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

The American political right’s complicated internal debate over Russia and Vladimir Putin is coming to a head. Even as congressional Republicans this week were threatening to cut off Ukraine aid once and for all, former president Donald Trump floated the idea that he would encourage Putin to attack NATO countries that didn’t pay enough; Tucker […]Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that could have complicated the 2024 race for the White House. Manchin said during a speech in West Virginia he “will not be involved in a presidential run” as he continues to focus on […]Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for president after months of flirting with a campaign that could have complicated the 2024 race for the White House. Manchin said during a speech in West Virginia he “will not be involved in a presidential run” as he continues to focus on […]Read More

It is immediately obvious why the White House pushed back as hard as it did on a draft of a report from special counsel Robert Hur summarizing his investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified materials. Hur’s report, both in draft and in its final release, suggested that Biden suffered from significant memory issues, a […]Read More

It is immediately obvious why the White House pushed back as hard as it did on a draft of a report from special counsel Robert Hur summarizing his investigation into President Biden’s possession of classified materials. Hur’s report, both in draft and in its final release, suggested that Biden suffered from significant memory issues, a […]Read More

President Biden had been in office for less than a week before he first addressed Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a penal colony on Friday. A reporter from Reuters asked whether the new president would approve sanctions against Russia following Navalny’s August 2020 poisoning, apparently at the hands of Russian security […]Read More

President Biden had been in office for less than a week before he first addressed Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a penal colony on Friday. A reporter from Reuters asked whether the new president would approve sanctions against Russia following Navalny’s August 2020 poisoning, apparently at the hands of Russian security […]Read More