President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations over his time in office has led to a host of legal battles and disputes.

A federal appeals court has upheld a civil jury's decision requiring President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to columnist E.

President Donald Trump will soon ask the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that found that he sexually abused writer E.

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom.

The Justice Department is fighting to keep President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey after a panel of judges refused to extend her tenure and appointed someone else to the job.

A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against President Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

Federal prosecutors began trying to prove Monday that Sean “Diddy” Combs turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.

A jury has been selected to hear Sarah Palin's claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago.

In the early part of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken action against individuals, law firms, private corporations, media companies and universities he regards as adversaries.

A manager of President Donald Trump's successful 2024 campaign is suing the Daily Beast for defamation for its stories on how much he earned.

President Donald Trump named his one-time defense attorney and current White House counselor Alina Habba to be the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

A$AP Rocky is about to go to trial on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021.

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E.

Former congressman Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name as President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.

Former model Stacey Williams is alleging that Donald Trump groped her at Trump Tower in early 1993 as disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein watched.

Donald Trump stepped in front of television cameras and brought up a string of past allegations of acts of sexual misconduct.

A judge has agreed to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money case until after the November election.

Former President Donald Trump looked on as his lawyer pressed three federal appeals judges to overturn a verdict finding him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

Former President Donald Trump spent his first day on trial as a criminal defendant lashing out at the judge and prosecutors, casting himself as a victim and angrily posting on social media.

A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime.

Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House.

Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court on Monday that it’s impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of his $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals.

Judge Juan Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president’s criminal trial.

A federal judge has approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to ensure that writer E.

A lawyer for a writer who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggests a new defamation lawsuit is possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally.

A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has secured a bond sufficient to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to writer E.

Donald Trump will be allowed to know the names of jurors at his upcoming New York hush-money criminal trial.

The federal judge who oversaw a defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s is refusing to relieve the ex-president from the verdict's financial pinch.

Donald Trump's lawyers say the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E.

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Donald Trump's lawyers have asked a New York judge to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated.

Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he can’t pay his staggering New York civil fraud penalty.

As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop.

A New York judge has spared Donald Trump a “corporate death penalty” ruling, but his business did get hit hard with bans and cash penalties.

Donald Trump’s legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars.

A judge who presided over the trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E.

An Associated Press analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings shows Trump's political fundraising machine spent more than $76 million on legal fees over the last two years as he faces multiple lawsuits and federal and state criminal charges.

New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Former President Donald Trump has praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for defying the Biden administration over immigration.

Will an $83 million-plus defamation judgment be enough to deter Donald Trump from continuing his attacks on E.

A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to longtime advice columnist E.

Former President Donald Trump has testified for a total of less than three minutes at a New York trial where an advice columnist seeks over $10 million in defamation damages against him.

Testy encounters between lawyers for former President Donald Trump and judges have come to be expected as the attorneys carry into the courtroom the bombastic, and often antagonistic, style that defines his campaign trail demeanor.

The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is down to two major candidates with just one day to go until New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation GOP primary.

A juror’s illness has abruptly delayed former President Donald Trump's expected testimony until Wednesday in the defamation trial over his comments about E.

A lawyer for a writer who says Donald Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and then defamed her while president in 2019 says the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape and two women who accused Trump of abuse will not be put before a New York jury.

Donald Trump's lawyer has renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president.

The writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s has concluded her testimony in a New York courtroom.

Former President Donald Trump is cramming campaigning and court into a single day.

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E.

Former President Donald Trump left his defamation trial before a lawyer told jurors in an opening statement that Trump had used “the world's biggest microphone” to destroy a New York columnist's reputation after she said he had sexually abused her.

A New York federal judge says former President Donald Trump can wait a week to testify at a defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury concluded that he sexually abused a columnist in the 1990s.

A lawyer for a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Donald Trump for sex abuse and defamation says the former president's recent behavior shows he'll try to “sow chaos” when a new jury considers if he owes even more in damages.

A federal judge says the notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he defamed.

A judge says former President Donald Trump's lawyers can't present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury's conclusion that he didn't rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.

Special counsel Jack Smith is urging a federal appeals court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan department store.

Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial has offered fresh insight into the former president's finances, his dealings with lenders and his aspiration to be an NFL owner, among other matters.

A federal appeals panel has denied former President Donald Trump’s bid to claim that presidential immunity protects him from being held liable for statements he made in 2019 when he denied that he sexually attacked a New York writer in the 1990s.

