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Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits beside his lawyer Emil Bove during jury selection of his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, Friday, April 19, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. (Jane Rosenberg via AP, Pool)

Live updates: Person who was on fire outside Trump’s hush money trial is rushed away on a stretcher

Emergency crews rushed away a person on stretcher after extinguishing a fire outside the New York court as a full jury of 12 New Yorkers and 6 alternates was seated in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
 
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings during jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP)

Highlights from day 3 of Trump’s hush money trial

 
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings on the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump returned to the courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)

Trump hush money trial: Day 2 highlights

 
Former President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the courtroom after a break at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, April 15, 2024, in New York. The hush money trial of Trump begun Monday with jury selection. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP)

Highlights from day 1 of Trump’s trial: Court adjourns for the day with no jurors picked

 
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The classified documents investigation of Donald Trump appeared to have clear momentum in 2022 when FBI agents who searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate recovered dozens of boxes containing sensitive documents. But each passing day brings mounting doubts that the case can reach trial this year. The judge has yet to set a firm trial date despite holding two hours-long hearings with lawyers this month. (Justice Department via AP)

Judge in Trump’s classified files case agrees to redact witness names, granting prosecution request

 

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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks during the Club Golf Awards at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond to avert asset seizure as he appeals NY fraud penalty

Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals.
 
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, left, and prosecutor Daysha Young speak to each other during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

Fulton County DA Fani Willis says despite efforts to slow down Trump case, ‘the train is coming’

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says the election interference prosecution against Donald Trump moves forward, saying “the train is coming.”
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. Trump's lawyers kept pressing an appellate court Wednesday, March 20, to excuse him from covering a $454 million fraud lawsuit judgment for now, saying he'd suffer “irreparable harm" before his appeal is decided. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Trump says he has nearly $500 million in cash but doesn’t want to use it to pay New York judgment

Donald Trump says he has almost a half-billion dollars in cash but would rather spend it on his presidential run than the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him in New York.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. Trump's lawyers kept pressing an appellate court Wednesday, March 20, to excuse him from covering a $454 million fraud lawsuit judgment for now, saying he'd suffer “irreparable harm" before his appeal is decided. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Trump’s lawyers keep fighting $454M fraud appeal bond requirement

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are continuing to press an appellate court to excuse him from covering a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks after exiting the courtroom for a break at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. New York State Lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday, March 20, 2024, not to buy Trump's claims that he cannot find a way to post a bond fully covering a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

NY state asks court not to let Trump forgo $454M bond during fraud case appeal

New York state lawyers are urging an appeals court not to buy former President Donald Trump’s claims that it’s impossible to post a bond fully covering a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.
 
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Judge clears way for Trump to appeal ruling keeping Fani Willis on Georgia 2020 election case

An attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis being disqualified.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House

Having previously vowed to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, Trump promised to help them “the first day we get into office” at an Ohio rally.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures towards the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

Trump’s lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million civil fraud judgment

Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court on Monday that it’s impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of his $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.
 
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

What to know about judge’s ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump’s Georgia election case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can prosecute Donald Trump on charges that he interfered with Georgia’s 2020 election now that a special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship has withdrawn from the case.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. Prosecutors said Thursday, March 14, that they’re open to delaying the start of Trump’s New York hush-money criminal trial to give the former president’s lawyers time to review evidence that was only recently turned over. Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin March 25. The judge has yet to rule on the request. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Judge rejects bid by Donald Trump to throw out classified documents case on constitutional grounds

A federal judge has rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Judge approves Trump’s $92 million bond to cover jury award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

A federal judge has approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to ensure that writer E.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court after a jury awarded her $83.3 million in a case against former President Donald Trump, Jan. 26, 2024, in New York. Former President Donald Trump has secured a bond sufficient to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to Carroll during a January defamation trial stemming from rape claims she made against Trump, his lawyer said Friday, March 8, 2024, as she notified the federal judge who oversaw the trial that an appeal was underway. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trump attorneys post $92 million bond to support jury award to E. Jean Carroll in defamation suit

A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has secured a bond sufficient to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to writer E.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment

The federal judge who oversaw a defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s is refusing to relieve the ex-president from the verdict’s financial pinch.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump lawyers want him back on witness stand in E. Jean Carroll case

Donald Trump’s lawyers say the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E.
 
