As former president Donald Trump prepares for somewhere between one and four criminal trials this year, the only thing certain about his court schedule is the profound uncertainty that hangs over all of it. The diffuse nature of the U.S. court system, the uncharted legal territory of the cases against the former president and the […]Read More

Democrats began the search last summer, fanning out through the northern swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to find the nurses, electricians, farmers and floor installers who could best testify to the danger of Donald Trump returning to power. The previously unreported project by the outside group American Bridge 21st Century developed 732 leads, […]Read More

The Defense Department has not properly kept tabs on more than $1 billion worth of shoulder-fired missiles, night-vision goggles, one-way attack drones and other sensitive equipment that the United States has provided to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, the Pentagon’s inspector general said in a report released Thursday. The watchdog’s findings, which raise questions […]Read More

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial wound down Thursday with closing statements in the case, which accuses the former president of exaggerating the values of his properties to secure better financial terms. While much of the day unfolded in conventional fashion — with lawyers from both sides using their allotted time to offer […]Read More

It is less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, a hackneyed introductory phrase that, in four days, will transform into something like, “At long last, voters get their say.” But the point remains that voting (or whatever you want to call what they do in Iowa) is imminent and the march toward the Republican […]Read More

Donald Trump’s campaign greeted the news that Chris Christie was ending his presidential bid with a memo making the case that it wouldn’t matter much — and particularly that it wouldn’t benefit Nikki Haley. Instead, the memo reinforced the idea that this is something that could indeed help Haley, at least in the all-important New […]Read More

The Defense Department inspector general said Thursday it will investigate the mishandling of Lloyd Austin’s recent hospitalization, which the Pentagon chief and others close to him kept secret from the White House and Congress for days in an apparent breach of protocol after he developed serious complications from prostate cancer surgery. In a memo addressed […]Read More

A poll released Thursday of Iowa voters found that, among Republicans, former president Donald Trump maintains a dominant lead in the days ahead of the caucuses. But it is the first to find former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley opening up a clear lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Suffolk University poll of 500 likely […]Read More

After he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump applied a rather scattershot approach to his efforts to effect his promised policy changes. This was in part a function of the resistance some efforts faced from Congress (like repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare) or from the courts (like his ban on […]Read More