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Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives launched historic impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday as Donald Trump defended the scandal-plagued GOP official from a vote that could lead to his ouster. The House convened in the afternoon to debate whether to impeach and suspend Paxton from office over…

Politics Why Are We Doing This Again? The proliferation of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls has only one upside: Donald Trump will get to do his thing. (Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images) There you have it folks: After years of tireless effort, months of speculation, countless closed-door meetings…

Boris Johnson has held discussions with Donald Trump about Ukraine during his tour of the US, in an apparent attempt to make the Ukrainian case to the sceptical former US president. Johnson met Trump “to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the vital importance of Ukrainian victory”, his spokesperson said.…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. No sooner was a decision announced that Donald Trump was liable for defamation against E. Jean Carroll than the former President re-defamed her live on…

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. It is the longest sentence handed down so far to any participant in the January 6 riot,…

Transcript Kaleigh Rogers: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just announced he’s running for president. He’s probably former President Donald Trump’s most significant opponent for the Republican Party nomination. Now that he’s officially announced, I spoke to FiveThirtyEight senior elections analyst Geoffrey Skelley to find out more about the campaign and whether…

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / AP IMAGES After signaling a campaign for months — even years — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis formally announced on Wednesday that he’s running for president. As a result, the two leading Republican candidates in the primary polls, former President Donald Trump and DeSantis, are now…

Donald Trump's lawyers demanding they meet with Attorney General Merrick Garland to discuss Special Counsel Jack Smith show they are getting "desperate" with regards to how they are handling the federal investigations into the former president, according to the Republican's former biographer. Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of…

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Tuesday asked for a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland as a Justice Department investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents shows signs of winding down. In the letter, which Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, attorneys John Rowley and James Trusty…

Expanding gun rights, defunding diversity programs and banning books, Ron DeSantis has become a darling of US conservatives for his embrace of an “anti-woke" agenda that has fueled his rise in the Republican Party. The Florida governor — who will announce on Wednesday that he is running for president, ending…