoke the bond of defendant Harrison Floyd.
One of the co-defendants in the racketeering case that includes Donald Trump out of Fulton County, may have his bail revoked. According to a motion filed by District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday, Harrison Floyd should have his bail revoked because he gave interviews to conservative outlets disc...
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is seeking to revoke the bond allowing a defendant in the Georgia racketeering case involving former President Trump to remain free ahead of trial. Willis’s office cited defendant Harison Floyd’s social media posts in a Wednesday court filing, argueing they were in violation of the bond agreement he…
Defense attorney says he provided witness interviews to a reporter
A federal judge in Florida denied a key deadline request on Thursday from special counsel Jack Smith in the case against Donald Trump, alleging the former president unlawfully retained classified documents.
Judge Aileen Cannon again ruled against the Justice Department on setting the court schedule for in the Trump classified documents trial — and her latest decision has onlookers alarmed.The judge ruled Thursday against the Department of Justice's attempt to set some key deadlines ahead of Donald Trum...
If approved by judge, trial of former president would take place during start of general election
A U.S. District Court judge on Friday denied a motion from Donald Trump's legal team to have some language in one of the legal proceedings against the former president prohibited.
Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday rejected a motion by former President Donald Trump to strike allegations that he helped lead the Jan. 6 attack from the indictment in his federal election interference case.
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Prosecutors in former U.S. President Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia requested an Aug. 5, 2024, trial start date, a court filing on Friday showed.
This week, Chris Christie declared that “it’s over” for Donald Trump and predicted that the former president would be a convicted felon “by the spring.”
President Donald Trump will test the limits of his free speech rights Monday when he argues to a Washington, DC, appeals court that a gag order placed on him in his federal election subversion criminal case is not constitutionally sound.
For a year, a special New York law has cleared the way for a wave of headline-grabbing lawsuits against famous men accused of sexual misconduct, including former President Donald Trump, hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and the comedian and actor Russell Brand.
Harrison Floyd, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the election subversion case in Georgia, claimed in a court filing Monday that prosecutors are seeking to revoke his bond as retaliation after he rejected a plea deal.
A Georgia judge declined to revoke the bond of one of former President Trump’s co-defendants in his 2020 election subversion case Tuesday, allowing him to remain free on bond ahead of a future trial. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee determined Tuesday that the bond agreement for Harrison Floyd, a former leader of Black Voices for…
A New York massage therapist who joined the mob of Trump supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to three months in jail.
Judge Arthur Engoron and his clerk have also received antisemitic abuse since a gag order imposed on the ex-president was lifted
Ex-Trump accountant Jeffrey McConney's handwritten note could come back to bite his former boss.
The New York State Adult Survivors Act window for victims of sexual abuse is closing on Thanksgiving with the state seeing over 2,600 claims.
Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump's national election interference case, imposed a gag order on the former president in October.
The former president's legal team has requested access to a huge array of classified government documents.
Critics argue that the judge's methodical approach may have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only the trial but also other legal battles.
Joyce Vance slammed the Trump legal team's arguments for why he doesn't need a gag order in the federal election trial.
A new report about Mike Pence's internal struggle over certifying the 2020 election is raising new questions about whether the former vice president will help bring down Donald Trump in the federal investigation. According to the ABC News report, as late as Christmas Eve 2020, Pence was saying he wo...
A Nevada state-level criminal investigation into the fake electors plot intended to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election win is ramping up with prosecutors securing the cooperation of a key witness, even as even as some of those who served as pro-Trump electors remain politically active ahead of the 2024 election.
Lawyers for Donald Trump's co-defendants argued Friday that the state has no power to bring charges against them for being fake electors, USA Today reported.According to the legal team, the fake electors cannot be tried by the state because such a matter, according to the Constitution, should be res...
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that former President Donald Trump can be sued civilly for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, assaulted police and threatened Cong
A group of congressional Democrats and veteran Capitol Police officers are seeking civil damages for the harms they allege they suffered because of the Capitol riot.
Ruling clears way for Trump to face lawsuits from police and lawmakers seeking to hold him responsible for violence
Donald Trump might get the Supreme Court to weigh in on his "presidential immunity" argument as it relates to the criminal case he faces for alleged election subversion in D.C., but he isn't likely to win that fight, a legal expert said Saturday.Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu appeared on CNN News...
Chutkan recently ruled that Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution stemming from election interference efforts.
The former US President has said he cannot be sued over the riot that left dozens of police officers injured.
On Friday, two federal courts in Washington rejected parallel claims by former President Donald Trump for immunity from the legal process.
Prosecutors slammed Hunter Biden’s demand to see Donald Trump’s diaries, personal messages and correspondence the former president sent about the current president’s son, according to court records and reports. Federal prosecutors in Delaware filed a lengthy opposition to Biden’s subpoena request fo...
Special counsel Jack Smith plans to present evidence at Donald Trump’s trial next year that his continued support for US Capitol rioters helps to show he intended to inspire violence on January 6, 2021, as part of a conspiracy he led to overturn the 2020 election.
The former president's lawyers said all proceedings should be paused while Trump appeals a ruling on his immunity claims.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of time to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 202
The attorney for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign who was a leading architect of the plan to organize fake presidential electors in Arizona and other battleground states that the twice-impeached president lost is set to meet with prosecutors in the Grand Canyon State on Monday. Attorney General Kris Ma...
President Joe Biden is confronting the prospect of his son Hunter facing an embarrassing legal ordeal next year amid a host of other political obstacles in a possible rematch with Donald Trump.
Twenty-four of the so-called fake Trump electors now face criminal charges in three different states, and one of the legal architects of the plan to deploy them, Kenneth Chesebro, has emerged as a witness in all the cases.
Pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro was charged as one of the former president's co-defendants for allegedly drafting a secret memo outlining how to steal the 2020 presidential election.But he wasn't always that way, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin — who once studied with Chesebro in law school — told MS...
Jack Smith indicated that he plans to call an expert witness who extracted and reviewed data copied from Trump’s phone.
Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to rule on the former president's claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution for the alleged crimes he committed while in office.
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to quickly review a bid by former President Donald Trump to have the federal election interference charges against him dismissed.
A ruling in Trump's favor would effectively end any chances of prosecuting the former president for election interference.
Special counsel Jack Smith has requested the decision be made quickly to ensure the former president’s trial stays on track.
Prosecutors want the U.S. Supreme Court to cut short former President Donald Trump's attempt to delay his trial until after the 2024 election.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results.
Prosecutors seek expedited decision on whether former president has immunity amid concern that appeals process could delay trial
Jack Smith petitioned high court to bypass appeals panel so election-interference trial can start in March
The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court on Monday to launch a fast-track review of the former president's claim he cannot be tried on those charges. Trump has appealed a decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Dec. 1 rejecting his bid to dismiss the case.
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith said claims by Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination , are "profoundly mistaken," adding that only the Supreme Court "can definitively resolve them." Legal experts have said that Trump's attorneys could use his immunity appeals to delay the trial , freeing him to campaign against President Joe Biden .
Smith is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on former President Donald Trump's appeals in his federal election subversion case.
Trump would prefer the court to take up the case after the DC circuit rules – but he can’t oppose it and then make the same request later on
If the law is working, what explains Trump’s hesitancy to embrace it?
Trump family has seen remarkable year filled with several legal battles, rivalries, sexual assault alleghations
SCOTUS may be more willing to consider the case because of Trump's status, but that could underscore the point he's been arguing.
Special counsel Jack Smith plans to call witnesses who have analyzed data extracted from former President Trump’s cellphone, including one who can weigh in on his Twitter habits and another who has analyzed the movement of the Jan. 6, 2021, crowd following Trump’s speech that day. The Monday filing is the first indication of how…
A federal judge agreed Wednesday to pause former President Donald Trump's election interference proceedings as he appeals the case to a higher court. The break in proceedings throws into question next year's trial date.
Judge Tanya Chutkan agrees to pause proceedings while ex-president pursues claims he is immune from prosecution
Former president Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion case has effectively been put on ice pending a Supreme Court appeal, the presiding judge revealed Wednesday.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday paused the federal case accusing Donald Trump of attempting to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election while the former president mounts an appeal claiming he is immune from the charges.
Judge Tanya Chutkan freezes proceedings on former president’s election-interference charges, awaiting appeals outcomes
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan largely granted former President Donald Trump's request to temporarily pause the proceedings while he pursues an appeal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington will be put on hold while the former president further pursues his claims that he is immune from prosecution, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S.
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case has temporarily paused all procedural deadlines while appeals over a major issue play out – which could lead to his March 2024 trial date being pushed back.
Former President Donald Trump was likely hoping to blockade the 2020 federal election interference case with his "presidential immunity" appeal, forcing Judge Tanya Chutkan to kick the can until after the 2024 election can be held. But his strategy could be about to blow up in his face, wrote legal ...
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office is asking for transcripts from the disbarment trial of the former Donald Trump attorney John Eastman, Politico reported. According to Politico's Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, the request shows that prosecutors still have their eye on Eastman, who played a signifi...
It's looking increasingly unlikely that Donald Trump's 2020 election interference trial in Washington will start in March.
Eastman, a former top Trump attorney, is facing the loss of his law license in California — and the special counsel's office appears to be interested in materials from that case.
It has been a busy week at the United States Supreme Court for Donald Trump’s fate.
The special counsel tries to drag the Justices into his political timetable for the Jan. 6 trial of Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on the charge in question has the potential to invalidate hundreds of Jan. 6 obstruction charges — including Donald Trump’s.
A witness said members of Donald Trump's campaign team led an effort to install fake electors in Michigan.
Court expresses doubt ex-White House chief of staff was acting as a federal official in trying to reverse Trump’s 2020 defeat
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance sounded the alarm Monday over a daunting obstacle that threatens to run Georgia election racketeering case off track: jury selection.In her substack Civil Discourse, Vance raised concerns about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' tight schedule for find...
Former president files motion to dismiss election interference case, contending indictment violates his first amendment rights
Donald Trump’s New York criminal case involving accusations of hush money paid to an adult film star who claimed she had an affair with him before he became president has largely been overshadowed by Jack Smith's investigations — but it should not be overlooked, according to a new legal analysis.Jo...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces a tangled calendar in the year ahead as he seeks the 2024 Republican nomination in the U.S. election while defending himself in four criminal and at least three civil trials, some related to his attempts to overturn his 2020 loss. Here are key dates in Trump's legal and political schedule: JAN.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to stand down from a dispute over whether he can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump faces four criminal cases and 91 felony counts as he seeks to reclaim the White House, a core aspect of his defence strategy has been to try to delay the prosecutions
Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to quickly decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution.
Former President Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court to hold off on weighing whether he is immune from prosecution after special counsel Jack Smith asked the high court to assess the issue. Trump is appealing the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who declined his motion to toss his election interference case…
Trump’s lawyers wrote in the filing that the special counsel is urging the justices to bypass the normal appellate process
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former fixer and lawyer, said in court papers unsealed on Friday that he mistakenly gave his attorney fake case citations generated by an artificial intelligence program that made their way into an official court filing.
Cohen said that he found the citations by doing research through Google Bard and was unaware that the service could generate nonexistent cases.
George Conway, a conservative attorney, and Donald Trump's former lawyer, Ty Cobb, threw their support behind Special Counsel Jack Smith Friday with a new filing slamming the former president's immunity defense, court records show.Conway, a vocal critic of the former president, and Cobb are among 16...
Bomb threats and false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials, state capitols and courthouses have surged in recent weeks, including some connected to court cases against former president Donald Trump.
Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to mistakenly citing fake court cases generated by Google’s Bard AI chatbot.
Former Trump lawyer says he used AI program Google Bard and blames his lawyer for not fact-checking him
Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, used Google Bard to cite made-up legal cases that ended up in a federal court. Cohen admitted in unsealed court papers that he passed on documents referencing bogus cases to his lawyer, who then relayed them to a federal judge.
As part of his plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme. According to CNN, a newly released batch of leaked recordings...
Special counsel Jack Smith says in filing that suggestion Trump cannot be held accountable for crimes ‘threatens the country’
Special prosecutor responds to former president’s argument that he can’t be prosecuted for official actions
Smith's filing comes one day after an appeals court allowed a lawsuit against Trump brought by a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers to move forward.
It ain't over, but an avalanche of court losses exposed these would-be warriors as overcompensating clowns
A look at the former president's 2023, from his criminal indictments to leading the GOP nomination race and his influence on Biden.
New audio recordings released by CNN revealed that ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro had lots of grievances with the ex-president's campaign, but it also points to potentially new defendants, according to an ex-prosecutor.Joyce Vance did an in-depth dive on the new evidence from CNN, which put togeth...
Plenty of political firsts and historic events marked the year 2023 in Washington.
Potential trial delays mean the former president could spend less time in courtroom and more time on the campaign trail
Special Counsel Jack Smith has the upper hand in his race to the courtroom against former President Donald Trump, a legal expert said Monday. CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen argues that Smith's powerful filing Saturday was a strong move against Trump's leading delay tactic, his argument that presidenti...
Donald Trump's eligibility to run in 2024 is in question, with courts all over the country weighing in – but so far the latest legal dramas are playing straight into the former president's hands, writes North America correspondent Barbara Miller.
Although special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis are both prosecuting election interference cases against former President Donald Trump, their criminal indictments differ in some important ways. Willis, unlike Smith, is using RICO laws to prosecute Trump. And W...
A Supreme Court case involving a tarring company shows that Trump cannot claim presidential immunity, an appeal court briefing has stated.
Ex-president has made increasingly conspiratorial and authoritarian broadsides against prosecutors pursuing him
After a judge ordered the documents to be made public, it’s been revealed stars from Leonardo DiCaprio to Michael Jackson and Donald Trump have been named in sensational court documents identifying associates of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The indicted former president is looking to further stall his trial in case his play for absolute immunity fails.
Dozens of previously sealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein were made public late Wednesday, as a court releases more records from a years-old lawsuit connected to the late financier. (Jan. 4)
Police called to Washington home of Tanya Chutkan on Sunday night after shooting reported – but no such incident took place
In what his own senior adviser told reporters was a ‘scheduling nightmare’, the GOP frontrunner’s court battles are starting to crowd out his campaign appearances.
The federal judge overseeing the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, was the victim of a swatting call on her home late Sunday night.
A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials in recent days.
The introduction of such testimony from Trump’s closest aides establishes his criminal intent and should seal his fate in the trial to come.
The former president will hear his lawyers’ arguments in courtroom, but for him the case is more political than legal.
Trump's defense team "is hoping that the immunity issue provides a complete shield," one legal expert told Newsweek on Monday.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will weigh whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution on Tuesday.
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.
In his election interference case against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith is trying to show how the former president responded when the U.S. Capitol Building was under attack on January 6, 2021. Smith, according to ABC News, has uncovered new details about that response — details that ABC N...
His new arguments in the Fulton County case echo the immunity claims he's pushing in his federal election interference case.
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.
District attorney was alleged to have ‘improper’ relationship with special prosecutor
Even Richard Nixon accepted his judgment when the time came.
Former President Donald Trump has long argued that his supporters are so committed that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City, shoot someone and not lose them.
Lawyers want the Court of Appeals to overturn a lower-court ruling that rejected the former president’s claims of immunity in the Department of Justice’s 2020 election subversion case.
After his appeals court hearing over his claims of presidential immunity, Donald Trump criticized Joe Biden and the DOJ.
After appearing in court on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump took to his social media site to claim that if there is no such thing as absolute presidential immunity, then Joe Biden can be prosecuted for anything Trump wants if he wins. "Just finished a very productive Federal Appeals Court Hearing, in ...
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday questioned Donald Trump's claims that he is immune from criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election, and the former president threatened to prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House.
A Washington federal appeals court signaled it would reject Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press
Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution. The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president…
Ray Epps was targeted by rightwing conspiracy theorists who accused him of helping incite attack to entrap Trump supporters
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to four charges: conspiracy to defraud the US; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction; and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have votes counted.
The sentence is more lenient than the six months of prison time requested by prosecutors.
The district attorney brought Nathan Wade on to prosecute the former president—but he lacks experience trying felony cases, lawyers say
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When Nathan Wade was appointed lead prosecutor in the Georgia election interference case in 2021 to prosecute former President Donald Trump, some of his closest allies, lawyers in Cobb County where Wade practiced law, universally wondered, “Why him?”
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.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made her first public comments on the controversy surrounding her and special prosecutor Nathan Wade on Sunday.
Donald Trump was asked about the bomb threat on Judge Arthur Engoron on the final day of his fraud trial in New York. Trump popped into a Casey's gas station where he grabbed a few boxes of pizza when CNN's Kate Sullivan asked Trump if he had any reaction to police responding to the threat on the da...
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued a one-page order saying Trump could testify on Jan. 22
Fani Willis pushed back against critics
In speech, Fani Willis calls co-counsel Nathan Wade a ‘lawyer of impeccable credentials’ and attributes criticisms of him to racial bias
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.
A lawyer and his two partners will no longer represent the former president in some of the cases against him.
Fani Willis has defending hiring Nathan Wade as special prosecutor for the Georgia election interference case after Donald Trump and another defendant accused her of hiring her...
The case was automatically frozen after the ex-president appealed judge’s decision to reject his motion to toss criminal charges
Judge Royce Lamberth, who has handled dozens of Jan. 6 cases, lamented the false rhetoric spread by Donald Trump and his allies.
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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress
Motion comes after Fulton county district attorney made remarks decrying allegations of affair with one of her deputies
Michael Roman, an indicted criminal co-defendant in Trump’s Georgia election interference case, has a new mission.He’s filed a 127-page motion to dismiss and disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis, her outside counsel Nathan Wade — and the entire Fulton County prosecutors’ office. He wants them rem...
The subpoenas were issued on behalf of Michael Roman, who was indicted alongside former President Donald Trump in August.
Trump’s co-defendants are seeking disqualification of Fani Willis for alleged affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade
The majority of Americans believe that if former president Donald Trump is found guilty of a serious crime in the coming months, it would be a fair outcome meant to hold him accountable for his...
A former Trump administration official is in critical condition after being shot in an attempted carjacking in downtown Washington, D.C., earlier this week, a spokesperson for his family confirmed to The Hill. Mike Gill, a married father of three who worked at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission during former President Trump’s White House tenure,…
A Trump prosecutor, who is under investigation for allegedly spending taxpayer funds on lavish trips during an affair with an attorney she hired, is being called out by a former employee for apparently abusing another federal grant, according to a new report.
A judge on Friday postponed the trial date in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump while awaiting an appeals decision on whether he is immune from the charges.
Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump have told a judge that defense lawyers had painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and had unfairly sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials who were simply trying to do their jobs.
A new filing from a co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s election racketeering case has one expert concerned the trial will devolve into a wine-throwing, table-flipping, manicured finger-pointing free-for-all. Alarm bells rang for Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis Friday whe...
The prosecutor handling Donald Trump's criminal case in Georgia has been accused of a number of improprieties, but legal experts say some of those may have been cleared up with responses from the prosecutors themselves.Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis is accused of corruption in connection with ...
A defendant in the Georgia election interference case charged alongside former President Trump has doubled down on allegations Fulton County (Ga.) District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a top prosecutor in the case began a romantic relationship prior to his hiring. Michael Roman, a 2020 Trump campaign operative, in court filings Friday urged the judge to…
Judge Chutkan is reportedly signaling a flexibility that would allow her to easily reschedule Donald Trump's D.C. elections trial, which has fallen off the court's calendar as parties await an appeals court ruling on the former president's claimed absolute immunity.Chutkan hasn't said much publicly ...
Donald Trump’s storied business career is checkered by bankruptcies and blunders. His investment in Eli Bartov, a New York University accounting professor, looms as another failed venture.
Ryan Samsel, one of the first instigators of the Capitol riot, was convicted of felony charges, along with four co-defendants.
Judge Tanya Chutkan orders delay in former president’s trial, which was due to start in Washington on 4 March
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan delayed the March 4 trial date as an appeal over whether former President Donald Trump is immune from federal prosecution is pending.
Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, is charged in four criminal cases, two of which relate to his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.
The presiding judge in Trump's federal election interference case has vacated the trial date previously set for March 4.
The Friday filing came in response to a motion filed last month by defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman.
DA Fani Willis admitted to a relationship with a special prosecutor in the Georgia election-interference case on Friday.
The start date for former US president Donald Trump's trial for attempted election fraud has been pushed back. The court in the capital Washington announced on Friday that the start of the trial, originally scheduled for March 4, would be postponed due to unresolved legal issues in the case. A new d...
The delay is viewed as a victory for Trump, who has been pushing to postpone his four criminal trials until after the election.
Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen spotted at Manhattan District Attorney's office amid legal action and speculation over Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being "conspiracy theorists" in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday.This...
Judge Tanya Chutkan told lawyers on a separate case that she plans to be out of the country on vacation in early August, unless the Trump case is back on her plate.
DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan briefly implied that former President Donald Trump's unresolved trial in the federal 2020 election subversion case could take place after the Republican National Convention.
The attorneys are scheduled to appear with Cannon on February 13 to discuss a statute regarding classified evidence.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted because the allegations relate to his official responsibilities as president
Trump pleaded not guilty on Aug. 3, 2023, to charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in federal court in Washington concerning his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to Biden. More than 1,200 people have been arrested on charges related to the Capitol assault.
Although President Joe Biden is not expected to face criminal charges, his likely Republican election opponent Donald Trump faces four pending criminal cases.
Former FBI general counsel and assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Weissmann thinks Donald Trump's case over the 2020 election and Jan. 6 could unfold in late May or early June if the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case. Speaking about the recent ruling from the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appea...
Smith's team must now reveal further classified information to Trump's legal team in certain discovery documents.
"At bottom, former President Trump's stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches," the court wrote.
David Pocock demands stronger measures to improve road safety for truck and food delivery drivers; a US court rules Trump can be put on trial for trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. Follow updates here.
The former president claimed Joe Biden's case is "100 times different and more severe than mine."
The presidential candidate is not just seeking absolution for past crimes – he is seeking a licence to commit more
Former President Trump on Thursday deemed it “selective prosecution” after a special counsel report found President Biden “willfully” held onto classified documents but stopped short of any charges. “THIS HAS NOW PROVEN TO BE A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM OF JUSTICE AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL SELECTIVE PROSECUTION!” Trump said in a statement. Special counsel Robert Hur released a 388-page…
One of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case has alleged that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her top deputy on the case aren’t being truthful about the details of their relationship.
Government prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team file papers asking Judge Aileen Cannon to reconsider her “clear error” in granting a request from lawyers for former President Donald Trump to reveal the identity of certain witnesses in the classified documents case.
In a fight over keeping the identity of witnesses protected in the criminal document mishandling case against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith this week detailed myriad threats against prosecutors, judges and other witnesses.
The special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case warned an order could threaten witness safety.
Special counsel Jack Smith is asking Judge Aileen Cannon to reconsider a ruling that would allow former President Trump’s legal team to publicly disclose witness identities and their testimony to the court docket. Trump’s lawyers have sought to attach evidence given to them during the discovery process in other court filings set to be publicly…
Thursday was "a great, wonderful, fabulous day" for Trump, strategists told Newsweek, with three pieces of good news for the former president.
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.
The decision to not recommend charges for President Biden following his mishandling of classified records has Republicans complaining about a double standard given the Espionage Act prosecution faced by former President Trump. But the claims ignore key differences between Biden’s mishandling of records and the conduct that led to Trump being slapped with a 40-count…
Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to pause a lower court ruling that denied him presidential immunity in a federal case alleging he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results. Photo: Julia Nikhinson/AFP/Getty
Fulton County judge to move forward with evidentiary hearing to consider Trump co-defendant's motion to disqualify Fani Willis from Georgia election interference case.
Donald Trump on Monday turned to the U.S. Supreme Court as he presses his claim — rejected by lower courts — that he is immune from being prosecuted for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss because he was serving as president when he took those actions.
Kellye SoRelle, who served as a lawyer for Donald Trump and the Oath Keepers, was deemed competent to stand trial last week.
Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court's ruling that rejected his claims of presidential immunity.
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.
District Attorney Fani Willis asked the judge to cancel a Thursday hearing, but the judge denied the request.
Former President Donald Trump’s request that the Supreme Court consider his presidential immunity claim managed to hit a “bizarre” and “incredibly inappropriate” tone by the end of its first sentence, former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Monday. Weissmann was shocked that a...
Trump is asking the Supreme Court to stop his federal felony election interference case.
Ex-president met deadline imposed by federal appeals case to keep the criminal case on hold as he prepares a last-ditch challenge
Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in his election interference trial, saying he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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Prosecutors argued Trump acted as a candidate when pressuring officials to overturn 2020 election and called on supporters to march on US Capitol
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."
Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in his election interference trial, saying he is immune from prosecution.
Special counsel Jack Smith urged the justices to deny former President Donald Trump's request to halt a lower court decision rejecting his claim he is immune from federal prosecution.
Special counsel Jack Smith has responded to the Supreme Court with a filing that urges them to allow the federal election interference trial against former President Donald Trump to move forward — and warns against any additional delays."Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrat...
Special counsel Jack Smith quickly voiced opposition to former President Trump’s request for the Supreme Court to delay his federal election subversion trial by freezing a ruling that rejected Trump’s immunity claims.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay.
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.
The former president, should he win the White House in November, would be able to order federal prosecutors to drop any unresolved charges against him.
Special counsel Jack Smith pressed the Supreme Court on Wednesday to let stand a lower court ruling that denied former President Donald Trump immunity from prosecution, urging the justices to allow the trial in his election subversion case to begin quickly.
The game of Trump's legal musical chairs may head to trial and determine his innocence or guilt. Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner's latest YouTube episode of "Justice Matters" anticipates that the former President Donald Trump will try to deploy more delay tactics. But he believes they won't work i...
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that Donald Trump's excuse that he has absolute immunity as a president isn't quite the legal defense he seems to think it is. Trump has spent the better part of the past month claiming that if immunity is eliminated for him, then no president will be able to...
Read more about Manhattan DA asks judge for a gag order in Trump's hush-money case ahead of next month's trial on Devdiscourse
Manhattan district attorney prosecutors seek tailored order against ex-president to protect trial witnesses and jurors’ identities
By Michael R. Sisak | Associated Press NEW YORK — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month’s trial, citing what they called his “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his […]
A month and a day ahead of trial in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case against Donald Trump, the New York prosecutor requested that the judge place a "narrowly tailored" gag order on the former president.According to the Hill, "Prosecutors argued in their motion that 'the need...
Prosecutors made their request just less than a month before a trial is anticipated to begin.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade were slammed with harassing phone calls over the weekend after one of former President Donald Trump's attorneys put their contact information in a public court filing, according to a new report. Willis and Wade, according...
The measures Bragg requested are similar to restrictions a federal judge in Washington imposed last year in Trump's criminal case on charges involving his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Biden. In a civil fraud case, a New York state judge fined Trump a total of $15,000 for twice violating a gag order barring him from publicly talking about court staff.
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro has asked a federal appeals court to let him remain out of prison while he appeals his contempt of C...
If a judge grants the request, it will be the third case in which Trump is restricted from what he can say publicly.
