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Protesters stand outside of the Senate chamber at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 22, 2023, in Indianapolis.Darron Cummings/AP INDIANAPOLIS A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1.The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

Former President Barack Obama will sit down with CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive in-depth conversation about the state of democracy that will air June 22 at 10 p.m. ET.Amanpour and Obama will speak in Athens a symbolic setting of democracy during the former president's visit to the city with his Obama Foundation.

Police officers are pictured outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse before the arraignment of former President Donald Trump in Miami on Tuesday.Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to the slew of federal charges against him for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort and refusing to return them to the FBI and the National Archives.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court surprised many observers by issuing an opinion that effectively reaffirmed the remaining powers of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.The decision was a reprieve for a law that many believed was in danger of being fatally weakened, or overruled entirely, by the conservatives on the court.

In this courtroom sketch, attorney Todd Blanche stands as he enters a plea of not guilty on behalf of former President Donald Trump in federal court on Tuesday in Miami.From left are: Stanley Woodward, Walt Nauta, Blanche, Trump and Chris Kise.Elizabeth Williams via AP Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges during a Miami court appearance on Tuesday.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is pictured during a Justice Department event on May 24.On Wednesday, he defended the integrity of the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving office.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Attorney General Merrick Garland is defending his prosecutors and agents against rhetorical attacks from its most famous defendant, the former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump delivers remarks Saturday in Greensboro, N.C.Win McNamee/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in a Miami courthouse on Tuesday following last week's unsealing of a federal indictment accusing him of mishandling classified documents.Trump is facing 37 federal charges, including obstruction and unlawful retention of defense information.

Former President Donald Trump exits the stage after speaking at the Georgia Republican convention on Saturday, in Columbus, Ga., his first public appearance responding to the unsealing of his federal indictment.John Bazemore/AP Former President Donald Trump on Saturday cast his federal indictment as election interference and an abuse of power by the Biden administration.

Former President Donald Trump is pictured during a round of golf on May 2 in Turnberry, Scotland.On Friday, the Justice Department special counsel announced that Trump has been indicted related to the handling of classified documents.Robert Perry/Getty Images The federal indictment of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents probe has been unsealed.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon issued her first order since former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith for allegedly mishandling classified information, instructing the parties to get the ball rolling to obtain security clearances for the lawyers who will need them.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed his state's budget, a $117 billion spending plan filled with priorities that have already become fodder for the Republican's 2024 presidential campaign.There's $12 million in there to continue the flights carrying migrants from border states to blue jurisdictions for a second year.

President Joe Biden gestures after speaking during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2023.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday night, hours after former President Donald Trump was indicted on charges relating to his improper removal of government documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate, Fox News ran a chyron at the bottom of its screen calling current President Joe Biden a "wannabe dictator" who used his powers in office to have his "political rival arrested."

A majority of Americans approve of the DOJ opting to indict Donald Trump, the poll also found.Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster following his appearance in a Miami court on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, New Jersey.Spencer Platt / Getty Images It's been around 10 months since the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, obtaining thousands of government documents in the process, including more than 100 marked "classified."

The former president was formally indicted at a courthouse in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday.Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks on June 10, 2023, in Greensboro, North Carolina.Win McNamee / Getty Images Former President Donald Trump baselessly suggested on his Truth Social account on Tuesday that the documents he improperly transferred from the White House were planted at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate as a result of orders to the DOJ from special counsel Jack Smith.

Downing Street has rejected calls to strip Boris Johnson of the 115,000 a year expense allowance given to former prime ministers after an inquiry found he had repeatedly misled parliament.The ex prime minister is facing a ban from holding a parliamentary security pass after a devastating cross-party committee blasted his handling of the Partygate scandal.

Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium Boris Johnson has used his resignation statement to launch an all-out assault on Rishi Sunak amid speculation that he could try and make a comeback.The former prime minister, who quit over a watchdog investigation into his conduct, said he was leaving parliament, but qualified the decision as being for now.

Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium Conservatives need to stop blaming "the blob" an imagined cabal of enemies embedded in British society for failures of government, George Osborne has said.In a speech on Friday the former chancellor said the Tories had been in government for 11 years and that they were "in charge of our country's destiny".

