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Trump’s lawyer argues Stormy Daniels’s sex allegations were motivated by profit
In a combative few hours of cross-examination in the hush money trial, Trump’s lawyers sought to portray the former porn star as a promiscuous extortionist.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Barron Trump named among Republican Party delegates ahead of US election
Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is about to make his political debut.
- by Annabelle Timsit and Andrew Jeong
Analysis
Donald Trump
Stormy Daniels tells a story of sex with Trump as he listens in disgust
After about half an hour of giving evidence, the 45-year-old started disclosing intimate details about the former president, so much so that the judge baulked at some of the testimony.
- by Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman, Michael Rothfeld and Jonathan Swan
The president, the porn star and the payment: Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump’s hush money trial
In another astonishing moment ahead of this year’s election, the porn star told a jury in explicit detail about her alleged sexual encounter with the former US president.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘I have to watch every word I tell you people,’ says Trump after judge flags jail
The NY judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial has had enough of the ex-president’s gag order violations.
- by Shayna Jacobs, Tom Jackman, Devlin Barrett and Marianne LeVine
Opinion
Donald Trump Jr
Trumpeting a terrible vision: What awaits if Biden loses … or even wins?
Donald Trump has outlined his manifesto for a second term, and it’s a disquieting smorgasbord of retribution and paranoia.
- by Peter Hartcher
Explainer
Donald Trump
‘The Kennedy dream’: Inside Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s run for the presidency
Vaccine critic RFK Jr has gone from ‘troubled life’ to candidate for the top job. Here’s why his rivals are paying attention.
- by Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
Longtime Trump confidant recounts fear in 2016 campaign over Access Hollywood tape
Once one of Trump’s closest advisers, Hope Hicks provided a window into the chaotic fallout over the tape’s release at the former president’s hush money trial.
- by Michael Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo and Alanna Durkin Richer
‘What have we done?’ Lawyer, editor in Stormy Daniels deal appear shocked after Trump won
The text messages were shown to the jury on the latest day of the trial, in which Trump has been accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with a porn star.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
Opinion
Alarm bells: Donald Trump is flirting with some very dangerous ideas
Donald Trump is as addicted to magical thinking and denial of reality as any petty strongman or dictator. That’s why his economic plans should have us all worried.
- by Paul Krugman
Opinion
Interest rates
Why no news from the Fed is good news
The US central bank is sticking to the “higher for longer” interest rate scenario factored into financial markets, while downplaying the prospect of widely feared rate hikes.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz