Sitting with Howard Stern, the nation’s best-known shock jock, President Biden on Friday replayed the deepest lows of his life story and the highs of a decades-long political career in an appearance designed to reintroduce him to an audience of millions. In a surprise interview on “The Howard Stern Show” that lasted for more than […]
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How a Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Could Affect Trump’s Election Case
If the Supreme Court’s hearing on Thursday about former President Donald J. Trump’s claims of executive immunity is any indication of how the court might ultimately rule, the justices could end up helping Mr. Trump in two ways. The justices signaled that their ruling, when it comes, could lead to some allegations being stripped from […]
Read MoreConservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction
Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution, his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial. The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him but […]
Read MoreTalk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech
A campaign ad from a Republican congressional candidate from Indiana sums up the arrival of migrants at the border with one word. He doesn’t call it a problem or a crisis. He calls it an “invasion.” The word invasion also appears in ads for two Republicans competing for a Senate seat in Michigan. And it […]
Read MoreGrowing Number of Trump Allies Face Election Interference Charges
Fifty-three people who tried to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election have now been criminally charged. The indictments have been brought in four swing states that will be crucial to the upcoming election, most recently on Wednesday in Arizona, where Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general, said […]
Read MoreThis Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal
Donald Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason, an assault on common sense and a perversion of the fundamental maxim of American democracy: that no man is above the law. More astonishing than the former president’s claim to immunity, however, is the […]
Read MoreTrump’s Immunity Case Was Settled More Than 200 Years Ago
Did the American Revolution actually happen? If it did, was it a good thing? This is more or less what Justice Elena Kagan seemed to be wondering during the oral arguments in Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 immunity case at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning. “Wasn’t the whole point that the president was not a […]
Read MoreHow Abrupt U-Turns Are Defining U.S. Environmental Regulations
The Biden administration’s move on Thursday to strictly limit pollution from coal-burning power plants is a major policy shift. But in many ways it’s one more hairpin turn in a zigzag approach to environmental regulation in the United States, a pattern that has grown more extreme as the political landscape has become more polarized. Nearly […]
Read MoreFive Major Climate Policies Trump Would Probably Reverse if Elected
Former President Donald J. Trump has vowed to “cancel” President Biden’s policies for cutting pollution from fossil-fuel-burning power plants, “terminate” efforts to encourage electric vehicles, and “develop the liquid gold that is right under our feet” by promoting oil and gas. Those changes and others that Mr. Trump has promised, if he were to win […]
Read MoreIn Trump Case, the Defense Will Try to Knock Down the Allegation of a Plot
The criminal trial of Donald J. Trump on Friday will feature the continued cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, David Pecker, as defense lawyers try to discredit the idea that there had been a plot to protect Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. On Thursday, Mr. Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, described his […]
Read MoreArizona Republicans Who Supported Repealing an Abortion Ban Face Blowback
State Representative Matt Gress, a Republican in a moderate slice of Phoenix, was in line at his neighborhood coffee shop on Thursday when a customer stopped and thanked him for voting to repeal an 1864 law that bans abortion in Arizona. “I know you’re taking some heat,” he told Mr. Gress. More than some. Shortly […]
Read MoreTakeaways from Supreme Court Arguments on Trump’s Immunity Claim
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday about Donald J. Trump’s claim that the federal charges accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election must be thrown out because he is immune from being prosecuted for any official act he took as president. Here are some takeaways. Several justices seemed to want to define […]
Read MoreThe National Enquirer’s Parent Company Struggles To Find A Buyer
For five years, the owner of The National Enquirer has been trying to find a buyer to take it off its hands. But repeated attempts at a sale have turned into a tabloid-worthy saga of its own. The publication is back in the spotlight because of the hush-money trial of former President Donald J. Trump, […]
Read MoreHere’s the latest on the argument.
