Toward the beginning of Donald Trump’s long, meandering Friday morning news conference against his criminal conviction the previous afternoon, he offered a familiar criticism of his unfortunate position. “It was a rigged trial,” he said, listing off complaints about the circumstances of the charges and the trial and the district attorney. Later in the diatribe, […]Read More

The responses from most Democratic officials were restrained, even somber in tone, after a jury found former president Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial. “The verdict speaks for itself,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted Thursday, echoing many of his colleagues. But still, there […]Read More

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia announced Friday that he has changed his party registration to independent, fueling speculation he could run for office again in November after announcing his retirement last year. “My commitment to do everything I can to bring our country together has led me to register as an independent […]Read More

Thousands of Florida residents lose their right to vote every year when they are convicted of a felony. But by a quirk of the law, Florida resident Donald Trump likely will be able to cast a ballot in November despite his convictions this week. If the former president had been convicted in Republican-dominated Florida or […]Read More

After his criminalconviction, Donald Trump faces uncertainty about whether he could be sentenced to prison — and a looming fight to have the former president’s verdict overturned on appeal. Pivotal proceedings remain ahead for Trump after a New York jury convicted him Thursday. It’s unclear how his convictionand potential sentence may influence the presidential campaign, […]Read More

Donald Trump’s campaign took flight in the spring of 2023 for the least expected reason: A New York prosecutor indicted him for secretly paying an adult-film actress to hide an alleged adulterous tryst from voters. Rather than recoil, Republicans showered his campaign with fundraising, attention and rising poll numbers. Even his most bitter party rivals […]Read More

The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is resigning after five tumultuous years capped by a new draft report by an independent watchdog group that found she tried to obstruct the largest of multiple investigations into her office. Gail Ennis, a Trump administration appointee who took office in January 2019, announced her departure in an email […]Read More

Marian Robinson, a homemaker from the South Side of Chicago who became the first presidential in-law in generations to live in the White House after her daughter, Michelle Obama, became first lady of the United States, died May 31 in Chicago. She was 86. The family announced the death in a statement but did not […]Read More