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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump hush money trial live updates: First week comes to an end

Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial are poised to dig into a former tabloid publisher’s accounts of how he worked to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Manhattan criminal court during the continuation of his trial on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s lawyers try to discredit testimony of prosecution’s first witness in hush money trial

 
This artist sketch depicts, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court during arguments over whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

Key moments from landmark Supreme Court arguments on Trump’s immunity claims

 
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions

 
This image released in the final report by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Dec. 22, 2022, shows a graphic that illustrates the difference between real and fake Presidential Elector Ballots from Arizona. An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors claiming Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election. (House Select Committee via AP)

Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year

 

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The Latest: Supreme Court arguments conclude in Trump immunity case

 

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Judge in Trump’s classified files case agrees to redact witness names, granting prosecution request

 

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
 
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David McCormick, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks at a campaign event at the Beerded Goat Brewing Co., April 25, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Debates to play a major role in Pennsylvania’s 2024 US Senate election

 

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FILE - Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer withdrew his name from the U.S. Senate race on Friday, April 26, 2024, ending a longshot bid to become the Republican nominee and return to Congress after being ousted by voters for supporting an effort to impeach then-President Donald Trump. (Katy Batdorff/Detroit News via AP, File)

Former Rep. Peter Meijer ends his longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Michigan’s Senate race

Former Rep. Peter Meijer has withdrawn his name from a U.S. Senate race in Michigan. Meijer was seen as a longshot to win the Republican Party’s nomination after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2021.
 
FILE - South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem attends an event Jan. 10, 2024, at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. The Guardian has obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be released book, where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything "difficult, messy and ugly." (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again.
 
FILE - Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Charges revealed against a former Trump aide and 4 lawyers in Arizona fake electors case

Authorities have revealed the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges that were filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona’s fake elector case.
 
FILE- Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides over a hearing, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. DeKalb Superior Court Judge Stacey Hydrick on Thursday, APril 25, 2024, upheld the disqualification of Tiffani Johnson, a candidate who had had planned to run against McAfee. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Judge upholds disqualification of challenger to judge in Trump’s Georgia election interference case

A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case.
 
President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, as he returns from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall. Biden’s comment Friday is the most definitive he’s been on whether he would debate his presumptive Republican opponent.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with construction workers at the construction site of the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in midtown Manhattan, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trading Trump: Truth Social’s first month of trading has sent investors on a ride

With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26.
 
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves State Supreme Court in New York, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, during his trial on charges of allegedly falsifying business records. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was “nothing” compared to the college campus protests that have sparked around the country over the Israel-Hamas war.
 
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Kim Kardashian, left, listen during a discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, on criminal justice reform and the pardons issued by President Joe Biden earlier this month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

First with Trump, now with Kamala Harris: Kim Kardashian is advocating for criminal justice reform

Kim Kardashian has joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.
 

Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case

A federal judge in New York has rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation.
 
FILE - David Pecker, chairman and CEO of American Media, speaks at an event, Jan. 31, 2014 in New York. Testimony by the former National Enquirer publisher at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's best-known tabloid and may one day be seen as the moment it effectively died. On Thursday, April 25, 2024 Pecker was back on the witness stand to tell more about the arrangement he made to boost Trump's presidential candidacy in 2016, tear down his rivals and silence any revelations that may have damaged him. (Marion Curtis via AP, File)

The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that

Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Testimony by former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker during former President Trump’s hush money trial has been shocking even for people who bring a healthy degree of skepticism whenever they read the supermarket tabloid.
 
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his address at the third Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC Hungary, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s Orbán urges European conservatives, and Trump, toward election victories at CPAC event

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister has called for right-wing forces to take power in upcoming European and U.S. elections, and expressed support for former President Donald Trump in his ongoing criminal trial.
 
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the CHIPS and Science Act at the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden celebrates computer chip factories, pitching voters on American ‘comeback’

President Joe Biden has arrived in New York state to celebrate a tech company’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with government support.
 
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-tabloid publisher testifies he scooped up possibly damaging tales to shield his old friend Trump

The former publisher of the National Enquirer testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial about going to great lengths to help shield his old friend from potentially damaging stories.
 
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber as the Senate prepares to advance the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan passed by the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

To pass Ukraine aid, ‘Reagan Republican’ leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress.
 
President Joe Biden talks with NABTU President Sean McGarvey after speaking to the North America's Building Trade Union National Legislative Conference, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden picks up another big union endorsement, this one from building trades workers

The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden. It adds to Biden’s roster of support from organized labor.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks after leaving Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Investigator says Trump, allies were uncharged co-conspirators in plot to overturn Michigan election

A state investigator in Michigan says he considers former President Donald Trump and some key allies to be uncharged co-conspirators in a scheme to claim that he had won Michigan in the 2020 election.
 
FILE A couple watches the sun set from a park, July 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. A quarter of U.S. adults over the age of 50 have no retirement savings, according to a new AARP survey — and 70% of people surveyed are worried about prices rising faster than their income. New research from the AARP released Wednesday reveals how a graying America is worrying more and more about how to make ends meet, even as economists and policymakers say the U.S. economy has all but achieved a soft landing after a period of record high inflation. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

About 1 in 4 US adults 50 and older who aren’t yet retired expect to never retire, AARP study finds

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who aren’t yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination and apparently so did some of her supporters. Haley won almost 17% of Pennsylvania’s primary vote Tuesday, to Trump’s 83%, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid March 6. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Some Nikki Haley voters are hanging on to her candidacy and, like her, refuse to endorse Trump

When Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination — and apparently so did some of her supporters in Pennsylvania.
 
FILE - President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

What to listen for during Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump and presidential immunity

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
 
FILE - A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, April 23, 2024, in Washington. TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

What a TikTok ban in the US could mean for you

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.
 
FILE - A hiring sign is displayed in Riverwoods, Ill., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S. The move marks the largest expansion in federal overtime eligibility seen in decades. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Millions more salaried US workers are set to be eligible for overtime pay starting July 1

The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in the U.S.
 
This image from U.S. Capitol Police video, contained and annotated in the Justice Department's statement of facts in support arrest warrant for David Joseph Gietzen, shows Gietzen, circled in yellow, pushing at a officer's shield at a police line on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. The North Carolina man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to six years in prison. (Department of Justice via AP)

North Carolina man sentenced to six years in prison for attacking police with pole at Capitol

A North Carolina man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial.
 
People listen as President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state's upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden blames Trump for Florida’s 6-week abortion ban, says women nationwide face health crisis

President Joe Biden is blaming Donald Trump for Florida’s upcoming abortion ban and other restrictions across the country that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women.
 
Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Trump could avoid trial this year on 2020 election charges. Is the hush money case a worthy proxy?

Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power.
 
Former president Donald Trump waits for the start of proceedings in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in New York. Before testimony resumes Tuesday, the judge will hold a hearing on prosecutors' request to sanction and fine Trump over social media posts they say violate a gag order prohibiting him from attacking key witnesses. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Tabloid publisher says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race

A veteran tabloid publisher has testified that he pledged to be Donald Trump’s “eyes and ears” during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting for a jury how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and had even arranged to purchase a doorman’s silence.
 
Former president Donald Trump speaks to the media after the first day of opening arguments in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, NY, on Monday, April 22, 2024. The former President is expected to spend the next 6 or so weeks in attendance at his trial for falsification of business records, to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who allegedly had an encounter with the President before he was in office. Photographer: Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post/ Pool

Trump called this visa ‘very bad’ for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict.
 
Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Key takeaways from the opening statements in Donald Trump’s hush money trial

The opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former American president provided a clear roadmap of how prosecutors will try to make the case that Donald Trump broke the law, and how the defense plans to fight the charges on multiple fronts.
 
Donald Trump stands as the jury files into the courtroom at the start of the trial in Manhattan criminal court Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools

With cameras not allowed at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, live news blogs are coming into their own as an important news tool.
 
FILE - Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Isreal Easterday, a Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol at the age of 19 while carrying a Confederate battle flag, has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face. Chief Judge James Boasberg cited Easterday’s youth as a reason for sentencing him to two years and six months, five times lower than the Justice Department’s initial sentencing recommendation of 12 years and seven months. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Man who attacked police after storming US Capitol with Confederate flag gets over 2 years in prison

A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, temporarily blinding both of them.