Rishi Sunak has praised Joe Biden's experience on China and foreign policy as particularly valuable after the signing of a new UK-US partnership.The Prime Minister reportedly noted the age difference between himself and the US President, describing his counterpart's time in politics as incredibly helpful to someone who is newer to this.

Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign with a video released Thursday morning, marking the long-shot candidate's formal entry to the race.My dad taught me that you get to choose your battles, and I am choosing the biggest one of my life.I'm going to run for president, I'm going to run for your children and mine.

Former President Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images Hours after being formally arraigned for the 37 indictment counts that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged him with relating to his improper handling of sensitive government documents, former President Donald Trump, snidely and with great bravado, attacked special counsel Jack Smith, President Joe Biden, and others, accusing them of persecuting him.

At the very moment former President Donald Trump was pulling into an underground garage at the federal courthouse in Miami, his successor was 40 minutes into a meeting about Ukraine's nascent counteroffensive with NATO's secretary general.Outside the Oval Office windows, the soundcheck for an evening Juneteenth concert could be heard drifting over from the South Lawn.

Republican presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson Sunday articulated vastly different plans for how they'd approach the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump should either capture the White House in 2024.Contenders for the GOP nomination are grappling to strike the right tone on Trump, seen as the GOP front-runner to take on President Joe Biden next year, as they look to build their support among Republican primary voters.

Gallagher had met with the National Republican Senatorial Committee and its chair, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), who was particularly eager to land him and saw him as the strongest prospective challenger.The committee released polling it commissioned in late May showing Gallagher just 1 percentage point behind Baldwin in a survey of likely voters.

Affirmative Action: Help or Hindrance?A New' Beatles Song Image Donald Trump boarding a plane in Miami after making his court appearance.I did everything right and they indicted me, he said in a speech after his arraignment.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times To the Editor: Re Trump Thrives in a Broken System.

Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on March 25.Evan Vucci/AP Former President Donald Trump says he has been indicted as part of the special counsel probe into alleged mishandling of government secrets and obstruction.

Ukraine and its allies will be at the whim of American voters once again next year if the winner of the US election is not as enthusiastic about defending democracy on the European continent as President Joe Biden has been over the last fifteen months.Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has refused to say whether he believes Ukraine should win the war against Russia, and his main challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has hedged on the conflict, describing Russia's unprovoked invasion as a territorial dispute.

Now that former President Donald Trump has entered a plea of not guilty at his arraignment in Miami, the criminal case against him will, barring an unforeseen event, settle into a traditional trajectory.The case against Trump, accusing him of illegally retaining national defense documents and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, is the first time that federal charges have been filed against a former president.

Dave Aronberg, familiar to cable TV viewers across the country, said Monday he won't seek a fourth term as Palm Beach County's top prosecutor."Nothing is forever, and I am ready for the next chapter of my life and career," Aronberg said in a phone interview."It's a bittersweet decision because I know that I'll never love another job more or get to work with a better group of people."

Read the formal indictment against former President Donald Trump, filed in Federal court in Miami.The charges all related to the discovery of classified or highly secret documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.Click here for the latest coverage of the indictment.David Schutz joined the Sun Sentinel in 2012 and is the assistant managing editor and creative director.

Former President Donald Trump has been arrested at the federal courthouse in Miami and will soon be arraigned on charges related to mishandling classified documents.Deputy marshals have booked the former president and take electronic copies of his fingerprints during Tuesday's proceedings.They were not expected to take a mugshot of Trump, given his recognizability.

A version of this story appears in CNN's What Matters newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.An emerging defense of former President Donald Trump is that he should not be criminally charged.The federal indictment released on Friday describes him sloppily hoarding classified documents at his private clubs, after all, not selling secrets to a foreign country.

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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.

Rachel Maddow has something special for anyone who appreciates the occasional digressions into history on her weekly MSNBC show.She and her longtime producer, Isaac-Davy Aronson, debuted the first episode of Rachel Maddow Presents: Deja News on Monday.The six-episode podcast looks at historical incidents that can teach us lessons about current events.