April 25, 2024, 9:04 a.m. ET April 25, 2024, 9:04 a.m. ET “Whatever immunities a sitting president may enjoy, the United States has only one chief executive at a time, and that position does not confer a lifelong ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ pass,” Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wrote.Credit…Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times If any Supreme Court […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Trump Immunity Case, and Campus Protests Spread
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Read MoreJuggling Campaign and Foreign Policy, Biden Sends Complicated Messages
President Biden just signed a bill that could ban President Biden from using TikTok. But Mr. Biden plans to keep using TikTok until Mr. Biden’s new law forces Mr. Biden off it. His political team in Wilmington, Del., after all, considers TikTok a vital tool to reach young voters who could be crucial to his […]
Read MoreBiden, Seeking to Build on Fruitful Week, Will Announce Billions in Chip Grants
President Biden, seeking to capitalize on a week of favorable political developments, plans to announce on Thursday that his administration will provide up to $6.1 billion in grants to Micron Technology, the latest federal award intended to shore up the nation’s domestic supply of semiconductors. Micron will use the grants to help build two leading-edge […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Hear Trump’s Claim to ‘Absolute Immunity’
The Supreme Court, in its last argument of the term, will consider on Thursday whether former President Donald J. Trump must face trial on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. The court’s answer to that question will be a major statement on the scope of presidential power. Depending on its timing and […]
Read MoreThe Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on What’s Funny About 2024
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. [MUSIC PLAYING] astead herndon The stakes of this election could not be more serious. But at the same time […]
Read MoreTrump’s Act Was Getting Stale. Being a Courtroom Victim Is Just What He Needed.
For the next several weeks, the presumptive Republican nominee for president will be spending his days in a New York City courthouse. By any normal campaign standard, taking your candidate off the road for much of April and May of a presidential year would be devastating. But “normal” and Donald Trump live in different countries. […]
Read MoreHow a Loss in the Emergency Abortion Case Could Become a Win for Biden
If you had asked me at the start of this Supreme Court term what the blockbuster abortion case would be, I would have focused on the one that could limit access to mifepristone, a drug used in a majority of U.S. abortions. But oral arguments last month suggested strongly that the justices might not even […]
Read MoreDavid Pecker Expected to Discuss Hush-Money Deal in Trump Trial
Donald J. Trump faces a high-pressure day on Thursday as a crucial witness is expected to describe to the jury for the first time the hush-money payment at the center of the Manhattan criminal trial. The witness, David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, will take the stand for a third day on […]
Read MoreThe Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers — whose brutal role in the confrontation was later described by a federal commission as a “police riot” — hijacking the focus of the convention. Those young demonstrators had come of age seeing continual — and effective — protests during […]
Read More‘Don’t Inject Bleach’: Biden Mocks Trump on Anniversary of Covid Comments
Four years ago this week, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans might want to inject disinfectant into their bodies to treat the coronavirus. The Biden campaign is intent on making sure nobody forgets it. On Air Force One, on social media and from the presidential lectern, President Biden has homed in on the infamous […]
Read MoreTrump’s Immunity Claim Joins His Plans to Increase Executive Power
From the courts to the campaign trail, former President Donald J. Trump is challenging a hallmark of American-style democracy: its suspicion of concentrated power. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Thursday over Mr. Trump’s claim that criminal charges against him in the federal election subversion case must be thrown out because the Constitution makes […]
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene Has Reached the Outer Limit of Extremism
In our Trump-era politics, there’s always the question of how crazy is too crazy — how disruptive and extreme an elected official can get before becoming so embarrassing that members of her own team feel compelled to abandon her? Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have reached that outer limit. Again. It’s not simply that […]
Read MoreHigh Borrowing Costs Have Some Democrats Urging Biden to Pressure the Fed
Sky-high mortgage rates and other elevated borrowing costs are pinching American consumers ahead of the 2024 election, threatening President Biden’s chances at a second term. Yet so far, Mr. Biden has not called on the Federal Reserve, which has raised interest rates to their highest levels in more than two decades, to slash those costs. […]
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Should Not Come Between Trump and Voters
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump’s immunity-appeal case on Thursday may appear to advance the rule of law. After all, few, if anyone, thinks that a majority of the court will conclude that a former president is completely immune from federal criminal liability. But the court’s decision to review the […]
Read MoreTrump Trial Judge Questions Defense Lawyer’s Credibility as Pecker Testifies
Donald J. Trump had a dismal day in court on Tuesday as the judge presiding over his criminal trial told a defense lawyer he was “losing all credibility” and a key witness pulled back the curtain to expose what prosecutors called a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. The witness was David Pecker, longtime publisher […]
Read MoreTrump Hush Money Trial Takeaways: Gag Order Fight and Pecker Testimony
Tuesday’s session of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial began with a heated clash between Justice Juan M. Merchan and Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer over a gag order. It ended with an insider’s look into a tabloid newspaper practice known as “catch and kill.” Prosecutors said that Mr. Trump had “willfully and blatantly” violated a gag […]
Read MoreTrump Flips Script in Election Case to Justify Immunity Defense
When the Supreme Court considers Donald J. Trump’s sweeping claims of executive immunity on Thursday, it will break new legal ground, mulling for the first time the question of whether a former president can avoid being prosecuted for things he did in office. But in coming up with the argument, Mr. Trump used a tactic […]
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