David Pecker testifies about meeting with Trump and Michael Cohen in 2 to discuss how he could help presidential campaign Skeptical judge and National Enquirer deal: key takeaways Judge reprimands Trump lawyer but delays gag order ruling A former tabloid publisher testified on Tuesday in Donald Trumps hush-money trial that he promised to be the eyes and ears of the 2016 presidential campaign, helped to suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a doorman

Day six of Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York heard damaging testimony from a tabloid publisher.

Judge admonishes ex-presidents lawyer, and first witness confirms Trump enlisted National Enquirer for 2016 campaign Pecker says he was eyes and ears of Trump campaign Judge reprimands Trump lawyer but delays gag order ruling Donald Trump watched the judge presiding in his New York criminal trial dramatically admonish his lead lawyer and hear the prosecutions first witness confirm that Trump specifically enlisted the help of the National Enquirer tabloid to kill negative stories that could derail his 2016 campaign

Juan Merchan reserves judgment on prosecutors request for maximum fine but tells Todd Blanche youre losing all credibility Skeptical judge and National Enquirer deal: key takeaways Pecker says he was eyes and ears of Trump campaign The New York judge presiding in Donald Trumps criminal trial held off on deciding whether he should be fined $10,000 for attacking expected trial witnesses in direct violation of the gag order designed to protect trial participants from being the target of Trumps abuse

The ex-president appeared uncomfortable at times as his criminal trial finally got under way in New York on Monday Hush-money was election fraud pure and simple, prosecutors say Donald Trump was confronted on Monday with the unsavory details of his alleged attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election by covering up his hush-money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, as the first criminal trial for a former US president got under way in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Monday will hear prosecutors explain why his alleged cover-up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign broke the law, as the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S

Jury of seven men and five women to weigh testimony related to $130,000 payment from ex-fixer Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels Donald Trumps Manhattan criminal trial in his hush-money case starts in earnest Monday morning with opening statements that mark a momentous day in US history

They include a judge and prosecutors who have previously tangled with Mr Trump, an all-in defence team and several curious witnesses.

Who are the candidates to be Trumps running mate in the 2024? Heres who might be on the shortlist for vice-president including Greg Abbott, Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis and what to know about each Republican hopeful Donald Trump has secured the necessary delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination for a third consecutive election

Tenants of the high-rise in New Rochelle, New York, want to abandon the name which has at times affected real estate value While Donald Trump endures the ignominy of being the first former US president to face criminal trial, there is further humiliation brewing, with a movement to strip the Trump name from a building in his home state

Former president told thousands of supporters gathered at Wilmington airport the event would be rescheduled bigger and better Donald Trump called for debates with Joe Biden before cancelling his own appearance at a planned rally in Wilmington, North Carolina as a rain storm approached the airport where it was staged on Saturday

Pictures of Donald Trump in a New York courtroom made headlines globally

Ex-president reduced to silence in court, including this week, when he was forced to face opinions of New Yorkers during jury selection In the first week of his criminal trial a historic first for a former US president Donald Trump encountered a dynamic thats become common for his appearances in court

Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trumps hush-money trial is taking place

Ken Griffins Citadel Securities claimed Devin Nunes would be fired on The Apprentice amid stock trading row The CEO of Donald Trumps social media empire was branded a proverbial loser whom the former president would have fired on The Apprentice by a trading firm owned by the billionaire Republican donor Ken Griffin on Friday

Florida resident in critical condition in hospital after images of incident carried live on television A man was in critical condition in a New York hospital on Friday after setting himself on fire outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial in a hush-money case

Donald Trump owns nearly 60% of Trump Media, which operates the Truth Social app

The BBC's Nada Tawfik was outside the New York court where Donald Trump's trial is taking place.

Prospective jurors were grilled on myriad facets of their life, with one raising concerns her identity had been discovered Donald Trump is set to appear in court for the fourth day of his hush-money trial on Friday after 12 jurors were selected on Thursday

First criminal trial of a former president one significant step closer to beginning after full jury selected in New York A full jury of 12 people has been seated in the criminal case against Donald Trump, bringing the first criminal trial of a former president a significant step closer to beginning

This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president it was Donald Trump the defendant With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words

Bridget Thorne, a Republican elected in Fulton county in 2022, has spread election fraud lies and accused county employees of crimes A Fulton county commissioner in Georgia has been operating a private Telegram channel for years, propagating debunked claims about the 2020 election, and spreading accusations of crimes by county employees, including Ruby Freeman, an election worker defamed by Rudy Giuliani in the wake of Donald Trumps 2020 loss

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Andrzej Duda said he met privately with former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his visit to New York on Wednesday

Dozens indicated they could not be fair and impartial to the ex-president in his home town others were even more expressive As jury selection in Donald Trumps criminal hush-money case started this week, it seemed like the former president would face a tough crowd

Juan Merchan admonishes ex-president for gesturing and speaking in the direction of the juror as jury selection continues Donald Trump met a stern rebuke on Tuesday from the jurist presiding over his criminal hush-money trial, with the judge warning: I wont have any jurors intimidated in this courtroom

If court curtails use of statute in connection with Capitol riot it could eliminate two of the four charges against Donald Trump The US supreme court expressed concern on Tuesday with prosecutors using an obstruction statute to charge hundreds of January 6 Capitol riot defendants, with the justices leaning towards a position that could jeopardize those prosecutions and the criminal case against Donald Trump

The crisis in the Middle East and the criminal trial of ex-US president Donald Trump lead the papers.

