Donald Trump on Monday will hear prosecutors explain why his alleged cover up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his campaign broke the law. He has pleaded not guilty. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court with his legal team ahead of...

   Donald Trump on Monday will hear prosecutors explain why his alleged cover up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his campaign broke the law, as the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president begins in New York.Lawyers for the Republican presidential candidate will also...

   Donald Trump faces an array of legal troubles in criminal and civil cases while he seeks to regain the presidency as the Republican candidate challenging Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. U.S. election. Trump denies wrongdoing in all of the cases.Trump faces criminal charges in four...

   U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Monday to announce two final rules aimed at improving access to long term care and ensuring the quality of care giving jobs, a White House official said.The White House said Monday’s announcements...

   Donald Trump faces a crowded calendar this year as the Republican former president campaigns to win back the White House in the U.S. election while defending himself in four criminal cases.Here are key dates in Trump’s legal and political schedule:Prosecutors and Trump’s defense attorneys make...

   The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday confronts the nation’s homelessness crisis as the justices consider the legality of local laws that are used against people camping on public streets and parks in a case involving a southwest Oregon city’s vagrancy policy.The justices will hear arguments in an...

   The insurer that provided Donald Trump a million bond in his New York civil fraud case will try to convince a state judge on Monday that it is qualified and financially strong enough to issue the guarantee.The bond issued by Knight Specialty Insurance Co is meant to secure Trump’s compliance...

   Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York has barely begun but one of the highest profile court cases in U.S. history has already highlighted the challenges of insulating a jury from social media.As opening statements are set to begin in New York on Monday, the salacious case involving a hush money...

   Opening statements are set to take place on Monday in Donald Trump’s hush money case, the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The charges are tied to a , payment made to buy a porn star’s silence before the election about a sexual relationship she says she had with him...

   Opening statements are set to take place on Monday in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the first ever of a former U.S. president, on charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the election.Trump, the Republican candidate challenging...

   President Joe Biden on Monday will celebrate Earth Day by announcing billion in grants for residential solar projects that will power nearly a million low income households, the White House said.The announcement kicks off a week of activities aimed at touting the Biden administration’s record on...

   David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, is expected to be the first witness for the prosecution of former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, when he is certain to be asked about a scheme at the heart of the hush money trial.The New York Times on Sunday reported Pecker was...

   Donald Trump will be judged in his historic New York criminal trial by jurors selected last week after a painstaking search for people who could be fair and impartial to the Republican former U.S. president in Manhattan, the Democratic stronghold where he made his name as a real estate tycoon...

   Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial in New York is set to feature a colorful cast of witnesses. Among the prosecution witnesses expected to testify are Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, porn star Stormy Daniels, a Playboy model, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and Trump’s...

   TikTok on Sunday repeated its free speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.The House passed the legislation on Saturday by a margin of to . It...

   Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolize the plight of Western hostages during the country’s civil war, died on Sunday at age , his daughter said in a statement.The former chief Middle East...

   Thin with a boyish face and earrings in both ears, year old Isayah Turner does not look like a stereotypical Trump supporter, who tend to be middle aged or older.Nevertheless, Turner drove two hours from his home outside Milwaukee on a recent Tuesday to see Republican presidential candidate...

   Democrats in the House of Representatives on Sunday signaled a willingness to support House Speaker Mike Johnson, as Republican hardliners threaten to oust him following the passage of critical aid for Ukraine.Democratic U.S. Representative Jared Moskowitz said in an interview with Fox News Sunday...

   Donald Trump’s political group that pays his legal bills on Saturday reported spending . million on lawyer fees in March, draining the finances backing Trump’s White House bid as the Republican trailed President Joe Biden at raising money.Trump is facing four criminal trials including one...

   At least two people are dead and six others injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to police. During the follow up investigation, we learned that there were total victims, with two of those being deceased on the scene, Memphis police said in an...

   The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from Republican hardliners.The legislation now proceeds to the Democratic majority Senate, which...

   U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump abruptly canceled a campaign rally in North Carolina on Saturday because of an incoming storm, telling the crowd he was devastated and promising to return to the battleground state soon.Trump called into the outdoor rally from his private jet...

   On a sunny afternoon in a grassy park by the river, Amber Rockwell loaded a black, steel cart with a tent, suitcases, bags, camping stove and a plastic tin of licorice and tightened it all down with ratchet straps as she prepared to move to the next park over.Every week, she and the hundreds of...

   The U.S. Senate voted late on Friday night to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program, narrowly missing the midnight expiration of the program, and the White House said President Joe Biden would swiftly sign it.The reauthorization secures what supporters call a key...

   A man has died after setting himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial was taking place as jury selection wrapped up, but officials said he did not appear to have been targeting Trump.The man burned for several minutes in full view of...

   The meticulously planned marathons are a defining feature of his presidential campaigns: All day spectacles blending evangelical revivalist meeting and carnival, designed to deliver an emotional experience to his base and bring new backers into the fold. Donald Trump supporters attend a campaign...

   The University of Southern California announced there will be no outside speakers and honorees at this year’s main commencement ceremony after canceling its valedictorian speech from a Muslim student who said she was silenced by anti Palestinian hatred. Given the highly publicized circumstances...

   The U.S. military’s success helping Israel stop a massive wave of Iranian missiles and drones last weekend might suggest Washington is well prepared militarily for whatever comes next as Iran and Israel move from shadow warfare to direct confrontation.But current and former U.S. officials say U.S....

   Gunfire broke out at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, where hundreds of high school students had gathered while skipping school on Friday, wounding five males aged to , police said.One victim was in critical condition and the others were in stable condition, Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers...

   The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months.Friday’s procedural vote, which passed with more...