Donald Trump is set to become the first president of the United States with a felony conviction.

On May 30, 2024, a New York County jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. That constituted a Class E felony in the state of New York, when the falsification is committed with an intent to ...Read more

President Joe Biden honored former President Jimmy Carter at his state funeral in Washington on Thursday, remembering his longtime friend as a man of character and a patriot who “showed us what it means to be a practitioner of good works and a good and faithful servant of God and of the people.”

“To young people — to anyone — in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump appears ready to let Senate and House Republicans settle their differences over budget reconciliation strategy without putting his thumb on the scales for either the all-in-one measure brewing in the House or the Senate’s bifurcated approach.

Trump met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday night ...Read more

“We take nothing by conquest…Thank God,” wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in February 1847.

The United States had just purchased 55 per cent of Mexico for US$15 million as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The pact concluded the bloody Mexican-American War, ...Read more

In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to stop his sentencing from going ahead Friday, leaving the matter in the hands of the Supreme Court.

In a letter to Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, a New York Court of Appeals clerk said Associate Judge Jenny Rivera had reviewed a proposed order that Trump�...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn the lower court opinion that removed her from the 2020 election interference case involving incoming President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others.

In a Wednesday court filing, Willis’ office argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals ...Read more

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in November 2024, the German state-owned news service Deutsche Welle published an article with the headline “Trump’s election victory is a nightmare for Germany.”

A few hours later, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced that his three-party...Read more

Since his election, President-elect Donald Trump has outlined targeted tariff proposals aimed at addressing pressing international issues. The most successful relates to Canada and Mexico’s responsibility for illegal immigration. Increasingly, targeted tariffs are being used as sanctions in areas well beyond trade policy.

Trump is already ...Read more

In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees will begin testifying before the U.S. Senate next week as Republicans rush to install the new cabinet soon after the Jan. 20 inauguration.

Several of Trump’s picks have caused consternation on Capitol Hill, perhaps none more so than former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the Pentagon...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge ordered a six-year prison sentence for a former FBI informant who admitted to tax evasion and lying to authorities about an alleged multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son and a Ukrainian energy company that became a focal point of an impeachment inquiry by congressional Republicans.

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LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden announced that he became a great-grandfather Wednesday following a briefing on the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

"The good news is, I'm a great-grandfather as of today," Biden said at a Santa Monica firehouse.

The president and first lady Jill Biden already had a trip scheduled to Los Angeles to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has told Senate Republicans there appears to be enough Democrats to move forward on legislation seeking to impose stricter measures on undocumented migrants who commit crimes in the United States, her office confirmed Wednesday.

The measure known as the Laken Riley Act has the needed “eight Democrats ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As communities across Los Angeles County burned Wednesday in a spate of wildfires, the crisis highlighted the stark difference between the incoming and outgoing presidents and their relationships with California.

President Joe Biden stood next to Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, at a fire station in Santa Monica and pledged...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday blamed the massive wildfires burning homes in Southern California on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s water policies, claiming in a jab on his Truth Social media platform that Newsom put the needs of “essentially worthless fish” over “the people of California.”

“Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in his criminal hush money case and stop his sentencing from going ahead on Friday.

The eleventh-hour request to the nation’s high court came a day after Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, failed to convince a New York appeals court to cancel the sentencing set for ...Read more

ATLANTA — Once the victim of his own stolen election, Jimmy Carter later launched an international election observation operation that continues to watch for fair and democratic results.

Part of the former president’s lasting legacy, the Carter Center’s election monitoring work started in 1989 with missions to Central American nations and...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge ordered a six-year prison sentence for a former FBI informant who admitted to tax evasion and lying to authorities about an alleged multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son and a Ukrainian energy company that became a focal point of an impeachment inquiry by congressional Republicans.

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