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Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team are seeking a gag order against the former president to limit what he says in the run up to his trial on charges that he participated in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. To that end, Smith has asked a federal judge…

Prosecutors warned Trump's knowledge of Twitter search warrant could 'precipitate violence' – court filingsFederal prosecutors secretly argued that informing Donald Trump about their efforts to access his Twitter account could “precipitate violence”, according to newly unsealed court filings. Prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith worried that Trump would publicly…

The decision by Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah to forgo his 2024 re-election bid is a classic political Rorschach test. As the standard-bearer for conservatism during his 2012 White House bid against President Barack Obama, the otherwise affable and soft-edged former governor understandably became a lightning rod for Democrats fighting…

Topline Former President Donald Trump and most of the other 19 defendants indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, for trying to overturn the 2020 election will not have their cases go to trial next month, as the judge overseeing the case ruled Thursday to split the defendants’ trials up, rather than…

The moment encapsulated Romney’s short but productive Senate career, one in which he fought Trumpism within the GOP and found a way to work with Biden despite vast ideological differences. Biden spent a year drilling Romney as “out of touch” and uncompromising during the 2012 presidential campaign, yet the now-president…

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday described legal proceedings against former US president Donald Trump as "politically motivated persecution." © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More

The biggest GOP showdown in California this month might not be the second presidential primary debate, scheduled to be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Instead, it looks as if it will take place behind the scenes at the state Republican Party’s convention days later, as allies of Florida…

Former President Donald Trump was the center of attention in the Hawkeye State on Saturday, as the leading GOP candidate for president in 2024 partied with an Iowa State fraternity, flipped burgers, and even threw footballs into the crowd of those gathered to see him. Iowa State University, based in…

A federal judge has denied a request from Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his Georgia election interference case to a federal court. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports, and CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson examines if more people could face charges in the…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emails Donald Trump will cross paths with several Republican rivals Saturday when he attends Iowa's in-state college football grudge match, one of the former president's…