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In her first TV interview since Donald Trump was found guilty, Stormy Daniels said that she was subject to harassment and threats after testifying in the New York hush money trial. Speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Daniels said that when Trump was found guilty, “for that brief moment it was worth me…

Joe Biden blamed his bad debate performance last week on a busy travel schedule in the weeks leading up to the matchup with Donald Trump. At a fundraiser tonight in McLean, VA, Biden said that he “wasn’t very smart” for “traveling around the world a couple of times” before the debate, according to a…

UPDATE, 12:08 PM: Donald Trump will not go into the Republican National Convention as a sentenced felon for business fraud and trying to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels. "The July 11, 2024, sentencing date is therefore vacated," wrote Judge Juan Merchan today in further fallout from the…

Joe Biden sought to shift the spotlight on his rival Donald Trump, saying in brief remarks that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means that the American public will have to render its own judgment on the former president’s behavior. “The American people must decide whether Donald Trump’s assault…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's reelection campaign tried once again today to calm the nerves of Hollywood donors over the president's terrible debate performance last week against Donald Trump. “Every president in my lifetime has had a shitty first debate” campaign chair Jennifer O'Malley Dillon told the…

Terence Samuel, the editor in chief of USA Today, has departed after just one year. Caren Bohan, the publication’s executive editor for politics, will serve as interim editor as a search is conducted for Samuel’s successor. "Terry Samuel has been a been a valued colleague during his tenure at…

UPDATE: Steve Bannon, the podcast host, former Donald Trump adviser and former Hollywood producer, began a four-month prison sentence today. Bannon arrived at a federal correctional facility in Danbury, CT, to serve his sentence, after his legal team exhausted appeals. Bannon was found guilty in 2022…

Hunter Biden sued Fox News over its streaming service’s mock trial series, which featured sexually explicit images of the president’s son. The Trial of Hunter Biden was a fictional trial based on Biden’s legal troubles and, until recently, appeared on the Fox Nation subscription service. But…

The Supreme Court punted on cases challenging Texas and Florida laws that regulate social media platforms’ content moderation practices. The case raised questions of whether Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube and other platforms were neutral gatekeepers of third party content, or whether their content…

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump had immunity from prosecution for his official acts, dealing a blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election conspiracy case against the former president. The 6-3 decision, with the court’s liberals dissenting, makes it all the more likely that…

EXCLUSIVE and UPDATED: "Why isn't Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?” Those are the questions an exasperated top Hollywood donor had Sunday as the blast radius from the president's disastrous June 27 debate performance continued to expand despite the White…

UPDATED: The White House is pushing back on an NBC News report that Joe Biden is planning to discuss the future of his campaign with family members at Camp David on Sunday, following the fallout from the president’s debate performance against Donald Trump. The network, quoting five unnamed sources, re…