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After processing what he heard on cable television, former President Donald Trump publicly announced two weeks ago that on Tuesday, March 21, he would be arrested by the New York Police Department.That day came and went with no arrest.Mr. Trump is the subject of four criminal investigations: one by the Manhattan district attorney for campaign finance fraud; one by the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney for conspiracy to subvert an election; and two by the feds, one for conspiracy to subvert a congressional function on Jan. 6, 2021, and the other for retention of national defense secrets at his Florida home and obstruction of justice by hiding the secrets.

Former US president Donald Trump and one of his lawyers have been sanctioned by a Florida judge - who ordered them to pay almost one million US dollars (£810,000) for what he said was a bogus legal claim against Hillary Clinton and others.onald M Middlebrooks accused Mr Trump of a "pattern of abuse of the courts" by filing frivolous claims for political purposes, which he said "undermines the rule of law" and "amounts to obstruction of justice".

Despite near-unison attempts from conservative media to declare his moment in the Republican sun over, Donald Trump refuses to go away.He is officially back on the hunt for the Republican nomination, and this resistance from many parts of the Republican universe obscures the fact that he may very well still win the nomination  if not in spite of the elite power brokers of the political right trying to stop him, then perhaps because of them.

Republican Chris Christie is hoping the second time's the charm when it comes to White House runs.The former New Jersey governor took part in a CNN town hall Monday night, less than a week after declaring his bid for the presidency.History is not on Christie's side, however.To capture his party's nomination, he and a slew of other candidates competing in the GOP primary would need to register a comeback not seen in at least 50 years.

Ron DeSantis is expected to enter the 2024 presidential race this week.But the Florida governor begins his campaign to win the GOP nomination with his poll numbers flailing and with former President Donald Trump as the clear primary front-runner.Still, DeSantis remains by far the best hope for anti-Trump forces within the GOP.

Bombshell, screamed The Federalist in all capital letters.A treasonous charade, former President Donald J. Trump declared.Who should go to jail? demanded Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.A report by the special counsel John H. Durham on the origins of the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Trump campaign's work with Russia recommended no further prosecutions, produced no startling revelations and declined to suggest any wholesale changes to F.B.I. rules for politically sensitive investigations.

Whether or not Donald Trump's hat is in the ring, he's finished as a serious contender for high office.That's not a line to write lightly.First, because he has been written off so often in the past  after mocking John McCain's military record; after the Access Hollywood tape; after Jan. 6; after the Jan. 6 committee hearings  that it seems foolhardy to do it again.

It's still up in the air which party will control Congress, but one thing is certain: There will be some interesting new elected officials coming to Washington.Take Maxwell Frost, who became the youngest member of Congress-and the first person from Generation Z to be elected-on Tuesday.The 25-year-old, who will represent Florida's 10th Congressional District, had beaten out more experienced Democrats in the primary, including state senator Randolph Bracy and former U.S. Representatives Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson, then went on to win in the majority-blue Orlando-area district.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSHUA GOODMAN (Associated Press)
MIAMI (AP) - Florida's shift to the right is perhaps nowhere more notable than in this vibrant swath of the state's southeast coast where the latest Donald Trump drama is unfolding.Republicans have made steady inroads in this former Democratic stronghold in recent years, culminating in the GOP carrying Miami-Dade County in last year's midterm elections.

Hillary Clinton weighed in this week on a question that has occupied Senate Democrats and much of the party at large for months: whether Senator Dianne Feinstein of California should resign in light of mounting health problems that have made it difficult for her to do her job.Mrs. Clinton's answer was no but largely based on anticipation that Republicans would exploit the vacancy, not on an evaluation of Ms. Feinstein's health or performance.

If one theme emerged from the account presented by prosecutors in the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump that was unsealed on Friday, it was that even after months of relentless news reporting on the case, Mr. Trump's handling of classified documents was more cavalier and his efforts to obstruct the government's attempts to retrieve them more blatant than was previously known.

Just weeks before he provided someone he believed to be a Russian official medical records from five people who had received medical care at Fort Bragg, Jamie Lee Henry told the undercover FBI employee he was speaking to that the Biden Administration hates Russia, in part, because Obama is an effeminate man intimidated by Vladimir Putin.