FILE - This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, and partially redacted by source, shows boxes of records being stored on the stage in the White and Gold Ballroom at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The federal judge overseeing the classified documents prosecution of Trump is expected to set a trial date during a court hearing on March 1, 2024.(Justice Department via AP)

Prosecutors press judge for summer trial for Trump in classified docs case, but no date set

Federal prosecutors have pressed a federal judge to schedule a trial for this summer in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, while defense lawyers sought to put it off until after the election.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Lawyers for Carroll have urged a judge, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, to reject former President Donald Trump's efforts to avoid posting security to secure an $83.3 million defamation award won by the writer. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers urge judge to reject Trump’s request to postpone $83.3M jury award

Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll have urged a judge to reject former President Donald Trump’s efforts to avoid posting security to secure an $83.3 million defamation award won by the writer.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Jan. 11, 2024. Trump’s lawyers have asked a New York appellate court to halt collection of the former president’s $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. Trump’s lawyers said in a court filing Wednesday that he is planning to post a $100 million appeal bond rather than a bond covering the full amount, which would automatically pause enforcement. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Appellate judge refuses to halt Trump’s $454 million fraud penalty while he appeals

A New York appellate judge has refused to halt collection of Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud penalty while he appeals.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump avoids ‘corporate death penalty’ in civil fraud case, but his business will still get slammed

A New York judge has spared Donald Trump a “corporate death penalty” ruling, but his business did get hit hard with bans and cash penalties.
 
Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Federal Courthouse, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Trump is appearing at a closed hearing in his criminal case charging him with mishandling classified documents. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Trump appears at federal court in Florida for closed hearing in his classified documents case

Former President Donald Trump has spent several hours at a federal courthouse in Florida for a closed hearing in his criminal case charging him with mishandling classified documents.
 
FILE - Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest outside of the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference case. The conservative-majority Supreme Court's next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

As Trump tries to stave off his 2020 election trial, all eyes are on the Supreme Court

All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case. The conservative-majority Supreme Court’s next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election.
 
FILE - The Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg arrives at a New York courtroom, Nov. 15, 2022. Manhattan prosecutors are weighing a potential perjury charge against Weisselberg, Donald Trump’s former corporate finance chief, in connection with testimony he gave in October 2023 at the ex-president’s New York civil fraud trial, two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Prosecutors weigh perjury charge for ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg over civil fraud trial testimony

Manhattan prosecutors are weighing a potential perjury charge against Donald Trump’s former corporate finance chief in connection with testimony he gave at the ex-president’s New York civil fraud trial last October.
 
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears during a hearing regarding defendant Harrison Floyd, a leader in the organization Black Voices for Trump, as part of the Georgia election indictments, Nov. 21, 2023, in Atlanta. Lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, who has alleged that Willis has had an inappropriate romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, has called the two to testify at a hearing next month. (Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer via AP, File)

Georgia district attorney prosecuting Trump has been subpoenaed over claims of improper relationship

A defense attorney who has alleged that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has had an inappropriate romantic relationship with a special prosecutor hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump has called the two to testify at a hearing next month.
 
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with lawyers Christopher Kise and Alina Habba, attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Key points from AP analysis of Trump’s New York civil fraud case

Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for v
 
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP)

Dissolving Trump’s business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law

Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks after exiting the courtroom for a break at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. A jury is trying to determine if the $83 million defamation judgement will be enough to deter Trump from continuing his attacks on E. Jean Carroll. The jury hit Trump with the exorbitant defamation award Friday, Jan. 26, finding the former president maliciously damaged Carroll's reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Donald Trump is on the hook for $88.3 million in defamation damages. What happens next?

Will an $83 million-plus defamation judgment be enough to deter Donald Trump from continuing his attacks on E. Jean Carroll?
 
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during an Associated Press interview on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Atlanta. The Georgia state Senate voted on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, to create a special committee to investigate Willis, with Republicans claiming she has personally benefitted from improperly conveying public money to special prosecutor Nathan Wade. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Georgia Senate passes a panel with subpoena power to investigate District Attorney Fani Willis

Georgia’s state Senate is creating a special committee to investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The panel was approved Friday on a 30-19 vote.
 
E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court, Friday, Jan 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case, jury says

A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
 
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks in the Fulton County Government Center during a news conference, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. On Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, a judge ordered court records to be made public in the divorce involving a special prosecutor hired in the election case against Donald Trump and others, and who is accused of having an affair with Willis. The judge put off a final decision on whether Willis will have to sit for questioning in the divorce case, but delayed her deposition that had been scheduled for Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Trump accuses DA Fani Willis of inappropriately injecting race into Georgia election case

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say the district attorney in the Georgia election interference prosecution should be removed from the case.
 
In this courtroom sketch, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, Donald Trump and his attorney watch video of his deposition, presented prior to the defense resting, in Federal Court in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge

Former President Donald Trump has testified for a total of less than three minutes at a New York trial where an advice columnist seeks over $10 million in defamation damages against him.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a Washington hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, after attending a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to reconsider gag order in the election interference case

Washington’s federal appeals court has rejected Donald Trump’s request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
 
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