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Kamala Harris Is Winning the Fundraising Race By a Mile

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August—a stunning number on its own, but particularly...

07.09.2024 4

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Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election

Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024. AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday...

06.09.2024 7

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Theo Von Asked All the Right Questions. Trump Gave the Wrong Answers.

Mother Jones; Jeff Moore/ZUMA; John Lamparski/NurPhoto/ZUMA Last week, Donald Trump sat down with...

29.08.2024 30

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Trump Is Raking in Millions From Foreign Business Partners

Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump filed his latest financial disclosure on Thursday, revealing how parts of his business empire...

20.08.2024 40

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Kamala Harris Is Raking in Campaign Cash

Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire Democratic donors unleashed a pent-up flood of cash into the barely established campaign of Vice President...

23.07.2024 5

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Alex Jones Is Liquidating His Assets to Pay Sandy Hook Families

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testifying at a defamation case in 2022. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP Right-wing conspiracy theorist...

08.06.2024 10

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Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Trial

Yuki Iwamura/Pool/Getty This is a developing story. Check back for updates. A jury of Donald Trump’s peers has found him guilty on all 34...

31.05.2024 70

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No, Trump Supporters Are Not Being Kept From the Courthouse

A few Trump supporters stay in the park outside the courthouse to wave at his motorcade at the end of the day. Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx/AP ...

22.05.2024 10

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Trump’s Social Media Company Just Keeps Losing Money

Mark Peterson/Pool Photo via AP Donald Trump’s Truth Social stock might be doing better these days, but the company is still struggling to make...

21.05.2024 40

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Under Cross-Examination, Michael Cohen Spills About His Past With Trump

Donald Trump’s criminal trial for engineering a hush money scheme—to save his 2016 campaign from a slew of stories about his...

15.05.2024 70

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Donald Trump Really Trying to Pretend He Couldn’t Care Less About Michael Cohen

Former president Donald Trump faced off with his onetime fixer Michael Cohen in court on Monday, and for the most part, Cohen delivered a...

14.05.2024 70

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Trump Will Likely Face More Fines for Violating Gag Order

Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York on Thursday, May 2, 2024. Charly Triballeau/AP Former...

02.05.2024 10

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Judge Fines Trump $9,000 and Threatens to Throw Him in Jail

Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal court Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former...

30.04.2024 20

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Did Trump Push the NY Judge Too Far?

Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court in New York, Friday, April 19, 2024. Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP Once again,...

24.04.2024 50

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Allen Weisselberg Heads Back to Prison for Lying in Trump Trial

Donald Trump, his former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, center, and his son Donald Trump Jr. Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP ...

10.04.2024 8

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Trump’s Truth Social Lost $58 Million Last Year!

Lev Radin/Sipa/AP Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social landed last week on the stock market as a publicly traded company with a whole...

02.04.2024 30

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New York Appeals Court Gives Donald Trump a $300 Million Break

Former President Donald Trump leaves a pretrial hearing during a recess with his defense team on March 25. Mary Altaffer/Pool/AP Donald Trump...

25.03.2024 10

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Trump’s Social Media Company Is Finally Going Public. He Could Make Billions.

Wilfredo Lee/AP After repeated delays, Donald Trump finally seems to be taking his Truth Social app public—an accomplishment that could set him up...

22.03.2024 20

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Trump Can’t Afford to Post Bond in His Fraud Case

Jeff Dean/AP Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a state appeals court to put a stay on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ right to collect...

19.03.2024 20

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Biden Promised Not to Finance Fossil Fuels. So Why Is the US Backing a Huge Gas Project?

Mother Jones illustration; Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA; Doe/Planet Pix/ZUMA At a Glasgow climate summit in 2021, the Biden administration offered a...

18.03.2024 20

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Ohio GOP Candidate Who Used a Slur Drops Out (Again)

Tom E. Puskar/AP Ohio Republican J.R. Majewski dropped out (again) on Saturday, after he used a slur for intellectually disabled people on a podcast...

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A Large Percentage of Republican Primary Voters Can’t Stomach Trump

AP Photo/Steve Helber Former president Donald Trump easily swept to victory in a handful of additional Republican caucuses this weekend, looking ever...

03.03.2024 10

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The NY Judge Just Ordered Trump to Pay $355 Million and Stop Doing Business in the State

A New York judge ruled on Friday that former President Donald Trump must pay $355 million and cease doing any business in New York for three years...

16.02.2024 10

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Donald Trump Will Be the First Former President to Face a Criminal Trial, Judge Rules

Former President Donald Trump appears during a court hearing at Manhattan criminal court. Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo/AP A New York judge ruled...

15.02.2024 30

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Trump Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million for Defamation in Rape Case

Michael M. Santiago/Getty; Brynn Anderson/AP Jurors in the defamation case against Donald Trump took less than three hours to decide that Trump...

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Trump Still Won’t Behave In Court

Alex Brandon/AP Donald Trump muttered and snarled his way through a second day in a federal courtroom in New York, where he was to observe...

18.01.2024 30

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Ashli Babbitt’s Family Is Suing the Government Over Her Death During the January 6 Riot

zz/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx The family of Ashli Babbitt, the January 6 rioter who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police Officer during the attack on the...

08.01.2024 60

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Defense Secretary Austin’s Mysterious Hospital Stay Is a Mess

AP photo/ Maya Alleruzzo Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent some time last week in the hospital, a fact that staff failed to mention it to the...

07.01.2024 30

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Nikki Haley, Surging, Is Still Way Behind Trump

AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is surging at just the right time—armed with tens of millions in donor money,...

07.01.2024 10

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What’s Next for Donald Trump Now That His Gag Orders Were Upheld?

Andrea Renault/STAR MAX Update, December 10: Donald Trump announced Sunday afternoon that he had changed his mind and will not testify in his own...

11.12.2023 10

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Donald Trump Takes the Stand This Week—Shortly After His Gag Orders Were Upheld

Andrea Renault/STAR MAX On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in his federal criminal case...

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