NEW YORK — A New York jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to an adult-film actress, delivering a historic verdict that could shape the November election and that makes Trump the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. The verdict […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday railed against a “rigged, disgraceful trial” after a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial in New York. “The real verdict is going to be November 5th by the people,” Trump said, speaking to reporters outside the courtroom, “and they know what happened […]Read More

NEW YORK — Around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Donald Trump strode into a Manhattan courtroom, looking cheerful with his usual entourage of lawyers and advisers as he took his seat at the defense table. The judge said he would soon dismiss the jury for the day, and Trump sat whispering, smiling and laughing with attorney Todd […]Read More

After weeks of largely ignoring former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, President Biden’s campaign weighed in Thursday evening after Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts, saying the verdict showed that “no one is above the law.” But campaign officials also say privately they do not expect the verdict, striking […]Read More

For months, top advisers to Donald Trump expected that he would be convicted by a New York jury on all 34 felony counts. So Trump and his team waged an all-out war against the judicial system before the verdict came in, hoping to blunt the political damage and position him as a martyr. They sent […]Read More

The IRS is making its free tax-filing platform permanent and open to all 50 states and D.C., the Biden administration announced Thursday, following the successful launch of the first-of-its-kind website. This tax season, more than 140,000 taxpayers in 12 eligible states made use of Direct File — which allows users to submit simple tax returns […]Read More

A Queens man pleaded guilty Thursday to threatening to kill a congressional aide and to making more than 12,000 harassing phone calls to members of Congress over an 18-month period in 2022 and 2023, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. announced. Ade Salim Lilly, 35, pleaded guilty to one count of making interstate communications with a […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously found a New York state official likely violated the free speech rights of the National Rifle Association by pressuring banks and insurers to cut ties with the gun-rights organization after the Parkland, Fla., high school massacre in 2018. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the justices, said the court was […]Read More

The jury in former president Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial continued to deliberate Thursday, with a verdict possible at any moment. And as we await that crucial decision, efforts to pre-spin the verdict by Trump and his allies have kicked into high gear. But as has long been the case, many of their complaints about […]Read More

President Biden has accused Donald Trump of imitating Adolf Hitler, denounced him as a beacon of “hate, anger and revenge” in a prime-time speech watched by one in 10 Americans and built a campaign that spends nearly three times as much as his rival, including about $84 million more so far in general election advertising. […]Read More