Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump prosecutor focuses on ‘cover-up’ in closing arguments while defense attacks key witnessMay 28, 2024 7:52 am - NEW YORK — Donald Trump engaged in “a conspiracy and a cover-up,” a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in the former president's hush money trial, wh...
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Closing arguments, jury instructions and maybe a verdict? Major week looms in Trump hush money trialMay 27, 2024 9:37 am - WASHINGTON — The testimony in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial is all wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, meaning the case heads...
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Hunter Biden’s tax trial set for September as judge agrees to delay, with gun trial still in JuneMay 22, 2024 3:45 pm - LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden is scheduled to stand trial on federal tax charges in September after a judge on Wednesday granted his request to delay the California trial th...
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Lara Trump is taking the reins and reshaping the RNC in her father-in-law’s imageMay 22, 2024 3:09 pm - WASHINGTON — The direction of the Republican National Committee is clear from the last name of its new second-in-command: Trump. “My No. 1 goal is making sure that Donald...
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Prosecutor in Trump classified papers case calls claims of hostility toward co-defendant ‘garbage’May 22, 2024 2:04 pm - FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A lawyer for Donald Trump's personal valet accused federal prosecutors Wednesday of targeting the valet because he refused to cooperate against the fo...
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Trump or Biden? Either way, U.S. seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on importsMay 21, 2024 7:07 am - WASHINGTON — As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier — raising its materials pric...
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Former Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and others set to be arraigned in fake elector caseMay 21, 2024 7:04 am - PHOENIX — Former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and at least 11 other people are set to be arraigned Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom on conspiracy, forgery and ...
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Defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trialMay 21, 2024 7:00 am - Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial.
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After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it’s OK nowMay 17, 2024 1:01 pm - Marta Moehring voted the way she prefers in Nebraska's Republican primary Tuesday — in person, at her west Omaha polling place. She didn’t even consider taking advantage ...
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Trump heads to Minnesota to campaign after attending his son Barron’s Florida high school graduationMay 17, 2024 11:47 am - ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump will head to Minnesota on a day off from his hush money trial for a Republican fundraiser Friday night in a traditionally ...