Monday marked the start of Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York City

Former president complains of political persecution as jury selection gets under way in criminal trial involving 34 counts The first day of Donald Trump s Manhattan hush-money trial came to a close on Monday afternoon with jury selection under way, marking a notable moment in American history: the first criminal trial of a current or former president

The ex-PM warns the "world was safer" under Donald Trump's presidency, and the West is "on the cusp" of conflict.

Former PM Liz Truss says she hopes Donald Trump wins the next US election.

The assertion followed the launch of a website attacking the independent presidential candidate calling him a leftist radical Robert F Kennedy Jr, the prominent conspiracy theorist and independent presidential candidate, claimed on Monday he had turned down an offer from Donald Trump to be his running mate for the White House

From Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels, these are the people likely to play key roles in the landmark trial The start of jury selection in Donald Trumps hush-money case marks the first time that a former president has stood trial on criminal charges

As he bids to return to the White House, Donald Trump will become the first ex-president to face a criminal trial.

Robert Kennedy Jr, Cornel West and Jill Stein likely to take votes from Biden in November election, research suggests Multiple new polls show Joe Biden strengthening slightly in the US presidential election, but suggest third-party candidates could present a risk to his chance of carrying the White House in November. According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Saturday, Biden has whittled down the four-point lead Donald Trump held in February, with Trump leading Biden 46% to 45% among registered voters

Ex-president calls New York criminal case due go to court on Monday a communist show trial A defiant Donald Trump continued to attack the prosecutor, judge and a key witness in the New York hush-money criminal trial against him, a signal that the former president will continue to embrace bombast as jury selection in the case begins on Monday

From an encounter with an adult film star in 2006, to a $130,000 payment in 2016 and a criminal trial starting on Monday After a years-long investigation by New York prosecutors, Donald Trump is facing his first criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday

The Republican former TV anchor is trying to soften her election-denying image against the Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego in one of the years most closely watched races On a recent Tuesday morning, at a retirement community on the western edge of Phoenixs sprawling desert metropolis, Kari Lake beamed at the graying crowd and introduced her guest, the Montana senator Steve Daines, the Republican charged with winning back the partys Senate majority in Washington. His presence sent the message that establishment Republicans were fully behind Lake, a former TV news anchor in Phoenix whose embrace of election denialism and fealty to Donald Trump made her a darling of his Maga movement but probably cost her the 2022 race for Arizona governor, a loss she has never formally conceded

Police were made aware of unlicensed gun after Carroll testified in court she kept a revolver by her bed New York writer E Jean Carroll has handed over a gun to police that she was keeping, but without a license, during her long legal battles with Donald Trump after she sued him over sexual abuse , according to a new report

Then AT&T chief Randall Stephenson says president spent most of meeting about Beijing and tech on diatribe about women and sex Donald Trump has made antipathy to China a cornerstone of his campaign to return to the White House next year, but according to a new book, he allowed another obsession, over women and sex, to derail a White House meeting with a senior US tech executive meant to address Chinese threats to US telecoms networks

Prosecutors say theyre leaning on the bread and butter of our white-collar work falsifying business records Back when candidate Donald Trump was just starting to fill stadiums across the US with loyal crowds of supporters, he held a fateful meeting that would set the course for the first criminal trial of a former US president, which kicks off Monday

Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speaker Facing the press alongside the House speaker, fellow Republican Mike Johnson, Donald Trump bragged: We broke Roe v Wade

Theyve turned the clock to the 1800s, said the US vice-president as she excoriated ex-president as architect of healthcare crisis Kamala Harris pinned the blame for Arizonas abortion ban squarely on Donald Trump, who she described as the architect of this healthcare crisis in a speech at a campaign event in Tucson on Friday

Donald Trump has distanced himself from a revived 1864 law that would ban most abortions.

Mr Biden has criticised Donald Trump, his election challenger, for using donor funds to pay legal fees.