A year-long suspension of the legal time limit to sue over sexual assaults against adults in New York has led to a tidal wave of claims on behalf of women who were incarcerated.

A New York judge has cited former President Donald Trump's “repeated public statements” among reasons why a jury will be anonymous when it considers damages stemming from a defamation lawsuit by a writer who says Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s.

A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn't try years ago to deflect a defamation lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault with a presidential immunity claim.

Donald Trump has spent a day in court for the sometimes testy start of a trial in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties.

The judge deciding the future of former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire has driven a taxi cab, played in a band and protested the Vietnam War.

A federal appeals court plans to quickly consider former President Donald Trump's claim that presidential immunity protects him from a New York writer's assertion that he defamed her by saying she fabricated her claim that he sexually attacked her in the 1990s.

Four months after a jury found Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E.

A New York federal judge has expressed growing impatience with what he calls ex-President Donald Trump's “repeated efforts to delay” a defamation lawsuit, saying he won't stop a January trial for the “frivolous appeal” of one of his rulings.

A federal judge has tossed out former President Donald Trump’s countersuit against the writer who won a sex abuse lawsuit against him.

A federal judge has upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the ex-president's claim the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude in a civil case that he raped a columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.

Former President Donald Trump has lashed out on social media against the U.S. Justice Department after it stopped supporting his claim that the presidency shields him from liability against a defamation lawsuit.

The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can't be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape because he was president when he made the comments.

Former President Donald Trump has countersued the advice columnist who accused him of rape, saying she defamed him by continuing to insist she was raped even after a jury declined to agree.

Lawyers for an advice columnist who won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation jury verdict against former President Donald Trump have urged a judge to reject Trump's efforts to reduce the award to under $1 million.

Criminal defendants are routinely advised to avoid commenting on pending charges against them.

A federal judge says a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation jury award against Donald Trump can update a similar lawsuit in a bid for over $10 million more in damages from the ex-president.

Trump says he's been indicted in classified documents probe

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of a columnist in a department store dressing room in 1996 should be slashed to less than $1 million.

An advice columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump has filed an amendment to a second lawsuit against him, asking for another $10 million for remarks he made after the verdict.

CNN is facing a backlash over its town hall featuring former President Donald Trump, an event that swiftly turned chaotic in a stark display of the tightrope facing journalists covering a leading 2024 Republican candidate who refuses to play by the rules.

A juror who says he occasionally listens to conservative podcast host Tim Pool was on the jury that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing a magazine columnist in 1996 at a luxury Manhattan department store.

Former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020 election during a tense CNN town hall.

The jury in the E. Jean Carroll battery and defamation civil lawsuit against Donald Trump has reached a verdict.

A jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E.

Donald Trump's defense lawyer told jurors in New York City that they would have to believe the unbelievable to accept a columnist's claims that the former president sexually attacked her in a department store in 1996.

Former President Donald Trump has rejected his last chance to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.

The jury hearing a columnist's claims that she was raped by Donald Trump in the 1990s is likely to have wide latitude in deciding the merits of the civil allegations against the former president when it begins deliberations as early as Tuesday.

A video recording of former President Donald Trump being questioned about the rape allegations against him has been made public for the first time.

Accounts of rape and assault shared by women at a civil trial against Donald Trump mark the first time that any of the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against the former president have been heard in a court of law.

Donald Trump hinted that he might show up soon at the New York City trial where a jury is hearing allegations that he raped a woman in the mid-1990s.

Donald Trump called a writer’s claims that he raped her at a Manhattan department store “the most ridiculous, disgusting story.”.

A woman has testified that Donald Trump molested her with what seemed like “40 zillion hands” on an airline flight in the late 1970s.

A former magazine columnist who accuses former President Donald Trump of raping her in a department store testified that she didn't call police because she is a “member of the Silent Generation” who was taught not to complain.

Donald Trump’s lawyer sought to pick apart a decades-old rape claim against the former president, questioning why accuser E.

Former President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the general election in his first campaign appearance since President Joe Biden launched his own reelection bid.

A writer has told a jury that Donald Trump raped her after she accompanied him into a luxury department store fitting room in 1996.

A nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump has gone to trial.

More than a dozen women have publicly accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault and harassment, but none of those claims has gone to trial.

Former President Donald Trump’s behavior toward women has long been a source of flashpoints in his political career.