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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…

Donald Trump allegedly knew he was supposed to return every single classified document after he was subpoenaed for them, but he kept hundreds of papers anyway. Federal prosecutors have about 50 pages of notes from Trump’s lawyer Evan Corcoran, who apparently warned the former president about complying with the subpoena,…

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott launched his presidential campaign on Monday, offering an optimistic message that his campaign hopes will contrast with the political combativeness that former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have used to dominate the early GOP primary field. The Senate’s only Black Republican, Mr.…

US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump are just the latest in a four-decade-long chain of recent presidents who have mishandled classified documents during their tenure, New York Post has reported.    Every US administration since President Ronald Reagan has in some form fumbled federal procedure when managing…