The law has long been contentious among both progressives and libertarian-leaning conservatives who view it as a violation of privacy rights and civil liberties. Donald Trump has likewise lambasted it out of personal grievance

Ex-president could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state, former adviser Fiona Hill tells author As president, Donald Trump made it very clear that he thought Ukraine must be part of Russia, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China

The case was big news when it was filed last year, but its been overshadowed by a litany of other alleged crimes by the ex-president As the criminal cases mounted against Donald Trump last year, one could be forgiven for not giving much thought to the New York case that charged him with 34 felony counts for falsifying business records

The US House speaker is negotiating with the White House on advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel, the Associated Press is reporting. Speaker Mike Johnson has delayed for months on advancing desperately needed aid to Ukraine, in an effort to include some politically advantageous Republican demands in the package as well as due to pressure from some hard-right Republicans aligned with Donald Trump

Far-right US Senate candidate joins Republicans who have decried state supreme court ruling but who blocked appeal effort Kari Lake, the far-right US Senate candidate and Donald Trump ally, denounced Arizonas abortion ban on Thursday, arguing that the strict legislation she previously praised does not have the support of the states residents

Planned bill to ban already illegal practice is latest Republican step to spread falsehoods about immigration and voter fraud Donald Trump and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, plan to push for a bill to ban non-citizens from voting, the latest step by Republicans to falsely claim migrants are coming to the country and casting ballots

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is fighting several court cases related to his work as a lawyer for Donald Trump.

Female directors are thin on the ground plus a change but the lineup promises intriguing new films from modern day masters, as well as some unknown hot potatoes Donald Trump biopic and new films by Yorgos Lanthimos and Andrea Arnold to premiere at Cannes The new Cannes selection has been unveiled in one of the most tense and fraught geopolitical situations for years, giving even more of a frisson to the traditional rune-reading activity of scrutinising the festivals list, and scrutinising cinema itself, for contemporary meaning

Hugo Lowell talks through the law and the politics of a case starting this Monday against Donald Trump the first ever criminal trial of a former or sitting US president On Monday, in a courtroom in New York, Donald Trump will become the first ever sitting or former US president to face a criminal trial

Case on Monday will be first ever criminal trial of an ex-president as Trumps lawyers fight to put it off and try to remove its judge A New York appeals court on Wednesday rejected, for the third straight day, a last-ditch attempt by Donald Trumps lawyers to delay his hush money trial

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also said he would not sign a federal abortion ban.

Ex-president who boasts about Roes fall say matter is about states rights but concedes revived 160-year-old ban goes too far Insisting abortion rights should be left to state governments, Donald Trump nonetheless said the rightwing Arizona supreme court went too far when it ruled on Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total ban could be enforced

Barack Obama was the embodiment of hope for a lot of people and the embodiment of fear for a sizable portion of this country. And the same is true for Donald Trump

Richardson is an independent-minded small business owner in a key swing state exactly the kind of person US presidential candidates are desperate to woo. In 2016, when Pennsylvania went Republican for the first time since 1988, he voted for Donald Trump

A New York appeals judge denied a bid by Donald Trump to delay his criminal hush money trial by seeking a pause while he challenges gag order against him.

British foreign secretary talked with Republican presidential candidate following Trumps repeated questioning of US aid to Ukraine Ukraines air defence systems destroyed all 20 attack drones that Russia launched targeting Ukraine, Ukrainian Air Force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on Tuesday

Lawyers had argued trial should be postponed while they seek a change of venue to move it out of heavily Democratic Manhattan Sign up for Trump on Trial: a free newsletter on all the latest court developments A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trumps request to delay his 15 April hush-money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan

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Even with the potential for error and a decline in voter engagement, polls can explain the electorate at a point in time In 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

Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trumps smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people Donald Trumps speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused on a laundry list of complaints, largely personal, and an increasingly menacing tone

Wrestler and actor endorsed president and Kamala Harris in 2020 but tells Fox News that for 2024 he will keep my politics to myself The wrestler turned action star Dwayne The Rock Johnson dealt a blow to Joe Biden, saying he would not repeat his endorsement of the president in his looming rematch with Donald Trump

New York hush-money trial still on course for 15 April start but ruling in classified documents case has prosecutors concerned Donald Trump faced mounting trouble this week in his legal universe, with judges overseeing two of Trumps legal cases refusing to accept his attempts to delay and toss the prosecution and the former president doubling down on efforts to discredit his opponents

Richard Grenells shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests For Donald Trump, he is my envoy, the man apparently anointed as the former US presidents roving ambassador while he plots a return to the White House

Several recent polls have suggested that Donald Trump may be on course to receive more support from Black voters than any Republican presidential nominee in history

Trumps Presidential Records Act argument could be resurrected at trial even as the judge denied his motion to dismiss The federal judge overseeing Donald Trumps prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents denied his effort to have the case dismissed on the contention that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to transform them as personal property and possess them at his Mar-a-Lago club

Stock debut that could net the former president billions was kept afloat by opaque loans provided in part by Anton Postolnikov Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate Donald Trumps social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American under federal criminal investigation to make it to its stock market debut

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is the biggest shareholder in Trump Media, the owner of the Truth Social app he often uses.

Ex-president had requested case be pushed back till the supreme court reviews his claim to presidential immunity in a separate case A New York judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trumps bid to delay his trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to Stormy Daniels until the US supreme court reviews his claim to presidential immunity in a separate criminal case

Donald Trump is seeking that the two ex-Apprentice contestants lose shares in the now public company.

The results, particularly those in the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin, could provide more clues about the general election in November. Hundreds of delegates are up for grabs, but Joe Biden and Donald Trump have already amassed enough delegates to win their respective nominations