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Candidates from all over the world — Trump in the U.S., Bolsonaro in Brazil, Maduro in Venezuela — seek to reach or stay in power for one main reason: it is the only way to avoid ending up in jail

Candidates from all over the world — Trump in the U.S., Bolsonaro in Brazil, Maduro in Venezuela — seek to reach or stay in power for one main reason: it is the only way to avoid ending up in jail

The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court declaring Trump eligible for the presidency may result in the millionaire being exonerated from answering the criminal charges against him

Primaries with hardly any competition at all lead the United States to a rematch of the election of four years ago between two unpopular candidates

Thursday’s State of the Union address opens a new phase of the presidential campaign

The stock had tumbled 42% to $1.86 earlier Wednesday, before its trading was halted in the afternoon, pending news

Phillips, a 55-year-old multimillionaire, was the only elected Democrat to challenge Biden for the presidency. He often argued the U.S. President was too old to serve a second term

The former South Carolina governor has thrown in the towel after the former president’s resounding victory on Super Tuesday

The former U.S. president has made contradictory statements about his possible running mate, and the contest is still very open

Voters in The Plains, in the center of the state, said they were unenthusiastic about supporting either Joe Biden or Donald Trump

Donald Trump and Joe Biden won comfortably in the state on Super Tuesday, and are one step closer to clinching the presidential nomination

The former president won the vast majority of the delegates allocated in the 15 states that voted March 5

Both candidates are terrible, but the former president is the most terrible thing that can happen to a country

His announcement sets up an expected race with Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who held the No. 2 leadership post until he was term-limited five years ago

The testing protocol was instituted shortly after the pandemic began in 2020 when former President Donald Trump was in the White House

The singer’s family and her record label join a long list of artists, from Prince to Adele to Rihanna to the Beatles, who have complained of the former president using their music without their consent

The Fifth Circuit vacates the lower court’s decision, but gives the Biden administration seven days to appeal the ruling, moving the case closer to being heard at the Supreme Court

Polls are showing a big advantage for Joe Biden among Democrats, and for Donald Trump among Republicans. Even so, after this week they will still not have the mathematical majority

The Republican and Democratic candidates are coming into this week’s contest with unusually large leads over their rivals

Weisselberg will be sentenced to five months in jail. Prosecutors accused him of lying under oath when he answered questions in a deposition in May and at the October trial about allegations that Trump lied about his wealth

In a unanimous decision, the justices said the former president cannot be barred from the primary races on the basis of a provision of the 14th Amendment. The move strikes down attempts by Colorado, Maine and Illinois to ban him over his role in the Jan. 2021 Capitol riots

Low turnout and Washington’s hostility towards the former president saw the Republican presidential hopeful win 19 delegates

Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary

The Republican National Committee had made the pledge a prerequisite for all candidates, and nearly every major contender signed, except for Donald Trump

Amid the speculation that the singer will endorse Democrat Joe Biden in an election against Donald Trump, EL PAÍS data expert Kiko Llaneras reviews what exactly is known about the artist’s followers

The South Carolina senator failed in his own bid for president. But his enthusiastic campaigning for the former president has been generating buzz about his prospects as Trump’s potential running mate

If Trump becomes the nominee, he will likely need to win over some of the moderates who supported Biden in 2020 if he wants to return to the White House

Academics and democracy analysts said the presidential primary system, in which a small percentage of the nation’s voters often determines the candidates, is one of several quirks that make the United States stand out