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Stormy Daniels appears at an event, May 23, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday, April 15, 2024, with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. The charges in the trial center on $130,000 in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

Porn star Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial, a remarkable moment that breathed life into proceedings that had been mired in copies of checks, invoices and other mundane details of the state's case.

May 7, 2024
Hope Hicks, former White House Communications Director, arrives to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 27, 2018. Prosecutors say Hicks spoke with former President Donald Trump by phone during a frenzied effort to keep allegations of his marital infidelity out of the press after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape leaked weeks before the 2016 election. In the tape, from 2005, Trump boasted about grabbing women without permission. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies about key events in 2016

Hope Hicks, a top aide to former President Donald Trump during his political rise, is testifying in her former boss' hush money trial about key players in 2016 payoffs to women and the fallout from the "Access Hollywood" tape before the election.

May 3, 2024
Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP)

New York prosecutors want Trump slapped with new gag-order fines

Prosecutors on Thursday urged a New York judge to impose new fines on former President Donald Trump, pointing to four alleged violations of a gag order that barred the famous defendant from opining on potential trial witnesses, jurors and court staff.

May 2, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to supporters during a campaign event, Sunday, April 21, 2024, in Royal Oak, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Trump hammers on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-as-liberal theme

Former President Donald Trump urged MAGA supporters on Monday not to "waste" their votes on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s independent presidential bid, painting him as the liberal who should siphon votes from President Biden instead of the GOP side.

April 29, 2024