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A tabloid publisher’s testimony dominated a week that began with opening statements setting the stage for the first prosecution of a president.

The “Yes in God’s Backyard” movement to build affordable housing on faith organizations’ properties is gaining steam in California and elsewhere.

Instead of continuing the environmental legacy they were once known for, Republicans have ceded the fight against climate change to Democrats.

No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself.

The progressive Democrat from a rural, mostly white Wisconsin district is highlighting that it is not just young people of color who are concerned about the war.

Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm.

There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.

In a forthcoming book, the South Dakota governor, seen as a potential vice-presidential pick, tells of shooting her hunting dog. And a goat.

Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments — but very little about the former president’s conduct.

But several members of the Supreme Court seem willing to put presidents above the rule of law.

Protests and encampments in support of Palestinians in Gaza have sprung up at colleges and universities across the country, and the police have intervened on several campuses.

His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”

David Pecker told jurors of a universe in which favors for celebrities were demanded and dispensed. His cross-examination will continue Friday.

Such a ruling would probably send the case back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election.

There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian.

Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.

To win a political campaign, you want to put your candidate in a setting that provides a chance to excel. For Trump, that’s the trial.

Those charged included Boris Epshteyn, a top legal strategist for Donald Trump, and fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election.

The almost-complete ban on abortions in the state could go into effect as soon as June 8 if the State Legislature does not repeal it, the state’s attorney general said.

Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear.