NEW YORK — More than a year after he was criminally charged in his former home city, Donald Trump came face-to-face Monday with some of the New Yorkers who could decide his fate. To protect their anonymity, however, the 96 prospective jurors brought into a 15th-floor courtroom at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Monday were […]Read More

Iran’s recent attack on Israel has complicated President Biden’s efforts to change Israel’s course in Gaza and introduced a new, unpredictable element into his push to prevent the Israel-Gaza war from escalating into a broader conflict. Just days ago, Biden told Israel the U.S. would rethink its Gaza policy if Israel did not immediately address […]Read More

After months of inaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled on Monday evening an outline of his plan to address the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, defying Republicans who threatened to oust him from the speakership if he moved forward with funding for Ukraine. But Johnson (R-La.) risks appeasing no one with a convoluted […]Read More

NEW YORK — The opening day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial delved deep into his tabloid fodder sex life, as lawyers and the judge debated how many salacious details jurors should eventually hear as they decide whether he broke the law to cover up hush money payments. The historic first trial of a former U.S. […]Read More

Donald Trump has spent a good part of his public life crafting an alternate reality. Just two days after Trump took office in 2017, adviser Kellyanne Conway set the tone by citing how Trump’s White House had “alternative facts” about the inauguration crowd size — claims that were provable falsehoods. Trump went on to put […]Read More

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden released their jointly filed 2023 tax returns on Monday, showing a federal adjusted gross income of $619,976 on which they paid $146,629 in federal income tax, an effective rate of 23.7 percent. The White House announced the returns on the April 15 U.S. tax filing deadline, saying in […]Read More

When Donald Trump appears for his first criminal trial on Monday, he will be flanked by two veteran New York attorneys: Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles. Over the past year, the former president has shed some of the less experienced lawyers who had attached themselves to his politics and elevated his conspiracy theories, with lawyers […]Read More

Marines who survived a devastating suicide bombing during the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan were mistaken in their belief that they had the attacker in their gunsights hours before the blast, a new military review determined, disputing allegations made before Congress and in the media. The findings, released Monday after they were shared with the families […]Read More

BRUSSELS — When Vice President Harris met privately with Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference in February, she told the Ukrainian leader something he didn’t want to hear: Refrain from attacking Russian oil refineries, a tactic U.S. officials believed would raise global energy prices and invite more aggressive Russian retaliation inside Ukraine. The request, […]Read More