Donald Trump’s wealth, power and fame acted like a magnet for new associates keen to enter his orbit. But now, key figures who sought a share of his reflected glory are turning against him to save themselves. The ex-president absorbed a trio of blows Tuesday that worsened his legal peril…

Haberman on why latest news on Mark Meadows feels ‘different’ CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman react to an ABC News report that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith and has met with…

Chris Christie shares what Trump said after naming Meadows Chief of Staff GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie reacts to an ABC News report that Mark Meadows was granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith and has met with federal prosecutors multiple times in their investigation into the efforts to overturn…

President Joe Biden will not file for New Hampshire’s Democratic primary because he is “obligated” to comply with the Democratic National Committee’s delegate selection rules, his campaign manager informed the state party in a letter obtained by CNN. Under a Biden-backed plan approved by the DNC earlier this year, South…

Michael Cohen said he had a “heck of a reunion” Tuesday with his former boss Donald Trump when he testified against the former president at his New York civil fraud trial. With Trump sitting feet away, Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer described how he manipulated Trump’s financial statements – “reverse-engineering”…

An estimated 305,000 people initially received federal student loan bills with the wrong amount – many with charges higher than they should be – when payments resumed this month after a three-plus year pause. The Department of Education identified the errors and directed student loan servicing companies to place the…

‘Not a personality contest’: GOP congressman on speaker battle House Republicans selected Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota as their new speaker nominee after several rounds of voting via secret ballot. Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) weighs in on the ongoing speaker battle. Read the full article here

The Georgia State Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban in a ruling Tuesday morning. The ruling reverses a lower court’s decision to void certain sections of the LIFE Act because it was enacted prior to the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision one year ago that overturned the federal…

In a slew of court filings late Monday, attorneys for Donald Trump filed several motions asking the judge overseeing the election subversion case in Washington, DC, to dismiss the charges against the former president on grounds that, among other things, they violate his First Amendment rights and are the product…

Winning a majority party’s nomination for speaker of the House of Representatives usually elevates a lawmaker into the pantheon of American political leaders. But such is the toxicity of the GOP three weeks after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy that the nominee expected to emerge on Tuesday may never…