Former President Trump holds a 6-point lead over President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, new polling shows, even as the Republican frontrunner faces mounting legal woes. A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found Trump with 48 percent to Biden’s 42 percent in a head-to-head race, with another 9 percent of registered voters unsure who they would…
Students at two Georgia colleges are grappling with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden.
The Trump campaign on Monday took aim at Manhattan prosecutors for requesting a “restrictive” gag order in the New York criminal case involving alleged hush money payments made ahead of the 2016 election. Former President Trump’s campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, called the request “election interference pure and simple” and said such a gag order would…
Donald Trump ally and election-denying lawyer Ken Chesebro was lied to Michigan prosecutors when he claimed he never used one of his social media accounts, a new report suggests — he had a "burner" account on the site "X," which contradicts what he told the prosecutors. Harvard constitutional law pr...
The move puts on hold a criminal case against the former US president, as it looks into his claim he cannot be prosecuted over the January 6 insurrection.
Former president Donald Trump took a virtual victory lap Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled it would take up his presidential immunity case.Trump suggested that the court’s decision to hear arguments — flatly rejected by a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel loath to grant presidents “unbounded...
The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether Donald Trump can claim presidential immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election interference case. Photo: Sam Wolfe/Reuters
Legal analysts rushed to the internet and television cameras on Wednesday afternoon when the Supreme Court announced that they would take up Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity. Conservative retired judge Michael Luttig was aghast at the decision. "Look, this is a momentous decision, just...
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, will hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22.
In a stunning move, the justices all but guaranteed that the former president will evade trial for Jan. 6 before November.
The court will hear arguments in late April, with a decision likely no later than the end of June.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether former U.S. president Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and set a course for a quick resolution.
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.
So much for the rule of law.
The Supreme Court says it will take up an appeal by Donald Trump on the question of whether presidential immunity protects former presidents from being prosecuted for “criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and set a course for a quick resolution.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether Trump is immune from prosecution.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case in Washington is one of four prosecutions Trump faces as he seeks to reclaim the White House
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) denounced the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to consider former President Trump’s argument that he cannot be prosecuted in relation to his behavior surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riots because he was president at the time. “This was an obvious case not to take up, and just let the D.C. Circuit Court…
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee's upcoming reelection bid in Georgia is an eventuality that could "add a whole new dimension" to the "weeks of theatrics" in the case, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges in the case, where ...
Former President Trump’s legal team has asked the New York judge presiding over his hush money case to block a limited gag order proposed by state prosecutors just weeks before the historic trial is set to get underway. Trump attorneys Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche wrote in a new court filing Monday that the former…
In a new filing, attorneys for the former president asked the judge presiding over his case to deny a gag order request.
Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump's real estate empire, received his expected sentence of five months in jail Wednesday for lying under oath during the...
With jury selection scheduled to begin March 25 in Donald Trump's hush money trial, his lawyers are slamming prosecutors' request for a limited gag...
Trump's legal team has been attempting to block Michael Cohen as a potential witness in his New York hush-money case.
Prosecutors say that Donald Trump’s effort to disqualify Michael Cohen as a witness is “unprecedented” and unwarranted.
Scheme was critical part of anti-democratic effort to overturn 2020 election and is now at center of two criminal cases against Trump
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.
A Trump supporter is now charged with firing a gun outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The first rioter to be charged with firing a weapon.
Donald Trump on Saturday accused Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against the former president, of making a major admission in recent court filings. Trump has previously claimed that President Joe Biden is orchestrating all of the criminal and civil cases against...
It seems as if the entire point is to try Trump before the election. But now a trial during the election seems increasingly likely.
Judge Cannon's "outrageous bias" raises questions about whether there will be a trial at all, says Norm Eisen.
For Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee, the evidence window is closed.As the judge readies to rule at the end of the week on whether to disqualify Georgia DA Fani Willis based on misconduct charges that she profited from a clandestine romance with her special counsel subordinate Nathan Wade — the defe...
Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend a Thursday hearing in Judge Aileen Cannon’s Florida courtroom on whether to dismiss the felony charges against him brought by special counsel Jack Smith stemming from his handling of classified documents.
Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba said the dropped charges in Trump's racketeering case is a "step in the right direction."
Donald Trump is expected to be in the courtroom Thursday when his attorneys argue for the dismissal of his federal classified documents case.
The judge's ruling is "somewhat of an indication” he won't disqualify Fani Willis, Norm Eisen says.
The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against ex-President Donald Trump, but others remain
Former President Trump's bond money — which totaled just under $100 million — was accepted by a federal judge ahead of his appeal.
Judge Cannon skeptical of defense's argument in Trump's classified documents case
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asked for a 30-day delay in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial that was due to begin in less than two weeks. This means it will be well into April before Trump faces his first criminal trial proceeding.Bragg's request came after the U.S. Atto...
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested that dismissal of the case would result in an appeal and Cannon's removal.
"Only way it could have a negative impact is if they reindict and open the door... for more delay"
Judge Aileen Cannon denied one of the former president's motions to dismiss charges in the classified docs case against him.
Trump is accused of intentionally holding onto some of the nation’s most sensitive documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Legal analyst Neal Katyal explained that he considers himself to be an excellent attorney — but even he wasn't sure he could win Donald Trump's classified documents case. Katyal, the former acting solicitor general for Barack Obama's administration, spoke to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace Thursday after...
Trump, the Republican challenger to President Joe Biden in the November election, has pleaded not guilty to a 40-count indictment that accuses him of illegally taking sensitive government documents with him when he left the White House in 2021. It is one of four criminal cases he faces as he tries to win back the White House.
An appeals court denied Trump White House official Peter Navarros bid to stave off his jail sentence on contempt of Congress charges on Thursday.Navarro has been ordered to report to a federal prison by March 19.
Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to federal prison in one week.
Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers tried to convince a Florida federal judge he had "unreviewable discretion" to make any document personal in nature.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out his classified documents criminal case.
A delay to the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president would mark another victory for Trump, who has sought to slow down proceedings in his various legal entanglements as he prepares to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election. The hush money case in New York state court in Manhattan is scheduled to be the first of four Trump criminal cases to reach trial.
The judge told the parties to come to court on March 25, when the trial was slated to begin, to address a dispute related to old records tied to Michael Cohen's case.
Former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro filed a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court Friday, just days before his scheduled prison sentence.
Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal trial was delayed until at least mid-April as the judge seeks answers about a last-minute evidence dump.
A special prosecutor who had a romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has withdrawn from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
Delays in Donald Trump’s criminal cases are increasing the possibility Americans will be deep into the presidential election season before they know whether or not he has been convicted of any wrongdoing.
The judge’s decision to delay the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president marks a victory for Donald Trump in the lead-up to the November election.
Nathan Wade, who helped lead former President Trump’s criminal prosecution in Georgia, resigned on Friday after a Georgia judge ruled that either he or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) must step down due to a conflict of interest. Judge Scott McAfee’s decision comes after news broke in January that Willis and Wade engaged in a once-romantic relationship.…
Judge Scott McAfee is allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue on the election subversion case against Donald Trump – but first she’ll have to fire special prosecutor Nathan Wade after an embarrassing two months that put Willis and Wade on trial themselves over their romantic relationship.
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro has filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in an attempt to remain out of prison as he appeals his contempt ...
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 justices put on hold the criminal case being pursued by Special Counsel Jack Smith in Washington and will review a lower court's rejection of Trump's immunity claim. A decision is expected by the end of June, further delaying a trial that had been scheduled to begin on March 4.
The judge in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in Manhattan agreed Friday to delay the start of the trial.
Trump's Manhattan trial on felony charges related to "hush money" payments to an adult film star was originally scheduled to begin on March 25.
Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can prosecute Donald Trump on charges that he interfered with Georgia’s 2020 election now that a special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship has withdrawn from the case.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the New York case to 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence about a sexual encounter she has said they had a decade earlier.
"Please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages," an announcer said as the former president saluted.
"Overall this really become a sideshow," Joyce Vance said on Saturday.
Given the opportunity to keep Peter Navarro out of prison, at least for now, the Supreme Court on Monday declined. That means the former aide in the Trump White House remains...
Harry Litman suggested that the handling of the allegations against Willis have cast a shadow over the Trump investigation.
The rallies start with a recording of January 6 prisoners singing the national anthem. Campaign staff hand out pre-made “Too Big to Rig” signs to supporters. When the candidate takes the stage, he calls the rioters “people who love our country” and “hostages unfairly imprisoned for long periods of time.”
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade has stepped down from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump.
Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, identified as Employee #5 in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents indictment of former President Donald Trump, gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night — and revealed new details about the things he saw as he was ordered to help transport boxes...
A federal judge has suggested Michael Cohen has committed perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump's claims that his onetime personal lawyer and star witness at his upcoming criminal trial in New York is an untrustworthy liar.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments about RICO not being a "crime" have sparked questions over Donald Trump's Georgia RICO charges.
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.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said Saturday that “the train is coming,” referring to her team’s preparation for the case against former President Donald Trump and his 14 co-defendants and whether she was slowed down by attempts to remove her from the case.
Judge Aileen Cannon should be removed from Donald Trump's classified documents case because she just keeps getting things wrong, according to a legal expert.Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where she was asked about Cannon's recent orders. Specifically, the t...
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Why the Trump Manhattan info dump matters
SDNY may have wanted "to undermine what looks like a successful prosecution of Trump," expert says.
In a new documentary, adult film star and producer Stormy Daniels remarked that even before former President Donald Trump was elected to office, he took advantage of the imbalance of power between the two when they first met.The Daily Beast's Laura LeMoon wrote Saturday that Daniels (whose governmen...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is being accused of bungling the criminal classified case and letting it spiral out of control in favor of former President Donald Trump's slow-walk to election strategy, according to some legal scholars. The delay tactics in the case where the 45th president and Re...
Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."...
Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump hush money judge appearing more irritated The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money case is increasingly appearing to lose his patience as the former president works to stave off the start of his…
Donald Trump should be barred from slamming family members of people involved in his "hush money" criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors said Monday.
The former president has been banned from making public statements about the witnesses, jurors and others connected with the case.
Donald Trump's former press secretary Hope Hicks is expected to take the stand in Trump's New York trial related to hush money paid to Stormy Daniels.
The request came after Trump in numerous social media posts targeted New York Judge Juan Merchan's daughter.
The case relates to alleged insider trading in shares of the shell company that merged with Trump Media, the social media company of Donald Trump.
The Manhattan District Attorney wants to expand Trump's gag order after repeated posts about Judge Merchan's daughter.
Amid Donald Trump's gag order from Judge Juan Merchan, a former prosecutor said Trump has increasingly "erratic mind."
Trump’s lawyers urge judge to step aside in hush-money case
Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump wants judge off hush money case Former President Trump is mounting a new push to have Justice Juan Merchan recuse himself from the hush money trial that is set to pick up later this month. …
A State Supreme Court judge blocked former President Trump’s attempt to gain access to NBC’s documentary material related to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan said the Trump lawyer’s subpoena was “far too broad” and did not meet the legal standard to compel NBC Universal to turn over documents and other…
Former President Trump on Friday demanded his hush money judge recuse himself from the upcoming trial, now less than two weeks away, over his daughter’s firm’s digital marketing work for prominent Democrats. Last summer, Justice Juan Merchan rejected an earlier recusal motion that also cited his daughter’s employment. Trump’s second attempt comes after Merchan limited…
Donald Trump’s lawyers have been blocked from forcing NBC to provide them with materials related to the TV network’s recent documentary about Stormy Daniels.
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.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign lambasted Trump for comparing himself to Nelson Mandela.
The former president wrote on Truth Social that he would "gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela," adding it would be a "great honor."
Donald Trump, late on Friday, filed a brief with the Florida federal court overseeing his criminal case over allegedly stashed classified documents, but he may have given away more than he intended to, according to one legal analyst.Trump and his co-defendants argued in the filing that a trial shoul...
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Saturday compared himself to South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, sparking quick and virulent criticism from President Joe Biden's campaign team.
Saturday afternoon, just hours before he is set to host a gala fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump lashed out at three New York judges in a three-part furious rant about how he has been treated by the legal system.Along the way, he he also attacked New York writer E. Jean Carroll who s...
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.
Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal case is set to go to trial.
The former US president’s lawyers filed paperwork challenging Manhattan Judge Juan M Merchan’s pre-trial rulings.
Former President Trump’s legal team on Monday asked the judge in his hush money case to subpoena adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ communications with Michael Cohen, the former president’s ex-fixer, other witnesses and any material related to NBC’s documentary on the actress. In a letter to Justice Juan Merchan, Trump’s attorneys asked the judge to…
The special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president's bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that "no person is above the law." The case is due to be argued before the justices on April 25.
A New York state appellate judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's bid to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star while the former U.S. president seeks to move the case out of Manhattan.
Special counsel Jack Smith urged the Supreme Court on Monday to reject Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and to deny the former president any opportunity to delay a trial on charges that he attempted to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.
Mr Trump’s lawyers had wanted the trial postponed indefinitely while he fights a gag order.
A New York appeals court judge rejects former President Donald Trump’s emergency request to delay the April 15 start of his hush money trial while he seeks to have it moved to a different state and have a new judge appointed.
Assuming there are no more delays, Monday will mark a first in United States history.That day, jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in New York City — where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will try to show jurors that Trump, in 2016, falsified business ...
Former President Donald Trump was dealt a humiliating blow on Monday when a judge immediately dismissed his push to delay the April 15 date of his Manhattan hush money trial.Trump, whose attorneys had been arguing the delay was necessary in order to pursue a change of venue, were summarily denied by...
A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.
On Monday, a group of 19 retired military leaders urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity from federal prosecution. According to Law & Crime, the retired four-star generals and admirals wrote in a 38-page amicus brief that the former president's claim of ...
Former President Donald Trump is trying to delay his New York criminal case by filing a lawsuit against the judge.
Former President Donald Trump couldn't convince a judge to push back his criminal hush money trial set to begin on April 15 in New York City, according to new reports. Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez denied the former president's request to move the venue out of New York City without explanation in a o...
Days away before his hush money criminal case is set to start, defendant Donald Trump's reportedly in panic mode. Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen sees former President Donald Trump's last-ditch efforts to stall the case as acting out in "extraordinary desperation." Three days in a row, ...
A New York appellate judge has denied former President Donald Trump's third attempt this week to delay his hush money trial, which is scheduled to start Monday.
For the third straight day, a New York appeals court has rejected an attempt by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay the former president’s hush money criminal trial.
While the dates Judge Aileen Cannon outlined are bad news for scoring a pre-election trial over Donald Trump's document case, there was one silver lining, according to a legal analyst. Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell pointed out that special counsel Jack Smith had proposed March 18 for Trump to file h...
Donald Trump will become next week the first former president to stand trial in a criminal court that could hang on the testimony of a former fixer with a criminal record who says he was following the boss' orders. Legal analyst Neal Katyal spoke with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Wednesday about the hush...
Stormy Daniels: Woman at center of Trump hush money trial is porn star-turned-ghostbuster
Donald Trump is 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president’s lawyers.
An appeals court judge rejects former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay the start of the hush money trial on the grounds that presidential immunity protects him from being prosecuted.
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejects the notion that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U_S_ Capitol riot are worthy of being called “hostages.”.
The ex-president's lawyers lost their latest bid to delay a trial that's scheduled to start on Monday.
Case on Monday will be first ever criminal trial of an ex-president as Trump’s lawyers fight to put it off and try to remove its judge
One of two people who filed paperwork to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's 2020 Georgia election interference case has been disqualified but says she'll appeal that decision.
Allen Weisselberg is going to Rikers Island after lying under oath at Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial
Anyone else's lawyer would be warned against bringing more "frivolous" motions or face "sanctions."
Former President Donald Trump gave a furious speech about his legal problems in New York, in which he seemed to be confused on many issues, like calling New York Attorney General Letitia James "Letitia Jones," and mixing her up with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting his hus...
When former President Donald Trump appears in a New York courtroom Monday to face an unprecedented legal battle in his hush money case, law enforcement will deploy a sophisticated and multi-layered security plan greater than that of his previous high-profile cases in Manhattan, law enforcement officials told CNN.
Jury selection is due to start on Monday.
Donald Trump will not really be able to dispute the basic facts in the New York hush money case being brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN Thursday.Rather, he argued, it's all going to be about trying to convince the jury to make sens...
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman, who now serves as a legal analyst for the Los Angeles Times, pinpointed one witness he believes will be the "most devastating" in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case.Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Litman addressed longtime Trump loyalist ...
Monday is the beginning of Donald Trump's New York trial that will decide whether he is just as guilty as Michael Cohen was in the hush money scheme involving an adult film star. Trump, who faces 34 felony counts in the case, is accused of paying off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to keep h...
Donald Trump has made numerous statements suggesting that he plans to pardon his supporters who've been convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In one interview from 2022, he said he's considering "full pardons with an apology to many" if he's elected president. But a new report sugg...
“It’s like an Escher painting of insipid legal argumentation, except written in purple crayon.”
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.
Cannon is overseeing the former president's case in Florida involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Stephanie Grisham weighed in on how Melania Trump could be "pushing" Donald Trump to testify in his upcoming trial.
Judge Juan Merchan has rejected yet another attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his criminal hush money trial set to begin in New York on Monday.
Former President Donald Trump said he "absolutely" plans to testify at his historic hush money criminal trial, which begins next Monday in New York. The Republican presidential candidate is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens with jury selection.
Former President Donald Trump told reporters Friday he would "absolutely" testify in his upcoming hush money trial that is set to begin on Monday.
Judge Juan M. Merchan turned down defence’s postponement request, ruling it did ‘not align with reality’
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case on Friday turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.
Judge Juan Merchan made a last-minute ruling Friday that denied Donald Trump's attempt to stop his New York hush money trial, claiming pretrial publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.The first of the former president's criminal cases to go before a jury is now almost certain to sta...
"All I can do is tell the truth," said Trump, who is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
While Trump is the only defendant in the criminal case, prosecutors have said there are several other people involved in the alleged “catch and kill”...
The former US president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The request was made on Monday ahead of jury selection.
This is the first criminal trial of a former American leader.
The prosecution of Donald Trump starting in New York this week is on firm legal ground.
Ninety-six jurors were brought into the courtroom.
Donald Trump goes to court today as the first US ex-president ever to be criminally prosecuted
Speaking on his way into the courtroom in Manhattan, Donald Trump said the case is 'political persecution'
The process involves selecting 12 jurors, plus six alternates.
Trump is set to stand trial Monday in New York on state charges related to a sex scandal that prosecutors say he and his aides tried to conceal.
Donald Trump has proven to be a master of turning legal lemons into political lemonade — and he's on track to do the same thing when he finally goes on trial Monday in the Manhattan case stemming from hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and others.
As Donald Trump will stand in court today awaiting his judgement, will the former president be allowed to contest the 2024 US Elections?The Republican presidential candidate is set to face his first...
Former president Donald Trump, who is seeking another shot at the presidency, faces a staggering 91 felony charges across multiple states.His first trial, concerning the hush money case, was heard...
The first criminal trial of former US president, Donald Trump, kicked off on Monday. Trump, who pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, showed up in the courtroom...
Former President Donald Trump's legal team has tried various defences in the ongoing hush money trial. But none have been successful so far. Trump's defence strategy has shifted over time....
It is not every day you see a former president snoozing through his own trial. But that is exactly what seems to have happened in New York as former president Donald Trump faced the legal...
Jury selection kicked off in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial, with the judge tossing out scores of potential New York City jurors who felt they would not be able to fairly weigh the case.The...
Judge Juan M. Merchan told an angry Trump it's too soon to say whether he can adjourn court on May 17 so that he can attend his youngest son's graduation in Florida.
The historic criminal trial involving former President Donald Trump kicked off Monday, as he becomes the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial.
Trump's trial will feature a unique cast of characters, some of whom are already household names, while others are stepping into the spotlight for the first time.
Donald Trump has been inside a half-dozen courthouses over the past year, but he had a new experience walking into a downtown Manhattan courtroom Monday morning: a half-empty room.
Donald Trump fumed Monday that his Manhattan hush money trial may force him to miss his son Barron’s high school graduation – and flashed a tight-lipped smirk as he stood to face the first pool of potential jurors who may decide his fate in the historic case.
The first day of Donald Trump's historic hush money trial ended Monday after hours of pretrial motions and an initial jury selection process that saw dozens of prospective jurors excused after they said they could not be fair or impartial.
The judge in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial has warned the Republican presidential hopeful against intimidating jurors as six panelists were chosen with unexpected speed following questioning by both sides.
It is the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial and may be the only one to reach a verdict before November’s US presidential election.
The first day of the trial in Manhattan on Monday ended with no one yet chosen to be on the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates.
It is the first of Donald Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial and may be the only one that could reach a verdict before November’s election.
It is the first of Mr Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial.
New York state law regarding media coverage of court proceedings is one of the most restrictive in the US.
The first criminal trial of an American president got underway in downtown Manhattan on Monday. Former President Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records. The underlying events revolve around a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the last stages of the 2016 presidential election campaign. The payment was made…
Everything you need to know about the ex-president’s 34 felony charges for falsifying business records for his 2016 campaign
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film...
NEW YORK — Former President Trump became the first former commander in chief to stand trial on criminal charges Monday, but it got off to a sluggish start with even Trump himself appearing to nod off at times. For hours, the parties battled over a series of pending legal issues, keeping the hundreds of prospective…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has collected a cool $850,000 in donations for his re-election campaign after indicting former President Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case last March -- with powerful Democrats and left-leaning labor unions cheering on the prosecution with their wallets, records show.
Monday’s day in court indicated that jury selection could take weeks – and that Trump could yet be held in contempt
For the next six weeks or so, a courtroom on the 15th floor of the New York County Supreme Court will be the setting for a trial that made history before it even started. And once again, Donald Trump is at the centre of unprecedented events.
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.
When it comes to the seriousness of the criminal cases against Donald Trump, the Stormy Daniels hush money trial is the bottom of the barrel, says a former federal prosecutor. But it’s also likely to be the only of the four ongoing criminal cases against Trump to make it to trial before the election.
The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his sex life.The day ended without any jurors being chosen.
Instead of leading with courage to defend New Yorkers by enacting the necessary changes to make life safer, freer and more affordable, our elected officials are trying to imprison and bankrupt Donald Trump.
Prosecutors on Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial want to ask the former U.S. president about civil cases in which he was found liable for sexual abuse and fraud if he chooses to testify, according to a document made public on Wednesday.
An Irishman has been selected as the foreman of the jury for Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York
Donald Trump was back in court as prosecutors and defence attorneys struggled to select a jury for the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president.
Lawyers questioned hundreds of potential jurors ahead of the first-ever criminal case against a former US president.
Lawyers still need to pick 11 more jurors to serve on the panel that will decide the first-ever criminal case against a former US president
Lawyers questioned hundreds of potential jurors ahead of the first-ever criminal case against a former US president
Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away.
Donald Trump is already sharing "fake allegations about jurors" in his criminal hush money case, a former federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.Trump made history this week when he became the first former president to face criminal trial after jury selection began in the case accusing the ex-presiden...
Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for a screening of her documentary at a gay bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor and hush money trial figure refused to take it and walked away.
Former Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore remarked it is “very unusual” to have lawyers serve on a jury, following the selection of two attorneys as jurors for former President Trump’s hush money trial. “It’s very unusual to have that many lawyers on a jury,” Parlatore said during in an interview on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake…
Both the prosecutors and defense are trying to frame it differently.
Trump reportedly fell asleep at multiple points during the first two days of his criminal trial in New York City.
Under the 5th Amendment, the jury is prohibited from holding it against former President Donald Trump if he does not testify.
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon has denied Donald Trump's classified document co-defendants' motions to dismiss. In her eight-page order, Cannon rejected efforts by Trump's aide Walt Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to get the cases against them tossed, reported MSNBC host...
Former President Donald Trump has always commanded a larger-than-life presence — but the Manhattan criminal hush money trial could bring that all crashing down, MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang suggested on Thursday."I want to know how far this goes," said anchor Jason Johnson. "What is the scale of ...
A 12-person jury was finalized in the "hush money" case against Donald Trump after a tumultuous day that saw two previously selected panelists dismissed.
Former President Donald Trump's partnership with the mob in his early days of business were legion, said biographer Tim O'Brien on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" — but deep down, even as Trump looked up to crime bosses, he was very scared of them.This conversation came during an analysis of the for...
Judge Aileen M. Cannon denied requests by Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira to have the charges against them dropped.
The man is in a critical condition after the incident in Manhattan.
Man sets self on fire outside New York court where Trump trial underway
A man set himself on fire outside the court where Donald Trump is standing trial in Manhattan, New York police said, with officers rushing to extinguish the flames.
An appeals court judge rejected a last-minute bid by the Republican to halt the trial over his claims that jury selection was unfairly rushed
A full jury of 12 people and six alternatives had been selected just minutes earlier.
Lawyers spent days quizzing dozens of New Yorkers to choose the panel that will judge whether the Republican is guilty.
Herson Cabreras said he was taken aback when prosecutors moved to oust him from the jury in Donald Trump's criminal trial.
Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money jury likely includes a person who arrived in "stealth" and has the potential to make or break the case against him, a legal expert said Thursday.Trial Behavior Consulting analyst Steve Duffy spoke with the Independent about the problematic "stealth...
Trump chuckled after a prospective juror mentioned once seeing him and his ex-wife "shopping for baby things."
After hours of jury selection in former president Donald Trump’s first criminal case, presiding Judge Juan Merchan had good news
Members of the jury - who will decide the fate of the former president - include a sales professional, a software engineer, an English teacher and multiple lawyers.
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked.
Donald Trump returns to court for one of the most high-profile criminal cases in US history. The first former president to face criminal charges, he is accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
While former President Donald Trump is spinning conspiracy theories about people infiltrating the jury in his hush money criminal trial, the judge in the case is finding it difficult to protect jurors’ anonymity.
She may support her husband, but she is bound to see headlines involving the presidential hopeful and Stormy Daniels that could reopen old wounds.
The court’s six-to-three conservative majority seemed disinclined to fully grant Donald Trump’s request, but several justices showed interest in a narrower form of immunity
The Supreme Court convened to consider whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from criminal charges in the 2020 election case.
David Pecker described his ‘catch and kill’ operations for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods and Mark Wahlberg at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Thursday.
With his many legal entanglements, Donald Trump has transformed legal peril into political gold, and a presidential election may hang in the balance
The Supreme Court's decision in Donald Trump's immunity case could alter the fundamental understanding of a president's constitutional power for generations to come and the weight of that was front and center.
Donald Trump's attorneys keep getting on the bad side of the New York judge presiding over former president's criminal hush money trial. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan nearly browbeat Trump's attorney Emil Bove over what prosecutors alleged was a "totally improper line of questioning" ...
Conservative Supreme Court judges signalled support for the former president on his claims of protection from prosecution in a case likely to impact the US election.
A former administration official told investigators that President Trump had "no standing declassification order" regarding documents in his posses...
David Pecker told jurors of a universe in which favors for celebrities were demanded and dispensed. His cross-examination will continue Friday.
Former American Media Inc. chairman David Pecker took jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money case inside how he paid for Karen McDougal’s story to keep her quiet about her alleged affair with Trump – and how his decision not to pay for Stormy Daniels’ story led to Michael Cohen ultimately paying for it.
