UPDATE: Jurors in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial went home early today after they asked Judge Juan Merchan to re-read them some or possibly all of the 53 pages of instructions that he delivered to them this morning ahead of deliberations. It was the second jury note in the space of an hour from…

UPDATE: Closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial ended tonight almost 11 hours after they began, with a prosecutor telling jurors that the former president's "intent to defraud … could not be any clearer," according to multiple news outlets.  Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua…

UPDATED, with Trump response: Robert De Niro was the surprise guest of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for a press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse where closing arguments are taking place in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. De Niro, who recently narrated a Biden campaign ad, warned of…

UPDATE: The testimony is done in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and the jurors are off until next Tuesday, but Judge Juan Merchan still found cause this afternoon to call out one of Trump's lawyers.  Merchan scolded lawyer Emil Bove during a conference on jury instructions for trying to resurrect a…

UPDATE: A "suicidal" Michael Cohen said he almost threw himself off a 21-story building on Park Avenue in Manhattan because he saw no other way out after an FBI raid turned him into a federal criminal target, a lawyer testified this afternoon in the hush money trial of Cohen's former boss, Donald…

UPDATE: Michael Cohen appeared to win a battle this afternoon over how reliable his memory is of eight-year-old phone calls with Donald Trump, after faltering in an earlier round of cross-examination questioning today in the former president's hush money trial in New York. Before a lunch break, Trump…

UPDATED: Donald Trump's attorney in the former president's hush money trial went straight at the prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, kicking off a profanity-laced cross examination. To start off, Todd Blanche introduced himself to Cohen, saying that although they'd never met "you went on…

UPDATE: Donald Trump approved a plan to repay hush money for Stormy Daniels to his lawyer Michael Cohen in a meeting at Trump Tower days before his inauguration as president, Cohen told jurors today. As part of the package, Trump raised Cohen's holiday bonus after Cohen complained bitterly that he'd…

UPDATE: Judge Juan Merchan told the prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial to pass along a message to one of their likely witnesses, lawyer Michael Cohen: Please stop talking or posting on social media about the case.  Moments before the day in court ended early around lunchtime, Judge…

UPDATE: Stormy Daniels took a swipe at Donald Trump and his legal team for their complaints about her testimony over two days in the New York hush money trial. “Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh…wait. Nevermind,” Daniels wrote on X/Twitter. Real men…

Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes today with one of his chief antagonists, Stormy Daniels, returning to the stand and court observers wondering if the former and possible future president is close to being thrown into jail.  Whatever happens inside the courtroom, there may no longer be…

UPDATE: Stormy Daniels faced a contentious cross examination today over her claim that she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006 and that, five years later, a stranger threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to not talk about the sexual encounter publicly.  Susan Necheles, a lawyer for Trump…