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Black leaders call out Trump's criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict 06/01/2024 08:32am • NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he had a part in that. It's the same courthouse where five Bla Who is Alvin Bragg? District attorney who prosecuted Trump says he was just doing his job 06/01/2024 07:42am • NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned the public and his own staff by pausing an investigation into former President Donald Trump that appeared to be hurtling toward an indictment. Two top prosecutors were so upset with the decision, they q Donald Trump’s attorney was 'shocked' the former president took the verdict with 'solemnness' 06/01/2024 12:57am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump’s stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump’s left in the Manhattan courtroom as the verdict was re FACT FOCUS: Trump responds to guilty verdict with attacks and false claims 06/01/2024 12:35am • Former President Donald Trump on Friday addressed his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors have called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to silence the accounts of women who claimed to have extramarital sex with him. W Oregon defendants without a lawyer must be released from jail, US appeals court says 05/31/2024 09:13pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don’t have a defense attorney. In its decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called Oregon's public defense system a “Sixth Amendment nig Killing of Minneapolis police officer stuns a department that's been struggling to fill its ranks 05/31/2024 08:20pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil. Officer Jamal Mitchell's death Thursday came days after the fourth anniversary of Floyd's killing by a city Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought victims to pig farm, is dead after prison assault 05/31/2024 08:05pm • TORONTO (AP) — Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison, authorities said Friday. He was 74. The Correctional Service of Canada said in statement th Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system 05/31/2024 07:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, the prosecution’s star witness and the criminal justice system as a whole. Speaking from Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says 05/31/2024 06:54pm • The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year's general election. But Biden calls Trump's claims on hush money conviction 'reckless' as campaign grapples with verdict 05/31/2024 05:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday condemned Donald Trump's unfounded assertions of a biased legal system as “reckless” and “dangerous" — breaking his long-held silence on the presumptive Republican nominee's criminal woes as Trump's nearly three dozen felony convictions injec Trump’s NY case was the first of four to go to trial. It could be the last one for a while 05/31/2024 04:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The hush money case that culminated in a conviction of Donald Trump this week was the first of four criminal prosecutions brought against the former president — and likely the only one to reach trial before the November elections. Where there was once speculation among politica The Latest | Biden speaks after Donald Trump's conviction in hush money case 05/31/2024 02:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a press conference Friday where he spoke publicly about the conviction and his White House bid. Following his conviction Editorial Roundup: United States 05/31/2024 12:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 29 The Washington Post on America’s economic mood remains glum. This is despite great news: Growth is strong; the stock market just hit record levels; unemployment is low; and inflation has significantly cooled in the past year. AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the final presidential primaries and caucuses of 2024 05/31/2024 08:34am • WASHINGTON (AP) — After 146 days, 90 primaries and 17 caucuses in five U.S. territories, the District of Columbia and almost every state (Delaware canceled, remember?), the 2024 presidential primary calendar draws to a close with a handful of primaries on Tuesday and two Democratic caucuses on Jun Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes 05/31/2024 04:40am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. Tru