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness box for a fourth day.
The cross-examination will cap a week in criminal cases the former president is facing as he vies to reclaim the White House in November
There will be no more self-soothing after this.
Trump allies newly indicted in Arizona, testimony continuing in New York, and the Supreme Court hearing arguments in DC.
He grew wary of his role suppressing bad stories about Trump.
Court seems unlikely to accept Trump's "extreme" immunity claim — but appears poised to drag case out longer.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testifies at Donald Trump's criminal trial that he wrangled with Mr Trump and his former lawyer ahead of the 2016 election over who should buy the silence of women who said they had sexual encounters with him.
Another day in the books for Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, and it ended with the former president speaking to reporters in the corridor talking about how "breathtaking" Thursday was and then tangentially editorializing on some current events — from the price of gas and pro-Palestinian ...
Trump's lawyers argued he should be shielded by immunity from prosecution for what he did while acting as president.
For a quarter of a century Rhona Graff ran point at Trump Tower and was his trusted gatekeeper. So when she took the stand under subpoena on Friday in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial — it was significant. Tristan Snell, who was a former assistant attorney general for ...
Donald Trump's long-time friend David Pecker, the former chief of AMI/National Enquirer, detailed their relationship and efforts to work together to help Trump get elected in 2016. The defense team never went after him nor questioned whether he was lying. There's another witness who will likely be s...
Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen once tried to organize a photoshoot with Mark Cuban to make his boss jealous.
Test your knowledge on the historic case as Donald Trump becomes the first former US president to stand trial
Trump faces criminal charges in New York of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
Trump is on trial in New York on charges of attempting to falsify business records to cover-up his alleged extramarital affairs.
John Dean, former White House counsel for the Nixon administration, said Friday that former President Trump’s offer to testify in his New York hush money trial is just “bravado for his base.” Dean told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez he suspected Trump’s legal team was trying to dissuade the former president from testifying, when Sanchez asked.…
Jurors will now have a three-day weekend to think about what they heard during the first full week of testimony in the historic Donald Trump hush money trial.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker concluded his testimony about a deal to kill negative stories about former President Trump during the 2016 campaign, and two more witnesses were called.
A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.
We’ve now finished our first week of testimony in former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial – and have one witness in the books.
David Pecker was on the witness stand for the fourth day in the Trump hush money trial.
"It would be nice to be with her, but I’m at a courthouse for a rigged trial," the former president said of Melania Trump.
Trump approached Rhona Graff as she was leaving the courtroom following her testimony.
Donald Trump is back in court for his hush money trial, the first criminal case against a former US president. It is one of multiple legal issues for Trump, who also found himself at the centre of a Supreme Court hearing yesterday.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders partook in "unethical behavior" while employed by Donald Trump's White House, according to a former colleague's analysis.Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss a wide variety of Trump-related legal...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that all of the criminal court cases brought against former President Trump are “selective prosecution.” Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the legal battles brought against the former president are “political.” The South Carolina Republican also mentioned the New York hush money trial…
The lawyer who negotiated a hush money payment from Donald Trump to an adult film star has been grilled by the former US president's defence attorney, who suggested his activities bordered on "extortion".
Donald Trump returned briefly to the campaign trail and called the judge presiding over his hush money trial “crooked” a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. Trump also urged college presidents to remove encampments and 'vanquish the radicals.'
I sure am seeing a lot of weirdos at Trump’s trial.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who has drawn some criticism over her handling of Trump's classified documents case, granted a recent special counsel request.
Judge Merchan grew impatient as Blanche tried to justify Trump’s April 22 comments to the Real America’s Voice TV network that the jury was “95% Democrats,” “the area’s mostly all Democrat,” and, “It’s a very unfair situation that I can tell you.”
The star witness in the Trump trial is creating several issues for prosecutors arguing the case against the former president.
Donald Trump on Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in Florida, accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped. Trump, who has largely spoken positively of the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon who is oversee...
A SECRET tape of Donald Trump allegedly talking about paying hush money to a Playboy Playmate was last night played at his trial in New York.The forme
"The DA’s office is going to argue that all of these puzzle pieces add up to a crime," law professor says.
On Friday, Hicks took the witness stand to testify against her former boss
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday
Donald Trump is on trial in New York, accused of falsifying business records over hush money payments made to the porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up their alleged affair.
Donald Trump’s former campaign press secretary and White House communications director Hope Hicks took the stand Friday, sitting feet away from her former boss as she described the fallout from the “Access Hollywood” tape and the Trump White House response to stories about hush money payments.
Trump’s ex-communications chief denies that Michael Cohen acted alone in hush-money scheme but also helps ex-president
Former President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide and White House communications director Hope Hicks testified Friday about her efforts to knock down negative stories about her boss during the 2016 campaign.
Hope Hicks, one of former President Donald Trump's closest aides for years, told jurors how she handled the fallout from "hush money" payments made to two women before the 2016 election.
"[Melania] doesn't weigh in all the time, but when she does, it's really meaningful to him," Hicks testified on Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial has said that he would hold the former president in contempt of court for a tenth time for violating a gag order and said he would consider jailing him for further violations.
Trump's historic criminal trial enters week four.
Donald Trump used a personal bank account to repay most of the money he owed to a former lawyer who bought the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election, a former Trump Organization finance official told a New York court.
Former President Donald Trump continues to make false claims about his New York trial.
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.
Prosecutors are continuing to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, where jurors heard from a former Trump Organization executive.
New York prosecutors expect to bring more witnesses to the stand for two more weeks as rump chided recent jail threats.
Special counsel Jack Smith believes that Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta, has two incriminating photos in his phone, according to a Monday Newsweek report.This comes just two weeks after CNN reported Nauta "was told that if he was charged with lying...
No new trial date has been set.
Jurors appeared riveted as Daniels offered a detailed and and at times graphic account of an encounter Trump has denied.
The former president has been threatened with jail for gag order violations.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who testified at Donald Trump's criminal trial last month, was targeted in a fake emergency the same day he took the stand in New York
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels has described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public.
Donald Trump’s attorneys have found a new reason to seek to delay the classified documents case: Some of the documents found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago have shifted out of order since FBI agents seized them two years ago.
Former President Donald Trump came up with a new complaint Monday about his Manhattan criminal hush money trial: it's taking too long."Oh, we just heard two to three more weeks," Trump told reporters outside the courthouse. "I thought they were finished today, and they are finished today if you look...
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.”
After Judge Juan Merchan fined former President Donald Trump an additional $1,000 for gag order violations, the jury heard testimony Monday from two Trump Organization employees about payments Trump made to his lawyer Michael Cohen.
NY Post readers discuss Stormy Daniels’ lawyer admitting that Donald Trump’s $130,000 payment wasn’t a payoff.
Former President Donald Trump and his legal team will likely blame a staffer for business documents at the heart of his criminal hush money trial, a legal expert said Monday. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani predicts Team Trump will say the former president was oblivious to slippery bookkeepi...
The craziest thing “about former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York is that we do not know precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
The judge issues his most serious warning yet, calling the violations "a direct attack on the rule of law".
Emil Bove is taking an increasingly significant role, cross-examining all three of the bombshell witnesses who have testified.
Prosecutors pressed witnesses on the alleged falsification of business records to cover up the payments to Stormy Daniels
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial dove into the paper trail at the heart of their case on Monday, revealing to jurors exactly how Michael Cohen was repaid by Trump’s trust and personal accounts in 2017 after he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels.
A Trump Organization accountant revealed who signed off on the checks to Michael Cohen for the hush-money reimbursements.
Former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely Tuesday after the federal judge overseeing the case vacated this month's trial date due to outstanding pretrial litigation.
Judge Merchan said that Daniels' testimony was more detailed than he liked, but not to the point of a mistrial
The adult film performer has testified Donald Trump was wearing pyjamas when he welcomed her to his hotel suite.
Stormy Daniels was called to the witness stand to testify at former President Donald Trump's trial in New York on Tuesday.
With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006. (AP video by Joe Frederick)(AP produced by Javier Arciga)
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump, indicated Monday that she will refuse to testify before the Georgia state Senate Special Committee investigating whether she misused taxpayer money during her relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
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.
Trump's attorneys confronted porn star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday during the former president's trial in New York, raising questions about her credibility.
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial said the former president was "cursing audibly" during testimony by adult film actress Stormy Daniels and directed his lawyers to temper their client's behaviour.
But there is "some danger that an intense cross examination of her will make her look" bad, law professor says
Former President Trump's New York criminal trial resumes Tuesday, May 7 with further testimony from witnesses for the prosecution. Trump is facing increased scrutiny from Judge Juan Merchan, who warned the former president this week that further gag order violations could result in jail time. Prosecutors are building toward testimony from Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.
Payments made to Daniels by Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign are at the heart of the criminal case.
The start date for former President Trump's classified documents trial was originally scheduled for May 20.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels dished out salacious details of her sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006 from the witness stand on Tuesday, describing how they met at a celebrity golf tournament and what she says happened when she went to Trump’s Lake Tahoe hotel room.
Daniels' testimony was preceded by prosecutors and defense lawyers arguing about the extent of her testimony.
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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Lawyers for former Trump attorney attempt to explain failure to meet accounting obligations in bankruptcy case
The adult film actor Stormy Daniels offered the most lurid, explosive testimony so far in the trial against the former president
The prosecution could rest its case by the end of next week, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said
Donald Trump has called the judge at his trial a "disgrace" after a second mistrial bid by his lawyers failed. It followed a dramatic day in court which saw a witness in tears and porn star Stormy Daniels questioned again. Evidence also shed new light on how Trump's White House worked.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's defense attorney on Thursday accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president's hush
The former president’s lawyers are trying to undermine the porn actor’s credibility as the trial resumes in Manhattan.
Stormy Daniels finished her marathon testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday with attorneys for the former president seeking to paint her as a greedy liar who profited from her allegations.On Thursday, Trump's lawyers sought to suggest that Daniels was out for the money, cashing in on her story in a book for which the defense claimed she received $800,000.
Stormy Daniels gave defiant testimony Thursday as the defense accused her of fabricating details of the alleged sexual encounter between her and former President Donald Trump.
Trump attorney Susan Necheles repeatedly sought to paint Daniels as "nutty and slutty," legal analyst says.
Bruce Garelick was convicted of tipping others in 2021 to news that Digital World Acquisition Corp. was merging with Trump Media & Technology Group
Donald Trump's lawyer accused porn star Stormy Daniels of profiting off her story they had sex in 2006, part of an effort to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a sitting or former U.S. president.
An investor in the shell company that merged with Trump Media was found guilty on Thursday of insider trading, according to federal prosecutors.
CNN has transcribed some of the handwritten notes in the exhibits, and what prosecutors said they hoped to establish for the jury.
Her testimony has been an extraordinary moment in what could be the only criminal case against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to go to trial before voters decide in November whether to send him back to the White House.
Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies ever having sex with Daniels. In nearly four hours of cross-examination on Tuesday and Thursday, defense lawyer Susan Necheles asked Daniels about her earlier testimony of the alleged encounter compared with versions in a book she wrote and interviews she gave over the years.
Here's the latest for Friday May 10th: Prosecutors could wrap Trump trial next week; U.N. General Assembly voted to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine; Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters at US universities; Vodou grows powerful in Haiti.
IN a hushed New York courtroom they were together again nearly two decades after claims of a “brief” sexual tryst.Taking the witness stand for the
Defense paints Trump as a distracted multitasker who signed papers without review as texts between Stormy Daniels’ ex-publicist and a former editor were shown
The biggest news out of Trump’s trial today wasn’t anything said on the witness stand, but who will be on it next week
The porn star’s details about an alleged sexual encounter took the trial about business records off course, some lawyers say.
The claim attempts to compare Bill Clinton's 1990s scandal to Trump's hush-money trial.
Michael Cohen has been outspoken about his feelings on his former boss ahead of his expected appearance next week, sparking a response from Trump's lawyers. The ex-president is under a gag order and barred from talking about witnesses.
Witness testimony continued Friday in the New York hush money trial against former President Donald Trump.
Michael Cohen, key witness in Trump trial, went from loyal fixer to arch-nemesis
Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York is expected to hear his former lawyer turned tormentor Michael Cohen testify about his role in what prosecutors say was a cover up of payments to hide an affair.
NEW YORK: Donald Trump´s one-time fixer and the star prosecution witness in the former president´s criminal trial testified on Monday that he lied and bullied for his former boss whom he...
Scott was in Manhattan on Thursday to support Trump in his legal trials.
Nobody has anything nice to say about Michael Cohen.
"Real Time" host Bill Maher wasn't particularly thrilled with the testimony of adult film actress Stormy Daniels this week in the New York trial against former President Trump.
Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer an insider’s view of the dealings at the heart of prosecutors’ case
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.
Jurors in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial this week will hear from the star prosecution witness, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer.
Michael Cohen testified Monday that Donald Trump ordered him to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to silence a sex scandal.
Donald Trump's biographer believes the former president's predilection for "bending people to his will" was made plain Monday when Michael Cohen testified in his criminal hush money trial. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts that he falsified business records to conceal hush money paid ...
Michael Cohen faced MAGA loyalists at swanky members-only Casa Cipriani ahead of appearing at Donald Trump's hush money trial on Monday.
Donald Trump, the first former US president to go on trial, was joined at the courthouse by an entourage of legislators including the House Speaker.
Mr Cohen, who once boasted he would ‘take a bullet’ for the former US president, returns to the stand on Tuesday as the prosecution’s star witness.
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.
The fourth week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial could be a doozy: Michael Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, has taken the stand. (AP video by Joe Frederick)(AP produced by Javier Arciga)
Former President Trump’s nemesis in his New York trial took the stand Monday. Michael Cohen worked for more than 10 years as Trump’s attorney and fixer. At one time, Cohen famously said he would take a bullet for Trump. Cohen has become a staunch critic of the former president after he himself pleaded guilty to…
The court also hears a recording of Mr Trump and Mr Cohen discussing hush money said to have been paid to a former Playboy model.
In hotly anticipated testimony, Donald J. Trump’s former fixer discussed how he buried stories his boss didn’t want anyone to read.
Trump's former attorney is a key witness for the prosecution.
Michael Cohen has described his 15 years with Donald Trump as akin to being in a cult and, after conversations with him, longtime friend Donny Deutsch agrees — describing his relationship as being akin to Stockholm Syndrome.. Cohen took to the stand on the 15th day of Trump's hush money trial Monda...
Michael Cohen testifies that Trump was intimately involved in hush-money deal and got real-time updates on Stormy Daniels
Michael Cohen's testimony pointed the finger at former President Donald Trump in the New York hush money trial.
NEW YORK — The jury that will decide former President Trump’s fate in his hush money trial finally heard on Monday from Michael Cohen, who provided some of the strongest implications yet of his former client’s role in the scheme at the heart of the case. As he’s done many times before, Cohen recounted his…
The prosecution’s case in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is entering its final stretch with his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, on the witness stand.
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.
Memo to those in the race to be Donald Trump's running mate: A show of support in court might not hurt. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio turned up at the former president's hush-money...
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.
The judge has faced an immense amount of backlash for indefinitely delaying the start of former President Trump's classified documents trial.
Former President Donald Trump's attorneys got their first chance to question Michael Cohen on his second day of testimony and took aim at his credibility.
Michael Cohen returned to the witness stand and delivered testimony that went to the heart of Donald Trump's hush money trial.
Michael Cohen admitted Tuesday to ripping Donald Trump as a "dictator douchebag" and a "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain" who “belongs in a cage."
House Speaker Mike Johnson is not waiting for ex-President Donald Trump to be judged by a jury of his peers. He’s delivered his verdict already.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said in a Tuesday interview that he attended the hush money criminal trial against former President Trump on Monday to be a “friendly face in the courtroom” for the presumptive GOP nominee for president. “I mean, look, I was there to support a friend,” Vance, who is seen as a potential…
Mr Cohen admitted he "missed Trump" at times after he became president - seemingly part of the defence's strategy to paint him as obsessed with his former boss.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has admitted he came to New York City Monday to break a gag order for former President Donald Trump. MSNBC Anchor Nicolle Wallace reported Tuberville's public admission, made on the conservative channel Newsmax, as part of her coverage on Trump's ongoing criminal hus...
Todd Blanche seemed to be looking for a ‘gotcha’ – instead there was laughter in the viewing room and one irked judge
Donald Trump’s defense attorneys have grilled prosecutors’ star witness in his hush money trial, portraying former attorney Michael Cohen as a media-obsessed liar who’s determined to see the former president behind bars.
A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report © Elizabeth Williams via AP Trump trial: Michael Cohen grilled in second day on stand Former President Trump‘s fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen wrapped up his testimony during Trump’s hush money case Tuesday, detailing what he called a “pressure…
The former attorney and fixer returned to the stand on Tuesday and offered more incriminating testimony about his ex-boss
Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche bounced around to different topics trying to undermine Cohen's credibility during cross-examination in the hush money trial.
Donald Trump's former personal attorney took the stand in New York to explain what he'd done for his boss and why he ultimately turned on him.
Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020
Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden
"If Arizona authorities can’t find me by tomorrow morning ... They must dismiss the indictment," the Donald Trump ally said shortly beforehand.
When Donald Trump's lawyers make their Monday morning appearance in Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom they may face being put on the spot over their client's recurring refusal to abide by the judge's gag order.During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former Manhattan Asst. District Attorney Cathe...
Stormy Daniels is involved in a legal dispute with former US President Donald Trump and revealed bombshell details about the affair she says she had with him in court
Ex-president’s legal team sure to make hay out of Juan Merchan’s $35 gift to Biden for President and anti-Republican groups
The question is who will a Manhattan jury believe?
Trump has the chance to testify at hush money trial - if he so chooses
Donald Trump's allies on Sunday lashed out at a politically conservative website, saying it is "bullying" the former president for his apparent refusal to take the stand on his own behalf in his criminal trial.Matt Drudge and Trump were once allies, but more recently, the Drudge Report aggregator ha...
A grand jury last month indicted 18 allies of former President Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory in Arizona.
Donald Trump's legal team may have scored a few points on witness Michael Cohen, but the former president is still barreling toward a conviction in the New York hush money cover-up case, a Florida prosecutor said Sunday.State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC over the we...
Donald Trump's current criminal trial lawyer had a "giddy" demeanor when he asked a magazine writer, "How did I do?" But lawyer Todd Blanche may not be ready for the "complicated" answer.Andrew Rice, a features writer at New York Magazine, on Sunday published a piece in which he mentions the recent ...
Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed documents in Florida, has some harsh words for the prosecutors in that case in a new filing Sunday.Cannon, who has been criticized for purportedly slow-playing the federal case over the former president's alleged ho...
Experts believe Donald Trump's lawyers may be pressuring him not to testify in his hush money trial playing out in Manhattan for fear that he might implicate himself and derail the defence's case
There’s been a lot of talk about what the jury is thinking in Donald Trump’s New York abomination-of-a-criminal trial after being subjected to days of salacious but largely irrelevant testimony from a porn star and a perjurer.
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial cleared the courtroom of reporters Monday and then threatened to remove the defense's witness from the trial after his behavoir on the stand, a court transcript shows. Judge Juan M.
Donald Trump's hush money trial entered its final stretch with the prosecution resting its case late Monday afternoon following the conclusion of star witness Michael Cohen 's testimony.
Jan. 6 defendant John Banuelos told the judge he had "nothing to worry about," since Trump would soon "be in office."
The jury was sent home until May 28, when closing arguments are expected.
Judge Juan M Merchan told Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor, that his conduct was ‘contemptuous right now’.
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.
The prosecution rested their case against Donald J. Trump on Monday in the former president’s hush money trial, which is barreling toward a conclusion as soon as next week.
The ex-president walks into the courtroom with recognizable supporters as the defense’s witness prompts near-chaos
Former President Donald Trump's defense team has motioned for an order of dismissal after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. Trump's defense team has called its first witnesses, including Robert Costello, a former legal representative of Cohen. The trial is nearing its conclusion.
The former president’s hush-money trial in New York is nearing the end, and it’s now all but certain he won’t take the stand
Donald Trump’s hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors’ last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday pressed the judge overseeing his hush money trial to stop the case from going to the jury and throw out the charges after prosecutors concluded their presentation of evidence. Judge Juan M.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office tried to turn an outdated misdemeanor into one of the greatest crimes in history.
“They should have been sequestered because in my opinion these jurors are handling something that is completely unprecedented and unwarranted in America," Habba said.
Alina Habba said that jurors should have been sequestered from the public for the holiday weekend ahead of closing arguments this coming week.
Trump distorted the language of a search warrant used against him, claiming the Justice Department wanted to use "deadly force."
Closing arguments are due to be heard in the criminal trial of former US President Donald Trump.
Former US president Donald Trump denies 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, charges punishable by up to four years in prison.
The former US president denies 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, charges punishable by up to four years in prison.
Closing arguments in former President Donald Trump's New York hush-money trial are set to begin Tuesday, one week after the defense rested its case and more than five weeks after the trial began.
In a landmark trial that's already featured its fair share of memorable moments, this week could easily be the most important.
The New York jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is returning to court after a week-long hiatus for closing arguments that will set the stage for historic deliberations.
Donald Trump’s lawyer in his hush money criminal trial argued to a New York jury that the former president is a victim of extortion, saying the case is rooted in an effort to squeeze him for money before the 2016 election.
Donald Trump's lawyer cast the former US president as a victim of a porn star's blackmail and argued that prosecutors had failed to prove he covered up a hush money payment to her as Trump's historic criminal trial neared a conclusion on Tuesday.
Even liberal legal analysts admitted that they could not figure out what was being alleged in Bragg's indictment. Now, after weeks of trial, the situation has changed little.
After more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, the case will see closing arguments, jury deliberations and possibly a verdict
Closing arguments in the former president's hush money trial are scheduled to start Tuesday.
The trial featured allegations that Trump and his allies conspired to stifle potentially embarrassing stories during the 2016 presidential campaign through hush money payments , including to a porn actor who alleged that she and Trump had sex a decade earlier.
Multiple sources said that Michael Cohen is next hatching a run for Congress, and is planning a new book, we hear.
Lawyer Todd Blanche’s argument for why jurors should find his client not guilty boiled down to a handful of principal lines
Jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial will begin deliberating later on whether to return the first criminal conviction of a former president - a momentous decision that could upend the November presidential election.
The jury, made up of seven men and five women, must come to a unanimous decision.
The jury, made up of seven men and five women, must come to a unanimous decision.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial are delivering their closing arguments. The jury could begin deliberating as soon as today to decide whether Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass delivered closing arguments in the former president's New York criminal trial on Tuesday.
In a surprise speech outside the court where the former US president is standing trial in New York, Robert De Niro branded Donald Trump a ‘clown’ who will become a ‘dictator for life’ if re-elected.
Donald Trump listened to closing arguments on Tuesday surrounded by three of his adult children and some of their spouses – the largest family gathering in the Manhattan courthouse since the former president’s hush money trial began six weeks ago.
Robert De Niro gave a speech outside the court where former president Donald Trump is standing trial; Spain, Norway and Ireland formally recognised a Palestinian state. Follow updates live.
The first of four Trump trials encompasses more than the sum of its salacious parts
A Fulton County judge will allow a co-defendant of Donald Trump in the Georgia election subversion case to continue his effort to access thousands of 2020 ballots to argue debunked voter fraud theories.
The FBI arrested William George Knight, charging him with assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Setback for special counsel Jack Smith as Aileen Cannon denies motion filed after Trump falsely claimed FBI was ready to kill him
The odds that Trump will win back the White House have hit a new high, likely driven by the historic trial he is facing and the list of failures facing Biden.
MOVIE mobster Robert De Niro yesterday launched a tirade against “tyrant” Donald Trump — outside the court where a criminal case against the pol
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 12 Trump trial jurors are conducting a meticulous exploration of the evidence and considering carefully how to apply the law, and their requests are proof of that, writes Norm Eisen.
The latest US news highlights include Elon Musk potentially becoming a policy adviser for Donald Trump, the historic criminal trial of Hunter Biden, a lawsuit against Indiana's abortion ban, deliberations in Trump's hush money trial, and a White House initiative to support new nuclear power plants.
The first day of jury deliberations in former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial ended without a verdict as jurors asked to review several portions of testimony.
The jury appears to be homing in on the "conspiracy" elements of the Manhattan criminal hush money case, said former federal prosecutor David Kelley on MSNBC Wednesday — and that's a disturbing sign for former President Donald Trump.This comes after the jury asked Judge Juan Merchan for a refresher ...
Trump was ranting about standard New York courtroom procedure, which his legal team failed to educate him about.
The seemingly transactional relationship between hip-hop artists and a politician with legal troubles.
The jury deliberated for about nine-and-a-half hours in total: about four-and-a-half hours on Wednesday and five hours on Thursday.
Jurors have asked the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial to review testimony from prominent witnesses, to help them reach a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former US president.
The 12-person jury deliberated for about four-and-a-half hours on Wednesday without reaching a verdict on the charges against Donald Trump.
A jury has convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
The jury in former President Trump’s New York trial completed its first day of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict. Several days of indecision will raise questions about a hung jury, and a declaration of a mistrial.
The 12-person jury has requested to re-hear testimony.
The jury is now deliberating in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in Manhattan, where the former president is charged with felony business fraud for allegedly concealing payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a matter Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is arguing was...
The former president once again repeated his claim the trial is "rigged" and posted on social media as the 12-person jury began their decision-making.
Judge Juan Merchan presented the jury with instructions Wednesday morning before they headed into deliberations for the rest of the day in former President Trump's New York criminal trial. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all counts.
After Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said "the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken."
The conviction — a humiliating defeat for a man who has dwelled in legal gray zones for decades — brings America’s highest office to a new low.
The former president was found guilty on all counts in his New York hush money trial
On a historic night for American politics, Jonathan Freedland and Sam Levine look at what the verdict will mean – both for Trump himself, and for the election in November
The outlines of legal woes facing Donald Trump continue as a New York jury convicts him of falsifying records to hide a payment to a porn star. Despite the criminal conviction, Trump's campaign for the presidency remains unaffected. Meanwhile, significant financial backing emerges from Republican mega donor Miriam Adelson.
This material discusses recent world events, including the waning dominance of the African National Congress in South Africa, Biden's policy shift regarding US arms in Ukraine, Hamas-Israel conflict, and the conviction of Donald Trump for falsifying documents. Additional situations in Gaza, Slovakia, North Korea, and Kharkiv are also covered.
Prosecutors took a case that was about boring paper crimes and successfully turned it into one that was about something simple: lying
Top Republican donors, despite Donald Trump's recent conviction, have ramped up their financial support for his 2024 presidential campaign. Many view the legal actions against Trump as politically motivated, encouraging significant donations from key figures. This trend underscores Trump's sustained donor backing, potentially boosting his chances against President Joe Biden.
Donald Trump will try to capitalise on what might otherwise be a career-ending judgment in his election bid, claiming he is the victim of a political witchhunt.
So rarely held to account, Trump has finally had a small taste of justice. This is a good day for American democracy
After the criminal conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Trump's image as a savvy businessman is up in smoke. Will voters care?
