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Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower, report says
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Trump hush money trial turns to sex, bank accounts and power: Highlights from the third week of testimony
Former President Donald Trump talks to the media after a day of testimony in his trial at Manhattan Criminal court in New York, Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)
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WABC Radio suspends Rudy Giuliani for flouting ban on discussing discredited election claims
FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Guiliani, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, was among those indicted Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in an Arizona election interference case.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Trump’s vice-presidential contest echoes the chaos of The Apprentice
FILE Ñ Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota introduces former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Rapid City, S.D., Sept. 8, 2023. Noem defends her story of killing her dog, but not everyone in her home state does. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
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Trump is limited in what he can say about his court case but his GOP allies are showing up to help
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks outside Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in New York. Scott attended former President Donald Trump's criminal trial Thursday. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)
u.s. politics
Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron to represent Florida at Republican convention
(FILES) Former US President Donald Trump and his son Barron Trump attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump's mother Amalija Knavs, at Bethesda by the Sea Church, in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 18, 2023. The US Republican Party has named Donald Trump's 18 year-old son Barron as a Florida delegate to its national convention, propelling another member of the family into the spotlight. (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA / AFP) (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels’s account of sex with Trump
Former President Donald Trump talks reporters following the day's proceedings in his trial, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)
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Trump documents trial start delayed indefinitely, judge orders
(FILES) Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives for a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. Prosecutors preparing to put Donald Trump on trial in New York for allegedly covering up hush money payments offered a delay of up to 30 days on March 14, 2024 after both sides received a deluge of case documents, court filings showed. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
charting retirement
What are the odds that Biden or Trump will stay healthy to 2028?
In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C., left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. Just six months before Election Day, Biden and Trump are locked into the first presidential rematch in 68 years that is at once deeply entrenched and highly in flux as many voters are only just beginning to embrace the reality of the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo)
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Trump fined $1,000 for gag order violation in hush money case as judge warns of possible jail time
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)
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Trump says Biden is running a ‘Gestapo’ administration in latest reference to Nazi Germany
Former President Donald Trump speaks to media as he returns to his trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)
opinion
The Trump-Biden rematch was a sequel no one asked for, and now no one can look away from it
Elan Mastai
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Former aide Hope Hicks testifies Trump told her to deny Stormy Daniels affair
Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, US, on Friday, May 3, 2024. Former US President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Mark Peterson/Pool via REUTERS
u.s. politics
Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call on plan to buy affair story
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 2: Former U.S. President Donald Trump and attorney Todd Blanche (C) return after a brief break in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 2, 2024 in New York City. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an effort to hide a potential sex scandal, both before and after the 2016 presidential election. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges. (Photo by Charly Triballeau-Pool/Getty Images)
u.s. politics
Trump calls judge ‘crooked’ after facing a warning of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
Former US president Donald Trump walks out to speak to the press during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 30, 2024. Judge Juan Merchan, presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial, fined the former president on Tuesday for defying a gag order and warned that further violations could result in jail time. (Photo by JUSTIN LANE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN LANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump does not rule out building detention camps for mass deportations
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, U.S., 30 April 2024. Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. JUSTIN LANE/Pool via REUTERS
u.s. politics
Judge fines Trump $9,000, threatens jail for contempt in hush money trial
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on April 30, 2024. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Victor J. Blue / POOL / AFP) (Photo by VICTOR J. BLUE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s lead witness in hush money trial
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 26: Former U.S. President Donald Trump (L) appears in court with his attorneys Todd Blanche, and Susan Necheles during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 26, 2024 in New York City. Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images)
analysis
Trump’s New York trial is a political spectacle unseen in America since Watergate
David Shribman
u.s. politics
Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield his old friend Trump from damaging stories
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 25, 2024. Trump is back in court to watch his alleged tabloid co-conspirator, former publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, continue testimony about their bid to kill salacious stories that could have derailed the Republican's 2016 White House campaign. (Photo by Spencer Platt / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SPENCER PLATT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Grand jury indicts 18 in Arizona fake elector scheme; Trump is unindicted co-conspirator
FILE - Arizona Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, is sworn in during the opening of the Legislature at the state Capitol, Jan. 11, 2021, in Phoenix. Hoffman is one of 11 Republicans in Arizona who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump had beaten Joe Biden in the state during the 2020 presidential election were charged Wednesday, April 24, 2024, with conspiracy, fraud and forgery, marking the fourth state to bring charges against "fake electors." (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)
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Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after months of wrangling with Republicans
President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
opinion
Will Trump’s first trial change the course of the election?
Eric Posner
u.s. politics
Tabloid publisher testifies he agreed to help be ‘eyes and ears’ for Trump by buying up scandalous stories
Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in New York. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP, Pool)
u.s. politics
Voter enthusiasm put to the test in battleground state of Pennsylvania
FILE PHOTO: Combination picture showing former U.S. President Donald Trump attending the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023 and U.S. President Joe Biden participating in a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid and Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo/File Photo
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Judge in hush money trial conducts hearing on request to hold Trump in contempt for violating gag order
Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)
u.s. politics
Trump case ‘a criminal conspiracy’ of election fraud, prosecutors argue on first day of historic trial
Former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sits in court on the first day of opening statements in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, U.S. on April 22, 2024.
explainer
U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next
FILE - Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest outside of the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference case. The conservative-majority Supreme Court's next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
u.s. politics
On first day of Trump hush money trial, prosecutors say he corrupted 2016 election
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom as his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 continues, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S., April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Pool
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Donald Trump cancels North Carolina rally because of weather
Former President Donald Trump arrives at his trial, Friday, April 19, 2024, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)
u.s. politics
Opening statements set for Monday in Trump’s hush money case after judge rejects latest bid to delay
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
u.s. politics
Manhattan court selects jury for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial
Former US president Donald Trump holds press clippings as he speaks to the press at the conclusion of the third day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 18, 2024. A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgement of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president. (Photo by Brendan McDermid / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN MCDERMID/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
u.s. politics
In rebuke to RFK Jr., Biden wins Kennedy family endorsement
US President Joe Biden walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 17, 2024, after a 2-day campaign trip to Pennsylvania. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump pushes Arizona lawmakers to ‘remedy’ state abortion ruling that he says ‘went too far’
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Arizona abortion ruling upends legal and political landscape from Phoenix to Washington
Arizona state representatives convene on House floor at the Capitol, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Phoenix. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother's life is at stake. (AP Photo/Matt York)
u.s. politics
Biden holds four-point lead over Trump, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: President Joe Biden joins family caregivers, care workers, early childhood educators and advocates to celebrate progress made by care champions while calling for additional legislative action at a rally in Union Station on April 09, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Care Can't Wait Action)