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Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom in New York on April 4, 2023. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records at his private company while trying to cover up an effort to illegally influence the 2016 election by arranging payments that silenced claims potentially harmful to his candidacy.

Trump transformed the Supreme Court. Now the justices could decide his political and legal future

December 21, 2023, 9:03am Latest News

Donald Trump touts his transformation of the U.S. Supreme Court as one of his presidency’s greatest accomplishments. Now his legal and political future may lie in the hands of the court he pushed to the right. Read story

Kamala Harris kicks off 2024 with abortion rights tour on roe anniversary

December 19, 2023, 11:40am Politics

Vice President Kamala Harris will kick off a contentious election year with a national tour focused on protecting abortion rights, underscoring the salience of the issue for Democrats. Read story

President Joe Biden, front row fifth from left, attends a funeral service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Washington. O’Connor, an Arizona native and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died on Dec. 1 at age 93.

Sandra Day O’Connor memorialized by President Joe Biden as a ‘pioneer’ first female justice

December 19, 2023, 10:39am Latest News

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona rancher’s daughter who became a voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, was memorialized by President Joe Biden on Tuesday as a pioneer in the legal world who inspired generations of women. Read story

FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group members to obstruct the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for Capitol riot plot

December 19, 2023, 10:37am Politics

A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago. Read story

The Capitol is seen under a winter sky in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, as White House and Senate negotiators are struggling to reach a U.S. border security deal that would unlock President Joe Biden's request for billions of dollars worth in military aid for Ukraine and national security. (AP Photo/J.

Biden’s push for Ukraine aid stalls in Senate as negotiations over border restrictions drag on

December 18, 2023, 6:22pm Nation & World

President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish wartime aid for Ukraine as part of a deal on border and immigration policy changes will almost certainly drag into next year. Read story

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Washington.

Senate border security talks grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era ‘blood’ rhetoric against immigrants

December 18, 2023, 11:40am Politics

Time slipping, White House and Senate negotiators struggled Sunday to reach a U.S. border security deal that would unlock President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars worth of military aid for Ukraine and other national security needs before senators leave town for the holiday recess. Read story

Dega Schembri, left, and Sheridan Harvey take a photo during the public repose for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. O’Connor, an Arizona native and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Dec. 1 at age 93. Former law clerks of O’Connor stand at left and right. They were both in exercise class with O’Connor.

The late Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, honored as trailblazer

December 18, 2023, 10:29am Politics

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was remembered Monday as a trailblazer who never lost sight of how the high court’s decisions affected all Americans. Read story

Talks on border security grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era ‘blood’ rhetoric against immigrants

December 17, 2023, 1:03pm Latest News

Negotiators rushed to reach a U.S. border security deal Sunday that would unlock President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars worth of military aid for Ukraine and other national security needs before senators leave town for the holiday recess. Read story

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023.

Jury awards $148 million in damages to Georgia election workers over Rudy Giuliani’s 2020 vote lies

December 15, 2023, 1:59pm Latest News

A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation over lies he spread about them in 2020 that upended their lives with racist threats and harassment. Read story

FILE - A voter in the foreground casts her ballots during the Republican primary election in Wilson, Wyo., Aug. 16, 2022. Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But more Republicans would be happy to have Trump as their nominee than Democrats would be with Biden. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Jae C.

Americans agree that the 2024 election will be pivotal for democracy, but for different reasons

December 15, 2023, 10:27am Latest News

In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. Read story

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