016 Election News Today

Journalists — and the rest of us — need to quit parroting Republicans' transparent lies about voting

Week four of Donald Trump's hush-money trial wrapped-up with the former president fined for a 10th gag order violation, threatened with possible jail time as current and former Trump Organization officials got on stand.

Hicks had “one major question” and her response to then-Obama aide Psaki’s comment was in hindsight -- amid Trump's trial -- “interesting," said the now-MSNBC anchor.

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's historic criminal trial again found the former US president in contempt of a gag order Monday and threatened to jail him if there are further violations.Judge Juan Merchan held Trump in contempt of court and fined him $1,000 for a violation of the gag order prohibiting him from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors or court staff and their relatives.

Week four of Donald Trump's hush-money trial got underway Monday with the former president fined again and held in criminal contempt for violating a gag order for the 10th time with possible jail time now on the table.

It’s easy to compare former President Donald Trump’s search for a running mate to his old TV show, “The Apprentice,” in which would-be businesspeople contestants hoped to hear him say, “You’re hired!”

NEW YORK — “This was a crisis.” That was the consensus among senior Trump campaign aides on Oct. 7, 2016, after stepping out of a Trump Tower conference room, where the then-presidential candidate’s debate prep session was underway. There was to be a huddle about a more pressing matter. A Washington Post reporter had notified…

"The DA’s office is going to argue that all of these puzzle pieces add up to a crime," law professor says

(Bloomberg) -- The second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial gave jurors first-hand accounts of negotiations for payments to two women and how the former president’s 2016 campaign reacted when news of their alleged affairs leaked out anyway.Most Read from BloombergEverything Apple Plans to Show at May 7 ‘Let Loose’ iPad EventSaudi Arabia Steps Up Arrests Of Those Attacking Israel OnlineApple Rallies Most in 18 Months on Upbeat Forecast, Buyb...

Jurors in Trump's NY trial got a behind-the-scenes look Tuesday at negotiations that caught and killed two women's campaign-threatening stories.