“Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail,” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said at the trial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/trump-trial-transcript-merchan-gag-jail/

Postal worker finds WWII-era letters, drives 5 hours to deliver them

Tue May 7th, 2024

As a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, Alvin Gauthier felt a personal connection to the wartime letters. “I had to find the family,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/07/postal-worker-finds-wwii-era-letters-drives-5-hours-deliver-them/

Large tornado hits cities in northeast Oklahoma as storms sweep Plains

Tue May 7th, 2024

One person is reported dead after a tornado swept through the cities of Barnsdall and Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma late Monday, as dangerous storms swept across the Plains.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/07/tornado-thunderstorm-oklahoma-weather/

A child heard ‘monsters’ in her room. It was 50,000 bees in the wall.

Tue May 7th, 2024

Ashley Massis Class said she didn’t believe her 3-year-old until a beekeeper found tens of thousands of bees inside the wall, along with 100 pounds of honeycomb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/07/bees-in-wall-bedroom/

How Fat Leonard compromised admirals in charge of Navy intelligence

Tue May 7th, 2024

Book excerpt: The Malaysian con man tempted admirals Ted “Twig” Branch and Bruce Loveless with cigars, meals and women — creating a counterintelligence disaster

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/07/how-fat-leonard-compromised-admirals-charge-navy-intelligence/

Columbia cancels main commencement; arrests continue at other campuses

Tue May 7th, 2024

The announcement marked the latest disruption at a school roiled by weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and a police response that led to dozens of arrests.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/06/columbia-university-cancels-commencement/

Looking Trump in the eye, the N.Y. judge warns he may jail him

Mon May 6th, 2024

The judge in Trump’s N.Y. criminal trial found him in contempt of court — the 10th violation of a gag order — and warned that he was flirting with jail time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-merchan-new-york/

Trump spoke to reporters shortly before he left the courthouse, calling Justice Juan Merchan a “disaster”...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Judge again finds Trump in contempt in hush money trial; Trump Org employees testify

Mon May 6th, 2024

Monday began with Justice Juan Merchan ruling Trump had again violated his gag order. Then came testimony from current and former Trump employess.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Donald Trump has left the courtroom for the day.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

After the jury was dismissed, Justice Juan Merchan asked the prosecutors for an updated trial schedule....

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Longtime Trump Organization employee Deborah Tarasoff finished her testimony by confirming for the defense that she...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Justice Juan Merchan is sending the jury home for the day.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Deborah Tarasoff is done testifying. At the end of Todd Blanche’s questioning, she smiled at Eric...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Donald Trump is back in the courtroom. The witness is being called back.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

The jury is taking a midafternoon break. Donald Trump has left the courtroom.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Prosecutors are having Deborah Tarasoff, from the accounts payable department of the Trump Organization, identify all...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Trump Organization employee says Trump would void checks with his sharpie

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Donald Trump’s lawyers tried and failed to convince the judge to bar some of the exhibits...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Donald Trump and his lawyers have entered the courtroom after the lunch break.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Prosecutors have reentered the courtroom after the lunch break.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Witness says he did not know of any accounting directives by Trump

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

As he leaves the courtroom for the lunch break, Trump gives a thumbs up to reporters....

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Cross-examination of Jeffrey McConney is done; prosecutor Matthew Colangelo did some redirect. On his way out...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Trump Organization witness seems skeptical of Cohen’s legal ability

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Direct examination of former Trump Organization senior vice...ent Jeffrey McConney is finished. Cross-examination has begun.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Cohen got 1099 tax form for hush money reimbursement, witness says

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Person dies after falling from stands at Ohio State graduation

Mon May 6th, 2024

The school, which is trying to identify the victim, said it will make counseling and other support resources available for anyone affected by the incident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/06/ohio-state-graduation-death/

Francis Scott Key Bridge is named after an enslaver. Time for a change?

