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

Repeated mishaps with the Pentagon’s Gaza pier have triggered new scrutiny over whether it is safe and sensible to continue using the floating operation to bring humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians, with the Biden administration insisting it can salvage the mission and former military officials split on whether doing so is wise. Deliveries over the […]Read More

There is a reason that numbers nerds tend to like elections and sports: Each involves competition that can be tracked in intimate detail through data. There’s a human element, sure, voters voting and athletes athleting. But those activities aggregate into scads of data emerging over decades — data that can be pored over, reformed, dug […]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