The former New Jersey governor is one of many Republicans who have attempted to distance themselves from Trump.Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a campaign event for Gov. Brian Kemp on May 17, 2022, in Canton, Georgia.Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) recently suggested that he is considering a 2024 presidential run.

Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, has been defrocked by the Vatican for what it said were "blasphemous communications on social media" as well as "persistent disobedience" of his bishop.Greg Kahn/AP VATICAN CITY  The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were "blasphemous communications on social media" as well as "persistent disobedience" of his bishop.

Nearly 300,000 children lost at least one parent or guardian due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Now, two New York lawmakers have introduced legislation that aims to alleviate at least some of the financial burden faced by children in the state who are part of that statistic.State Senator Jamaal Bailey and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz joined forces to introduce the New York COVID-19 Children's Fund, a program designed to provide financial support for children who lost a parent to Covid.

During E. Jean Carroll's first day on the witness stand, her lawyer asked what had brought her to a federal courtroom in Manhattan.I am here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he said it didn't happen, Ms. Carroll replied.He lied and shattered my reputation, and I am here to try to get my life back.

President Biden will campaign with Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York on Sunday, making a last-minute midterm swing to try to save his party's candidate amid a swell of Republican support in one of the nation's most liberal states.Mr. Biden will attend a rally in Yonkers in Westchester County with Ms. Hochul, Senator Chuck Schumer and other Democrats to try to boost what has been lackluster enthusiasm among the party's base in early voting.

You don't need to consult the most recent polls to realize that the race for New York governor between Gov. Kathy Hochul and Representative Lee Zeldin appears to be tightening  just follow the string of Democrats' calls to action this week.With just 12 days until Election Day, Democrats and their allies are mounting a frenzied push to keep Ms. Hochul in office, pouring millions of dollars into last-minute ads and staging a whirlwind of campaign rallies to energize their base amid concerns that their typically reliable bedrock of Black and Latino voters might not turn out.

Rekha Lyons lives in a 515-square-foot studio in Adams Morgan with Melo, her 4-year-old silky wire-haired miniature dachshund.Lyons, who is 32 and currently on a work sabbatical from the marketing and communications world, moved into this apartment in June 2021.She originally lived in Portland, Oregon, and signed the lease via a virtual tour.

The Washington Post recently announced it will be ending its Sunday Magazine, which is terrible news for a number of reasons.Among other things, it means the end of the Post's popular Date Lab series, in which two readers go on a blind date and then report back on what happened.Date Lab originated in 2006, and as of 2019 at least three marriages have resulted from it .

"You meet a lot of agents who know how to sell," said Alex Gibney."Ron's one of the few who knows exactly what he's selling and why."Get on the phone with Ron Bernstein (like many agents, he loves to gab) and he'll happily share his views on who's up and down at the studios - and inevitably, he'll talk about his latest deals.

C urtis Sittenfeld's previous novel, Rodham, a counterfactual life of Hillary Clinton, imagined how things might have turned out for her and, by extension, the US had she not married Bill.Among the most audacious of the various novels responding to Trumpism, it yoked high-concept thought experiment to a rompy whole-life saga, to distinctly mixed reviews.

AP Photos Former President Donald Trump threw a tantrum over reports that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a bigger book opening with The Courage to Be Free.Earlier this week, several news outlets including Mediaite reported that sales of the DeSantis memoir The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Survival, outpaced books from Trump, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton at the same stage in their respective political careers.

The two social media influencers teamed up online years ago.Both had large right-wing followings and pseudonyms to hide their real identities.One called himself Ricky Vaughn, after a fictional baseball player portrayed in a movie by Charlie Sheen.The other called himself Microchip.In 2016, prosecutors say, they set out to trick supporters of Hillary Clinton into thinking they could vote by text message or social media, discouraging them from the polls.

Image Credit...Antonio Giovanni Pinna To the Editor: Re Democrats to Iowa: Get Lost!, by Art Cullen (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 12): Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Cullen is revealing more about the problem with Iowa than anything about the Democratic Party when he complains that the Democrats' proposed new primary schedule is set up to dump the Iowa caucuses into the ditch.

