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Ted Cruz endorses Trump, adding to ex-president’s Senate tally

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas endorsed Donald Trump for president late Tuesday, saying the "race is over" and it is time to coalesce behind the former president's bid to return to the White House.

January 17, 2024

Fresh off huge Iowa win, Trump shifts to courtroom for Carroll trial

Columnist E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against former President Donald Trump got underway Tuesday, just hours after GOP voters brushed off the ex-president's legal woes and delivered him a major victory in Iowa's presidential caucuses.

January 16, 2024

White House confirms Kerry’s departure as Biden’s climate envoy

The White House confirmed Tuesday that John Kerry will leave the administration after serving for three years as President Biden's climate envoy.

January 16, 2024

Biden to meet with top leaders in Congress on foreign aid spending request

President Biden will host congressional leaders from the House and Senate at the White House on Wednesday to discuss his stalled request for military aid for Ukraine and Israel, the administration said Tuesday.

January 16, 2024

Fresh off historic Iowa win, Trump sits in courtroom for penalty phase of E. Jean Carroll trial

Jury selection began Tuesday in the second civil case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump, just hours after GOP voters brushed off the ex-president's legal woes and delivered him a major victory in the Iowa caucuses.

January 16, 2024

Fresh off historic Iowa win, Trump arrives at courtroom for penalty phase of E. Jean Carroll trial

Former President Donald Trump had little time to celebrate his Iowa victory before facing another civil trial, this time a second round in New York against advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

January 16, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris jabs at Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley in MLK Day speech to NAACP

Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley during a Monday visit to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

January 15, 2024

Biden packs food in Pennsylvania stronghold, while GOP candidates vie for Iowans on MLK Day

President Biden marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a food bank in Philadelphia, a key Democratic stronghold, while his potential GOP rival crisscrossed Iowa.

January 15, 2024

Fulton County DA Fani Willis breaks silence over relationship bombshell in Trump case in Georgia

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the special prosecutor she hired to work on the case against former President Donald Trump.

January 15, 2024

Biden, Harris, congratulate new Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo on inauguration

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday congratulated Bernardo Arevalo upon his inauguration as president of Guatemala and said they look forward to working on migration issues as the U.S. administration contends with an unchecked flow across the southern border.

January 15, 2024

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Congress needs a pay raise to attract people

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says federal lawmakers should get a pay raise because Congress is becoming the "plaything of multimillionaires and billionaires."

January 15, 2024

Trump attacks Nikki Haley on Social Security, Medicare

Former President Donald Trump is cruising in Iowa but running ads in New Hampshire to dampen independent support for Nikki Haley, his nearest rival in the Granite State.

January 15, 2024

Trump, GOP ramp up probes into District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia

Former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are ramping up efforts to dismantle the Georgia election-subversion case against the ex-president, pointing to bombshell allegations of a personal relationship between the Democratic district attorney and taxpayer-funded special prosecutor.

January 12, 2024

Trump confidently sizes up remaining GOP field before Monday’s Iowa caucuses

Former President Donald Trump is grading the rest of the GOP field as failures before the primary season kicks off Monday in Iowa, confirming Chris Christie is "kaput" and banking on a victory over surging candidate Nikki Haley.

January 12, 2024

Sen. John N. Kennedy: Southern border is a ‘magnet’ for terrorists amid Middle East conflict

The porous U.S. southern border is becoming a magnet for potential terrorists and criminal cartel associates, a Republican senator warns in a new op-ed.

January 12, 2024

Rand Paul’s big announcement: He doesn’t like Nikki Haley

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he likes a few of the GOP candidates for president but he is sure of one thing: He is "Never Nikki."

January 12, 2024

Trump says he deserves damages for fraud perpetrated by N.Y. Attorney General James

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is the one who should receive damages in a New York civil fraud case because he is being politically persecuted, blowing past limits set by the trial judge who allowed the ex-president to vent for six minutes during closing arguments.

January 11, 2024

Trump lawyer: No evidence of fraud in New York case

A business fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump was "manufactured to pursue a political agenda" and New York Attorney General Letitia James failed to prove the 2024 GOP front-runner did anything wrong, a defense lawyer said Thursday in closing arguments.

January 11, 2024

N.Y. judge gets bomb threat at home before last day of Trump trial

New York Judge Arthur Engoron faced a bomb threat at his home ahead of closing arguments in the civil trial against former President Donald Trump and his real estate business.

January 11, 2024

Trump told he can’t deliver part of closing arguments in New York trial

A New York judge on Wednesday walked back his decision to let former President Donald Trump deliver part of the closing argument in his civil trial, blaming defense attorneys for failing to agree to any limits on what the ex-president could say.

January 10, 2024