Yesterday
Biden courts Hollywood, while Trump tackles swing state
Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for the president, while his opponent was on the hustings in the crucial battleground state of Michigan.
- Darlene Superville and Will Weissert
This Month
Trump promises tax cuts in pitch to top CEOs
The former president delivered his populist economic pledges to Wall Street titans at a business roundtable event in Washington before the US election.
- Matthew Cranston
- Analysis
- Analysis
Why Republicans wanted a Hunter Biden acquittal
Republicans aren’t relishing the opportunity to extract political mileage from the conviction of the president’s son. Now they can’t claim Department of Justice bias.
- Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Michael Gold
The Trump trade hawk who is plotting from jail
Peter Navarro has a dark vision of the global economy. In a Trump 2 presidency which he may shortly be able to put into action.
- The Economist
Joe Biden cuts Trump’s lead on handling of US economy
An FT-Michigan Ross poll also finds the Democratic president edging ahead of the Republican among older voters.
- Lauren Fedor and Eva Xiao
Trump ally Steve Bannon ordered to prison
The ideological champion of the former US president’s MAGA movement was convicted of contempt of Congress.
- Andrew Goudsward
‘We will not walk away’: Allies return to the D-Day beaches
As world leaders gathered in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, US President Joe Biden warned against surrendering to dictators.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
How Donald Trump was created by a reality TV show
The Apprentice was an American fraud that ballooned beyond its creators’ wildest imaginations, one of the producers of the show says.
- Bill Pruitt
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Trump, and not Hunter Biden, is trashing America’s courts
Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture.
- Edward Luce
Biden to get power to seal US border in tough immigration move
A surge in border crossings from Mexico has become a potent political issue for the president and rival Donald Trump ahead of the November 5 election.
- Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
- Opinion
- Opinion
It’s not the economy, stupid. Voters blame Biden for inequality
It’s unfair to blame the US president alone for imbalances that have been widening for decades, but nor will selling the good news harder make any difference.
- Ruchir Sharma
‘It’s my honour’: Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban
The former president made his debut on the video-sharing app in a bid to appeal to younger voters – and attracted 2 million followers.
- Stephanie Lai and Michael Sin
Trump’s a felon. Now Hunter Biden’s gun trial is set to start
Jury selection begins on Monday in the first of two cases Hunter Biden has tried to avoid for years, both to stay out of prison and spare his father.
- Chris Strohm, Jef Feeley and Jordan Fabian
Former president watches UFC bout amid chants of ‘we love Trump’
Last April Donald Trump sat cage-side after becoming the first former president to face criminal charges. On Saturday, he was at back at the Octagon.
- Updated
- Shawn McCreesh
Joe Biden seizes on opportunity in Trump’s guilty verdict
Donald Trump is a “convicted felon” who would “destroy our justice system, shred our democracy and attack the very idea of America”, according to the Biden camp.
- James Politi
- Opinion
- Opinion
It will be a miracle if American democracy survives this election
Bit by bit, the United States is becoming like some Central American banana republic, where presidents who lose office expect to be jailed by their successors.
- Daniel Hannan
‘Guilty on all 34 felony counts’: Biden’s major Trump strategy shift
President Joe Biden has warned denouncing a New York jury’s guilty verdict against Donald Trump is “reckless,” “dangerous” and “irresponsible.”
- Peter Baker
May
Defiant Trump seeks to turn verdict into campaign fuel
Donald Trump will try to capitalise on what might otherwise be a career-ending judgment in his election bid, claiming he is the victim of a political witchhunt.
- Updated
- David Voreacos and Patricia Hurtado
Hopeful yet cautious, Biden’s team hopes to exploit Trump’s conviction
Even if the president does not directly affix the title “felon” to his rival, scores of his allies are planning to do so in their communications about Trump.
- Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas
Even as the judicial system finds Trump guilty, his attacks take a toll
The foundational democratic principle that no one is above the law withstood the first criminal trial of a former American president. But the strain is starting to show.
- Sarah Ellison and Josh Dawsey
