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It's crunch time for Donald Trump's defense team as they take another stab Thursday at Michael Cohen, the key witness in the criminal trial in which the former president is accused of fraudulently covering up his affair with a porn star to influence his first presidential bid.

Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use a House map with a second Black district for 2024 elections, impacting political dynamics and representation.

Biden and Trump agree to hold independent debates, bypassing the traditional debate organizer.

"Appellants thus seek to advance judicial economy—as this Court has done—through 'initial en banc hearing … without requiring the matter to percolate uselessly through a panel.'"

Legal analysts say Trump is violating a court order against ‘making or directing’ attacks, but prosecutors and the judge likely do not want to spend time on another sideshow as the trial comes to a close

The New Jersey senator allegedly took cash, gold and a Mercedes in exchange for favors for foreign officials

A federal district court ruled that the new map drawn by the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote. A group of conservatives challenged the legislature's map.

Ruling on map prevents yet another new one from being drawn, and boosts Democrats’ chances of gaining control of US House

Presidential debates to take place on June 27 and September 10

Republican senator tells MSNBC that ‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’

The push to get more nonstop flights to the nation’s capital pit Texans against Virginians, who were opposed to the expansion.