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.Ask about airline mergers, electric vehicle chargers, or the massive infrastructure law that may become President Joe Biden's legacy, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slides into technocratic policy talk.

Former president Donald Trump arrives for the Georgia Republican Party's state convention on June 10, 2023, in Columbus, Georgia.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump's team is already plotting to ask a judge he appointed to block key evidence cited in the Justice Department's 37-count indictment in the Mar-a-Lago probe.

Former President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the Georgia Republican Party convention in Columbus, Georgia, on June 10.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he doesn't anticipate taking a plea deal if offered one following his federal indictment on 37 counts related to his handling of classified documents since leaving office.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie barged into the Republican presidential primary last week with a scathing rebuke of front-runner and former President Donald Trump.Now, less than a week after formally entering the race and on the eve of Trump's court appearance in South Florida on an indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents, Christie, at a CNN town hall Monday night, will have another opportunity in front of a national audience to make the political case against Trump and for himself.

I have been an avid golfer for 70 years, and when I started playing, my heroes were Arnie Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and others who helped make the PGA Tour what it is today.However, the recent decision by Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, to sell his soul to Saudi Arabia disgusts me, and he should be fired for dereliction of duty as he didn't check with his PGA members to see if they agreed with partnering up with the Saudis.

Federal charges against Donald Trump have been made public in the case involving his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.Special counsel Jack Smith is scheduled speak at the Justice Department at 2 p.m. CT.
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earned his first gubernatorial endorsement Saturday from Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt.Ahead of DeSantis' remarks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Stitt said DeSantis is the right guy to beat Biden for the next eight years.Stitt highlighted DeSantis' handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and argued that his tenure as Florida's governor proves his leadership capacity.

Special counsel Jack Smith returned an historic indictment against former President Donald Trump that was unsealed Friday, the first time that a former president has been charged with crimes in federal court.Trump faces a total of 37 counts, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information.

The National Archives is pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his allies over his retention of classified documents, for which he now faces a federal indictment.On Friday, the Archives took the rare step of releasing a public statement rebuking claims suggesting that Trump was allowed to keep classified materials under the Presidential Records Act.

The recording, from 2021, features Trump talking to other people about documents that are highly secretive.Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media during an election night event at Mar-a-Lago on November 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.Joe Raedle / Getty Images A new report details a recording in which former President Donald Trump talks about the classified documents he transferred from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

The federal indictment of former President Donald Trump and an associate, Walt Nauta, in the classified documents probe has been unsealed.Trump faces the charges in the special counsel's classified documents probe, marking the first time a former president has faced federal charges.CNN's Paula Reid and Laura Coates break down some of the details.

Former President Donald Trump appearing at the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 15, 2022.Andrew Harnik/AP Read NPR's live blog for the latest on the Trump indictment.--- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has been assigned, at least for now, to oversee the case stemming from Donald Trump's indictment, a source confirmed to NPR on Friday.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden will hit the 2024 fundraising circuit next week, marking her first solo efforts to promote her husband's reelection campaign.The first lady will speak at a fundraiser for the Biden Victory Fund, Biden's joint fundraising committee, in New York City on Monday followed by a West Coast swing that includes two fundraising events in San Francisco on Tuesday and another in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Former President Donald Trump acknowledged on tape in a 2021 meeting that he had retained secret military information that he had not declassified, according to a transcript of the audio recording obtained by CNN.As president, I could have declassified, but now I can't, Trump says, according to the transcript.

House Republicans reacted with outrage on Thursday night to the federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, vowing to use their majority in Congress to fight the Justice Department.WITCH HUNT, was posted on the Twitter account of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee within minutes of news of the indictment becoming public.

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted in the special counsel's classified documents probe, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, a stunning development that marks the first time a former president has faced federal charges.Trump has been charged with seven counts in the indictment, according to another source familiar with the matter.

The staid game of golf is not the usual backdrop of an international controversy.But since the PGA Tour stunned the world by announcing a merger with LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed upstart that had been luring players with lucrative contracts, it set off an immediate and intense backlashwith many of the sport's players and fans expressing outrage over what it could mean for the future of the game.