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South Korea experienced presidential impeachments and a tragic plane crash. But the Kospi index is now higher than it was a ...

Donald Trump has become the first president-elect in US history to be convicted of a felony. Justice Juan Merchan of the New ...

Legal scholars and attorneys weighed in on New York Judge Juan Merchan sentencing Trump in the NY v. Trump case on Friday morning.

Judge Juan Merchan imposed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump receives no prison time or probation. Trump continues to appeal conviction.

Trump also had civil judgments made against him, including for business fraud, in addition to the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll.

A retired Navy intelligence officer has avoided additional prison time after he was cleared of the most serious charges in ...

President-elect Donald Trump talked for six minutes at the sentencing in his New York hush money case. The judge, a prosecutor and a defense lawyer also spoke.

Juan Merchan is the first judge to preside over the criminal case and conviction of a former U.S. president and to hold him in criminal contempt of court.