With appeals and sentencing still to come, judicial and political calendars are colliding in a way that breaks precedent – and has the potential of breaking apart the country even further
A Canadian immigration lawyer says now that Donald Trump is a convicted felon, he is technically barred from crossing the border into Canada.
A heavy sense of shock and relief appeared to hang in the air after Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of fraud
It was not a glib take to say he could not get a fair trial on the island of Manhattan. Every dark suspicion held by skeptics has been confirmed. The fix was in.
NY DA Bragg says prosecutors followed facts ‘without fear or favor’ after jury finds Trump guilty
Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime, remains free while awaiting sentencing for falsifying business records. Unlikely to serve prison time, Trump could face fines or probation. As he plans to appeal, the road ahead includes sentencing, potential home confinement, and possible political run against Joe Biden.
Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying documents to cover up hush money payments. This historic verdict has implications for the 2024 presidential election and has led to mixed reactions regarding its impact on markets and democracy.
Donald Trump supporters have flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.
Donald Trump's lawyer has said he will appeal his guilty verdict as soon as he can after becoming the first former US president ever convicted of a crime in his hush money trial.
Trump, as defiant as ever, said the verdict was illegitimate and driven by politics and sought to downplay the allegations underlying the case.
Donald Trump has becomes the first former US president to be convicted of a crime in the history of the United States. Whatever happens next, that fact will stand.
The former US president held a press conference at Trump Towers in New York on Friday
Mr Trump, as defiant as ever, said the verdict was illegitimate and driven by politics and sought to downplay the allegations underlying the case
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing his criminal hush money case to terminate the gag order against the former president, saying it’s no longer justified since the trial is over.
If the federal government wants to uphold democracy and the rule of law, it can't leave convicting Trump to the states.
Wisconsin's attorney general has filed felony forgery charges against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020.
Democrats undermine democracy by embracing the "sham case" that resulted in a guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case is on indefinite hold until after the former president's appeal to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is decided, a Georgia court ruled Wednesday.
Donald Trump is expected to lose his license to carry a gun due to his conviction last week of falsifying business records.
The long-time ally of former president Donald Trump was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress and was handed a four-month sentence.
Former President Donald Trump's license to carry a gun in New York is expected to be revoked after he was convicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan last week.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is warning there will be consequences for prosecutors who have put the former president in courtrooms.
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.
"Orange is the new guilty,” a social media user commented while talking about Donald Trump’s conviction.
An appeals court in Georgia has paused the election interference case against former President Trump while it reviews a lower court's decision allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. The court's order prevents pretrial motions from proceeding, delaying the trial until after the November election.
New York City police department to revoke Trump’s license after suspending permit to carry a concealed weapon in April 2023
Trump became a felon last week after being convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York.
The Georgia Court of Appeals’ order on prevents Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee from moving forward with pretrial motions
The Georgia Court of Appeals tentatively scheduled arguments in the disqualification effort involving former President Donald Trump for Oct. 4.
Donald Trump’s attorneys on Friday ridiculed special counsel Jack Smith’s gag order request in the former president’s classified documents case in Florida, calling it an unconstitutional attack on the 2024 Republican candidate and a ploy to help Joe Biden keep the presidency.
Polling industry insiders in the U.S. agree on one thing — the criminal conviction of Donald Trump has not had a dramatic effect on the presidential election. But here's what they have found.
Republicans whipping up a bill to bump former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to federal court are wasting their time, a former federal prosecutor argued Sunday. Renato Mariotti, formerly of the U.S. Attorney's office in Northern Illinois, appeared on MSNBC Sunday to throw cold wa...
While Trump may have played it cool in front of an audience, his reaction to the indictment was vastly different on social media.
They agreed that one provision of the gag order, which prevented Trump from attacking trial witnesses in the case, could be lifted.
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.
One legal expert said that it was hard to see Cannon's decision as any other than another delay of the trial
The court previously denied a similar request from another Trump aide
Justices are still weighing whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the election interference case against him
New Jersey authorities have set a hearing for July 19 to review liquor licenses at two of Donald Trump's golf clubs following his May felony convictions in New York. The state is concerned about Trump's direct interest, despite the licenses being under his son, Donald Trump Jr.'s name.
The U.S. Supreme Court has made it more difficult for prosecutors to pursue obstruction charges in the election subversion case against Donald Trump. The ruling requires proof of impairment or tampering with official documents. This decision may impact numerous Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants and is seen as a potential boost for Trump.
The license for a third Trump-owned golf course, in Pine Hill, has been renewed by the municipality, the state said.
Now that Joe Biden stumbled so badly in the first presidential debate, lawfare is more important than ever to Democrats, but Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump is hanging by a thread.
The court's ruling has ramifications for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' prosecution of Trump and his allies over election interference allegations.
After the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump enjoyed immunity for his official actions while president, partisans on both sides of the aisle should agree to swear off the use of lawfare once and for all.
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.
US President Joe Biden criticised the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity that was seen as a win for his election rival, former President Donald Trump, calling it a dangerous precedent that did a disservice to the American people.
The decision was handed down by a New York appeals court in Manhattan.
Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said they would be open to delaying the July 11 sentencing for up to two weeks.
Donald Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11 on his New York conviction on felony charges of falsifying business records.
Lawyers for Donald Trump responded to the Supreme Court ruling by asking a New York judge to delay sentencing.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions within his constitutional powers, establishing a form of presidential immunity. The 6-3 decision, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, could delay or dismiss some federal criminal charges against Trump, influencing the upcoming election.
New York University law professor Ryan Goodman breaks down the Supreme Court’s ruling that former U.S. presidents retain significant immunity from prosecution for acts while in office.
The Supreme Court rules that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. This delays further the Washington criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to submit his sentencing recommendation in former President Donald Trump's hush money case to Judge Juan Merchan on Monday .
The Supreme Court's ruling this week that presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution could dramatically affect Trump's case in Georgia.
After the SCOTUS immunity decision, it may not take much to force a hush-money retrial. An ethics form the DA showed jurors in May might do the trick.
Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least Sept. 18. The judge agreed Tuesday to delay the July 11 date while weighing the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. (AP video: Joseph B. Frederick, Ted Shaffrey, John Minchillo)
As the case enters a new phase, experts remain skeptical that former President Donald Trump's 11th-hour effort to overturn his conviction will be successful.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon declined to dismiss charges against Walt Nauta, a co-defendant in the classified documents case against Donald Trump. Nauta's lawyers claimed persecution due to insufficient cooperation and animus. Special counsel Jack Smith denied these claims, and the case remains pending with no trial date set.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against Donald Trump refused Saturday to throw out charges against a co-defendant of the former president.
Florida Judge Aileen Cannon could be totally removed from the Donald Trump Espionage Act case if she tries to dismiss it entirely in response to the Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling, as the former president has requested, according to a local prosecutor. State Attorney for Palm Beach Count...
The judge hearing the federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Saturday granted a motion to extend deadlines for filing legal arguments regarding potential presidential immunity.
Daniels says Trump supporters have inundated her with threats to rape and murder her daughter and other family
The New Maga Deal full of errors and omissions from former Trump adviser convicted of contempt of Congress
No trial date has been set in the case.
Donald Trump urged the judge in his New York hush money case to dismiss his conviction in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity last month, according to a new court filing.
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are urging the judge in his New York hush money case to overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity .
Donald Trump's lawyers are urging a judge to overturn his conviction in the New York hush money case following the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. They argue that prosecutors rushed to trial before the Supreme Court had ruled. The judge is set to decide on September 6, with sentencing on hold.
Donald Trump's lawyers argue that Manhattan prosecutors improperly used evidence from Trump's official acts to secure his conviction on hush money charges. They seek to overturn the verdict following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The court's decision impacts other cases Trump faces, including charges related to the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents.
Trump ally, in prison for defying congressional subpoena, accused of conning donors who gave money for border wall
Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity for covering up a payoff to a porn star from the Oval Office – and his hush money conviction should stand, Manhattan prosecutors argued Thursday.
Trump, the Republican nominee in the Nov. 5 election, was convicted on May 30 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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.
Until now, Trump himself and his former doctor, a Republican congressman, were the only ones providing information on what caused Trump’s injuries during the attempt
The FBI's statement came after its director testified that there was still "some question" about what grazed former President Donald Trump's right ear.
Law enforcement issued a statement after two weeks of speculation and conflicting reports.
The FBI said former President Donald Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet during the assassination attempt on July 13.
Former US president Donald Trump has agreed to meet with the FBI for a "victim interview" about this month's assassination attempt, bureau officials have said.
The FBI said that Trump was struck by a bullet or a fragment of one during the July 13 assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into the attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, an official said on Monday.
Former President Donald Trump will speak with the FBI about the attempted assassination against him at his Pennsylvania rally.
Shocking new footage from the assassination attempt on Donald Trump shows local cops with guns drawn surrounding the building where Thomas Crooks opened fire -- fully two minutes and 10 seconds before the shooting.
The former US president was convicted in May on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
A Washington Post report details that an Egypt-linked group withdrew funds days before Trump’s inauguration
Donald Trump's former campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis has reached a deal with prosecutors in Arizona's 2020 election subversion case to cooperate and testify against other defendants in exchange for charges being dropped.
The court declined Republican AG Andrew Bailey’s longshot bid seeking an adjournment of the sentencing until after the presidential election
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have charged a 33-year-old Ontario man with making violent threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This charge follows the arrest of two Alberta men for similar threats last month. Increased security measures have been in place since an assassination attempt on U.S. candidate Donald Trump.
Special counsel Jack Smith asked for additional time to settle how to proceed with former President Trump’s Jan. 6 prosecution, asking to bump back a swift set of deadlines ignited when the case returned to a lower court.
A Donald Trump supporter who stood in front of a gallows set up near the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and named Democratic politicians he said "need to hang" was sentenced...
Donald Trump has failed for a third time to force out the judge who is due to sentence him for covering up hush money payments.
Former US president Donald Trump is seeking to delay sentencing in his New York criminal hush money case until after the 5 November election, citing "election-interference objectives".
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Police in northern Virginia said Wednesday they were looking for a homeless man they suspect broke into an office of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s lawyers’ third request for recusal, citing unsubstantiated claims and inaccuracies. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts for covering up a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
If the Trump campaign has any say in it, voters should learn the name of Gianfranco Torres-Navarro.
Trump supporters may disingenuously seek to equate Walz’s DUI story to Trump’s felony convictions.
Congress report says shot hit would-be assassin’s weapon, wounding him before he was killed by Secret Service sniper
Cops search for Ronald Lee Syrvud, who has made threats towards the former 45th President, Donald Trump.
Authorities are seeking an Arizona man accused of making threats against former President Donald Trump, a Cochise County spokesperson told CNN.
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon must face a trial in New York for criminal-fraud charges related to the 'We Build the Wall' fundraising campaign. A judge rejected his motion to dismiss the charges, and the trial is set for Dec. 9. Bannon, currently in federal prison for defying a congressional subpoena, pleaded not guilty.
US Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal appeals court to revive the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of retaining classified documents, after a lower court dismissed the indictment in July, according to a court filing.
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a brief Monday to revive the documents case against former President Donald Trump, arguing that U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon "was wrong" when she dismissed the case last month.
The special counsel has filed his argument urging an appeals court to reverse a judge's surprise dismissal of former President Donald Trump's class...
The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a "sustained, detailed effort" to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said.
James Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57, sustained critical wounds after they were both shot twice at the rally.
If the case is moved to federal court, Mr Trump’s lawyers said they will then seek to have the verdict overturned and the case dismissed.
The former president is attempting to move the New York case in which he was convicted on 34 felony charges in May to a federal court.
The ruling leaves Trump’s case in state court, where he is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18.
Ruling leaves former US president’s case in state court, where he is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18th
A federal judge rejected an effort by Trump to remove his criminal hush money case to the federal courts citing Supreme Court immunity ruling.
Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose allegations of an affair threatened to disrupt his 2016 presidential campaign.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump's request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president's latest bid to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentencing. U.S.
Trump's lawyers had sought to move the case to federal court so they could then seek to have the verdict overturned and the case dismissed.
Alvin Hellerstein ruled ex-president didn’t have burden of proof in latest attempt to overturn his felony conviction
Trump was convicted this year in his New York hush money case. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 18.
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Trump has sought for a federal appeals court to intervene in his hush money conviction in New York City.
The case has been paused since June while a Georgia appeals court reviews claims of misconduct by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, tied to a past romantic relationship.
A federal appeals court denied Trump's request for an emergency stay on his criminal conviction in New York.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI said appeared to be an assassination attempt outside Mr Trump's golf course in Palm Beach, Florida.
According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, there is good reason for prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to go to Judge Juan Merchan and make the case that Donald Trump is in violation of his gag order.Earlier in the week New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's ...
A gunman attempted to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday at Mr Trump's golf course in Palm Beach, Florida, authorities said.
Suspect in Trump assassination attempt charged with gun crimes
The Secret Service said its agents were accompanying Trump on the golf course, when one who was securing holes ahead of Trump spotted a gun barrel in some bushes near the property line.
The FBI is currently investigating what they believe to be an attempted assassination after an armed suspect was arrested near Donald Trump's golf club in Florida
Former US president Donald Trump faced a second assassination attempt at a Florida golf course. The FBI is investigating after gunshots were heard, and Trump confirmed his safety. Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested for pointing a rifle at Trump. President Biden and Vice President Harris were informed.
Ryan Wesley Routh was allegedly armed with an AK-47-style rifle in an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Ryan Routh, 58, was charged with gun-related crimes after allegedly attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course. Despite getting close and being heavily armed, Routh did not fire any shots. The incident raises serious security questions for the Secret Service, which is already under scrutiny from a prior attack.
A tense hearing over the Georgia criminal case against Trump resulted in a judge allowing one of his co-defendants the possibility to subpoena Fani Willis
Some people who expressed their concerns about Ryan Routh, the man accused of of trying to kill Donald Trump in Florida earlier this month, are wondering if more could've been done to protect the former president.
Trump previously said about Epstein that "he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
The man accused of hiding out with a gun near Donald Trump's Florida golf course in an apparent bid to kill the former president wrote a letter months earlier describing an "assassination attempt" and offering a bounty on Mr Trump's life, US prosecutors have said.
Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offences.
Oran Routh, son of Ryan Routh, was arrested this week after authorities searched his North Carolina home.
Smith said in a court document that his opening brief in the federal election subversion case will not exceed 180 pages.
Federal prosecutors charged Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, with the attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida.
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.
Suspect Ryan Routh was charged last week with two federal firearms charges after allegedly targeting former President Donald Trump.
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted the man accused of showing up at one of former President Trump’s golf courses with a rifle on charges of attempting to assassinate him.
Ryan Routh, 58, has been indicted for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his Florida golf course. Routh, already facing gun-related charges, allegedly intended to kill the former president. Federal prosecutors revealed evidence of a premeditated plan. Routh remains in jail awaiting trial.
Man had been initially charged with two federal firearms offences
The suspect is accused of aiming a rifle through the shrubbery surrounding Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course on an afternoon Trump was playing on it.
Ryan Wesley Routh accused of plotting to kill Republican nominee at West Palm Beach golf course earlier this month
Ryan Wesley Routh was charged by prosecutors on Tuesday with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate on after the alleged gunman stalked out former president Donald Trump’s Florida golf course earlier this month, according to a report.
A man has been charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump after staking out the presidential hopeful on his Florida golf course.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan criticized the Justice Department for releasing a disturbing letter from Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged would-be assassin who targeted former President Donald Trump.
Gina Raimondo called for Trump to be "extinguished for good," just two weeks after a second assassination attempt on the Republican presidential candidate.
The U.S. State Department is offering up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest of a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot.
Video shows the moment the son of would-be Donald Trump assassin Ryan Routh was busted by federal agents in North Carolina on child porn charges.
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The US Department of Justice charged three Iranians with hacking people involved with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and leaking the documents they obtained.
Special counsel Jack Smith is pushing to file a public version of his recent court brief that summaries what witnesses told investigators in Donald...
Donald Trump unleashed severe criticism against illegal immigrants, particularly those committing crimes, and took personal shots at Kamala Harris during a speech in Wisconsin. His rhetoric focused on violent crimes by undocumented immigrants, blaming Harris and Biden for the border crisis and vowing to tighten immigration laws if reelected.
Trump is hoping to win a second term as US president in November. Here's what that would mean for the criminal cases against him.
A man who authorities say spent 12 hours camped outside Donald Trump's golf course before Secret Service spotted him with a rifle pleaded not guilty on Monday to federal charges...
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.
Ryan Routh is facing five charges stemming from his alleged attempt to kill Donald Trump while the former president was golfing.
The district attorney's office is also prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk, received a nine-year prison sentence for illegally tampering with voting machines amidst perpetuating Donald Trump’s election fraud claims. Convicted on security breach charges, Peters was chastised for dishonest conduct and exploiting her office for baseless conspiracy narratives.
A man arrested at a security checkpoint near Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's California rally yesterday faces gun charges after he was found in possession of two guns and a high-capacity magazine, authorities have said.
A Nevada man with weapons and fake passports was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump's rally in Southern California. The suspect drove an unregistered SUV with suspicious credentials. He was released on bail and is scheduled for a court appearance in January 2025.
Vem Miller, 49, has been identified as the man arrested with 'multiple' guns near to Donald Trump's campaign rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday
A Nevada man with a shotgun, a loaded handgun and ammunition in his vehicle was arrested at a security checkpoint outside Donald Trump’s rally Saturday night in the Southern California desert, authorities said Sunday. He was released Saturday on $5,000 bail.
Police assigned to patrol Donald Trump's rally in California on Saturday say they arrested a man outside of the event for illegal possession of firearms.Trump faced one attempt on his life months ago in Pennsylvania, and a separate person was arrested for purportedly planning a second attack in Flor...
Nathan Wade spoke to Congress during a long awaited closed-door deposition in Washington, D.C., about his work as special prosecutor on the Trump case.
Stacey Williams says the former president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them
Store manager Ken Krajewski said the "urine manure spray" was also used inside the building by the alleged vandalizers early Monday morning.
A 2005 video made public in 2016 showed Donald Trump bragging about grabbing, forcibly kissing and sexually assaulting women.
Donald Trump addresses rally at Madison Square Garden in New York while Kamala Harris spends the day campaigning "neighbourhood-to-neighbourhood" in Philadelphia. Follow live.
Donald Trump's former chief strategist was imprisoned for two counts of contempt of Congress related to the Jan. 6 riots on the Capitol.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the criminal case of a man charged with trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump declined Tuesday to recuse herself, saying a
Donald Trump is likely to escape accountability for any alleged crimes he may have committed in the federal cases brought against him now that he has been elected president, and one former prosecutor highlighted what he says is the "biggest mistake" that led to that particular scenario.During an app...
Donald Trump may have crushed his federal cases by winning the presidential election, but there's still a chance he gets some jail time in the state case in which he was already convicted, according to an expert who was in the room during the former and incoming president's criminal trial.Longtime W...
Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on Tuesday kicked the can one week on the so-called “Trump hush money” case; their next step should be to void the whole thing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, was once embroiled in a sex trafficking investigation by the Justice Department he's been tapped
Shayne Coplan calls incident ‘discouraging’ as firm suggests raid was retaliation for site’s users betting on Donald Trump
Donald Trump winning the presidency eliminated almost all of his criminal legal concerns, but there is "one point of light amid the darkness," according to a legal expert.Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner recently lamented that special counsel Jack Smith dropped all federal charges against t...
The relationship between ex-NFL star O.J. Simpson and President-elect Donald Trump has been complex over time.
More than 60 percent of Americans would disapprove of Trump pardoning those convicted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new poll found.
Donald Trump previously was saved from an assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in June.
Donald Trump’s felony conviction in the New York hush money case should not be tossed out because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday.
A trial for Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, has been postponed to September 2025. The delay was granted by Judge Aileen Cannon due to the extensive evidence involved. Routh faces five federal charges, having pleaded not guilty.
Justice Department leaders decided against prosecuting Trump ally — and obstructed congressional ethics probe.
Trump's conviction left the 78-year-old facing the possibility of punishment ranging from a fine or probation to up to four years in prison.
President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced on January 10 for charges of falsifying business records in a case involving hush money to a porn star. Judge Merchan ruled against a jail sentence, paving the way for Trump to appeal. The sentencing is historically unprecedented for a U.S. president.
The president-elect laid out his thoughts on Merchan and the requirement to show up for sentencing on January 10 in his criminal hush money case.
Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump's attempt to delay sentencing in his hush money case on Monday, one day after the president-elect made the request.
Trump could be sentenced a little more than a week before he is inaugurated for a second term
Police in Las Vegas say they have reviewed Matthew Livelsberger's AI searches prior to the explosion outside Trump's hotel on New Year's Day.
This summary provides an overview of major US domestic news stories, including Donald Trump's ongoing legal challenges, Kroger's settlement over the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, and various political developments such as labor agreements and protections for transgender students. Additionally, it touches on the remembrance of former US president Jimmy Carter.
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.”
Steve Bannon convinced a Manhattan judge Wednesday to let a "more aggressive" attorney defend him against charges similar to those President Trump pardoned him for and won a week-long delay of his upcoming trial.
"He was set up by a lot of bad people," the president said.
Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all investigations into federal crimes in the Southern District of New York, including the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams that the Trump administration has directed be dropped.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday and Friday, according to a federal prison union leader.
Federal prosecutors formally moved to toss the historic corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams Friday following a wave of resignations in protest of the Justice Department's orders for the case to be killed.
Mexico has sent drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States with 28 prisoners requested by the U.S. government, a Mexican government official and other sources said Thursday.
South Carolina plans its first firing squad execution in 15 years for Brad Sigmon, who prefers this method over alternatives. Several Democrat-led states challenge Trump's mass federal employee firings. Additionally, Gene Hackman passes due to heart disease, and the U.S. set to end collective bargaining for TSA officers.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongly deported Maryland man, from El Salvador. Despite government acknowledgment of the mistake, the administration claims no legal authority to bring him back. Abrego's lawyers argue otherwise, intensifying the legal battle over U.S. deportation policies.
Shawn Monper, 32, of Butler, Pennsylvania, where President Trump was shot last July, said he planned to 'assassinate him myself.'
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate Presi
Administration advances new misrepresentations of US supreme court order in case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
New York Attorney General Letitia James was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday, according to a letter obtained by The Post.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon limited the testing to just its operability.
Owen McIntire stands charged with firebombing a Tesla dealership, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage — yet a Massachusetts judge let him out of jail to supervised home release ahead of his trial.
A key federal prosecutor in the classified documents case against President Donald Trump is expected to privately testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee in the coming days, a source familiar with the process told CNN.
A US Olympic gold medallist and former Donald Trump adviser has been arrested for allegedly engaging in prostitution during a police sting.
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.
Jay Bratt, a key prosecutor who was assigned to the classified documents case against President Donald Trump, has invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview.
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.
The group was flown out of the United States just hours after getting notice, leaving them no chance to contact lawyers to object in court.
A federal judge struck down an executive order by Donald Trump that targeted the law firm WilmerHale, ruling it unconstitutional. This action was perceived as retaliation against the firm for its role in the Russia investigation. The ruling reinforces constitutional rights and denies Trump's order suspending their lawyers' security clearances.
At least seven lawsuits are challenging the levies, the centrepiece of Mr Trump’s trade policy.
A federal court in New York handed US President Donald Trump a big setback, blocking his audacious plan to impose massive taxes on imports from almost every country in the world.
Donald Trump's team is fighting one of the most consequential legal cases in US history, but there are plenty more where that came from — 250 lawsuits are currently featuring his administration.
Another judge has blocked the Trump administration from using the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants, ruling the government hasn't promised adequate due process.
A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing to invalidate the Trump administration's deal to house detainees in a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Ex-leader of far-right Proud Boys and three others whom Trump gave pardons or commutations sue government
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday.
The former president is standing trial, accused of plotting to overthrow current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government.
An appeal hearing for President Trump's criminal conviction and sentencing in his hush money case is set to be held in a U.S. court of appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday.
The Big Law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is arguing that additional appeals for Trump's hush-money convictions should be heard in federal court.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: a name that's become near-synonymous with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown.<br><br>Abrego Garcia was arrested by ICE agents on March 12th, as he was leaving his job in Baltimore. In the days and months that followed, the …
The recent raft of pardons handed out by President Trump has shortchanged fraud victims of millions of dollars in restitution that's still owed to them, attorneys say.
ABC News' Dr. Tara Narula shares the scoop on how to include the right kinds of fat in your diet.
R. Kelly and Diddy have something in common ... both men have been accused of racketeering and sex trafficking -- and even though the two aren't exactly friends, Kelly says he feels for Diddy, who's currently on trial, and says Black entertainers as a whole a…
The Justice Department argued that Trump’s public statements about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case didn’t reflect the government’s actual position.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who is pleading not guilty to charges over a clash with law enforcement at an ICE facility in New Jersey, joins Meet the Press...
When a federal judge grants a temporary restraining order within hours of a hearing and writes 36 pages explaining why the President of the United States is acting illegally and unconstitutionally, you know something significant just happened. Federal Judge C…
Former ICC president breaks down Trump, Gaza and the 'age of impunity'.
The Trump administration has argued that Khalil, a Columbia University student, did not disclose past affiliations.
The Salvadoran migrant was wrongly deported to El Salvador, prompting outrage over Trump's mass deportation campaign.
The suspect on the run for the shooting death of Minnesota's Democrat State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband reportedly wanted to slaughter even more lawmakers. The gunman's manifesto was found in the SUV he drove to the Hortman residence…
Boelter may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in the attacks on the two Democratic lawmakers.
Boelter may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in the attacks.
Boelter may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in the attacks.
Police broaden their search for the 57-year-old man to nearby South Dakota as a $50,000 reward is issued.
The man accused of assassinating the top Democrat in the Minnesota House held deeply religious and politically conservative views, telling a congregation in ...
The wife of a man suspected of killing a Democratic lawmaker and her husband was detained in a traffic stop after police discovered a weapon, ammunition...
The best friend and roommate of suspected Minnesota gunman Vance Boelter says he received a haunting message from Boelter just hours after Saturday’s shocking shooting spree that left two people dead and two others wounded. David Carlson told…
Search continues for Vance Luther Boelter, who allegedly killed Democratic politician Melissa Hortman and her husband.
A massive manhunt entered a second day on Sunday in Minnesota for the suspected gunman who killed a Democratic state lawmaker while posing as a police officer, a crime that Governor Tim Walz characterized as a "politically motivated assassination."
The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, a law enforcement official said.
Boelter may have impersonated a law enforcement officer in the attacks, police said.
Yvette Hoffman says she was shot eight times and her husband nine. The gunman is still at large.
Vance Boelter was captured in a wooded area on Sunday night, and charged in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses. His first court appearance is scheduled for Monday.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty.
Salt Lake City police are investigating two self-described "peacekeepers" after a fatal protest shooting left one dead and one injured.
The recent shootings of lawmakers in Minnesota are part of a disturbing trend toward politically linked violence, ABC News analysts say.
Vance Boelter, the man suspected of shooting two Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in Minnesota, was arrested Sunday after a lengthy manhunt.
R. Kelly's lawyers say he was hospitalized last week for a prison overdose after alleging a murder-for-hire plot against him.
The former Black Panther was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of a Philadelphia cop. His freedom is no longer a prominent cause for musicians — but he's still paying attention
A man allegedly purchased explosives to use to attack police during protests against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in LA.
I’m old enough to remember Republicans claiming that any lawsuit against a Republican was “lawfare” and political persecution. But, as with so many things in the modern MAGA GOP, the reason they said such things was because, given the chance, they would total…
A series of high-profile incidents of political violence — targeting members of both major political parties — have grabbed the nation’s attention. Earlier this month, a gunman shot two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers in their homes. State Rep. Melissa Hartman…
R. Kelly should absolutely not be pardoned -- 'cause one of his alleged victims, Joycelyn Savage, has been missing for years and is still believed to be in his grip and under his control, her family’s attorney tells TMZ. Gerald Griggs -- attorney…
Reality star Todd Chrisley is sharing more details about what he says led up to his federal tax fraud conviction.
The suspect allegedly threatened the Congressmen with antisemitic slurs and called for the death of Israel and the lawmaker's family.
Joseph "Fat Joe" Cartagena is being accused of sexual trafficking, fraud, and more in a new lawsuit brought by a former employee.
Sae Joon Park left for South Korea on Monday. His removal order was the result of drug possession and bail jumping charges from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from untreated PTSD.
To call the administration’s “worst of the worst” claims a ruse is to give this administration too much credit. It’s not clever enough to run a con. Going after criminals was never the point during Trump’s first term. And mass deportation was the platform Tru…
The Minnesota lawmaker was killed during a string of attacks against Democratic elected officials in the state.
The case against Ryan Wesley Routh is being handled by one of the president's favorite jurists: Judge Aileen Cannon
Three prosecutors dismissed in sudden move that may signal a new direction in Jan. 6 cases
Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. On Friday, Robert E. McGuire, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should remain in jail at the request of his own legal team who said they feared he could…
On June 25, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a peaceful pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, was indicted on 12 federal hate crime counts. He also faces state charges, including attempted murder, wit…
Todd and Julie Chrisley detail their prison experience, presidential pardon and future plans after their daughter Savannah led the fight for their freedom.
ABC News asked New Yorkers if they think they could be a fair juror in the case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, who has pleaded not guilty on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
That is, if the Dems can ever retake power.
Jared Wise was on trial when he was pardoned as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping series of pardons related to Jan. 6.
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has revealed itself to be not just cruel, but fundamentally backwards: They’re literally freeing dangerous criminals while manufacturing cases against innocent people. And they’re doing it all to cover up the…
The final verdict in the Sean "Diddy" Combs federal criminal trial is in, and it's NOT GUILTY on 3 of the 5 counts -- they acquitted him of racketeering, sex trafficking of Cassie and sex trafficking of Jane. He's only been convicted on counts 3…
Sean "Diddy" Combs may have dodged a possible sentence of life in prison, but he's not a free man yet.
The man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14, and wounding a state senator and his wife, said...
USBP Chief Michael Banks announces a bust of several illegal aliens in Dallas, including some who allegedly assaulted federal agents.
It's probably nothing.
Some are calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to resign.
US president dismisses lingering questions about accused sex trafficker after law enforcement review dismays supporters.
The scope of Epstein's crimes remains unclear, as a new document sheds more light on his activities.
The Secret Service suspended 6 agents connected to the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump last July. The news comes just days ahead of the first anniversary of the July 13 attack at Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania rally -- and months…
A deranged Pennsylvania man says he executed and beheaded his own dad -- and then posted the grisly aftermath online -- all 'cause, according to him, his dad was standing in the way of his dream to become the next Donald Trump. Justin D. Mohn took…
Ghislaine Maxwell is hopeful President Trump will review her case and pardon her ... after his DOJ's controversial announcement about the Jeffrey Epstein files this week -- but sources close to the President say there isn't a snowball's chance in Hell that'll…
A federal appeals court has canceled plea deals with three men accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, deepening the legal morass surrounding the long-stalled case.
The Justice Department released video of the federal prison area where Jeffrey Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles. Immigrant advocacy groups filed the lawsuit last week accusing President Donald Trump's admini…
During the late hours of July 6, the Department of Justice and the FBI issued a quiet report: Jeffrey Epstein’s “black book” of elitist clients who engaged in his sex trafficking ring of underage girls doesn’t exist and neither does the blackmailing operation…
The Senate Homeland Security Committee said the Secret Service's "lack of structured communication was likely the greatest contributor to the failures" at the Pennsylvania rally last summer.
The report outlines “stunning failures" by Secret Service that allowed the attempted assassination of then-candidate Trump.
A Senate report said that the Secret Service's "multiple, unacceptable failures" allowed a man to fire bullets at President Donald Trump in July 2024.
The Justice Department and FBI said it would no longer release Jeffrey Epstein files, reigniting interest in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial.
A high-stakes rift at the top of federal law enforcement has erupted into public view as Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino considers resigning.
Pam Bondi sought to move past questions about her handling of the Justice Department's files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as pressure continued to grow for her to release them.
President Donald Trump continued Wednesday to dismiss calls within his own party for more transparency into the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Trump’s theory of the Epstein case is fanciful. But it isn’t dull.
Former airline captain Joseph Emerson, indicted for trying to shut off a plane's engines mid-flight in 2023, speaks to "CBS Mornings" about the incident.
“Except for the tiny, tiny, minuscule quibble that we have no evidence they’ve done any crimes, these people deserve to be locked up.”
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: In a major reversal from the Biden administration, the…
Under President Donald Trump, the Justice Department has asked a judge to consider a significantly lighter sentencing.
The Wall Street Journal reveals Trump sent Epstein a bawdy birthday letter, framed by a nude sketch and ending with: “Happy birthday — and may every day be...
President Donald Trump on Friday implied there is no "smoking gun" in the Jeffrey Epstein files as he seeks to downplay a case that's long animated his MAGA supporters.
A court in Brazil also bars the ex-president from using social media and put him under 24-hour surveillance.
Donald Trump has had the heat turned up on him big time in the Epstein case, and the CEO of Astronomer may not be a Coldplay fan anymore. So we gotta ask ...
United States President Donald Trump requested the Justice Department release all Grand Jury testimony concerning Jeffrey Epstein, pending court approval. "Even if the Court gave its full and un...
In 2002, Donald Trump called Jeffrey Epstein a "fun" and "terrific guy," and added, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett called for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and pushed back against criticism from President Donald Trump.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett said GOP lawmakers "know that [President Donald Trump] does not want [the Epstein files] released" and will act accordingly.
In a new interview, a former employee of Jeffrey Epstein said she told the FBI to look into Trump twice.
Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges for soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, but was hit with additional federal charges in 2019 before his death.
Bail Funds — where community members donate money to help others post bail — exploded in popularity after the 2020 protests against police brutality. Since then, they've faced political blowback, and a wave of legislation working to restrict them.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are reportedly desperate to be free of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and partisan sidekick, Alina Habba...
On Monday, one of the cops responsible for Taylor’s death was sentenced to prison. It wasn’t the “one day” the Justice Department recommended, but it was still far from the maximum sentence.
I’ve been warning people since the beginning of the year to expect the Trump regime to use the Twitter Files playbook on the US government and now we’re seeing exactly that play out. Trump is facing a bunch of pushback over the Jeffrey Epstein nonsense, so he…
Prosecutors had asked that officer Brett Hankison be given a sentence of one day for his role in the fatal shooting.
Attorneys for Taylor’s family described the Trump administration's actions as a "blatant betrayal"
Officials say they want to ask Maxwell "what do you know?", as her lawyers confirm they are in discussions with the government.
President Trump is facing questions about the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, he deflected by pivoting to long-held accusations about his Democratic opponents.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has released a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing he anticipates meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.
A subcommittee has approved a motion directing Oversight Chair James Comer to issue a subpoena for Ghislaine Maxwell's testimony regarding an alleged Jeffrey Epstein client list.
Judge Moraes accuses Bolsonaro of breaching a social media ban he had imposed on the ex-president.
Spare a thought for the MAGA lackey: he’s got an impossible task.
Major update in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation -- in a huge shift in its approach, the Department of Justice is now willing to work with the late sex offender's right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell. In a surprise announcement Tuesday morning…
Trump had sought the release of documents after days of sustained pressure from some of his most loyal supporters.
President Trump had called for the release of grand jury testimony related to Epstein. Two judges in New York also are weighing requests from the Justice Department to unseal grand jury transcripts.
Alivea Goncalves, sister of University of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, told Bryan Kohberger her sister "would have kicked your f------ a--" if he hadn't attacked her while she slept.
William McNeil Jr., the 22-year-old Florida man whose violent arrest by Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies was caught on video, addressed the incident publicly for the first time Wednesday morning.
The family of Kaylee Goncalves, who was stabbed to death by Bryan Kohberger, spoke after Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for murdering Goncalves and three others.
A magistrate judge in Tennessee paused Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from criminal custody for 30 days, after a separate judge ruled he should return to Maryland if released while awaiting trial.
Bryan Kohberger is finally being sentenced after admitting to murdering 4 University of Idaho college students -- he's in court and so are his victims' families ... and TMZ is streaming live. The confessed killer is set to be sentenced to four…
Donald Trump had sought to dispel rumours his administration had attempted to conceal information about Jeffrey Epstein.
Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man accused of shooting and killing a woman who was walking her dogs in San Leandro, California, last week.
William McNeil, Jr., whose violent arrest by deputies in Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff's has gone viral, tells ABC News' Linsey Davis what was going through his mind as the incident unfolded.
Ghislaine Maxwell engaged in a "significant pattern of dishonest conduct," federal prosecutors said in a 2022 sentencing memo.
Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly preparing "new evidence" to present during her upcoming meeting with the federal government this week. As you know, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it plans to meet with Maxwell to hear what she has…
Questions persist about how Jeffrey Epstein, who once moved among the world's elite, was able to avoid federal prosecution for so long. A timeline suggests some answers.
President Trump initially dodged the question about the possibility of granting clemency for convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell after being asked by ABC News.
Scandal-plagued former Rep. George Santos is set to report to federal prison to begin a seven-year sentence for wire fraud and identity theft.
Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, after answering questions for six hours on Thursday, will have a second meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: July 25th, 2025
The president filed a lawsuit claiming his reported birthday note to Epstein is “fake and nonexistent.” Now he says someone else might have signed it
How a once-fringe conspiracy theory became a spiraling controversy
The latest attempt to distract from Trump's ties to Epstein involving a call to prosecute Queen Bey. Trump Demands Beyoncé Be Prosecuted for Campaigning for Kamala Harris Scoop Harrison
This could be very bad news for Donald Trump, his $10 billion libel lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and his Epstein scandal cover up. Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, and Ro Khanna hav…
One of President Donald Trump’s most persistent legal foes is going after the Epstein files. Norm Eisen—the former White House ethics chief under former...
The U.S. Supreme Court should hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 2021 sex trafficking conviction, her lawyers argued in a brief to the Supreme Court Monday.
Pam Bondi previously said every video from that jail is missing a minute but didn't provide proof.
Maxwell's overt pitch for clemency came in a letter to the House Oversight Committee which subpoenaed Maxwell for testimony and records.
I know it often seems like it’s bad news all the time on the Techdirt channel. And I’m sorry it’s that way. I wish we weren’t dealing with a daily deluge of new awfulness from the current president and his enablers. But that’s what’s happening so that’s how i…
Demands major conditions for testimony, including immunity... (First column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:TINA BROWN: Ghislaine's Secrets... Her Life May Be at Risk... UPDATE: FBI Has Secret Prison Tape With No 'Missing Minute'... …
The federal judge said both sides “repeatedly over-litigated the case.”
President Trump this week talked at length about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but the accounts raise new questions about when exactly the two fell out and why.
Diddy wants his conviction on 2 counts of the Mann Act overturned, and if not, he's demanding a whole new trial on those charges ... according to new docs filed late Wednesday night. It's pretty stunning, but in the docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy and…
The constitutional order will not defend us from a judge so committed to Trump’s presidential authoritarianism. The post What to Do — And Not to Do — About a Judge Like Emil Bove appeared first on The Intercept.
Her family's statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president.
Bail? Not for Diddy, the feds say, turning the rap mogul's "just a John" argument on its head by dredging up the drugs and violence of freak offs.
Jeffrey Epstein's right-hand woman, incarcerated for 20 years and teeming with knowledge about the late financier, met with a Department of Justice liaison...
Smith had led two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump before resigning from his post earlier this year.
Without evidence, Trump and his allies accuse former US special prosecutor of illegal political activity.
Former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison, moved to minimum security site in Texas.
Donald Trump believes Sean “Diddy” Combs is “half-innocent” out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no presidential pardon right now for the much-accused Grammy winner. And, just two days after Deadline exclusively reported that Trump was “serious…
Scott Soucek, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was a MAGA's MAGA. He posted all the idiotic memes. He followed all the QAnon's conspiracy theories. He posted all the blithering idiot videos like this one: Here is Trump supporter Scott Soucek implying that Democrat…
These three judges give reason for hope.
If the law remains in place, other death penalty states may be tempted to follow suit.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has issued a number of new subpoenas — including one to the Department of Justice for the complete Jeffrey Epstein files.
The Justice Department turned over a version of the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts that identifies which information is not already publicly known.
Haley Robson says recent speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her "extremely angry".
Black's US lawyers raised concerns that his heart implant could shock him back to life, leading to undue suffering.
The president keeps trying to change the subject from Jeffrey Epstein, but his tactics are only making it worse.
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
How can you prove the absence of a secret file?
Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his administration has been dismantling our democratic infrastructure. On June 16 Trump nominated the thirty-year-old…
James prosecuted the president and his companies, winning millions in fines linked to fraud allegations. Her attorney called the probe "an attack on the rule of law."
Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal team plans to ask a judge that he serve no prison time. The mogul wants to counsel domestic abusers, his lawyer said.
The subpoenas are inquiring about the office’s civil fraud case against President Donald Trump and corruption case against the National Rifle Association, sources said.
The DOJ is seeking to unseal the exhibits shown to the federal grand juries in New York that indicted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to a court filing.
Professional Bull Riders wants to know whether Dr. Phil led his Merit Street Media to file for bankruptcy in a “bad faith” move — while shifting assets into ...
James successfully sued Trump for fraud in 2023, sparking the president's ire and accusations of retaliation.
President Donald Trump’s shocking defense of a champion boxer who raped a teenage girl has resurfaced as the president faces intense scrutiny of his...
Chilling images of the crime scene in the Idaho college murders are now being made public following the sentencing of convicted killer Bryan Kohberger.
A DeKalb County, Georgia, police officer was shot while responding to the incident, and later died from his injuries.
A $15 million trailer theft includes Apple products, multiple iPhone thefts are reported in the nation's capital, and an airline is sued over a stolen iPad, in this week's Apple Crime Blotter.The Apple Store in Glasgow The latest in an occasional AppleInsider…
The president said the Democratic representative was using her legislative position to game the stock market.
President Trump called for the release of the grand jury transcripts after growing pressure to divulge more information about Jeffrey Epstein's case, but the judge on the case said there is nothing new to release.
A judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's motion to unseal grand jury testimony from the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
A federal judge is ripping into Donald Trump for his obvious diversion tactic on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Government had hoped to get files released about Jeffrey Epstein associate to quell furore that had grown over case.
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump said something was “out of control” and that “we’re gonna put it in control very quickly.... I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”Trump…
The victim's mother told the court: "The brutality of her murder will haunt us for the rest of our lives."
The suspects allegedly posed as grandchildren, nieces and nephews with fake emergencies and convincing the victims to send money.
Sebastian Telfair is now behind bars ... TMZ Sports has learned the former NBA star has officially begun his prison sentence. Records show the 40-year-old reported to Fort Dix FCI in New Jersey, where he's expected to remain for the next six…
A jury convicted former Republican candidate Solomon Peña of conspiracy, weapons and other charges in the shootings in 2022 and 2023 on the homes of four Democratic officials in Albuquerque, including the current state House speaker.
A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation's capital has been fired from his job at the Justice...
“Why would it be something you wouldn't consider criminal as to your own personal decision with your partner, but, as to Lizelle, that personal decision is now homicide?” the ACLU's Lauren Johnson told Jezebel.
President Privately Dismissed Victims as 'Democrats'... (Second column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Epstein battle set to reignite in Congress...
Supreme Court will rule on ex-president's fate in case dividing nation that could result in lengthy prison term.
The first of the House Oversight Committee’s depositions in the Epstein saga are set to start Monday with former Attorney General Bill Barr. Jess Michaels...
David Pittman, 63, is set to die on September 17 in the record-extending 12th execution scheduled for this year, as two other men await execution later this month
It's not just at Alligator Alcatraz. Horrific conditions exist throughout the Sunshine State's prisons
A few years after telling Terra/Luna investors that their funds were safe, Kwon admitted to misleading them.
A profile of Donald Trump’s Attorney General, who has become a MAGA target for her handling of the Justice Department’s Epstein files while supporting the President’s focus on immigration, D.E.I., and political revenge. Ruth Marcus reports.
A district court judge just dismissed a $3 billion lawsuit over one of McKay’s biggest flops
An Indiana woman has been arrested in Washington, D.C. for making death threats against President Donald Trump on social media -- including a claim she would disembowel him. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, was taken into custody on Saturday after…
A federal judge in New York has denied the Department of Justice's request to unseal grand jury material from Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case.
Federal judge says government already has bounty of documents and material regarding Epstein that it could release.
A group of five New York judges struck down the fines issued by the trial court, finding it excessive — but couldn't agree on much else.
A New York appeals court has thrown out the half billion-dollar civil fraud judgment against President Donald Trump, his family and his company.
An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump, ruling Thursday in New York state’s lawsuit accusing him of...
All the bribes that Trump keeps taking are going somewhere very special
Donald Trump called or Tina Peters, a MAGA loyalist and convicted felon, to be set free from prison, threatening "harsh measures" if she is not.
The court's ruling delivers a major victory to the US president, who has rejected accusations he inflated his assets.
Former adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin faces new indictments as pressure on Mayor Eric Adams grows during election season.
Before joining the Justice Department this year, attorney Jonathan Gross said Jan. 6 prosecutors were "evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye."
Maxwell, the longtime partner of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, spoke with top Justice Department officials over the course of two days in late July.
The Justice Department is expected to deliver files from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation to the House Oversight Committee starting Friday. The panel plans to release some of the files publicly.
In a two-day interview Ghislaine Maxwell was asked about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and conspiracy theories surrounding his life and death.
Alina Habba got a critical fact about the 2024 election wrong.
Maxwell said that Bill Clinton never visited Epstein's private island estate.
Ghislaine Maxwell provided no incriminating information on high-profile individuals who interacted with Jeffrey Epstein to the DOJ, sources said.
The Salvadoran native has been in criminal custody since the federal government brought him back to the U.S. in June to face human smuggling charges.
The Salvadoran native was wrongly deported to CECOT in March.
The number of assaults on ICE officers was always going to increase. There’s no way it wouldn’t, not when ICE was sending out a task force composed of multiple federal law enforcement agencies daily to multiple locations in the United States, hoping to finall…
Maxwell denied that there is any 'client list' of prominent figures involved in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
It’s difficult to measure the impact of lies. Just ask the justice who called out Trump for fraud Thursday, while handing him a $500 million gift.
Jussie Smollett’s 2019 hate crime controversy is back in the spotlight with Netflix’s new documentary. Here’s what to know about the case and whether he was telling the truth.
That the US president needs a character certificate from a convicted criminal is quite befitting.
Ross Ulbricht built an empire in the shadows where drugs, weapons, and stolen secrets flowed freely.
Over a year ago, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed charges against two of Trump's former lawyers and a former Trump aide in relation to the fake elector scheme in the 2020 elections. Since that time, one of the defendants, Jim Troupis, has soon out a…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. charges related to his decades-long leadership of...
In a Miami studio where the Eagles and Bob Marley recorded, a choir of pardoned Capitol rioters tries to “reclaim” the national anthem, Charles Bethea writes.
Charges relate to his decades-long involvement in leading the Sinaloa cartel and its role in funnelling drugs to the US.
The controversial practice has been ruled protected speech by the Supreme Court.
The publisher promised “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details" from the Epstein accuser's life.
Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.
A federal watchdog investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith’s two prosecutions against President Donald Trump is based on “imaginary and...
Is throwing a sandwich at someone a felony? Well, that all depends on a few factors. The most important considerations are these: What would normally be rhetorical questions were answered in Washington, D.C. recently. A (now-former) DOJ employee allegedly (we…
The Republican leader had pledged to 'restore' the death penalty upon returning to the White House for a second term.
Police rushed to a Catholic school in Minneapolis in response to a shooting Wednesday morning ... with as many as 20 people injured at the scene. According to KSTP -- the local ABC affiliate in the area -- dozens of law enforcement officers…
Justice Department confirms Minneapolis school shooting; emergency services caring for victims, investigation underway.
Judge denies lawyer's claim that Israeli official could skip arraignment for child sex crime charges in Nevada.
'Barricaded doors from outside to trap kids'... (Second column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:FACE OF EVIL... Minneapolis shooter shared sick videos minutes before killing... Robin Westman is Catholic school worker's trans daughter.…
A much-accused The Apprentice executive producer was arrested today by federal officials in South Carolina on fraud, fake Covid-19 teat costs, and other charges that almost put the sins depicted in the acclaimed Donald Trump original story flick to shame, alm…
Investigators say a specific motive remains unclear, though the attacker expressed hate towards many groups.
Robin Westman -- who killed 2 kids and injured 17 people in a targeted shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis Wednesday -- reportedly wrote a long-winded manifesto and uploaded a number of strange videos prior to the attack. According to CNN…
The ruling marks the latest setback for prosecutors in a case that shocked the country when videos were released showing officers violently kicking and punching Nichols during a traffic stop.
Public comments about Kilmar Abrego Garcia by Trump administration officials are "highly prejudicial, inflammatory, and false," his attorneys said in a court filing.
The mother of the Minnesota church shooter is reportedly lawyering up after her kid went on a shooting spree, killing 2 children and injuring 18 other people. According to FOX News, Mary Grace Westman -- the mother of Robin Westman, who died from a…
Officials have said the shooter who killed two kids at a Catholic school and church 'idolized' mass murderers and 'wanted to watch children suffer.'
The Minneapolis mass shooter was armed with heavy artillery and wore tactical gear when they shot up a church, killing 2 children and injuring 18 other people, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. Robin Westman went on a bloody rampage…
Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive legal failure.
Jeffrey Epstein's associate has moved to the same prison camp as Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah. It's an improvement, according to a prison consultant.
More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.
Brazil's Supreme Court begins the verdict and sentencing phase of Jair Bolsonaro's coup trial Tuesday, with the former president facing a possible 40-year sentence.
A federal grand jury has refused to indict an Indiana woman accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump, another sign of a growing backlash against...
We’re all familiar with what grand juries should be able to do to the proverbial ham sandwich. But in Washington DC — the unwilling host of Donald Trump’s martial law test run — federal prosecutors can’t even get an indictment to stick the person throwing the…
The former president is charged with five counts, including plotting the assassination of senior officials.
A look inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home has been included as part of the release of tens of thousands of files related to the late pedophile. The...
New footage released from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail unit has blown up Attorney General Pam Bondi’s explanation about why a minute was missing from a previously ...
Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House are opposing a bipartisan push to compel the DOJ to release all the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Marina Lacerda, who provided key evidence that allowed prosecutors to charge Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking in 2019, is speaking out publicly for the first time.
Defence lawyers for the ex-president make their final arguments in the closing days of his coup trial in Brazil.
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform publishes documents but two lawmakers push for 'full release' of files.
Probe follows a lawsuit filed by Cook challenging Trump firing her from the central bank on mortgage fraud allegations.
Alien Enemies Act cannot deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but deportations proceed under immigration laws.
A South Florida grandmother was convicted of murder on Thursday in the killing of her former son-in-law, a law professor who was shot and killed in 2014 while in a custody battle with his ex-wife.
Top D.C. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro is slamming a judge who criticized prosecutors for bringing cases he says lack evidence in support of the president's crime crackdown.
The Jan. 6 rioter seen in photos wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie inside the U.S. Capitol building has been arrested in Virginia on charges stemming from a dog attack.
The arguments for and against 'reclassifying' of cannabis in the US are varied.
It wouldn’t be savvy politics to push to cut police funding. Adams and Cuomo know that. The post Zohran Mamdani Won’t Defund the Police. The Movement Can Grow With Him Anyway. appeared first on The Intercept.
U.S. President Donald Trump has suffered a string of courtroom losses in recent days as he and his administration test the legal limits of presidential powers.
Routh's trial in Florida begins on Monday, and he has made the unusual choice to represent himself.
A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3 million judgment imposed on President Trump for defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019.
Jury selection off to a rocky start in the trial of Ryan Routh, who is accused of trying to kill Donald Trump on a golf course during last year's presidential campaign.
The White House claims that Epstein birthday letter has a signature that doesn’t match Donald Trump’s. Well, here are some other examples where Trump signed ...
Appeals court upholds $83.3m verdict against Donald Trump for defaming E Jean Carroll over 2019 sexual assault claims.
After the letter was first reported by the WSJ, Trump denied he had written such a note and later sued for $10bn.
A US congressional panel has released a redacted copy of an alleged "birthday book" given to Epstein.
Jury selection continues Tuesday in Fort Pierce, Florida, in the trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump on his golf course last year.
Lewd image mirrors a report of the letter, turned over by Epstein's lawyers after US government subpoena.
Five-justice panel will spend the week voting on whether the former president plotted a coup to remain in power.
Choi Mal-ja was convicted in 1964 for biting off a sexual attacker's tongue. Now a court has cleared her name, ruling her actions "justifiable self-defense."
President Donald Trump demanded the suspect charged in the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman be "awarded THE DEATH PENALTY."
Thiel was one of many whose financial ties to the dead financier should be probed, a prominent senator believes.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: September 10th, 2025
A person of interest connected to the Charlie Kirk shooting is in custody ... according officials in Utah. At the press conference in Utah moments ago, Utah Governor Spencer Cox clarified that they have a person of interest in custody. Shortly…
Routh is charged with attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate. A conviction carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. Routh, who is not a lawyer, is representing himself in this case.
Kirk was killed Wednesday while speaking at a campus event in Utah. There is no suspect in custody.
Opening statements are set to begin Thursday in the criminal trial of Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump on his golf course last year.
The FBI said it is working alongside state and local law enforcement to "to fully investigate and seek justice in the fatal shooting” of Charlie Kirk.
The FBI released images of a person of interest sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star is the newest member of Bachelor Nation.
Utah's Department of Public Safety commissioner said the state "will not stand for what happened yesterday" and is "investing everything we have" into bringing Charlie Kirk's killer to justice.
Routh, who is defending himself, addressed jurors during opening remarks Thursday before the judge said he was off-topic.
The feds just released an image of a person of interest in the Charlie Kirk shooting. The FBI says ... "We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley…
The FBI is trying to track down the shooter who killed right-wing activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.
Ryan Routh represents himself as he faces five charges, including an attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump.
Video of the incident shows Charlie Kirk speaking to a large outdoor crowd when a gunshot rings out.
