Jury selection in the Manhattan criminal case against Donald Trump started off slowly, but has since picked up some steam, with multiple jurors seated after day 2 For some lawyers, the jury selection process is the most important stage of the trial. For others it’s a waste of time, an exercise in astrology, and they would take the first 12 people who walk through the door. But no matter how hard his lawyers try, Trump could lose this jury before they are even seated. Jury selection in...
While attempting to sway voters ahead of the 2024 election, Biden is often repeating this years-old story about Trump.
Republicans haven’t ‘moderated’ their extreme stance on abortion, but much of the media is eager to give that impressionGet Margaret Sullivan’s latest columns delivered straight to your inboxSometimes, in 2024 America, you have to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not in a long-running dystopian nightmare. Then again, maybe we all are. And no amount of pinching will help.Two scenes from this week stand out.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture...
Former President Donald Trump has just gone through the first week of his criminal hush payment trial in Manhattan — and it's already hurting him politically, said commentator Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday evening. The conventional wisdom for months has been that the Trump trials, and particularly the Manhattan trial, will not significantly impact him, with large numbers of voters simply not caring about it. But this ignores that a great many non-Trump...
A Houston playwright, inspired by a mock funeral held by the NAACP in 2007, contemplates that question.
One of two jurors who have been dismissed from former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York said the former president looked "bored" and "less orange."
How much of this season is on the players and how much is on GM Kevyn Adams and/or coach Don Granato is a prickly debate. In the end, the Sabres were there. And that's what's so maddening about this playoff drought, Mike Harrington writes.
To the editor: Thanks to the letter writer who explained billionaires' support of former President Trump for the enlightenment and levity. He wrote that the very wealthy support Trump not for the tax cuts, but for their altruism and Trump’s policies to build the economy, increase homeownership and provide medical care. Increasing home ownership must have been why Trump appointed Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary — because when Mnuchin and his partners acquired the failing bank IndyMac and...
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case