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Opening statements were expected to occur Wednesday in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez. Federal Judge Sidney H. Stein told lawyers Tuesday that he expected a jury to be picked by mid-morning before openings begin. He told possible jurors earlier that a list of witnesses or individuals who could be mentioned as evidence is unfurled in comi...

Over jeers of “shame” shouted from the gallery, New Jersey lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to overhaul the state’s open public records law despite objections from civil rights groups and the state’s press association. The Democrat-led Assembly and Senate passed the legislation that heads now to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, whose ...

The prosecution’s case in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is entering its final stretch with his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, on the witness stand.

A Texas man is petitioning a court for information over his former partner’s alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up a first-of-its-kind legal test to the limits of statewide abortion bans.

The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial, Michael Cohen, took the stand Monday. Cohen is Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer and is by far the most important witness in the case.

Michael Cohen is the most central witness for prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

Trump has repeatedly accused the Biden administration and Democratic officials in New York of using the legal system to block his return to the White House.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman had maintained the ban was meant to protect girls and women from getting injured if they are forced to compete against transgender women.

Daniels’ testimony about her time with Trump was by far the most awaited moment of the trial, which now enters its fourth week of witnesses as prosecutors come close to wrapping up their historic case.

Barron Trump’s entrance onto the national political stage has at least been delayed.

Elibexis Alvarez is among the more than 41,000 people who have arrived in Chicago since 2022, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of migrants to Democratic-led cities.

A federal appeals court has upheld the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In an interview with Telemundo 51, Trump offered that Barron, who turned 18 in March, is 17 years old.