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A jury said that Donald Trump should pay $83.3 million in damages Friday, an eye-popping sum that marks the sharpest legal setback for a former president now entangled in multiple criminal and civil cases while he campaigns for the White House. The verdict was the second time over the past year that a jury has […]

WASHINGTON/NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE — The burning conflict in Gaza has lit a spark under untold numbers of American voters, and put extra heat on U.S. President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. Protesters have interrupted his recent campaign appearances to express their anger over his support of Israel’s military campaign. On Wednesday, protesters briefly disrupted a labor union […]

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday after former President Donald Trump won the party’s New Hampshire primary. Trump had about 54% of the vote compared to Haley’s 45%, with 56% of the vote counted. That was enough of an advantage for Trump to […]

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border that is at the center of an escalating standoff between the Biden administration and the state over immigration enforcement. The 5-4 vote clears the way for […]

WASHINGTON — Presidential contender Ron DeSantis, who was once viewed as Republicans’ best shot at moving past Donald Trump, dropped out of the primary race on Sunday, a relatively early exit that underlines the iron grip the former president retains on the party. DeSantis, 45, endorsed Trump in a video posted to the X social […]

NEW YORK — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office. Video made public Friday of the seven-hour, closed-door session last […]

This weekend, temperatures will be below freezing with wind chills as low as minus 20 to minus 30 degrees across the Northern Plains, the National Weather Service said. Frigid air was expected to drift into the Midwest from Canada, and millions were under wind chill advisories. Meanwhile, heavy rain was set to hit the West […]

Earlier this week, 11 senators voted for a bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders aimed at forcing the Biden administration to examine potential human rights abuses by Israel. After weeks of unquestioning support, the Senate is emerging as a center of resistance to Biden’s unwavering embrace of Israel — at least in modest ways — as […]

ROCHESTER, N.H.—This state’s independent voters tired of extreme partisanship look like Nikki Haley’s last hope for breaking Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican presidential nomination. Fed up with the former president and unmoved by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the majority of unaffiliated voters here are planning to back the former South Carolina governor in […]

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday threatened to expel former U.S. President Donald Trump from a civil trial after he repeatedly made side comments disparaging the testimony of his accuser, writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll is seeking damages from Trump, whom she accuses of defaming her after she accused him of […]