Donald Trump

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states gear up to either aid or oppose his policies.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, officials said in a court filing on Saturday.

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state. The efforts come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office pledging to champion the First Amendment right to pray and read the Bible in school. While the federal government is explicitly barred from directing states on what...

Meta’s moderation policy to allow more “free expression” was viewed as the latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, which could help AI efforts.

California’s leaders say it should be a shining example of progressive governance, but critics say it’s become a cautionary tale instead.

Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon with just 10 days before his inauguration. The judge in his hush money case sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge.” NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports. 

President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge, closing the case with no punishment. But unless the conviction for falsifying business records is someday overturned, Trump will have...

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

A judge can sentence a defendant to unconditional discharge. What does that mean and how often is it used?

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on all 34 counts in his hush money case.

NBC News has a Special Report on the Trump sentencing.

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge...

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment.

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report on President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss but kept in place a judge’s order requiring a three-day delay to allow for further appeals.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the so-called hush money case is still set for Friday morning, unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in. New York state’s highest court turned down Trump’s filing to try to stop the sentencing. Should the sentencing occur, Trump would become the first president in history to go to the White House as a convicted felon....

Donald Trump publicly interacted with his former vice president Mike Pence for the first time in four years on Thursday at Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

President-elect Donald Trump greeted his former Vice President Mike Pence upon his entry into Jimmy Carter’s national funeral service on Thursday in Washington, D.C. and sat next to former president Barack Obama.

New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the Supreme Court as his likely last option to prevent Friday’s hearing.