The bullet casings contained messages that read "Hey fascist! Catch!" and "If you read this you are gay LMAO"
The suspect has been identified as Tyler Robinson of Utah. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Robinson's family members reached out to a friend, who contacted the Washington County sheriff's office on Thursday.
Smiling politely, hair neatly combed, and wearing a green polka dot shirt with just one button undone, Tyler Robinson looks the picture of an all-American...
ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports on the casings that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says were found on the scene.
Just days after a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk at a Utah university, his wife, Erika, is set to deliver her first public remarks on Friday night.
Authorities have taken into custody the person they suspect of shooting and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at a Utah university campus event.
The skill set required to succeed online may not always translate to effective law enforcement.
The FBI says a family member recognised the 22-year-old man from Utah from surveillance images released to the public.
Kirk, a right-wing activist, was shot and killed while speaking on stage at a university in Utah on Wednesday.
The FBI is sharing an update regarding the detainment of the individual suspected of killing Charlie Kirk Wednesday afternoon. Officials are giving the update in Utah Friday morning ... coming after the President dropped the news that they had the…
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect in the fatal Charlie Kirk shooting, has been arrested and booked for aggravated murder and weapons charges ... according to the probable cause affidavit. Robinson has been booked on aggravated murder, felony…
A federal manhunt is under way for anyone involved in the assassination of the conservative commentator and Trump ally.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel reveal details of the alleged gunman at a briefing.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.
A suspect is in custody for the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
"There is no remorse in those eyes."
"Hey fascist! Catch!" Tyler Robinson wrote on a bullet casing.
Isn’t life crazy, folks? One minute you’re demanding the release of every single sheet of paper detailing the activities of a certain dead multi-millionaire ...
Just not an American one
Authorities have accused Washington, Utah local Tyler Robinson of killing the conservative activist
A 22-year-old Utah man has been arrested and booked for killing the prominent right-wing activist.
“I’m just so confused."
Virginia Guiffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent victims, alleged she was abused by the prince three times.
The charge carries a potential punishment of the death penalty in Utah. Tyler Robinson, 22, is currently being held without bail.
Fellow conservatives question FBI chief's qualification to head agency as he braces for Senate and House inquiry.
“The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement."
Patel now approaches congressional oversight hearings this coming week facing not just questions about that investigation.
Authorities say the suspect in the Charlie Kirk murder investigation is not cooperating. However, the people around him are. Here's what we know. And, takeaways from the 2025 Emmys.
New DNA evidence and threatening messages strengthen the case against Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk.
"He was the first person I ever opened up to," the Houston linebacker told ABC News' Will Reeve.
The suspect who was arrested for allegedly killing Charlie Kirk had an "obsession" with the conservative influencer, the FBI said on Monday.
"Left-wing radicals" killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and "they will be held accountable," Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed to ABC News.
The first people in line on Tuesday, I was told, started camping out on the sidewalk two days ago. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, was due in court at 9AM ET for a hearing in one of three c…
Tyler Robinson is thought to have discussed the killing on the online platform before his arrest.
Utah prosecutors charged Tyler Robinson, 22, with the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Officials say they are seeking the death penalty.
Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, has been formally charged with a slew of offenses as prosecutors announced their intent to seek the death penalty.
Tyler Robinson, the suspect accused of assassinating conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, made his first court appearance before a Utah judge on Tuesday.
Formal charges will be announced on Tuesday against Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin that shot Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
"Left-wing radicals" killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and "they will be held accountable," Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed to ABC News in an interview on Monday.
President Trump has made it clear he wants Tyler Robinson executed for allegedly assassinating Charlie Kirk ... and if Trump gets his way, Kirk's alleged killer faces a torturous fate. The case will play out in Utah, where capital punishment is…
Tyler Robinson -- the 22-year-old Utah native charged with murdering conservative pundit Charlie Kirk -- is about to go in front of a judge for the first time ... and TMZ is streaming live. Robinson is set for a court hearing Tuesday in Utah ... it…
FBI Director Kash Patel says 22-year-old Tyler Robinson also expressed wish to 'take out' Kirk in text message exchange.
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of shooting and killing Charlie Kirk, faces the death penalty in Utah. And, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker talks about why he is worried about the 2026 elections
'Impossible' to say if she was credible: Blanche breaks silence on meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Utah prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for Robinson.
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More than a dozen elected officials were arrested in or around 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions.
A 95-year-old woman is being held without bail at Rikers Island prison for allegedly beating to death her roommate, an 89-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, in a Brooklyn, NY, nursing home.
Only about 25% of Jeffrey Epstein's fortune went to his sexual abuse accusers. Congressional investigations into his finances could change that.
Federal prosecutors on Friday rested their case against Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump on his Florida golf course last year.
A judge has tossed President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to refile.
Susan Lorincz speaks out from behind bars in her first interview since being convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting her neighbor, Ajike 'AJ' Owens.
A student was arrested after allegedly posting a threat online and being found with a gun in their backpack at a New York City high school on Thursday, officials said.
Acosta didn't respond to questions as he walked into the committee room.
A US federal judge took issue with the contents of Trump's lawsuit against the newspaper and gave him 28 days to amend it.
Thought the actor and director’s defense was aggressive enough already? He just added an attorney who previously represented Diddy and Sam Bankman-Fried.
Mangione filed a 114-page legal attack on the death penalty and US Attorney General Pam Bondi. He is charged in the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson.
Donald Trump's recent executive order isn't tough on crime
The Justice Department said there was "no credible evidence" of criminal wrongdoing by Homan.
“FBI Director Kash, these 2 men standing behind Charlie Kirk look like they were giving hand signals right before the shot went off, you might want to look into it!”
Ryan Routh, who is accused in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on his golf course last year, called three witnesses and rested his defense after only a few hours of testimony on Monday.
In demanding that the attorney general go after his enemies, Donald Trump is upending fundamental norms of fairness and neutrality in the American legal system.
In what may be a first in American legal history, a sitting president just had his lawsuit struck down by a federal judge before the defendants even had a chance to respond. Judge Steven Merryday didn’t wait for a motion to dismiss. He didn’t wait for the def…
Jurors convicted Routh on five charges, including last year's attempted assassination of Trump as he golfed at his South Florida course. Routh represented himself in court and faces life in prison.
A judge has found that a man accused of fatally attacking a man at a Palm Beach Gardens golf course in November 2024 is mentally unfit to stand trial.
Ryan Routh, accused of trying to kill Donald Trump on Trump's West Palm Beach golf course last year, has been found guilty on all five counts.
Ryan Routh, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on his West Palm Beach golf course last year, has been found guilty on all five counts.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Police records and witness accounts from a Chicago suburb where a man was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent earlier ...
The new U.S. Attorney in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, sources said.
Comey faces one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice in connection.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said it had indicted former FBI Director James Comey on criminal charges of false statements and...
In a memo this week, prosecutors in Virginia recommended against potential plans by the new U.S. attorney there to charge ex-FBI Director James Comey, sources say.
Donald Trump got what he wanted ... one of his archenemies, former FBI Director James Comey, is now under federal indictment. Comey was indicted on 2 counts -- making false statements to Congress and obstruction of justice. Trump has been on the…
One person was killed and two injured by the gunman, who also took his own life. Jahn, the suspect, was 29.
"Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)" one scheduling note reads. The Tesla executive previously said he declined invites.
A federal grand jury returned a criminal indictment against James Comey, the former director of the FBI who has long faced criticism from President Trump. Ed...
Major Democratic members of Congress raised red flags after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted.
The former FBI director has been indicted on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020.
One of charges faced by ex-FBI Director James Comey focuses on his alleged role in the sharing of information about a probe related to Hillary Clinton, sources say.
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
On Thursday night, the Justice Department revealed an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, that lays out vague allegations that Comey made false statements to Congress. The indictment is not at all surprising because, last week, President Donal…
On Thursday night, the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey — accusing him of having lied to Congress during sworn testimony. For me, a journalist who covers declining democracies, this set off some pretty obvious alarm bells. President…
Former FBI Director James Comey is a longtime critic of US President Donald Trump and testified against him in 2020.
Wall Street regulators are reportedly flagging suspicious trading in the stocks of companies that have announced big crypto bets.
The Department of Justice has reached a new low.
Dominion has settled its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani over false allegations about the 2020 election, the company said.
One calendar entry, dated December 6, 2014, reads: 'Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)'.
'It's been a nightmare,' Thomas Sanford said of the time since his son allegedly opened fire at a Michigan church Sunday morning.
The search for more potential victims of a mass shooting at a Michigan church continued into Monday, after a gunman killed at least four people.
Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson praised law enforcement's response to the fatal shooting at a Latter-Day Saints chapel that occurred on Sunday morning.
The evidence that the president directed a vindictive prosecution is overwhelming.
The 911 audio of the Iryna Zarutska fatal stabbing aboard a North Carolina train captures the sheer horror right after the unprovoked attack ... with callers seemingly resigned to the fact she was already dead. TMZ obtained the audio recording of…
The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he believes high-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein participated in his behavior, and that he may have blackmailed them.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a...
Sean "Diddy" Combs returned to a Manhattan courtroom on Friday to be sentenced on two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution.
A year after being arrested and taken into custody on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges, Sean “Diddy” Combs looks likely not to get out of prison any time soon for the two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution the much-accused Bad Boy Reco…
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense insisted at today’s sentencing hearing on the Grammy winner’s sex-trafficking trial verdict that their client has been a “model prisoner” and model citizen. But a federal judge really wasn’t going for that. After listening to argum…
Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, mused about shooting then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert in text messages from 2022.
Sean Combs sat expressionless in his seat when the judge sentenced him to just over four years in prison Friday for his conviction on two prostitution-related offenses.
James Comey's indictment will surely be followed by others
Is he a Trumper? Well, when your Facebook page has your profile picture with Trump, it's probably a safe bet. Source: ABC13 MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Montgomery County authorities have arrested a church leader, accusing him of distributing child porn…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her conviction for helping the late financier and...
The council tasked with naming a prosecutor to replace Fani Willis in Georgia's election interference case against President Trump and others has asked for an extension.
John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.
The Supreme Court has declined to take up the appeal of Maxwell, who was contesting her prosecution and conviction on grounds that the government had violated an agreement made with Jeffrey Epstein before his death.
Former girlfriend of convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
FCI Fort Dix has what's known as a Residential Drug Abuse Program that Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer suggested would be beneficial to him.
President Donald Trump said that Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached out to ask him for a pardon following his conviction on two prostitution-related charges.
The DOJ has added two assistant U.S. attorneys from out of state to work on the case against former FBI Director James Comey ahead of Comey's arraignment on Wednesday.
Former NFL QB Mark Sanchez, who was arrested following a physical altercation this weekend, is now facing a felony charge of battery involving serious bodily injury, prosecutors in Indianapolis said.
The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee released a new report related to a probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California’s National Guard to shut down anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. Trump justified this by declaring the city to …
Conor McGregor accepts an 18-month ban for violating the UFC's anti-doping policy, the organisation says.
The attorney general spent Tuesday dodging questions from senators about her tenure at the DOJ.
The judge set a trial date of Jan. 5.
Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a criminal case that has thrown a spotlight on the Justice Department’s efforts to target...
Former FBI Director James Comey will appear in court on Wednesday for the first time since he was indicted last month on charges of lying to Congress.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the Palisades Fire, which killed a dozen people earlier this year and caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County, the DOJ announced.
If someone illegally double parks in a one-way street and a cop walks by, the expectation is that they’d get fined. Similarly, you’d think that if a company that uses animals is caught mistreating them, they too would face some sort of legal repercussion. But…
Trump critic James Comey expected to plead not guilty to charges that he made false statements to Congress.
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us. The post Black People Knew This Would Happen appeared first on The Intercept.
The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. The post Episode One: Dirty Business appeared first on The Intercept.
In a revelation that overturns much of previous probes into he devastating Pacific Palisades fire, the Department of Justice today said the blaze was a “holdover” fire and the result of the actions of a 29-year-old Uber driver, federal prosecutors revealed t…
The indictment comes after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute James, who successfully sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties.
October 9 (Reuters) -New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of President Donald Trump, was indicted for bank fraud on Thursday, a person...
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how during James Comey’s arraignment, the judge knew he was “watching a legal Trump clown show” while the “humiliated...
She has been charged with one count of bank fraud by the same U.S. attorney who brought charges against James Comey.
Federal prosecutors told a judge Wednesday that no harm was done to prospects for a fair trial after two U.S. Justice Department officials reposted...
Thirty-four men have died by court-ordered executions in the U.S. so far this year, and eight others are scheduled to be put to death by year's end...
A Trump-appointed prosecutor has presented evidence to a grand jury seeking an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, sources tell ABC News.
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump successfully directed the indic…
James had been a target of US President Trump since successfully suing him for overstating his wealth to dupe lenders.
US President Donald Trump's troop deployments will be further tested in two court hearings in different US states.
In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision: of course it violates constitutional rights to consider skin color, spoken language, “accent,” or place of employment sufficient to support a stop, much less…
The Trump Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI director James Comey has been received with widespread incredulity, both because of the shady circumstances around its filing and the extraordinary weakness of the case. Yet Lindsay Halligan, the US atto…
The indictment accuses James on two felony counts: bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
The indictments against Trump's foes may be weak — but the cases could be costly and lengthy.
Cody Balmer pleaded guilty to arson and attempted murder for starting the fire in April while Shapiro and his family were inside. They escaped safely.
Everything you need to know about Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s new prosecutor, who—hold onto your hats—has zero prosecutorial experience.
Under a plea deal, Balmer was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison, far less than he could have faced if the case went to trial. He declined to address the judge about the crime.
After three months of high-level legal wrangling, the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from a criminal defense attorney to order The Florida ...
Virginia Giuffre writes about Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and several alleged encounters with Prince Andrew in an excerpt from her book 'Nobody's Girl.'
Prosecutors label crimes as 'nihilistic violent extremism', while experts caution against oversimplifying motivations.
"There was tremendous criminal activity," the president averred, urging unspecified charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former FBI lawyer...
Prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury to indict ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton for his alleged mishandling of classified documents, sources say.
Pras Michél's story, from Fugees rapper to his conviction on federal conspiracy charges, will be the focus of a documentary produced by Mark Wahlberg.
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The former US attorney who negotiated a controversial 2008 plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein defended that agreement in a closed-door interview with House...
Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison earlier this year after being convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Former Trump adviser John Bolton is in a Maryland courthouse this morning where's he's expected to make his first court appearance after being indicted Thursday.
"Over time, I would come to see Epstein and Maxwell less as boyfriend and girlfriend, and more as two halves of a wicked whole," Giuffre wrote.
Bolton, a former Trump advisor, appeared for an arraignment in a federal court, where he faces 18 criminal counts.
A federal judge is concerned about federal agents violating her orders not to deploy tear gas and pepper spray at protesters.
While we chronicled the fall of Nikola, a company that promised over-the-road trucks built with hydrogen propulsion systems, it’s useful to note that it was literally only this past February that the company declared bankruptcy. What came before that was the …
Disgraced ex-congressman served 3 months of 7-year sentence, Trump calls it "fairness", critics say political favor
Bolton argues his case is an example of "weaponisation" but legal experts say the charges are serious.
Freed from the prison where he had been serving time for ripping off his campaign donors, former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he’s humbled by his experience ...
George Santos has broken his silence following his surprise release from federal prison ... thanking President Donald Trump for giving him what he calls "a true second chance at life." In a lengthy post on X Saturday, the ex-Congressman said he was…
John Bolton's indictment sure looks like selective prosecution by Trump
Federal prosecutors told a judge that defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald may have a conflict due to his role in releasing memos Comey wrote about Trump to...
A "No Kings" demonstrator has been arrested after cops say he's the guy who tripped a man who yelled out a gay slur at protesters in a video now going viral. Here's the deal ... video is going around online capturing a moment from the protest that…
George Santos says he's taken inventory of his life after a nearly six-week stint in solitary ... and, he's got a new mission after President Trump commuted his sentence and set him free. The former New York Congressman joined us on "TMZ Live"…
George Santos walked free Friday night when President Trump commuted his sentence after he’s served just 84 days of his seven-year sentence—about 3 percent of the term. He may have the distinction of being the most shameless thief and prolific fraudster ever …
Our vice president is spending his days beefing with a 23-year-old liberal influencer over an AI video our president posted of himself dropping a massive load of shit on protesters from a fighter jet. The video, posted on Saturday, depicts Trump piloting a fi…
Christopher Moynihan is the first pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested over alleged political violence.
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary chairman, lawyers for former special counsel Jack Smith seek to correct what they call "inaccurate" claims about Smith's Jan. 6 probe.
After more than a decade, Shannon Keeler was able to confront the man who confessed to sexually assaulting her at a 2013 fraternity party.
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
A New York man who was convicted of charges related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack was arrested Sunday on a charge that he threatened to kill...
Adam Iza built the crypto trading platform Zort. Then he fell in with hackers and started a criminal conspiracy including extortion schemes with cops.
Alvaro Uribe had previously been found guilty of asking paramilitary members to lie about their alleged links to him.
By JM McNab Published: October 22nd, 2025
There are levels of corruption, and then there’s whatever the hell this is. Donald Trump is demanding that American taxpayers pay him $230 million for being prosecuted. Which is like getting a speeding ticket and then billing the state for the cost of your tr…
One of Diddy's close friends is speaking out about the terrifying moment the mogul woke up in prison with a knife pressed to his throat. Charlucci Finney says the attack went down during one of the nights Diddy was sleeping at MDC Brooklyn -- an…
The US is bringing terrorism charges against protesters who allegedly provided material support to antifa.
Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation, while Heat guard Terry Rozier is among several charged in a separate gambling case, authorities said.
Prosecutors who investigated NY AG Letitia James for mortgage fraud found evidence that would appear to undercut some of the allegations in her indictment, sources say.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is scheduled to appear in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Friday to be arraigned on charges of alleged mortgage fraud.
US President Donald Trump has publicly called for the prosecution of James and other political rivals despite concerns.
New York Attorney General Letitia James slammed the federal charges against her as "revenge" from Donald Trump.
The lawsuit has Star Wars jokes, of course.
New York Attorney General Letitia James made her first court appearance yesterday, where she pled not guilty to federal charges ...
ABC's Jonathan Karl has the exclusive details in his new book, "Retribution."
A TikTok user was arrested earlier this month for threatening Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.
Mark your calendars ... the feds are projecting Diddy's prison release date ... and it may be sooner than you might expect. Diddy's possibly going to be a free man on May 8, 2028 ... at least based on his release date provided by the Bureau of…
The appeal follows a Supreme Court ruling last year offering broad legal protections for US presidents.
Norman Grim is set to be executed on Tuesday for the brutal murder of his Pensacola neighbor, a 41-year-old lawyer named Cynthia Campbell.
Attorneys for President Trump are appealing his criminal hush money conviction, telling a New York appellate court that his trial was "fatally marred" by faulty evidence.
His lawyers invoked presidential immunity and claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.
President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked a New York state appeals court to toss out his hush money criminal conviction, saying federal law preempts state ...
James is charged with illegally collecting rental income on a second property. But her contract permits renting, according to POLITICO’s review of her...
Abughaleh is one of six activists facing federal conspiracy charges for actions like blocking an ICE agent’s car in Broadview, Illinois. The post Trump DOJ Charges House Candidate Kat Abughazaleh With Conspiracy for Protesting ICE appeared first on The Interc…
Taylor Taranto's sentencing for time served comes as storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021 continues to reverberate inside the Justice Department under the Trump administration.
A day after prosecutors were disciplined for a sentencing memo that said Jan. 6 was perpetrated by a "mob of rioters," the suspect in the case will appear at a hearing.
Sean Grayson was on trial for fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home.
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday expanded his legal challenge to a Trump administration criminal case...
Jen Psaki shares reporting on the suspension of two federal prosecutors after they submitted a sentencing recommendation for January 6 rioter Taylor Taranto ...
Authorities in Tennessee have dropped a felony charge against a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination...
The feds are projecting Sean "Diddy" Combs will be released from custody on May 8, 2028 ... but his attorney thinks he will be a free man even sooner. We got Marc Agnifilo in New York City on Thursday and our photog asked him about the Bureau of…
A Detroit police officer was caught during a court appearance with his pants down — literally.
Newly surfaced report is in connection to a John Doe civil lawsuit against the disgraced mogul filed in July
First pic of Diddy in jail shows disgraced star bundled up for walk with gray beard... (Second column, 5th story, link)
New York Attorney General Letitia James is challenging the legitimacy of the acting U.S. attorney in Albany as she pushes back against the Trump administration's investigation of cases she brought against the president and the National Rifle Association, acco…
The FTX founder is looking for a fresh trial on his fraud and conspiracy charges. He's got an uphill battle.
This is probably the end of the road, though there's always the Supreme Court. Or a presidential pardon.
Sam Bankman-Fried is trying to rewrite the story of one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American history.
Prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing ex-FBI Director James Comey's criminal case to reject arguments from Comey that he is being "vindictively" prosecuted.
Injustice authors Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis say following Jan. 6, the cases against the former president were stymied by the FBI's desire to preserve its independence from politics.
An appeals court will consider whether the FTX cofounder should get a new trial after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for an $11 billion fraud.
(Corrects spelling of agent's name in paragraph 11) By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The trial of a former U.S.
A Tennessee sheriff so deep in the Charlie Kirk kool-aid he's lost the plot, tossed a retired cop in jail for the crime of quoting MAGA cult leader Donald Trump. Sixty-one-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. spent five weeks behind bars and faced a $2 million bond aft…
Trent Schneider, 57, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was charged with making a threat in interstate commerce to injure a person.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of former FBI Director James Comey to produce a trove of materials from the...
Outrage at a decision to provide teen rapist Jesse Butler a rehabilitation plan instead of prison time spilled into a protest in Stillwater Wednesday.
Nothing survives a purge. Especially not the truth. The DOJ secured a conviction for Washington state resident Taylor Taranto. According to the DOJ’s May 21, 2025 press release, Taranto had committed several federal crimes, including carrying two guns without…
Brazil's top court rejects Bolsonaro's coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him. The post Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption appeared first on The Intercept.
One of the biggest firms in the industry wants the Roberts court to grant it sovereign immunity. Even the Trump administration is in opposition—to a point.
Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a sharply worded 6-page letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday.
President Trump is taking his last shot at overturning a jury decision that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
A Virginia Democrat who helped investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is making a comeback bid after last week’s sweeping election wins as...
Boosie Badazz will be facing a judge later this month when he's sentenced in California for gun possession ... but he's still making the most out of his November with a birthday album release with NBA YoungBoy!!! TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Boosie…
A batch of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails released by House Democrats revealed that Donald Trump "knew about the girls" in the sex trafficking case.
A judge declined Thursday to throw out the criminal case against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, who was charged with assaulting federal agents during a chaotic...
Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James battled the Justice Department in court Thursday over whether...
Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have once again raised questions over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of his friendship with the ...
The latest documents were obtained after U.S. lawmakers subpoenaed the Epstein Estate over the summer.
A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday
Comey and James have sought to see their cases dismissed over the appointment of US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
Newly released emails show Kathryn Ruemmler, now Goldman's top lawyer and a former Obama official, maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein for years.
Employees of a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where convicted child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is serving time have been terminated, one...
A new prosecutor has been chosen to take over the Fulton County election interference case against President Trump and others after DA Fani Willis' disqualification.
The DOJ will seek to move or dismiss a lawsuit filed by former prosecutor Maurene Comey over her "unlawful and unconstitutional" firing from the Manhattan DA's office.
Police are searching for a man who escaped from a Louisiana jail by allegedly throwing cleaning supplies in an officer's face.
Last year, we wrote about Donald Trump’s bullshit lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer for releasing surprising polls right before the 2024 election suggesting that Kamala Harris might actually beat Donald Trump in Iowa. The polls turned out to be wrong—a…
President Donald Trump insists there's zero Jeffrey Epstein stink on him, and instead says it's people like Bill Clinton who should be worried, and just like that ... Pam Bondi is now investigating a slew of Democrats. Hours after POTUS fired off…
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for two men charged in a 2023 murder outside a St. Louis County gas station.
Michael Wolff, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel - who are some of the other names mentioned in the newly released files?
A court will weigh whether Eduardo Bolsonaro's lobbying of US President Donald Trump amounted to illegal interference.
Suzanne Ellen Kaye was convicted for threatening to shoot FBI agents.
Molinari did not say when or where Lisa was arrested, what charges he might face, whether he was in jail, or when he might go before a judge.
She wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and refused to carry a weapon.
Trafficking victim makes massive revelation about the US President. The post Jeffrey Epstein Victim Makes Huge Claim About Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell...
The U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that a former Louisville police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid...
An appeals court denied a request to reconsider an earlier decision that prevented a federal judge from investigating whether the Trump admin acted in contempt.
The women show photos of their younger selves, sharing ages they met Epstein.
Maxwell allegedly targeted Paris Hilton, believing she would be “perfect” for Epstein.
The vote is the culmination of a monthslong effort that advanced despite initial opposition from Trump and Republican leadership.
The bill is expected to pass in the House with Republicans' support.
The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana
The Justice Department almost never discloses information it collected on a criminal suspect outside of a criminal judicial proceeding, and for very good reasons. Revealing such information can endanger victims or other witnesses. And it denies due process to…
The Senate is expected to receive the House-passed version of the Jeffrey Epstein files and pass it along to President Donald Trump Wednesday morning.
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are expected to argue before a judge Wednesday that his case should be dismissed on the grounds of vindictive prosecution.
Although Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill compelling the Justice Department to release all of its files on the Jeffrey Epstein probe, there are exceptions.
A Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife in 2023 has pleaded guilty to disposing her body.
Trump makes sure the convicted trafficker is having a swell time in prison
The admission comes as lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey sought to dismiss the criminal charges against him.
The Department of Justice’s inappropriate, unethical, and incompetent actions in the case against James Comey are veering toward “uncharted legal territory.”
A member of the president's administration called the video an "insurrection."
Stunning revelations came to light during Wednesday's hearing.
Federal authorities said Wednesday they seized more than a half-ton of methamphetamine and indicted 15 people following a two-year investigation that...
Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal...
Lindsey Halligan, who is leading the prosecution of James Comey, appears to be losing in court, so she's turned to the court of public opinion — where her...
A day after a hearing in the DOJ's case against James Comey, U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and other DOJ officials are leveling public attacks at the judge in the case.
After a New Jersey woman reported she was zip-tied and slashed all over her body, with the words "Trump Whore" carved into her stomach ... authorities say she made the whole thing up, and even paid an artist to cut her skin to help sell the fabricated attack.
Fugees member Pras Michél has been hit with a 14-year prison sentence ... handed down after his conviction on conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying charges. The verdict came down Thursday in a D.C. federal court -- slapping Pras with three years…
Donald Trump's second term hasn't been normal from the start. Now, calling for hanging Sen. Mark Kelly and others for sedition, it's become insane.
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey on Friday moved to dismiss the criminal case against him, arguing there were "fundamental errors in the grand jury process."
The rapper was found guilty of criminal conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying in 2023
This is the story of a Tennessee man who was jailed for more than a month for the crime of posting one Donald Trump quote on Facebook.
D.L. Hughley says anyone who spent serious time with Jeffrey Epstein back in the day should be raked over the coals for it ... arguing many people have been canceled for far less. We caught up with the comedian at LAX Friday morning ... and, we had…
The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president and…
Security cameras capture the ambush shooting of Nicole "Nicki" Lenway while on her way to pick up her 5-year-old son.
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment. The post The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine appeared first on The Intercept.
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday tossed out criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey based on a procedural...
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that...
This fight is not over.
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
A bill mandating the release of the Epstein files was recently signed into law.
A judge dismissed cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on the grounds that the appointment of the attorney who brought the indictments was invalid.
Illinois police said "Slender Man" stabbing assailant Morgan Geyser told officers who asked for her identity to "just Google" her name when she was captured on Sunday.
In the court system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
The court found that lawyer Lindsey Halligan had been illegally appointed to her role as acting US attorney under Trump.
The government could appeal or attempt to retry the cases after a judge threw out the indictments
Documents show the U.S. Military plans to cut support to the Boy Scouts. And, a judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James.
A federal judge in Manhattan is demanding more information from the Justice Department as he weighs its request to unseal records from the sex trafficking...
FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency is working to meet the 30-day release deadline for the files.
Prosecutors in New York say they have dismantled a "sophisticated porch pirate criminal organization" that allegedly stole FedEx packages containing electronic devices.
The judge threw out the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James and wrote that Bondi couldn't "reach back in time and rewrite the terms of a past appointment.”
Yes, as I already wrote about, the indictment against James Comey was already thrown out due to Halligan’s improper appointment, but it’s also worth covering how badly she fucked up even if she had been appointed legally. These cases were destined for the dus…
The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
The co-owners of the Miss Universe Organization are facing charges: Rocha Cantu of Mexico and Jakkaphong "Anne" Jakrajutatip of Thailand.
Georgia's citizens are "not served by pursuing this case," the prosecutor said.
A lawyer for alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein asked a judge to order the Justice Department to take more care to protect alleged victims' identities in files releases.
Factually bankrupt analysis doesn’t make unlawful orders lawful.
Trump’s war on Chicago appears destined to end in a whimper. While he kicked off his invasion of Chicago with memes and a call to arrest J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, his out of control federal agents have reportedly begun to leave the area. That s…
A judge in the southern state of Georgia ruled that the case against Trump 'is hereby dismissed in its entirety'.
Combs is serving time at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Trump demanded "11,000 votes" to change Georgia's election results. To pretend otherwise whitewashes history
In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commu…
Jeanine Pirro announced the suspect's charges would be upgraded to first-degree murder following the death of one of the guardsmen.
'Terminates Joe executive orders signed with autopen' -- threatens 'perjury charges'... (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Doctor Lays Out 'Concerning' Case About Trump's Health... 'Incoherent' Rambling to 'Confused a Lot'.…
A local official in Arizona allegedly offered a man a job in exchange for sex -- and when he refused, kidnapped his teen daughter.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president to grant him a pardon during his long-running corruption trial that's bitterly divided the country.
This is a breaking news story.
Leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime, legal experts say. It doesn’t matter whether...
The Israeli prime minister is facing corruption charges that could see him sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
According to a criminal complaint, Rahmanullah Lakanwal shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he fired and was reloading when a Guard member shot him.
In attempting to call off his corruption trial, Netanyahu didn’t incriminate himself, but he did something just as damning.
The Game got on his soap box at his birthday party ... grabbing the mic and telling the world to free Diddy and R. Kelly ... and then he started talking baby oil and urination ... and it's all on video. TMZ obtained footage from The Game's Friday…
Judge orders Rahmanullah Lakanwal held without bond after fatal shooting in Washington, DC caused 'sheer terror'.
A new court filing indicates Kathryn Ruemmler, now the top Goldman Sachs lawyer, communicated with Jeffrey Epstein about sex assault lawsuits.
Arkansas' attorney general is seeking to have a former nursing home operator who was pardoned by President Donald Trump serve time in state prison for...
Trump says he will issue a "full and unconditional" pardon of the Texas representative and his wife.
Republicans have been probing Smith's investigations into Trump, which resulted in two indictments.
Her petition comes after President Donald Trump signed law requiring the release of records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The bombs were placed the night before the 6 January riots, and were discovered as rioters began to storm the Capitol.
A grand jury has refused to indict New York AG Letitia James on charges of mortgage fraud, ten days after a judge dismissed a nearly identical case.
Investigators have been working to crack the case for almost five years.
Al Jazeera looks at how years of punitive measures cost billions, filled prisons and did little to curb violence.
Arrest of Virginia man potentially ends five-year mystery that highlighted rise of political violence in the US.
Thursday's failed indictment against James is the latest setback for the Justice Department in its bid to prosecute the frequent political target of the Republican president.
A Florida judge has granted a motion to unseal grand jury transcripts from the initial investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump pardons drug lords and indicted lawmakers who speak ill of Joe Biden, so why not the conspiracy enthusiast Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect?
James decries Trump's 'weaponisation' of the justice system after second failed attempt to federally prosecute her.
Cole, a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, was identified following a long investigation.
A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, temporarily barring...
So much for Trump's promise to crack down on corruption in the ticketing and concert industry to help bring down prices for American fans. This week, he pardoned a sports executive in one of his Justice Department’s big battles against the industry, Tim Leiwe…
New data dumps and reports continue to reveal prominent people with ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s an updated list.
Audio and video show when former Alaska Airlines off-duty pilot Joseph Emerson tried to shut down the engines of a passenger plane in October 2023, putting the lives of 83 people in jeopardy.
Roderick Macleod, 70, was walking his dogs when he was allegedly struck by a driver with dozens of prior arrests.
A judge has granted a motion to release grand jury materials from the case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to comply with the Epstein Transparency Act.
The fate of Miss Universe is now tied up in cases involving fraud, trafficking, arrest warrants and allegations of pageant rigging.
Carl Rinsch, the director behind "Ronin 47" with Keanu Reeves, took the stand in his own defense. He faces up to 90 years in prison if convicted.
Co-chairs of LNG firm, who bought stock worth almost $12m each after meeting with Trump officials, deny wrongdoing
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Scranton Police told 28/22 News Tuesday night that three people were stabbed and a potential suspect is in custody....
Dec 11 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, sought on Thursday to limit media access to ensure a...
A Washington state man was attacked by a patrol dog while being detained by Customs and Border Patrol agents last month as his wife and young children looked...
For a second time in a week, a federal grand jury in Virginia has refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud, sources say.
Moore is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday for allegations of assault.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a fresh batch of photos Friday sent to the committee by Jeffrey Epstein's estate ... with images featuring President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Woody Allen, Bill Gates, Steve…
The FBI Director and Trump both posted prematurely about the details of an ongoing investigation into a tragedy at Brown University.
President Donald Trump blamed Reiner’s death on criticism of Trump, but details around the incident are still unclear.
Advocates have described the verdict as an 'unlawful' decision based on 'trumped-up national security charges'.
Nick Reiner, the son of director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer, will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, officials announced on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Jack Smith, the former U.S.
FBI experts on Tuesday combed through the vicinity of a weekend mass shooting that killed two students at the elite Brown University, as the hunt for the...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, including some showing him with powerful people.
Former model Stacey Williams said Donald Trump groped her at the Trump Tower in 1993 while her then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein watched on in what she...
The Justice Department has until Friday to release the Epstein files, but ahead of the looming deadline, a new report digs into President Donald Trump’s...
The deadline for the Epstein files is here. The DOJ is obligated to make public its reams of information about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he...
After years of speculation, the DOJ on Friday faces a deadline to release the remainder of its investigative files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
With the massive information dump of the Epstein Files from the DOJ Friday, we're getting a close look at the various high-powered figures who surrounded the disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein … including former presidents.
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO...
A chilling Epstein photo shows a tiny foot beside him, reigniting outrage over his past minor abuse.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the files were removed to protect the victims
Kyle and his wife sued Rutherford County and two sheriff's deputies back in August
Kyle Chrisley, the son of "Chrisley Knows Best" stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, has been arrested in Tennessee on an array of charges -- including assault. He was picked up by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office Saturday night around 7 PM, and…
Suffice to say, Jeffrey Epstein should never have been allowed to be around children ... but, as these Department of Justice photos show, the pedophile was having a good time with someone who could be a kid. Check 'em out ... The grainy pics…
A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Monday over whether ICE should be allowed to re-detain Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The DOJ faced a Friday deadline imposed by Congress to release a massive cache of records gathered during government investigations into the sex offender.
The note was released by the Justice Department as part of a batch of files related to the Epstein investigation
A fake video purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein taking his own life inside a prison cell made rounds on social media after it was spotted in the Justice...
Aubrey O'Day discusses the disturbing witness affidavit involving Sean "Diddy" Combs in a "CBS Mornings" interview on Tuesday.
The DOJ says it's investigating the “validity” of the letter—though the existence of a letter from Epstein to Nassar was first reported by the Associated Press in 2023.
Jeffrey Epstein may have had a pedo pen pal in Larry Nassar ... and President Donald Trump is also in the mix as a lover of "nubile girls," according to new documents released by the Department of Justice. The DOJ just dumped a new batch of Epstein…
A prominent California farmer was arrested in the shooting death of his estranged wife in a remote mountain community in Arizona, authorities said.
The largest release of Epstein-related documents yet from the justice department included some notable messages and several mentions of Trump.
During the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump and the QAnon acolytes that surround him could not stop talking about how the Democrats and former President Joe Biden were hiding investigatory materials related to convicted sex offender Jeff…
At Congress' behest, the U.S. Department of Justice released hundreds of files related to Epstein, a convicted sex offender, on Dec. 19, 2025.
Texas DAs say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained or deported.
Reiner, known for directing movies including "Stand by Me" and "The Princess Bride," was found fatally stabbed in his home in December 2025.
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich: For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation revea…
At long last, El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from custody. Abrego Garcia was among the hundred-plus migrants rounded up by ICE and shipped to El Salvador’s infamous torture prison, CECOT. Months of litigation ensued. The Trump admin…
This administration runs on vengeance. If it’s not Donald Trump aiming the DOJ at his personal enemies, it’s the DOJ itself taking a shotgun approach to justice (read: filling it full of holes) by filing as many criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters as…
The president is trying to find a workaround to Biden's commutations — and the double jeopardy clause
Years after the arrest of the group's leader, the far-right militia is returning.
Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Jud…
Jack Smith told lawmakers he had evidence to convict Trump in both cases, according to a deposition.
Smith told the House committee the attack on the Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump’s role
Jeanine Pirro, Lindsey Halligan and Alina Habba all showed us what failing upwards looked like this year. Chris Hayes provided a nice summary on his show on Christmas Eve on these incompetent hacks, like Jeanine Pirro who couldn't even indict a ham sandwich b…
Ohio authorities are searching for a suspect after a dentist and his wife were found murdered inside their home earlier this week.
If you remain unconvinced up to this point and still want to stay on the MechaHitler site that publishes CSAM and removes women and girls' clothing for an audience of millions without their consent, I ask, what will it take for you to quit a site that only ab…
Prosecutors say Brian Cole confessed to planting bomb while parroting Trump's false claims 2020 election was stolen.
NPR's Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses. The Utah plastic …
Mayor alleges ICE officer ‘recklessly’ shot her adding immigration agents are ‘causing chaos in our city’.
ICE is under scrutiny following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good.
The events that led to a federal officer in Minneapolis killing Renee Nicole Good have not been universally interpreted. On a visit to Texas on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism.” She sa…
Trump administration officials allege the shooting victim was interfering with an ICE agent's work.
A judge’s ruling that a Trump administration prosecutor in upstate New York was serving unlawfully has spilled into another case — with the same judge saying...
Good’s killing was not an aberration. The point is that anyone can be next.
Nick Reiner's defense attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the case during Wednesday's court appearance. Reiner is charged with killing his parents, director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.
ABC News' frame-by-frame review of video from Wednesday's ICE shooting in Minneapolis examines what happened before, during, and after the incident.
Shots were fired just 40 seconds after the ICE agent left his vehicle.
The video, published online by a Minnesota-based news site, Alpha News, and reposted by the Department of Homeland Security, shows the shooting from the perspective of the officer who fired the shots.
“More and more, I believe he was murdered,” Mark Epstein said in July 2025
The 47-second video shows the shooting from the perspective of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the shots.
UPDATE: Agent's footage raises new questions about tactics... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:'Fucking bitch'... Minnesota prosecutors will conduct own review... America Watches Shooting and Comes to Two Different Concl…
Protests erupt after ICE agent fatally shoots mother of three, fuelling anger at Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.
Powell called the probe "unprecedented" and came after his refusal to lower interest rates after demands by Donald Trump.
ICE Barbie has been working overtime to work outside the law and rewrite reality.
The Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is sparking backlash and spotlighting the clash between the White House and the Federal Reserve Chair.
“I cannot think of another high-profile federal agent shooting case like this when the Civil Rights Division was not involved," a former associate AG under Obama told the Washington Post.
US state sues Trump over ICE raids after fatal shooting of mother of three sparks nationwide protests.
Surveillance video captured the moment a suspect opened fire at a police vehicle, sending sparks flying. The suspect was later found dead in his vehicle.
Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video ang…
Jonathan Ross -- the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good while she was behind the wheel of her car in Minneapolis last week -- reportedly suffered internal bleeding from their confrontation ... according to Trump administration officials. Two…
Elon Musk remains at large.
A Republican-led congressional subcommittee is leading a new investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Do their claims add up?
The medical examiner said that following a struggle with ICE staff, Geraldo Lunas Campos died of asphyxiation.
The convicted sex trafficker has previously said she would decline to answer questions unless she is granted immunity.
The Minnesota attorney general and St. Paul mayor have also been subpoenaed as local, state and federal officials have clashed in the aftermath of the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
On the five-year anniversary of Jan. 6, some of the rioters pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office returned to the Capitol.
Here's how twisted Jeffrey Epstein was ... he used his birthday as an excuse to traffick and take advantage of girls ... at least according to one of the members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee that's been releasing photos and documents from the Epstein…
Jack Smith's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee marks the first open testimony about his work after presiding over two federal criminal indictments of President Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith who charged Trump with crimes in Florida and D.C. is testifying in public before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Smith defended his decision to charge President Trump with crimes in Florida and Washington, D.C., during his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Crockett focused on former special counsel Jack Smith's report that recommended charging President Trump for alleged crimes committed on January 6, 2021.
The Theranos founder isn't scheduled to be released from prison until 2031.
Jack Smith appeared in front of Congress to testify publicly today, saying that he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of Trump's guilt.
Renee Good was shot in the left forearm, right breast and left side of her head during a confrontation with ICE officer Jonathan Ross earlier this month in Minneapolis, an autopsy commissioned by her family has revealed. The new information was…
Tommy Lee Walker was declared "innocent" by a Dallas court 70 years after he was executed for the rape and murder of Venice Parker.
The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave an update after federal agents fatally shot a man in Minneapolis Saturday.
Minneapolis may represent the beginning of a broader rupture between local police and federal agents.
On Saturday, a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti at close range after Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, beaten, and forced onto his knees by other agents. Pretti, 37, was a US citizen and reportedly in the area to observe a…
The video of the latest killing in Minneapolis is truly horrific. In it, about half a dozen men in military garb, who appear to be federal immigration officers sent to Minnesota by President Donald Trump, wrestle a man to the ground and repeatedly strike him.…
What do dog collars, stethoscopes and vibrators have in common with Jeffrey Epstein? They're all among the convicted pedophile's "toy" collection. No surprise there ... given Epstein's notorious penchant for lurid sex, but when you look at the…
The U.S. citizen shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis has been identified. Alex Jeffrey Pretti -- a 37-year-old man -- was the individual killed by feds, according to the Associated Press, which cites Pretti's parents. AP says Pretti is…
New video from the shooting of Alex Pretti by Department of Homeland Security in Minneapolis Saturday morning shows officers pile onto the late ICU nurse before the fatal shots ring out. Check out the shocking clip -- the video is filmed from…
Networks shifted from the emerging winter mega storm to another deadly shooting in Minneapolis, where federal agents killed a 37-year-old man. As was the case with the fatal shooting of Renee Good earlier this month, bystander video quickly emerged on social …
Video on Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
Video Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
The victim of Saturday’s fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis was identified as 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse.
Trump officials have called the victim a "domestic terrorist." State officials warn such unfounded accusations threaten the integrity of the federal investigation.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accused federal officials of "spinning stories" after a man was killed Saturday in a confrontation with federal agents in Minneapolis.
Vinson Cunningham writes about how the rapidly disseminated videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, in Minneapolis, reveal a brazen display of brute power.
A bystander footage has captured the moments before Pretti was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.
ICE repeatedly shot and killed Alex Pretti who posed no threat to anyone. The US we once knew is over.
By Brad Brooks and Tim ReidMINNEAPOLIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Senior Trump administration officials on Sunday defended the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration ag… Leggi
Minneapolis is in mourning again – but still fighting back.
Second fatal shooting an 'inflection point' says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday's shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
First, there’s the lies: the immediate, reflexive flurry of posts meant to portray anyone federal immigration officers kill as a threat to public safety. When an officer murdered Renee Good, the administration claimed she was a terrorist who was trying to run…
Federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday has strengthened Senate Democrats’ resolve to force changes to Trump’s immigration forces — even at the risk of shutting down the government. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer released a st…
We need a mass movement for basic decency.
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A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both. Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers w…
The country’s founding principles will survive only if the public remains willing to fight for them.
Minneapolis is once again the focus of debates about violence involving law enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, in her car. The incident quickly prompted dueling narratives.…
The Minnesota congresswoman was attacked while hosting a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 27
As Trump and the Minneapolis Mayor spar over social media on immigration law enforcement, the US continues to be roiled by the killing of nurse Alex Pretti.
Team Trump even seems to be bringing back election interference figures like Sidney Powell, who agreed to testify against him in Georgia.
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, Noem and Miller both tried to paint him as a domestic terrorist…and now they’re throwing each other under the bus.
On Wednesday Judge Foster said she was “deeply disturbed” that Bondi shared mug shots of arrested protesters in Minnesota while they were still defendants in an ongoing trial and hence, still innocent. “This conduct is not something that the court condones.”
Yet another new angle of the newest video of Alex Pretti tussling with federal agents in Minneapolis, 11 days before he was shot to death, has surfaced ... and you can see the violent altercation and clearly hear the insults he hurled at the officers leading …
Alex Pretti busted the tail light of a federal agent's SUV days before he was shot to death ... and the tense exchange -- while he was armed -- played out on camera. The Minneapolis ICU nurse, who was killed by Customs and Border Protection…
Two agents placed on administrative leave as outrage continues over killing of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.
As part of the government's affidavit, an FBI agent testified to the suspect approaching Omar with a syringe.
Epstein wrote an email to Musk in 2013 discussing a visit with four "assistants," newly released DOJ documents show.
Elon Musk planned visits to Jeffrey Epstein's island, DOJ emails show. Epstein repeatedly sought meetings with Musk, who previously denied visiting.
Ghislaine Maxwell ripped a page out of Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile playbook during a 2015 video-recorded deposition, claiming everything was done by the book while Epstein was enjoying his creepy massages. Maxwell was as defiant as her late…
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for his alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The president said the newly released Epstein files "absolve" him of any wrongdoing and reveal a plot against him
The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about state power and violence
And all the king's horses and (almost) all the king's men all get a mention.
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the Republican leading the probe said an agreement had not yet been finalized.
The Clintons agree to testify in congressional probe of high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein amid contempt threat.
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Brett Ratner, director of Amazon MGM Studios documentary Melania, has denied having a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after appearing in Department of Justice files on the late sex offender. The millions of documents released by the DoJ featured an image of…
Prosecutors claimed that Routh, 59, remained 'totally unrepentant' for the incident in Florida.
A federal judge said he retired to speak out about threats to the rule of law. Newly released court orders suggest his exit coincided with a misconduct inquiry that ended when he stepped down.
Three million more pages of the Epstein files dropped last week. Here’s what you need to know.
Man accused of ambushing West Virginia National Guard members near the White House in November, killing one and severely wounding another, set to be arraigned Wednesday.
Judge says Ryan Routh engaged in 'premeditated' plot to kill Trump several months before the US presidential election.
Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.
Newly released body camera video shows the moment officers shot and injured a man who was suffering a mental health crisis in Queens. His family says they called 911 for medical aid, not police.
A Minneapolis man who described himself as an "Antifa member" has been arrested on charges of making threats against federal immigration agents.
A judge has ordered the administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that immigration agents used "deception and coercion" to remove them.
President Trump says the feds are getting closer to cracking the kidnapping case of Savannah Guthrie's mom Nancy ... and the FBI may even have a suspect! Trump shared the bombshell news with reporters on Air Force One Friday night, saying…
The home of Nancy Guthrie was buzzing with police activity Friday, with a steady stream of vehicles in and out ... plus a tow truck that was seen hauling away a blue SUV as the search for Nancy continues. Video shows the truck removing the SUV from…
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.
Ghislaine Maxwell plans to take the Fifth on all questions related to President Trump's association with Jeffrey Epstein during her high-stakes deposition Monday in front of Congress. Ro Khanna (D-CA) fired off a letter to House Oversight Committee…
Friday night, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Trump administration’s policy subjecting all immigrants not legally admitted into the U.S. to mandatory detention and to being held without bond while they go through deportation proceedings. The polic…
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 () - Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions at a deposition before the U. House's Committee on Oversight...
Ghislaine Maxwell avoids answering questions on alleged co-conspirators in case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper faces possible life in prison on charges of foreign collusion.
Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday, but indicated that if President Trump ended her sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.
Former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter was a central figure in the first law enforcement probe of Epstein in Florida.
FBI Director Kash Patel released images of an "armed individual" in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie.
Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment during the closed-door virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, according to video released by Chairman James Comer.
FBI Director Kash Patel released video of an "armed individual" in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie.
Donald Trump told cops "everyone" knew about Jeffrey Epstein's evil acts with underage girls ... this according to an official FBI report. The report -- several of the millions of Epstein document pages released by Trump's Department of Justice in…
Lucy Harrison had earlier argued with her father about Donald Trump, an inquest into her death heard.
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. A third is charged with taking bribes ...
Rep. Jamie Raskin says the unredacted version of an email regarding President Trump "seems to be at odds" with some of the things Trump has said about Jeffrey Epstein.
The DOJ failed to secure indictments for Democratic members of Congress who participated in a video telling the military they could disobey illegal orders.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was being questioned by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler when she sparred with his Democratic colleague.
Patel is already doing what he does best: rushing to tweet and potentially bungling the investigation in the process.
After a cop got shot, Prairieland ICE protesters face terrorism charges. Will Alex Pretti’s killing sway the jury? The post Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes on Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE appeared first on The Intercept.
Representative Ted Lieu accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of lying under oath Wednesday, catching the Trump official in a bind after she claimed no evidence existed of young girls at parties attended by the president.The California lawmaker highlighted that,…
Attorney General Pam Bondi crashed out during a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, and began ranting about how great the stock market is doing in order to try and deflect questions over whether she was investigating any of convicted sex off…
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was on the hot seat over the controversial decision to transfer Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison.
Bondi clashed with Democrat representatives Jasmine Crockett and Ted Lieu during her Epstein files hearing.
The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota is asking a judge to dismiss charges against two men accused by the Trump administration of allegedly attacking an ICE agent.
Judge Boasberg got his vindication in the frivolous “complaint” the DOJ filed against him, and now he’s calling out the DOJ’s bullshit in the long-running case that caused them to file the complaint against him in the first place: the JGG v. Trump case regard…
The Trump Justice Department is protecting the powerful at the expense of Epstein’s victims, says an attorney representing nine of his accusers. The post Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG appeared first on The …
During and right after Pam Bondi’s House testimony Wednesday, I flipped on Fox News and Newsmax to see how they were covering it. I was expecting to see a celebration of how the attorney general really put those America-hating libs in their place. To my surpr…
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced pointed questions on Capitol Hill, and lawmakers continued to press the Justice Department about its decision to redact certain information.
The U.S. attorney is stumbling in Trump’s revenge tour — and it’s a sign of more struggles to come.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a letter to members of Congress that all of the Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein have been released in accordance with a law passed last year to disclose the millions of documents related to the the convicted sex…
By Herbert Villarraga and Steve GormanTUCSON, Arizona, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Investigators have obtained a DNA sample from a discarded glove that was found near Nancy Guthri… Leggi
The public reaction to the violence in Minneapolis suggests that we have held on to our sense of universal morality.
Even as the FBI continues to refuse to share evidence, the DOJ is investigating two ICE agents in Minnesota for lying.
Donald Trump is making it crystal clear ... if Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers don’t bring her back alive, they could be staring down the ultimate punishment: the death penalty. The President told the New York Post in a phone call the abductors need…
Steve Bannon remained close with Epstein, even texting with him about a "documentary" project on the very day of Epstein's 2019 arrest.
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EXCLUSIVE: A $15,000 ticket that Jeffrey Epstein bought for Hollywood PR maven Peggy Siegel to attend the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Night Before gala in 2013 has become a prime focus of a long ongoing lawsuit that is now pulling besieged LA28 chair…
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed portions of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, but will allow other claims to proceed to trial next month. The Justice Department and 39 states sued Live Nation in 2024, with claims that comp…
In a deposition, billionaire Leslie Wexner offered few new details about his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein and sought to distance himself from the sex offender.
It was never revealed until now that the shooters of Ruben Ray Martinez were agents of ICE. Like Renee Good, he died at the wheel of his car.
Trump couldn’t accept the fact that he lost the 2020 election. So he stood idly by (if you believe his narrative) or urged on (if you believe your own eyes and ears) his supporters to raid the Capitol building to seize the election from the electorate. If tha…
State officials say the information in unsealed FBI files 'warrant further examination' of a case closed in 2019.
The Trump admin employs an extreme stalling tactic in suit concerning potential Epstein-related Trump interviews
Even charges like the ones Rojas faces can be devastating, whether or not a jury ever convicts.
Jeffrey Epstein had at least six storage units throughout the country where he hid materials that were apparently never searched. Documents obtained by The...
Jeffrey Epstein appears to have successfully hidden a trove of potential evidence of his crimes from investigators for more than a decade, according to DOJ documents.
This is the first known action that the prediction market has taken against users for alleged insider trading.
Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…
Ghislaine Maxwell is a real stinker in federal prison ... as a matter of fact, she smells like "armpits," according to one inmate who knows her well. The female inmate -- who we confirmed was incarcerated with Maxwell from 2023 to 2025 -- had daily…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told U.S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine...
A federal judge in Tennessee will hear arguments over whether the government is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Hillary is scheduled to testify on Thursday, February 26, followed by Bill Clinton on Friday, February 27.
Trump commerce secretary – who lived next door to Epstein in New York – urged to testify about extent of relationship
A Trumpy CNN pundit’s attempt to defend the Justice Department’s sloppy handling of the Epstein files backfired spectacularly when he was called out for an...
Former President Bill Clinton was set to take part in a closed door deposition with the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe into Jeffrey Epstein.
Clinton is deposed by the House Oversight Committee over Epstein ties, a day after Hillary testified.
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein investigation, and more.
The former US president, who is featured in photographs within the Epstein files, denies having any knowledge of the convicted sex offender's crimes.
