The increasingly embarrassing details at Trump’s trial

Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial is probably the least legally problematic of his four indictments. But it’s assu...

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Trump is gagged. So his surrogates say the forbidden stuff for him.

Donald Trump’s mouth and keyboard fingers have been relatively disciplined — by his own standards, at least — since he r...

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The warning signs for Biden in new 2024 polls – and a reason for him to hope

President Biden is seeing some of his best national polls since the 2024 campaign kicked into gear, with the most recent...

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The data that explains Biden’s new Israel red line

After months of resisting efforts by Democratic allies to get him to take a harder line with Israel for its conduct in t...

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Mike Johnson’s telling comment on GOP’s (lack of) voter-fraud evidence

It was a telling comment. At a Wednesday news conference, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) promoted an effort to pr...

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Reflections on Stormy Daniels’s testimony

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in a 2024 election that could prove stormy, but n...

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Judge keeps tying Trump to possible intimidation

Donald Trump seems to face an increasing threat of jail during his Manhattan criminal trial. It’s not just that he’s vio...

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Why conservative media is suddenly turning on Kristi Noem

When South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) sat down with Fox News last week amid a growing tempest over her killing her d...

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Trump’s bad evidence of his alleged legal persecution

One of the biggest stories of our modern politics is former president Donald Trump’s ability to make his base and his po...

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The legal — and political — stakes of Stormy Daniels on the stand

Donald Trump’s first criminal trial featured its first bombshell day Tuesday, with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels tak...

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Kristi Noem’s increasingly bizarre Kim Jong Un story

“This is really a book that talks about how we’re not going back,” South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) told CBS News on...

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How would Americans react to Trump in jail?

It appears increasingly possible that Donald Trump could face actual jail time before we ever get a verdict in any of hi...

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How Trump convinces Republicans to adopt extreme views

The U.S. Supreme Court last week considered the weighty issue of whether a president can do things like conduct a coup o...

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Biden gives campus protesters the (mostly) silent treatment

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in a 2024 election in which campus protests loom...

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Poll shows how RFK Jr.’s appeal to anti-vaccine right could hurt Trump

The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dynamic in the 2024 election is shifting. Multiple recent high-quality national polls have sho...

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