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Donald Trump trials in focus

  • Man sits behind table with lawyers in courtroom

    Key takeaways
    Four points from the trial's first day

  • People protest outside court in New York on 15 April.

    Trump on trial
    The ordinary task of jury selection turns into the extraordinary

  • Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg

    What to know
    Here are prosecutors’ key arguments

  • Older white man, orangey skin, dark suit, white shirt, red tie, frowning, standing in front of multiple American flags.

    Names to know
    Who are the key players in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial?

Latest news

  • Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings on the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court.

    Live
    Trump arrives in New York courtroom as jury selection continues for historic trial - live

  • Man sits in court in navy suit and red tie

    Trump’s historic criminal trial enters second day as jury selection continues

    Trump charged with 34 felony counts over alleged payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal
  • Donald Trump

    Court adjourns after first day of Trump’s historic criminal trial – as it happened

    Ex-president dozes off during calm day of proceedings in trial over hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, with some potential jurors chosen

  • Trump in court as first day of New York hush-money trial wraps up

  • Fake snooze? Trump appears to doze off during first day of hush-money trial

  • Trump’s Truth Social page keeps on posting as ex-president appears in court

  • Trump speaks before historic criminal trial over 'hush money'– video

  • Trump ratchets up attacks on judge and prosecutor ahead of hush-money trial

  • E Jean Carroll, writer who bested Trump in court, surrenders gun to police

  • Campaign funds used to pay Biden legal bills in classified documents inquiry

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Explainers & analysis

  • Collage of Michael Cohen, an illustration of Trump in court, and Stormy Daniels

    Trump’s New York criminal trial begins soon – but will the public care?

    The case was big news when it was filed last year, but it’s been overshadowed by a litany of other alleged crimes by the ex-president
  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and Aileen Cannon

    The Mar-a-Lago judge is entertaining Trump’s most brazen defenses

  • 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)

    Trump is the true winner in the decision on Fani Willis in the Georgia case

  • man in front of american flags

    Trump gambit in Florida could mean no election trial before 2024 vote

  • a man in a suit and tie smiles from behind a microphone

    Donald Trump buoyed by supreme court’s recent moves

  • grand columned building in the screen of a film camera

    Unanimity over 14th amendment masks supreme court schism on accountability

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Features

  • TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-JUSTICE-TRUMP<br>TOPSHOT - Former US President Donald Trump arrives at 40 Wall Street after his court hearing to determine the date of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs in New York City on March 25, 2024. Trump faces twin legal crises today in New York, where he could see the possible seizure of his storied properties over a massive fine as he separately fights to delay a criminal trial even further. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

    History in the making with debut of Donald Trump: criminal defendant

  • a man in a blue suit and red tie stands in front of a blue curtain

    Republicans in swing state Wisconsin unenthused by Trump: ‘A bad candidate’

  • woman gestures while speaking at mic in courtroom

    Only in Atlanta: the small-town scandal of the Trump-Fani Willis case

  • A side by side image of Letitia James and Donald Trump

    Seizing Trump’s New York properties will not be easy for Letitia James

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Opinion

  • Sidney Blumenthal

    Trump used to scold felons who wanted to vote. Now he could be in the same spot

    Sidney Blumenthal
    If criminally convicted in New York, Trump will face legal humiliations of the sort he loves when applied to other people
  • man in suit and red baseball cap surrounded by other people in suits

    For all his bombast, Trump is plummeting – financially, legally and politically

    Lloyd Green
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    If cover-up is the real crime, Trump’s hush-money charges have a Nixonian ring

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • Margaret Sullivan

    Trump got some good financial news this week. But there’s a dark side

    Margaret Sullivan
  • Trump speaks at a conference

    The US supreme court could still swing the election for Trump

    Lawrence Douglas
  • man in a suit and red tie standing in front of some american flags

    Trump’s apologists say it doesn’t matter if he’s guilty of insurrection. That’s not true

    Mark Graber
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