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Trump-endorsed North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, who has a history of making inflammatory statements while also deriding people who purportedly lack a sense of personal responsibility, has a troubled history when it comes to filing his income taxes.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed Thursday that his investigators had spoken with a so-called whistleblower who formerly worked in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office.

Every defendant is entitled to a fair and impartial jury.

But the process to find one can be long and taxing, particularly in a high-profile trial such as the one in New York, in which Donald Trump stands accused of fraud in his efforts to cover up his relationship with porn star Stormy Daniels by paying her US$130,000 in hush money.

In this case, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged the former president with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump entered a plea of not guilty. Читать дальше...

Orenthal James Simpson, known as O.J., died on Wednesday, his family said in a statement on X.

Strong growth in the United States has helped to lift the outlook for the world economy, but more needs to be done to stem a slide in productivity, the head of the IMF said Thursday.

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Donald Trump's legal team is considering asking jurors to consider misdemeanor crimes as a way to avoid a likely felony conviction in the hush money trial set to start in Manhattan Monday, according to a report.

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" mocked Donald Trump and other Republicans who are now "flailing" to contain the political fallout from the Arizona Supreme Court decision to reinstate a Civil War-era ban on abortion.

A Republican strategist on Thursday called out former President Donald Trump for trying to pivot on abortion even though the Supreme Court justices he appointed were the ones who threw reproductive rights laws into chaos by overturning Roe v. Wade.

Police have launched an online portal seeking tips about an arson attack on a synagogue in the northern German city of Oldenburg last Friday that prompted widespread outrage. An incendiary device was thrown at the front door of the synagogue. Two janitors at a neighbouring cultural centre discovered the fire and extinguished it. No one was injured, but the perpetrators managed to escape and have not been identified. Police investigating the crime announced the portal for tips on Thursday, and... Читать дальше...

The race to replace retiring Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is heating up, and the Salt Lake Tribune reports that a debate of Republican Senate candidates this week highlighted the role that "fringe" ideas have taken within the party.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough revealed that Donald Trump has always "hated" the right-wing evangelicals who are now causing him campaign headaches with their push to enact politically unpopular abortion policies.

GOP strategist Doug Heye hammered the Republican National Committee for sending out a robocall this week that was jam-packed with lies about the 2020 presidential election.

Donald Trump has turned being a victim into a central plank of his campaign, an electoral strategy that will be put to the test Monday in Manhattan during the first ever criminal trial of a former US president.

A U.S. astrology influencer worried about the recent solar eclipse stabbed her partner to death, then pushed her two children out of her moving car before fatally slamming the vehicle into a tree, a report said Wednesday.

Real estate tycoon and reality television star Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, an X-rated film actress, were both at a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe in July 2006.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday he was "considering" a request by Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on espionage charges.

Golden sneakers.

Nonfungible tokens.

Jingoistic Bibles.

Much ado has been made about the baubles and bibelot a cash-strapped Donald Trump keeps peddling to MAGA-heads.

But one can wear a Trump shoe, auction a Trumpy digital asset and ponder Matthew 19:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10 while reading the Lee Greenwood version of the Good Book.

The downside for Trump? All cost money to produce.

ALSO READ: 11 ways Trump doesn’t become president

Which is perhaps why Trump... Читать дальше...

This story was originally published by CalMatters, nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

As Donald Trump prepares to head into a courtroom in his hush money trial, his congressional Republican allies are crafting a defense to present in the court of public opinion.

One progressive lawmaker complained of "whiplash" Wednesday as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attempted to distance himself—and his own stated abortion policy proposals—from the Arizona Supreme Court's reinstatement of a 160-year-old abortion ban.

Days before Donald Trump is expected to go on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide payments to conceal hush money payments, one legal expert thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg seems to be firing a warning shot to Trump allies who are tempted to lie under oath.

The Republicans are taking a cue from Donald Trump by behaving as if the president’s stutter was some kind of character flaw. That’s why they’re asking for the audio files of the special counsel’s interviews with Joe Biden. They’re looking for content with which to smear him.

The Republican National Committee reportedly sent out robocalls to voters pushing false claims about "massive fraud" committed in 2020.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger sought to ease concerns from the lawmakers in charge of his agency’s budget on Wednesday, saying the department is preparing for major upcoming events — including another potential Jan. 6 — by trying to grow the size of its force and overhauling its intelligence gathering activities.