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A grim situation in Afghanistan is getting worse.

The former president seemed to need some adulation at Mar-a-Lago.

The legendary investigative journalist told The Guardian that "for 25, 30, 35 years" the US was mired in "a cold civil war" that Trump ignited.

"We've had conversations with the former attorney general already. We have talked to Department of Defense individuals," Thompson said.

Some conservatives are taking aim at policies that allow doctors to consider race as a risk factor when allocating scarce COVID-19 treatments, saying the protocols discriminate against white people.

Yet these early reversals haven't always been crippling. On the contrary, three of the past four presidents elected — and five of the past eight — have recovered from shaky starts to win re-election.

The porn star who catapulted Michael Avenatti to fame four years ago will get a starring role in a New York courtroom when prosecutors try to prove the California lawyer cheated her of $300,000 in book proceeds.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star who catapulted herself and Michael Avenatti to fame with lawsuits against former President Donald Trump, will have a starring role in court beginning Monday when prosecutors try to prove that the California lawyer cheated her of $300,000 in book proceeds. Daniels is not expected to testify until Tuesday, at the earliest. Avenatti, 50, has pleaded not guilty to the charges in what will be his third criminal trial in two years.

Michael Cohen told MSNBC's Alex Witt that Donald Trump gave the instruction when Donald Jr. and Ivanka were on the verge of being indicted in 2012.

On a platform rife with falsehoods, a cohort of doctors and scientists have stepped in to correct them.

Donald Trump to huddle Wednesday with top aides and outside advisers to discuss his political game plan for the 2022 midterm elections

Using Iranian bank funds freed from American sanctions, South Korea has paid Iran’s $18 million in delinquent dues owed to the United Nations

Using Iranian bank funds freed from American sanctions, South Korea has paid Iran's $18 million in delinquent dues owed to the United Nations, Seoul said Sunday. The step was apparently approved by Washington to restore Tehran's suspended voting rights at the world body. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said Seoul had paid the sum using Iranian assets frozen in the country after consulting with the United States Treasury — a potential signal of flexibility amid floundering nuclear negotiations.

Boris Epshteyn, a former Trump campaign adviser, told MSNBC host Ari Melber he was part of the "process to make sure there were alternate electors."

"I'd like to report an insurrection!" Acosta slammed back at the Florida governor's plan to create a special force to police elections.

The question is who will benefit most when it finally falls.

Budowich said that that he provided the Jan 6. Committee, with at least 1,700 pages of documents and sat for "roughly four hours of sworn testimony."

The reported souring in tensions between the former president and the Florida governor gets the treatment in the anti-DeSantis spot.

American Oversight found that groups in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin sent in false documents to Congress.

Leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party have voted to censure Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWe’ve been lulled into believing Donald Trump is made of teflon. He was, after all, the guy who boasted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote.But Trump’s luck began to run out in early 2021—when he lost the White House, Air Force One, and his Twitter account in a few weeks’ time. His days of getting away with conduct that would sink anyone else appear to be over. He could even start losing so much that he’ll get sick of losing.Trump was met

Last week, the Travis County district attorney’s office gave Paxton four days to turn over communications requested by the state’s largest newspapers or face a lawsuit.

The National Archives and Records Administration has provided a House committee with more than 700 pages of presidential documents after the Supreme Court rejected a bid by former President Donald Trump to block the release.

The House committee probing the Capitol riot has obtained a document from the Trump White House titled "Remarks on National Healing," per Politico.

Seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million lobbying the U.S. government in 2021 as policymakers from both parties weighed legislation to curtail their power and influence.

The December 16 draft executive order repeats outlandish conspiracy theories about voting machine hacking in the 2020 election.

The January 6 Capitol riot by Trump supporters began after Donald Trump falsely claimed for weeks he had actually won the 2020 election over President Joe Biden.

The university's board of trustees voted Friday to revoke the degrees following internal deliberations that included a recommendation by URI President Marc Parlange. The president said in a statement that Flynn and Giuliani “no longer represent” the values and standards they demonstrated when they first received the honors. “Revoking these honorary degrees reinforces our values and allows us to lead with truth and integrity.”

The White House says most federal workers are already vaccinated.

The case against Chad Stark is the first prosecution filed by the Justice Department's Election Threats Task Force.

Biden's rule "amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs," the judge wrote.

A U.S. judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction barring the federal government from enforcing President Joe Biden’s requirement that federal workers without qualifying medical or religious exemptions be vaccinated for COVID-19.

A Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 in an unrelated campaign finance case.

The letter is the committee's first attempt to seek information from inside the Trump family.

To see the most compelling evidence of the former president’s criminality, look to the Peach State.

Party leaders have decided that running without a legislative agenda is the winning 2022 strategy. One problem with their plan: If it works, it’ll make governing painful.

If past is prologue, we can expect Trump to continue making false claims about the 2020 election forever.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is making another trip to drum up support among abortion opponents in the early-voting state of South Carolina.

Meshawn Maddock was one of 16 Republicans who signed a document saying Michigan's 16 electoral votes should go to former President Trump.

“Every time there is an investigation of Trump, the media becomes invested in [it] being a possible death knell,” said Timothy L. O’Brien, a Trump biographer and longtime critic of the former president. “Donald Trump has nine lives not because he’s a master dodger, but because it’s hard to prove fraud. It’s worth stepping back and looking at the realities of the legal proceedings and [looking] at the bars the prosecutors have to overcome to make a case.”

Asian shares have declined after a late-afternoon sell-off wiped out gains for stocks on Wall Street.

ABCOn Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel gleefully ran down the significant legal problems facing former President Donald Trump during his monologue.“The legal woes for Trump are piling up,” said Kimmel. “The attorney general in New York says she has evidence that the Trump Organization engaged in a pattern of deception, and today we learned that the DA in Fulton County, Georgia, has requested a special grand jury to look into his post-election shenanigans there. On top of that, the Supreme Court clea

It's 2022, and the former president is still raving about windmills on Fox News.

Trump advisers are reportedly concerned over his legal representation in New York case

Speakers at the annual anti-abortion rally in Washington say there's a growing sense of optimism that their long-sought goal of a sweeping rollback of abortion rights in America is finally in reach.

Meshawn Maddock was one of 16 Republicans who signed a document saying Michigan's 16 electoral votes should go to former President Trump.

The decision blocking Trump's use of executive privilege in the Capitol riot investigation is also a "nail in the coffin" for the two former aides, said Neal Katyal.

Democrats are picking up the pieces after the collapse of their sweeping voting rights legislation.

Michael Avenatti, the once high-profile California attorney who regularly taunted then-President Donald Trump, was introduced to prospective jurors who will decide whether he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Michael Avenatti, the once high-profile California attorney who regularly taunted then-President Donald Trump during frequent television appearances, was introduced Thursday to prospective jurors who will decide whether he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels out of book-deal proceeds. Jury selection hit full stride a week after written questionnaires were filled out as U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman introduced over 60 prospective jurors to Avenatti and the lawyers on both sides who will present evidence during a trial projected to last up to a month.

New polling shows a big gap in covid exposure by party.

Hannity told Trump's then-press secretary to emphasize "impeachment and 25th amendment are real, and many people may quit."

Trump claimed he "didn't say anything wrong in the call" and that it was made while he was "President on behalf of the United States of America."

Fulton County DA Fani Willis is investigating whether former Pres. Trump and others attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election results.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote there's "a reasonable probability" that the state's 2020 presidential election "was subject to possible criminal disruptions."

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is weighing whether Donald Trump and others committed crimes by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden's election win.

And the Supreme Court is okay with that.

Former President Donald Trump and others are being eyed in a criminal probe in Georgia in connection with the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election by former President Donald Trump and others has asked for a special grand jury to aid the investigation.

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its investigation.

The 2016 Facebook post said, "Better to be a Mexican, than to be a citizen of a country that elects Trump as President."

Missouri candidate for Senate, Lucas Kunce, details why stopping members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks doesn't go far enough.

U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken says talks with Iran over its nuclear program are at a “decisive moment.”.

All current members of House Republican leadership, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, voted to overturn the 2020 election result.

The order from the Supreme Court clears the way for the National Archives to turn over the records to House investigators.

For the former president and his supporters, crowd size is more than just a bragging point. It’s proof of their right to rule.

In an interview, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas laid out the administration's priorities in 2022.

President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation.

George Floyd’s death after his arrest by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of the event.

George Floyd’s death after his arrest by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of the event.

President Joe Biden has previewed the message he hopes can buoy Democrats during November’s crucial midterm elections.

Legal experts say a court filing alleging that Donald Trump’s company misrepresented property values for financial gain could make for a compelling civil fraud case.

In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has tested positive for COVID-19.

North Korea has accused the U.S. of hostility and says it will consider restarting "all temporally-suspended activities," in an apparent threat to resume testing nuclear devices and long-range missiles.

The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to begin talks on removing former President Donald Trump’s import taxes on British steel and aluminum.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is using a court filing to outline much of the evidence her investigators have gathered so far in her yearslong investigation of former President Donald Trump.

Two Supreme Court justices say a media report they were at odds over the wearing of masks during the surge in coronavirus cases is false.

The sweeping elections bill that has collapsed in the Senate dealt with much more than voting changes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted his Iranian counterpart, hailing their the two countries’ cooperation on international issues, including the Syrian crisis.

President Joe Biden is announcing his nominating prominent Democratic fundraiser Jane Hartley to serve as ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting next week.

The New York attorney general’s office says its civil investigation has uncovered evidence that former President Donald Trump's company used “fraudulent or misleading” asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits.

During President Joe Biden's first year in office, he took action on a number of his key promises, from rebuilding U.S. alliances globally to distributing vaccines across America and the world.

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and other members of Donald Trump’s legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie that race had been stolen from the former president.

Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argue is vital for protecting democracy has collapsed.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is suggesting he’d support primary challengers against Democratic colleagues Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has become the newest member of the House.

For the fifth time in recent months, Senate Republicans this week are expected to block Democrats’ sweeping voting legislation by using a longstanding parliamentary tactic known as the filibuster.

Donald Trump plans to build thousands of new luxury homes at his struggling Doral golf club in hopes of reviving the fortunes of the Miami-area property.

Former Attorney General William P.

Ex-Ohio House Democratic Leader Emilia Sykes says she’s running for Congress.

Joe Biden’s long arc in public life has always had one final ambition: to sit behind the Resolute Desk of the Oval Office.

Guatemala has hired for $900,000 a major supporter of former President Donald Trump to seek influence with U.S. officials in an unusual lobbying contract paid for by its ally Taiwan.

President Joe Biden took office at a particularly polarized time in American history, so it's not surprising that citizens are divided on his performance at the one-year mark.

The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut.

One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, who flew fighter combat missions over three wars, has died.

For more than a year, federal prosecutors have been investigating the Capitol riot, and at least 700 people have been charged, mostly with lower-level crimes.

By some counts, President Joe Biden can lay claim to a banner first year in office.