• New York Judge Says Donald Trump Can’t Attend Supreme Court Argument Next Week — Update

    UPDATE: Jury selection has ended for the day in Donald Trump's hush money

  • N.Y. Islanders vs. N.Y. Rangers Prediction, Preview, and Odds - 4-13-2024

    Will Kyle Palmieri and the Islanders earn a seventh straight win as they take on Chris Krieder and the Rangers at Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon?

  • N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment

    N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Politics, Jury selection is underway now complete in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given to him by his lawyer was paid and recorded by someone else, and that the misstatement he made to himself in his own records was done “with...

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    Trump gag order hearing to be held by Judge Merchan next week

    Donald Trump’s criminal court appearance has so far consisted mostly of pretrial legal discussions before getting to jury selection. Among the issues raised Monday by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office was Trump’s alleged violation of the gag order before jury selection even started. The prosecution asked Judge Juan Merchan for sanctions of $1,000 each for three Trump social media posts allegedly attacking Michael Cohen and others; for him to tell Trump to take down the posts in...

  • Tánaiste says Ireland will recognise State of Palestine in 'next few weeks'

    Martin said he will bring proposals to Government once international discussions had concluded.

  • Trump one week, Biden the next: what do presidential polls teach us?

    Even with the potential for error and a decline in voter engagement, polls can explain the electorate at a point in timeIn recent months, polling has generally showed President Joe Biden running behind his Republican challenger, Donald Trump, by a small margin, particularly in swing states like Georgia and Arizona. But election polling began to fluctuate after Biden’s State of the Union speech last month.The question is how much meaning observers should ascribe to polls in April, seven months...

  • Vice President Kamala Harris blasts Trump saying he is to blame for Arizona abortion ruling during visit to the state as Trump says court's decision 'went too far'

    Harris traveled to Tucson on Friday just days after the AZ court's ruling. Donald Trump wrote Friday the state's Supreme Court 'went too far' with ruling but has praised the overturning of Roe and said issue should be left to states. READ MORE:

  • Trump's N.Y. hush money trial begins. Here's what you missed the first day.

    Donald Trump — now a former president on trial — 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. But facing 34 counts of felony charges, Trump argued on the historic first day of his New York hush money trial that he is the victim of a criminal justice system weaponized against him. He called it “an assault” on the nation. And as the presumptive Republican nominee for...

  • 'Assets are getting tied up': Attorney says Trump is financially and legally 'plummeting'

    Is Donald Trump a real-life Wizard of Oz?Guardian contributor Lloyd Green's "For all his bombast, Trump is plummeting – financially, legally and politically" explores the notion that the 45th president's spectacular veneer being humbled left and right parallels with the pretender anti-villain character Oz from L. Frank Baum's fantasy series where he submits "there is less there than meets the eye."And with all the troubles facing former President Donald Trump, the attempt to fend off chinks in...

  • In-depth N.Y. Times analysis reveals pattern in all of Trump's speeches and outbursts

    Donald Trump has a long and documented history of exaggerating the truth and even outright lying about everything from the border crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and what he says was mass voter fraud during the 2020 election. Now, a study has revealed "a kind of technique to his dishonesty." According to New York Times fact checker Angelo Fichera, the study analyzed all of Trump's public statements, including speeches, interviews and social media posts, in the week starting with Trump’s victory...

  • Trump Visits N.Y. Bodega Where Clerk Fatally Stabbed Man in Self-Defense

    Shortly after leaving the courtroom on Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump made a campaign stop at a New York City bodega where a clerk in 2022 fatally stabbed a customer in self-defense.The Context Trump on Monday became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case, as his hush-money proceedings began with jury selection. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, with 34 felony counts...

  • N.Y. court swears in six jurors for Donald Trump hush money trial

    The first seven jurors were chosen Tuesday in a New York trial to decide whether former President Donald Trump criminally concealed hush money payments to a porn star around the 2016 election.