There are too many disturbing and sordid things about Jeffrey Epstein to name them all. Like the fact Steve Bannon was secretly working with him on a documentary to restore his image right up until his 2019 arrest.
Over hours of testimony, the Clintons both denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes prior to his pleading guilty in 2008 to state charges in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
We’ve said it over and over again on this site: when you stand up to the bully, the bully backs down. When you capitulate, you get nothing but a permanent stain and an invitation for more abuse. And here we are again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that…
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.
An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of investors tied to the administration. The suit claims the arrangement violates a 2024 …
Real estate broker Tracy Tutor alleged in a lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by Oren Alexander when he was a realtor for Douglas Elliman.
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
Files summarise a woman's accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.
Andrew Paul Johnson, whom President Donald Trump pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing two children.
There are scandals. There are obscenities. And then there is the filthy criminal coverup being carried out by the Trump White House and the U.S. Department of Justice. Remember the Epstein files? Just a week ago, BEFORE Trump bombed Iran, the Epstein coverup …
Richard Kahn testified to the House Oversight Committee that he did not know about Epstein's crimes. He said monetary gifts that Epstein made did not raise any red flags.
A federal judge has put the brakes on a criminal probe of the Federal Reserve, saying it was part of an improper campaign by the Trump administration to pressure the central bank into cutting interest rates.
Two teens accused of plotting to kill a classmate will remain held in jail after prosecutors argued that footage of the two laughing in a patrol vehicle showed they continue to pose a threat.
Judge James Boasberg ruled US prosecutors under Trump produced 'essentially zero evidence' to justify the subpoenas.
The government won on most of its charges, including convicting defendants for moving a box of radical zines. The post Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black appeared first on The Intercept.
A federal judge threw out a pair of subpoenas the Justice Department issued to the Federal Reserve, handing a victory to the Fed and dealing a heavy blow to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s criminal investigation into Chair Jerome Powell. Judge Box O'Wine isn't …
"There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas' dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will. On the other side of the scale, the Government has offered no …
It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since…
The DOJ is filled with grossly incompetent prosecutors these days. It’s a bunch of subservients acting in obeisance to the zenith of gross incompetence: the current President of the United States. When not being sidelined by judges for not being legally appoi…
Arizona is the first state to allege the prediction market company has committed criminal violations, accusing it of running an unlicensed gambling operation.
Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home.
Feds move to dismiss charges against officers accused of falsifying warrant in Breonna Taylor raid.
Mueller's family told The New York Times in August that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donal…
Robert Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel who investigated Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, had died at the age of 81.
Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI for 12 years and leader of an inconclusive criminal investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia, died on Friday at age 81.
The US Justice Department has asked a federal judge to toss the remaining criminal charges against two Louisville cops accused of falsifying a search warrant that led to police fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in 2020.
The Supreme Court in Brooklyn It's the first application of a new law allowing courts to further shield jurors' identities. [ more › ]
Former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro heads to court again this week. The judge overseeing this case is longtime federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein. At 92 years old, Hellerstein is older than the average age of a federal judge by more than 20 years.
Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has been accused of giving Congress a memo containing “damning evidence” that Donald Trump kept sensitive secrets to...
The DOJ has reached an agreement with ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn to pay him roughly $1.2 million to settle claims that he was politically prosecuted, sources say.
The classified documents taken by Trump reportedly contained some so secret, only six people in the country had clearance to see them.
Less than an hour before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead, the guards meant to be watching him were apparently searching him online.
Unusually timed trades around Trump’s Iran announcement have raised questions about who knew what and when
Trump administration attorneys will face serious questions for the first time on Friday about the seizure of 2020 election records from a Fulton County election site.
A new investigation has backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13, according to a report. The ...
The judge said even the appearance of bias is bad for justice.
Both the U.S. and U.K. have already seen people arrested and jailed based on AI facial recognition that turned out to be wrong.
Former agents say that they were fired for work on probe into Trump's efforts to stay in power after 2020 election loss.
It might be the worst job in all of prison.
Body camera footage has been released showing the law enforcement response to Tiger Woods' rollover crash in Florida.
Legal experts tell NPR five possible reasons that, despite the accusations made against rich and powerful people in the files, the DOJ have made no additional arrests. The big one? Lack of evidence.
Newly released police body camera video shows the moments after Woods' rollover crash in Jupiter Island, Florida.
For the last year, Lizelle Gonzalez has been seeking $1 million in federal damages after officials tried to charge her with murder for self-inducing an abortion.
Pam Bondi's replacement is a former personal lawyer of Trump’s, a big number-two (at the Justice Department), and, well...Maxwell’s biggest bitch.
Bannon refused to honor a subpoena to testify about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
Steve Bannon, an ally of US President Donald Trump, served a four-month prison sentence after his 2022 conviction.
Heuermann changed his plea to guilty and admitted to the murders of eight women in court.
Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann admitted to the murders of eight women in court on Wednesday as he changed his plea to guilty.
One of the women, a former staffer, alleges Swalwell raped her in 2024 and sexually assaulted her in 2019 while she was a 20-year-old intern.
A judge has thrown out President Trump's $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal over the paper's reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book.
The man allegedly attacked three people waiting for the subway in Grand Central Station, police said.
Judge dismisses Trump's Wall Street Journal Epstein letter defamation lawsuit The president can still refile the lawsuit before the end of April.
The government’s reliance on grand juries to bring charges against activists, protesters, and the president’s personal enemies has been misplaced. Increasingly, grand juries are refusing to give the government what it wants: rubber-stamped indictments that wi…
Dismissed lawsuit follows WSJ's report on letter allegedly signed by Donald Trump for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.
The request is for those who were previously not covered by President Donald Trump’s sweeping Day 1 clemency grants.
Ahead of the midterms, Trump has demolished guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 202o election.
The Trump administration is asking a court to throw out the convictions of Stewart Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons.
The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
Penalties against the live-music industry giant will be decided at a later date
Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The book included letters from various associates, and one of them bo…
Hennepin County officials say these are the first charges filed against a federal immigration agent related to the crackdown that brought thousands of federal officers to the state. The widespread operation led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens.
Police are searching for Kevin Faux, 24, who is charged with murder.
A baby was rescued during an alleged abduction attempt where a man led police on a high-speed chase before crashing into a church.
Authorities say the baby's father forcibly took the 2-month-old from the mother and led police on a high-speed chase.
FBI director Kash Patel told Fox's Maria Bartiromo that he is continuing to investigate Trump's lies and unfounded election fraud accusations of 2020, and promises he has the information to prosecute and will be making arrests anytime now. This was the main r…
The disgraced lieutenant repeatedly mentioned how "Nate'' was "young and inexperienced" during their conversations and asked him if he was a sophomore in high school.
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups.
Azealia Banks was a no-show at a court hearing, but a damages trial to determine her liability for stalking and defaming her ex-manager is proceeding.
The civil rights group has long been a target for conservative activists who object to its characterisations.
Joseph diGenova will pursue charges in the Florida "grand conspiracy" case against the president's perceived foes
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has fought hate. Now the Justice Department wants it to stop
A federal judge sided with Bill Maher and HBO in rejecting Laura Loomer’s defamation lawsuit against the host, concluding that she had not met the threshold for proving that he acted with actual malice. Loomer sued in 2024 after Maher, on one of his shows, qu…
Still awaiting a ruling from a trio of Appeal Court judges over his criminal case, the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs got some bad legal news today. A New York judge just threw out the Bad Boy Records founder’s over a year old $100 million defamation lawsuit…
Authorities have arrested an U.S. soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro for allegedly pocketing more than $400,000 by betting on his capture, sources say.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Patel, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field…
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has fought hate. Now the Justice Department wants it to stop
The man accused of spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) with apple cider vinegar during a January town hall in her Minnesota district has reached a plea...
Surveillance video shows a suspect driving off with a police officer in the car during a confrontation of a reported robbery in Antioch, California.
The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.
The man arrested at the event attended by President Trump has been named in US media as Cole Tomas Allen from California.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect in a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California.
A suspect has been identified in the shooting incident that occurred outside the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night. ABC News' Pierre Thomas reports.
Donald Trump evacuated from stage after firing at media gala; suspect Cole Tomas Allen in custody.
A California teacher was identified as the attacker who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
The chief of the District of Columbia police department said investigators believe the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the annual dinner was taking place, but that no motive had been determined.
The suspected gunman will face charges, including assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.
If Musk succeeds, OpenAI can go back to being a non-profit and Sam Altman can be ousted.
One of the more frustrating things about the case in which Donald Trump sued the IRS that he runs, demanding $10 billion over nothing, was that it seemed like it might just work, and there might be nothing that could be done to stop it. But at least one feder…
The Justice Department announced the first formal charges against the gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.
Cole Allen, the suspect in Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, was described as a "gentle, smart young man."
A journalist is suing the acting AG over the Justice Department’s gross mishandling of the Epstein files, arguing that the DOJ’s failure to upload the documents in full was hurting her ability to do her job as a journalist.
Cole Tomas Allen was officially charged with trying to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
Trump has long called for prosecution of Comey, who led an FBI investigation related to the president's 2016 campaign.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. And, a grand jury has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time.
A review of some cases cited by acting AG Todd Blanche as being similar to the indictment against James Comey suggests the Comey case could face a steeper hurdle.
Acting AG Todd Blanche says the DOJ's decision to investigate James Comey for his "86 47" Instagram post does not mean everyone who posts that will be prosecuted.
An appeals court in New York has rejected President Trump's request to rehear his challenges to the writer E. Jean Carroll's successful defamation and sex assault claims.
Former National Institutes of Health official David Morens is accused of evading record requests related to the COVID pandemic’s origins and gain-of-function research
James Comey is not exactly someone we’ve ever been a fan of on Techdirt. He was a terrible FBI director in so many ways. We’ve spent years criticizing the man — for his crusade against encryption, his supporting the FBI’s ridiculously aggressive impersonation…
In a 3-0 ruling, court says Trump administration misread a decades-old immigration law to justify mandatory detention.
Claire Finkelstein says Comey will likely fight his indictment over a social media post critical of Trump.
Comey turned himself in on two charges, threatening the US president's life and transmitting threats across state lines.
Comey has been accused of knowingly threatening the US president.
The New York Times on Thursday said it petitioned a judge to unseal a suicide note that Epstein allegedly wrote a month before he died.
Former judge Roy Moore made quite a name for himself while attempting to convert his sketchy judicial career into a presumably equally sketchy career as US senator. Prior to his run for office in the 2018 mid-term election, Moore had already been suspended fr…
Cole Allen, the 31-year-old California man who, by his own admission, armed himself and attempted to breach the security at this past weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, was officially charged this week with attempting to assassinate the president. …
Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd was having fun trolling MAGA influencer Craig Long, who got busted in a sex sting: Then there's Craig Long, whom we arrested. He's 41. Some of you may recognize him. He's an influencer. He also owns Craig Long Fitne…
The judge convened a hearing on Monday after attorneys for Cole Allen requested over the weekend that he be removed from suicide watch at D.C.'s jail facility.
A federal judge on Monday apologized to Cole Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, for what his lawyers described as “excessive restrictions on his liberty that serve no justifiable purpose.”Cole Allen, who stormed into the Washington…
Cole Tomas Allen faces charges including attempted assassination of the president.
President Trump has asked a court to pause its ruling rejecting his challenge to E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit so he can appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
In early 2025, the lead prosecutor was told not to look any further into the matter.
A federal judge in North Carolina conditionally agreed to cancel former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming court appearance on charges of threatening...
Virginia state Senate leader L. Louise Lucas (D) struck an unyielding tone on Wednesday after federal authorities searched her office and a nearby cannabis...
On Wednesday, when FBI agents raided the office of one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, Fox News just happened to have one of its Washington-based foreign correspondents on the scene in the small city of Portsmouth. What an extraordinary coincidenc…
Judge does not make claim on authenticity of document, filed in court as part of criminal case of former cell mate.
James Comey is tentatively set to stand trial on July 15 on charges that he allegedly threatened to kill President Trump by posting a photo of seashells on a beach.
Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, involving a variety of issues, but mainly whether or not he sexually assaulted her back in the 1990s and, separately, whether he defamed …
The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration. The post Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking appeared first on The Intercept.
Rabid Christian nationalist MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer said if he wins election in Oklahoma's District 1, he will investigate the 2020 election and hold all those accountable for high crimes of treason against Trump. Lahmeyer is looking to replace Rep. Kevi…
He's U.S. Citizen, Combat Vet. ICE Tear-Gassed, Jailed, and Falsely Accused Him... (First column, 11th story, link)
Robert Morris, a former spiritual adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, was released from an Oklahoma jail in early 2026 after serving six months for sexually abusing a 12-year-old.
Cole Allen, the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, pleaded not guilty on Monday to all counts.
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs …
Louisiana officials have agreed to a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died during a violent roadside arrest carried out by five white officers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a man to sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash, a decision that...
Convicted killer Mitchell Gaff was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the murders of two women in the 1980s.
Former Oklahoma death row prisoner Richard Glossip has been released from incarceration for the first time in nearly 30 years after posting bond while awaiting retrial in a 1997 murder case.
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired ba…
He calls it a "political slush fund" and says it's unconstitutional.
Acting AG Todd Blanche believes there's "a ton of evidence" that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
The former FBI director discusses his new legal thriller following a prosecutor investigating a poisoning tied to a high-stakes espionage conspiracy.
The DOJ has charged a federal prosecutor with trying to steal special counsel Jack Smith's sealed report on President Trump's alleged retention of classified documents.
There were two rumors last week regarding the supposed “settlement” of Donald Trump’s ridiculously problematic lawsuit against his own IRS, asking for $10 billion. The first was that he was going to get an agreement to drop all audits of his taxes (and the ta…
Puerile, vindictive, and hateful is no way to run a government. That’s how Trump is running his, however. And that means his DOJ cannot possibly hope to stay on the good side of judges, not when it’s actively engaged in appeasing an autocratic megalomaniac an…
The former prosecutor faces federal charges over allegations that she sent a report on Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's hoarding of classified documents to her personal email account.
Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot are suing to block anyone from receiving payouts from a new settlement fund.
Trump administration officials announced charges in Minnesota for fraud schemes that allegedly targeted more than $90 million in taxpayer dollars.
Nothing says law-and-order presidency like a possible rebate program for political violence. Having offered up a scheme that seats Donald Trump more as a comic book criminal and less like the sitting President of the United States, Police are suing to stop hi…
Democrats argue that the fund will be used to compensate January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump.
Jan. 6 defendants and allies of President Trump are lining up to seek their share of the DOJ's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" announced this week.
Criminal executions are botched with such frequency, in a process is so cruel and clumsy that they become hard to justify in any scenario.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued pharmaceutical companies tied to Tylenol in state court, repeating claims made a month earlier by Health and Hum…
A person who approached a White House security checkpoint and began firing at officers has died, according to federal officials. The U.S. Secret Service...
Four justices dissented, hinting at a sharp conflict behind the scenes.
Donald Trump last year amassed one big beautiful rap sheet of scandal and criminality, with multiple instances of corruption that made Teapot Dome look quaint. But the president’s bogus new “settlement” with his own administration’s IRS, which he had sued in …
FINALLY! The judge overseeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case officially threw it out because it was what we all knew it was - vindictive prosecution. On Friday afternoon, the judge overseeing the case issued a blistering ruling, positively dragging the …
FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media that officers were responding to shots fired and that he would "update the public as we're able." President Trump was inside the White House at the time.
The first known sanction of its kind held CoreCivic responsible for destroying video in a case alleging wrongful death of an ICE detainee. The post Judge Sanctioned Private Prison Giant for Destroying Evidence in ICE Death Suit appeared first on The Intercept.
The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.
A group of nine Democrats urged President Trump to commute the sentences of people serving time for nonviolent marijuana offenses, following his decision to ...
WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday pushed back to October 21 the trial of former FBI Director James Comey over a social media post of...
A judge has granted James Comey's request to delay until Oct. 21 the start of his trial for allegedly threatening to kill President Trump by posting a seashell photo.
It’s one thing to accuse the government of engaging in vindictive prosecutions. It’s quite another thing to prove it. The deck is stacked against those making these claims. These allegations rarely succeed. The government gets the benefit of the doubt and has…
A group of former federal judges on Wednesday asked a federal court to reopen President Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), arguing...
The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who accused Trump of sexual assault.
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Thirty-five (thirty-five!) former federal judges are asking a current federal judge to reopen the case where Donald Trump sued his own IRS, and then “settled” the case on terms extremely favorable to himself, his family, and his MAGA loyalists. Law schools ar…
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files...
It’s been less than two weeks since the Justice Department created the obviously illegal and unconstitutional $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off MAGA loyalists and January 6th insurrectionists. There are a variety of lawsuits looking to put a stop to it, an…
Carroll has defeated Donald Trump in court twice, but he is coming after her now with perjury and money-laundering charges.
Bondi, who was fired in April, defended the release of Epstein records in a closed-door congressional hearing.
A federal judge imposed a temporary halt to the Trump Justice Department plans for a almost $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” which already has stirred bipartisan opposition over the prospect it will mean compensation to those who violently stormed the …
Justice Department efforts to rewrite history show #MeToo still matters
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly had a disastrous meeting with the House Oversight Committee on Friday regarding her bungling of the Epstein files release. MS NOW’s Kyle Griffin reported that Bondi “lost her temper a bit at some points and grew fr…
Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government. Whether they'll be …
Ivy Meeropol, director of Ask E. Jean, the documentary about E. Jean Carroll who successfully sued Donald Trump for defamation and battery, is responding to reports the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Carroll. “Unbelievable, yet no…
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi testified about the Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee on Friday. But her appearance was held behind closed doors, off camera, and Republicans refused to put her under oath. Afterward, Rep. Robert Garcia, the Demo…
The British rapper claimed Kid Cudi booted her from the tour to get publicity and sell tickets. M.I.A. sues Kid Cudi for More Than $2.8M After Being Kicked Off Tour Travis Bland
Just one day ahead of a crucial California primary election, officials said police have been notified of two possible acts of voter interference.
Most legal experts seemed pretty skeptical about the tactic of 35 former federal judges asking federal judge Kathleen Williams to reopen the case where Trump sued his own IRS demanding $10 billion. Turns out they were wrong — on Friday, Judge Williams reopene…
(Bloomberg) -- Famed short seller Andrew Left faces the possibility of decades behind bars after being found guilty of using disingenuous social media posts ...
Amended charges were filed on Wednesday against the suspect in the beating death of the owner of a Trump-themed home.
Federal regulators are investigating disgraced former Congressman George Santos for possible insider trading on the prediction market Kalshi.
Four months after being released from federal prison, Santos may have crossed insider trading with prediction markets off his crime bucket list!
Brady, a nonprofit gun control advocacy group, is suing the ATF and the DOJ over their refusals to release documents and other information about who the largest sellers of crime guns in the U.S. are.
Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a de...
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has asked the DOJ to investigate a former Epstein assistant's allegation of sexual abuse by others in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.
Despite serving as Trump's national security adviser, Bolton has emerged as a top critic of the president.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi said then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche handled the release of the DOJ's Epstein files.
The nefarious track record of those Trump granted clemency in his first day back in office is much worse than previously thought.
MAGA got itself a martyr when Charlie Kirk was killed. The “violent left,” etc. as they say. One of it’s own practiced what he preached and his life was ended prematurely by someone practicing what Kirk preached. I mean, this is a direct quote of Charlie Kirk…
President Donald Trump pardoned former GOP Congressman Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading in 2023 and sentenced to 22 months in prison.
The DOJ on Friday said that the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" won't go forward.
On the first day of his second term last year, President Donald Trump delivered a mass pardon to more than 1,500 people who were charged with crimes related to the violent riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. An analysis published Thursday by Lawfare as…
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.
Pardoned by Trump, Todd and Julie Chrisley are taking their own former lawyers to court, as if they didn't choose those lawyers.
In prepared remarks, Gates told the House Oversight Committee that meeting Epstein was a 'grave error in judgment'.
Authorities say teens in Europe are being recruited online by gangs and criminal organizations for killings, bombings and abductions – a growing trend that police say is making its way to the U.S.
Judges have long defaulted to a posture of trust toward the federal government, but under Trump that is changing, and a new set of legal possibilities is emerging.
Because of the ruling, Jeffrey Lee's execution will be delayed. He still faces the death penalty.
Sam Bankman-Fried lost his appeal to overturn his FTX fraud conviction and 25-year sentence. Reuters reports: In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said prosecutors' evidence against Bankman-Frie…
If the former crypto billionaire loses all remaining avenues, he would be eligible for release in 2044.
In a private meeting last week, a group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and family members of the late Virginia Giuffre pointed House Oversight Chair...
Raw Story, citing the Daily Mail, says Maxwell has formed a "highly secretive" group at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where she allegedly whispers with three women she considers among the "finest and best educated" prisoners. The reported crew has a cer…
Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, writes, this is the first time in over five years that this Court refused to “un-block an execution that a lo…
Support for capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States, with several states rolling back its use.
Court sides unanimously with marijuana user who argued law barring him from owning firearms violated US Constitution.
Dalton Eatherly streams his racist provocations online. It was only a matter of time before the violence rhetoric entered the real world. The post Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder. appeared first on The Inte…
As the Department of Justice investigates Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife on multiple fronts, a key question is whether the crimes of the governor's criminally indicted ex-chief of staff will come back to haunt him.
Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of starting the deadly and historically destructive Palisades Fire that scorched swaths of Los Angeles in the early days of...
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said the decision to grant Milk clemency was entirely Noem's call.
The DOJ's unilateral abandonment of the Anti-Weaponization Fund "makes it crystal clear that these parties were never adverse," the former judges argue.
A judge has blocked a Trump administration voter-screening database that she said consolidated "private information" in an effort to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.
Chaos on the streets of Boston as a crowd takes matters into their own hands, restraining a carjacking suspect. The individual allegedly fled the scene of a fatal crash.
The Justice Department has charged a Texas doctor in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accusing him of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardi...
A judge has ordered the DHS to facilitate the return of a 20-year-old Honduran man with no criminal history after she found he was likely removed without due process.
Civil liberties advocates have expressed alarm over the case involving a protest outside Prairieland Detention Center.
Ghislaine Maxwell argues in newly released filings that the release of Epstein files has exposed alleged violations that invalidate her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction.
An officer was shot in the neck during the Texas disorder by "Antifa Cell operatives", prosecutors said.
Eight of the Prairieland Detention Center protesters were sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison.
The Supreme Court has sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller, blocking thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn users the product could cause cancer. The decision Thursday is a victory for the Trump administration but could complicate relations wi…
As several criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s foes continue to flail, federal prosecutors are now ushering one of his biggest critics to a...
The Utah judge in the murder case over Charlie Kirk’s killing held prosecutors in contempt of court on Friday over comments they made to media organizations...
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Judge says comments to the media by prosecutors about defendant violate rules of what can be said outside of court.
The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to outlaw free speech. The post 30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech appeared …
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
The Supreme Court has denied President Trump's appeal of the $5 million jury finding in the 2022 defamation case brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
WKRN-TV's Danielle Breezy reports live from Nashville with all the details as Music City gets ready for a Fourth of July celebration.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not review the 2023 verdict, in which a jury found he sexually abused the writer in a department store in the 1990s.
It just wasn’t enough to pardon hundreds of people who raided the Capitol building to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss — people who assaulted police officers, smashed windows to gain entrance, shut down election proceedings for several hours, stole stuff f…
The US Supreme Court has rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's findings of sexual assault.
The U.S. Supreme Court this week, with no dissents, declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of the verdict and judgment.
Speaking to the Guardian, one of her relatives said that she’s “coping as best as she can.”
Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have pushed hard for new death sentences, including in states that have abolished executions. The post Trump Has Already Launched More Death Penalty Prosecutions Than in His Entire First Term appeared first on The Intercept.
A grand jury apparently agreed that it's now a crime to touch the Reflecting Pool in D.C., despite a century of people wading in it.
A federal judge last week ordered the Justice Department to turn over more files or explain why they were withheld.
Matt Sledge, who was at the sentencing for the Prairieland defendants, and Mark Bray, author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” on the timeworn government strategies to stifle dissent. The post Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as…
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Trump v. Barbera shows just how radical the Roberts Court and the modern conservative legal movement are, and the Trump court makes American politics more corrupt. Constant Commoner: Organizing the resistance. Pharyngula: The Temu sta…
The DOJ accidentally handed over the sealed second volume of Jack Smith's classified-documents report to lawyers for Carmen Lineberger — the woman they're currently prosecuting for allegedly stealing that exact report by emailing it to herself disguised as a …
A judge rejected Trump's request to delay his response to E. Jean Carroll's demand for the $5 million she won in a civil lawsuit, plus interest.
Photo Credit:ChatGPT ChatGPTBy August HarrimanThere’s actually a small window of time to completely break the Left, and this opportunity will not come again.
A judge will decide if prosecutors have enough evidence to warrant a murder trial for the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Tyler Robinson, 23, is accused of murdering Kirk, a key Trump ally and founder of youth organisation Turning Point USA.
Judge to decide whether there's enough evidence to bring Tyler Robinson to trial for conservative activist's killing.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stands with members of his staff at a news conference following the conviction of former U.S. President Donald Trump in his hush money trial on May 30, 2024 in New York City. In 2025, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's Polic…
A week-long preliminary hearing opened Monday in Utah’s 4th District Court in Provo for Tyler Robinson, 23, who is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Kirk, a conservat…
The decision rebukes the DOJ for demanding "private and sensitive" information about Georgia election workers "with no legitimate law enforcement purpose."
The U.S. Supreme Court last month declined to hear Trump's appeal of the case.
Man, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, is latest to be killed by ICE officers since President Trump took power.
Trump ordered to pay $5.8m after the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal in the Carroll defamation and abuse case.
Calls for answers after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo fatally shot during traffic stop in Houston in latest ICE killing.
Canoeist David Hearn plead not guilty in D.C. Superior Court Thursday to a charge of destruction of property causing more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing told his roommate “he wishes he hadn’t done it” the day after the conservative activist was shot in the neck while sp...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo of Houston is the latest person to be killed by officers shooting into cars.
A new shooting in Texas. Still no proper investigations into the shootings in Minnesota.
The DOJ is still accusing the company of knowingly failing to follow manufacturing standards. But even though the government's position hasn't really changed, its punishment has.
Another Memphis man has died at the hands of federal agents working with the Memphis Safe Task Force. He is the fourth in the last two months, and the second in a single week.
State Attorney General Raul Torrez accused the Trump administration of withholding records, harming his investigation.
Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn denies damaging Donald Trump’s Washington, DC reflecting pool renovation.
“Why is his lover snitching?” a netizen asked.
Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk planned to call a final witness Friday as they try to raise doubts about the prosec...
A total of eight men have been indicted for their alleged roles in the plot to attack a UFC event on the grounds of the White House last month, according to prosecutors.
ICE is ramping up its detentions and deportations but keeping things quiet this time, including trying to deport witnesses.
Prosecutors build a vivid picture of the suspect's movements as they seek to try the 23-year-old.
The case is the latest instance of the Trump administration seeking to unravel prosecutions against January 6 rioters.
Some of the people pointing fingers are the same ones who should be taking blame.
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.