By David Bauder | Associated Press NEW YORK  Former President Donald Trump has taken some hits in the aftermath of the midterm elections, but the unkindest cuts may have come from a source that was once among his biggest backers  the media empire of magnate Rupert Murdoch.The New York Post's front cover on Thursday put Trump's face over the drawing of a boy from a well-known nursery rhyme.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Former US president Bill Clinton is to visit Belfast to attend an international conference to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement at Queen's University.

Joe Biden is set to visit Belfast to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement despite the Democratic Unionist party's continued boycott of the power-sharing government that the peace pact established.The US president, who is of Irish heritage, is also expected to travel to Dublin as part of his wish to mark his family connection while in office.

In closed meetings between Kevin McCarthy and far right members of his caucus, in which the former attempted to secure the votes to be elected incoming speaker of the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene extracted a promise that McCarthy would launch investigations into Nancy Pelosi, the Department of Justice, and the jail conditions in which January 6 insurrectionists were held.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.Most of us have bombed an assignment, be it a spelling test we forgot to cram for back in elementary school, a college exam that we just didn't understand, or a work project with a deadline that we blew off until it was too late.

The rising fortunes of some Republican candidates with no previous electoral experience allowed Saturday Night Live to try out some new (or newish) political impressions in its opening sketch this weekend.The broadcast, on which the rapper Jack Harlow was both host and musical guest, began with a parody of PBS NewsHour, with Heidi Gardner playing the anchor Judy Woodruff.

The rising fortunes of some Republican candidates with no previous electoral experience allowed Saturday Night Live to try out some new (or newish) political impressions in its opening sketch this weekend.The broadcast, on which the rapper Jack Harlow was both host and musical guest, began with a parody of PBS NewsHour, with Heidi Gardner playing the anchor Judy Woodruff.

iHeartMedia, the largest audio media company in the U.S. and the top podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, today launched new brand safety technology for podcast advertising powered by Sounder, an audio intelligence platform that builds foundational podcasting technology.iHeartMedia is the first to go live with Sounder's AI and Machine Learning (ML) technology, giving brands episode-specific safety assurance, a level of precision previously unavailable in podcast inventory, at scale.

The Democratic Unionist party is unlikely to make a decision on whether to support Rishi Sunak's deal with the EU to revise the Northern Ireland protocol until April.The party has just launched a consultation process with an eight-person panel including former party leaders, Lady Arlene Foster and Peter Robinson.

When Joshua Benton solicits these annual Nieman Lab predictions, he graciously reassures, "For the record, we don't go back later and try to judge whose predictions were the most accurate."Despite my prediction last year being wrong, I predict this is the year when I will finally be right.

Waiting for that holiday spirit to kick in?Well, look no further than the new single by Edmund Bagnell, an immensely talented violinist and vocalist who's performed with Broadway legends such as Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, and Audra McDonald - and has even performed at the Vatican."Wrapped Up in Your Love" with music and lyrics by Edmund, is an original holiday song "inspired by the classics but with a contemporary feel."

SPRINGFIELD - The weather turned frigid in the state capital on Wednesday, just in time for the dedication of a marker commemorating the day nearly 16 years ago when thousands braved single-digit temperatures to see then-U.S.Sen. Barack Obama announce his 2008 presidential bid from the steps of the Old State Capitol.

The firm building former US president Barack Obama's presidential library suspended operations after a noose was found at the construction site in Chicago and the police were called.A $100,000 reward was offered by the construction company to help find who was responsible.Lakeside Alliance, a partnership of Black-owned construction firms, said it reported the incident to police and will provide any assistance required to identify those responsible.

MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 19: Campaign posters for U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Gov. Ron DeSantis are stacked near the door at the Renaissance Ballrooms on October 19, 2022 in Miami, Florida.Rubio faces Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) in the November general election.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America)As much as Democrats might want to exult over last week's midterm-election results - one of the better recent outcomes for the party in power - they can't ignore the drubbing they took in Florida, a longtime purple-colored battleground that has now turned solid red.

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022.Trump formally entered the 2024 US presidential race, making official what he's been teasing for months just as many Republicans are preparing to move away from their longtime standard bearer.