For more than 100 years, since Donald Trump’s grandfather started buying land in New York City, the Trump family has run a real estate business in New York. Barring a successful legal appeal of Friday’s decision by a New York Supreme Court judge, that could change. In his ruling on a months-long civil trial brought […]Read More

President Biden and other Democrats moved quickly Friday to criticize former president Donald Trump over a report that he prefers a 16-week national abortion ban with a few exceptions, underscoring the extent to which Democrats hope to seize on the issue in November. Biden’s campaign said the story from the New York Times confirmed their […]Read More

NEW YORK — A judge on Friday ordered former president Donald Trump to pay more than $350 million in penalties, plus interest, following a civil fraud trial, finding that he and others had carried out a years-long scheme to use “blatantly false financial data” to borrow money at lower rates. New York Supreme Court Justice […]Read More

Ross Gelbspan, a journalist and author who followed the money trail of climate change denial, exposing how the energy industry and lobbyists pushed narratives to counter overwhelming evidence that use of fossil fuels was driving global warming, died Jan. 27 at his home in Boston. He was 84. The death was announced by his family. […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has held his position for barely four months, not long by anyone’s standards, but long enough to ask this question: Does he have any major priority other than survival? Johnson has spoken repeatedly and sometimes vehemently about pending issues. He has called for tougher policies to halt the surge of […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump, who earlier this month set off worries among allies after he said would encourage Russia to invade a NATO country that wasn’t spending enough on defense, has remained largely silent on the death of Alexei Navalny, only appearing to suggest baselessly that he is being persecuted in the way Russian President […]Read More

For most of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has blamed President Biden for making everyday items unaffordable. The former president, for his part, is now selling $399 shoes. Trump appeared at Sneaker Con — a footwear convention for shoe aficionados and collectors — in Philadelphia this weekend, where he introduced his latest business venture: high-tops […]Read More

For most of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has blamed President Biden for making everyday items unaffordable. The former president, for his part, is now selling $399 shoes. Trump appeared at Sneaker Con — a footwear convention for shoe aficionados and collectors — in Philadelphia this weekend, where he introduced his latest business venture: high-tops […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump, who earlier this month set off worries among allies after he said would encourage Russia to invade a NATO country that wasn’t spending enough on defense, has remained largely silent on the death of Alexei Navalny, only appearing to suggest baselessly that he is being persecuted in the way Russian President […]Read More

Speaking to influential Republican donors at a private gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., on the last Tuesday of January, Nikki Haley’s campaign manager joked that she had hoped to bring the party’s bigwigs all “Barred Permanently” T-shirts, but they were back-ordered — a cheeky allusion to Donald Trump’s threat that anyone who donates to Haley […]Read More