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Allow me to summarize a federal appeals court decision gutting a series of pro-Trump orders with a single scene from the 1995 failson comedy Billy Madison: As the appeals court decision makes clear, everyone who read Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions…

Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the…

The TAKE with Rick Klein For the first time in 18 months, Donald Trump is giving a speech in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. He’s back as a former president — at a moment, coincidentally, when his vice president is also…

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a preliminary injunction as part of her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to stop what she says is his ongoing fraudulent conduct. On the same day last month…

That former President Donald Trump was reportedly hiding nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago is shocking, even to those of us who expect the worst of Trump. Even after the release of the warrant and property receipt on Friday afternoon, we don’t…

The indictment of Donald Trump marks an unprecedented development in the country’s history — the first time a former president has ever faced criminal charges. Historians say that not since Richard Nixon had there been the real prospect of a…

The TAKE with Rick Klein A president will be visiting Georgia on Thursday — only not the current one or the one who wants his old job back. Former President Barack Obama’s evening rally for Sen. Raphael Warnock marks a…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress on Thursday the U.S. “banking system is sound” after two bank failures stirred economic fears. Yellen, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, began her remarks by addressing the abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank…

The Trump Organization’s controller is expected to testify Thursday before a grand jury in New York that is investigating whether former President Donald Trump played a role in the hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the…

Several top GOP senators are pushing back on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ position that “becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia” is not a vital U.S. national interest. DeSantis’ statement terming the war a “territorial dispute”…