Playbook: Pecker nips at Trump’s defense

TRUMP’S PECKER PROBLEM — The Manhattan hush money case has frequently been described as the weakest of the four criminal cases against DONALD TRUMP. But whatever the jury decides about the legal ... Read More

Biden campaign hammers Trump over infamous COVID comment

Four years ago today then-President Donald Trump, on live national television during what would be known as merely the early days and weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggested an injection of a ... Read More

Gag Order Breach? Trump Targeted Cohen in Taped Interview Hours Before Contempt Hearing

Hours before his attorneys would mount a defense on Tuesday claiming he had not violated his gag order Donald Trump might have done just that in a 12-minute taped interview that morning, which did not ... Read More

The PointConversations and insights about the moment.

The statement rattled researchers and shocked communities of long Covid patients. Proving persistent live virus that can replicate long after the acute phase and showing that it relates to long Covid ... Read More

Morning Report — Trump’s push for legal delays is working

It is increasingly possible that former President Trump may dodge a federal trial before Nov. 5 on charges of election interference, a goal of his defense and a potential blow to special counsel ... Read More

Far-right media have received press passes from the Trump campaign, while mainstream reporters have been denied access

The campaign has seemingly retaliated against mainstream reporters who cover Trump critically, while rewarding conspiracy theorists and extremist sycophants with press access to events Vanity Fair ... Read More

Trump cancels rally because of weather, proving the difficulty of balancing a trial and campaign

Donald Trump had to cancel his first planned rally since the start of his criminal hush money trial because of a storm Saturday evening in North Carolina, an added complication that highlights the ... Read More

With inflation up again, Trump says U.S. was better off 4 years ago. Well, except for that pandemic.

Inviting the comparison, some have commented, lacks self-insight by Trump. Among those is Biden, who reminding about Trump's theorizing at the time about the use of disinfectants and sunlight to ... Read More

Quiz of The Week: 20 - 26 April

From the US Senate paving the way for a ban on TikTok to warnings about a "cicada-geddon" featuring insect "sex zombies", the last seven days have been full of memorable stories. Read More

‘Rally Behind MAGA’: Trump Advocates Courthouse ‘Protests’ Nationwide

Hours before the start of opening arguments and the second week of the trial of the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, Donald Trump is urging his supporters to “rally behind MAGA” ... Read More

Andrew Weissmann: ‘Ground zero of fake news’: Trump campaign's role spreading false stories exposed

Andrew Weissmann, former top official at the Department of Justice, Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent, and Charles Coleman, MSNBC Legal Analyst join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to ... Read More

College protests over Israel's war in Gaza continue following hundreds of arrests

Students across the country continued to protest Israel's war in Gaza at major universities following hundreds of arrests. Read More