NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial wound down Thursday with closing statements in the case, which accuses the former president of exaggerating the values of his properties to secure better financial terms. While much of the day unfolded in

It is less than a week until the Iowa caucuses, a hackneyed introductory phrase that, in four days, will transform into something like, “At long last, voters get their say.” But the point remains that voting (or whatever you want

Donald Trump’s campaign greeted the news that Chris Christie was ending his presidential bid with a memo making the case that it wouldn’t matter much — and particularly that it wouldn’t benefit Nikki Haley. Instead, the memo reinforced the idea that

The Defense Department inspector general said Thursday it will investigate the mishandling of Lloyd Austin’s recent hospitalization, which the Pentagon chief and others close to him kept secret from the White House and Congress for days in an apparent breach

A poll released Thursday of Iowa voters found that, among Republicans, former president Donald Trump maintains a dominant lead in the days ahead of the caucuses. But it is the first to find former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley opening up

After he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump applied a rather scattershot approach to his efforts to effect his promised policy changes. This was in part a function of the resistance some efforts faced from Congress (like repealing the

A top Maryland elections official resigned Thursday after his arrest this week on multiple charges that he participated in the U.S. Capitol attack, encouraging officers trying to disperse rioters to “join us.” Federal investigators allege that Carlos Ayala, 52, scaled a

The most revealing moment during Donald Trump’s town-hall interview that aired on Fox News on Wednesday night wasn’t about his past service as president or even his future desire to regain that position. Instead, it came when a woman named