Mon May 6th, 2024

The call to rename the Baltimore bridge comes amid a larger debate about how to acknowledge the harm done by some of America’s most prominent figures.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/06/francis-scott-key-bridge-enslaver-name-change/

Not all Cohen checks came from Trump personal account

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Jeffrey McConney’s testimony in this same courtroom in November 2022 at the Trump Organization tax fraud...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Donald Trump is back in the courtroom and testimony is resuming after a break.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

The trial is taking a midmorning break.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Trump Organization’s odd tax practice reemerges during hush money trial

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Check for Cohen sent ‘down to the White House’ in 2017 for Trump signature

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

McConney says he told Trump accountants to list Cohen payments as ‘legal expenses’

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Eric Trump watches as witness reads email about him approving Cohen payment

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

The former president, dressed in his signature red tie, has been sitting back in his chair...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

McConney says money for Cohen came from Trump’s personal account

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Trump Org accountant says he was told to arrange payments to Michael Cohen

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Former Trump Organization comptroller Jeffrey McConney was asked what Michael Cohen’s position was with the business....

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Former Trump Organization exec explains accounting practices

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Donald Trump just raised his wrist and glanced at his watch as longtime Trump Organization finance...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Former Trump Organization comptroller Jeffrey McConney is d...Allen Weisselberg, another longtime finance employee at the...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

The next witness called to testify is Jeffrey McConney, a longtime comptroller at the Trump Organization...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Jailing Trump is ‘last thing’ judge says he wants to do, as threat of incarceration looms

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

“I find you in criminal contempt for the 10th time,” said Justice Juan Merchan, who said...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Justice Juan Merchan is on the bench and things are starting.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Former president Donald Trump disparaged his gag order before entering the courtroom. When asked about his...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

With Donald Trump in court today are his son Eric Trump and a set of lawyers...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Donald Trump has entered the courtroom.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates/

Judge’s ruling is still pending on 4 more potential gag order violations

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Prosecutors have entered the courtroom.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Who is left to testify for the prosecution?

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Trump said a gag order bars him from testifying. The judge corrected him.

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Key parts of Hope Hicks’s testimony, from the Trump trial transcript

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

This obscure N.Y. election law is at the heart of Trump’s hush money trial

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

The New York hush money and records falsification trial is one of four criminal cases Donald...

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Jurors will return to New York courthouse Monday for a full week of trial

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Over the weekend, Trump rants profanely about prosecutors

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Key parts of Hope Hicks’s testimony, from the Trump trial transcript

Mon May 6th, 2024

The former top aide and spokeswoman for Donald Trump testified Friday about his messaging strategy and the Stormy Daniels hush money payment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/hope-hicks-testimony-trump-trial/

Trump’s trial gave jurors a look at how politicians deal with the press

Mon May 6th, 2024

By Mark Berman and The Washington Post National Staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Book excerpt: The admiral who had a mental breakdown over Fat Leonard

Mon May 6th, 2024

Rear Adm. Robert Gilbeau, known as ‘Crazy Bob,’ had a mental breakdown in Afghanistan. His staff accused him of faking PTSD to dodge an epic corruption scandal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/06/book-excerpt-admiral-who-had-mental-breakdown-over-fat-leonard/

This obscure N.Y. election law is at the heart of Trump’s hush money trial

Mon May 6th, 2024

NY state election law 17-152 is the statute that prosecutors say represents the underlying law Trump was intending to violate when he falsified business records.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/06/trump-hush-money-trial-election-law/

Massive pro-Palestinian college protests bring rare surge in discipline

Mon May 6th, 2024

As pro-Palestinian student protests surged, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/05/06/college-protests-suspensions-expulsion-arrests/

Missing surfers from U.S., Australia confirmed dead by Mexico

Mon May 6th, 2024

Carter Rhoad and Jake and Callum Robinson went missing during a surfing trip in Baja California in late April. Three people are in custody.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/05/american-australians-missing-mexico/

Awards honor feds’ good works as they face ‘the most toxic atmosphere’

Mon May 6th, 2024

Public Service Recognition Week honors federal workers amid increasing hostility from the right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/05/service-to-america-medals-federal-workers-2024/

USC protest encampment cleared as other colleges prepare for graduation

Sun May 5th, 2024

Schools continue to grapple with balancing students’ free speech rights and maintaining an amicable atmosphere ahead of graduation ceremonies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/05/university-protests-college-graduation/