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Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed Tuesday in Manhattan criminal court, where adult film star Stormy Daniels has been called to testify about her alleged encounters with Trump in 2006.
On Monday, the court heard testimony from Trump Organization accountants about Trump’s payments to his lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who facilitated the $130,000 deal to Daniels. Judge Juan Merchan also found Trump in contempt of court and fined him another $1,000 for violating the gag order preventing him from attacking witnesses and commenting on the jury. Merchan warned the former president that any further violations could result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal the hush money payment to Daniels, who is among the witnesses expected to testify this week.
Follow our live blog below for the latest updates from inside and outside the courtroom, including direct quotes and testimony from media reports.
LONDON (AP) — The Saudis are furious. The Danes are scrambling. Colombia has backed down. Mexico and Canada stand in a purgatory between tariff wars with the US and … not. China has retaliated, launching a trade war between the economic superpowers. The Brits, long proud of their “special relationship” with the United States, are leaning into their tradition of quiet diplomacy.
An unexpected Super Bowl ad: Ontario purchased a spot to remind American viewers how the province's partnership makes invaluable contributions to the U.S. economy.
Trump’s appearance at the game marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has attended the annual NFL championship.
Senior figures in the intelligence community are warning Donald Trump against repeating what they view as one of the worst mistakes in U.S. foreign policy as he contemplates how to handle Ukraine’s war against Russia. “It will be the most tangible abandonment from the Trump foreign policy,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official told the Daily Beast. Trump, who said he could end the conflict in 24 hours, has yet to unveil the details of his plan to stop the war, which has now raged for almos
The president lashed out at the pop star on his social media website.
The clock continues to wind down on U.S. President Donald Trump's next deadline for imposing sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods. In the meantime, some American lawmakers are pushing the president to back off tariffs altogether — and they hope Canada notices."I certainly hope the pause continues," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live. "But my real hope is some final agreement can be reached. Tariffs are only going to increase prices on the American people and pr
"Everything under Trump must be blamed on him, just like what MAGA did with Biden."
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week.
"An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage".
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow.
[Redacted] As President Donald Trump's anti-DEI agenda comes to bear on NASA, we're getting a revealing look at what his administration apparently considers to be too woke: women. In a directive sent out just days after Trump's inauguration, NASA personnel were commanded to excise all mentions of anything "specifically targeting" women on the space agency's public websites, 404 Media reports. "Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites b
The youngest Trump is notoriously private, but archived interviews with Donald and Melania Trump hold clues.
Canada's ambassador to France says he's against U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to take over Greenland, saying "in order to respect international law, you don't threaten your neighbours by invasion." Stéphane Dion, who is also the special envoy to Europe and the European Union, says threatening a country's sovereignty is not "normal". Trump is also continuing to push for Canada to become America's 51st state. "You know that according to international law it's not only to invade a neighbour
President Donald Trump and a long list of VIPs are headed to the Super Bowl in style. First daughter Ivanka Trump shared her window view from Air Force One in a video posted on X. “En route to the Super Bowl,” she wrote, posting a video of clear skies seen aboard the presidential jet.
President Donald Trump angered some of his Christian supporters on Friday when he named a televangelist who even some conservative evangelicals have labeled a “heretic” as part of his White House administration. The president signed an executive order establishing a White House Faith Office and chose Pastor Paula White-Cain, his ally and spiritual advisor, to lead it. White-Cain, 58, is a megachurch preacher from Florida who has endorsed biblical interpretations that some evangelical Christians
Retailers on both sides of the border say they are already seeing the ripple effects of the Buy Canadian movement launched in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.When Larissa Williams received a text message from an unknown number asking if she was taking new clients, she had no idea what the person was referring to. After a couple minutes of texting back and forth trying to understand what was going on, Williams was led to lyla.ch, a website commonly used by escorts and sex workers. Williams opened the site and was confr
The Wall Street Journal reports that the consumer confidence that accompanied President Donald Trump’s entry into office has eroded. The University of Michigan’s February report on consumer sentiment found that it fell by 5 percent, from 71.1 percent in January to 67.8 percent this month. Americans now expect inflation this year will be 4.3 percent, a 1 percent increase from last month. Morning Consult also found that consumer optimism is quickly fading. Consumers are worried about volatile deci
The teen gave a victim impact statement at the couple's sentencing that displayed “maturity and composure beyond her years,” per a district attorney
President Trump on Sunday said that he has revoked the security clearances of people he doesn’t respect, days after he said he would end former President Biden’s security clearance. “There are people that we don’t respect, if there are people that we thought that were breaking the law, that came very close to it in…