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The first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president is set to begin next Monday. Despite repeated attempts by Donald Trump to delay the hush money trial from moving forward, the case will proceed as planned. While the U.S. Supreme Court’s handling of the matter of presidential immunity remains uncertain, the outcome of the trial...

A Florida judge overseeing the case involving former U.S. president Donald Trump’s classified documents has dismissed the request from his lawyers to dismiss the case based on the Presidential Records Act. In the ruling, Judge Aileen Cannon wrote that the act “does not provide a pre-trial basis to dismiss,” leaving the defence available as an...

The first criminal trial against a former U.S. president is now underway, over Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments to hide an affair with an adult film star before the 2016 presidential election. Reggie Cecchini explains what unfolded in the first day of the historic trial, and how it will impact Trump’s 2024 election campaign.

History will unfold in New York on Monday as the first criminal trial for a former American president gets underway. Donald Trump faces trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records, relating to hush money payments to an adult film star — something prosecutors allege was done to influence the 2016 election. Reggie Cecchini has...

Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals.

Donald Trump has become his party’s presumptive nominee on his quest to return to the White House, but he’s now facing criticism over his platform from a former ally who stood next to Trump during his four years in the Oval office. As Reggie Cecchini explains, it’s part of a broader shift in the Republican...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump has been handed a partial legal victory after a New York state appeals court gave him another 10 days to post the bond in his civil fraud case, while also reducing the amount from $464 million USD to $175 million USD. Reggie Cecchini looks at whether this partial lifeline can...

Donald Trump’s social network Truth Social went public Tuesday and hit a valuation of US$8 billion, despite its lack of profitability. In Business Matters for Wednesday, March 27, Anne Gaviola has more on why some analysts suggest this head-scratching valuation propels Truth Social into the “meme stock” category.

A trade adviser to former President Donald Trump turned himself in to a federal prison in Miami on Tuesday. Peter Navarro was sentenced in January to four months in prison for refusing to complty with a subpoena from the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. capitol.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump has cleared a major legal hurdle in his bid to return to the White House, as the Supreme Court has ruled individual states cannot bar candidates from federal office. Jackson Proskow explains how this affects Trump’s odds of securing the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, and if this...

Former U.S president Donald Trump’s lawyers say he has been unable to raise the $454 million USD needed to post a bond covering the civil fraud case he is appealing. Jackson Proskow explains why insurance companies are wary of helping Trump, and what could happen if he misses the deadline.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties’ presidential nominations Tuesday with decisive victories in a slate of low-profile primaries, setting up a general election rematch that many voters do not want.

Nikki Haley has ended her presidential bid in the 2024 election, clearing the way for a rematch between former U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. President Joe Biden. Jackson Proskow looks at the encouraging and worrying signs for Trump’s chances to return to the White House, and how Biden could campaign differently compared to 2020.

Former president Donald Trump won commanding victories across nearly all of the states holding Republican nominating contests on Super Tuesday, according to CBS News projections. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced today she is suspending her bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

There is swirling speculation in the U.S. about whether former president Donald Trump will still face trial on multiple federal criminal charges before voters head to the polls in November. As Global’s Jackson Proskow reports, justice delayed could be justice denied, if the Republican candidate is re-elected.

The U.S. Supreme Court has barred states from disqualifying candidates for federal office in a ruling handed down on Monday, overturning a decision by Colorado’s top court that would have excluded U.S. President Donald Trump from the ballot due to his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Trump...

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will decide in April whether former U.S. president Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from prosecution for acts allegedly committed while in office. Trump is facing four felony charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Still, Trump...

The 2024 presidential race in the United States is heating up, with a few strong contenders taking on President Joe Biden. Despite Donald Trump’s expected victory in the primary, Nikki Haley refuses to bow out of the race, indicating that this will not be a one-person race. Global’s Reggie Cecchini reports on the upcoming election’s...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat that if he returns to the White House, he would not protect NATO members from a potential Russian attack unless those allies increase their defence spending. Eric Sorensen explains how this could affect countries, like Canada, that don’t meet their military spending targets.

Fallout continues over former U.S. president Donald Trump’s comments suggesting Russian President Vladimir Putin could do whatever he wanted to NATO allies who didn’t meet the alliance’s 2-per cent defence spending targets. ‘The West Block’ host Mercedes Stephenson speaks with John Bolton, the former U.S. national security adviser to Donald Trump, about the seriousness of...