A top official with Joe Biden’s presidential campaign held a call with Nikki Haley supporters on Wednesday, just hours after the former U.N. ambassador announced that she would be voting for Donald Trump.

The Zoom meeting involved Biden’s deputy political director Juan Peñalosa and members of the Haley Voters Working Group, a nonprofit composed of former Haley supporters. And though it had been scheduled prior to Haley’s announcement, the message conveyed didn’t change.

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Cryptocurrency is used by a fraction of the American electorate. But it’s starting to have an outsize impact on U.S. politics and policy.

The crypto industry won several eye-catching victories this month that showcased its growing influence on the levers of power in Washington — something that's poised to expand as it prepares to spend more than $80 million on the 2024 elections. The wins come as the Federal Reserve said this week that only 7 percent of adults held or used crypto last year, a decline of 5 percentage points from 2021.

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The evidence in People v. Trump is officially closed after a turbulent few days in the courtroom.

Early this week, Michael Cohen finally ended his testimony after several days of aggressive and possibly crucial cross-examination by Donald Trump’s lead attorney, Todd Blanche. One witness for Trump concluded his testimony after a public confrontation with the judge.

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A second Trump administration could more easily dismantle California's nation-leading climate and air pollution rules if the Biden administration misses a fast-approaching deadline.

The Congressional Review Act allows next year's Congress and president to void this year's executive branch rules. It kicks in as early as May 22, according to legal observers. President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency needs to give California permission to enforce a slew of its programs. Otherwise they could face new challenges if President Donald Trump wins a second term and Republicans take control of the Senate.

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FORT PIERCE, Florida — The judge in the Donald Trump classified documents case reprimanded a prosecutor Wednesday during a tense hearing over a Trump co-defendant’s accusation of prosecutorial misconduct.

“I’m going to have to ask that you calm down,” Judge Aileen Cannon told prosecutor David Harbach, a member of special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

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Having spent months assuaging Democratic fears about the election by pointing to their fundraising lead over Donald Trump, the Biden team reported this week that it had brought in less money in April than Trump’s campaign claimed to have raised alongside the RNC.

That halted, at least for the moment, the Biden team’s months of crowing and promises to bury Trump in a pile of cash — and sparked some concern that one clear advantage the president enjoyed may be neutralized.

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Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump, despite maintaining he has “not been perfect” on many policies.

During an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington, her first public speaking event since exiting the presidential race in March, Haley said her priorities as a voter are supporting a president who would back America’s allies and hold its enemies accountable, who would secure the border, support “capitalism and freedom,” and who would lower the national debt.

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The Biden administration is sharpening its focus for the rest of this Congress, pressing Senate Democrats to beat the number of judges appointed by former President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to confirm the 200th judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure. That puts the party slightly ahead of the 196 judges that Trump had secured at this point in his term, according to an American Constitution Society tally.

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BOSTON — Donald Trump’s trial over alleged hush-money payments to a porn star has for weeks been a tantalizing bit of political fodder that Joe Biden has refused to touch.

With the former president now days away from a potentially election-altering verdict as his trial moves to closing arguments, Biden again stayed silent. But this time, he had another lever to pull.

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NEW YORK — After a five-week run, the Donald Trump show at a Manhattan courtroom is winding down with two questions outstanding: Will he be convicted, and will anyone care?

The answer to the first could come as early as next week — with closing arguments scheduled for Tuesday — while the jury could be out on the second for some time.

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Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is back on the Trump political team payroll, making $20,000 from the Republican National Committee last month.

In a filing Monday with the Federal Election Commission, the RNC reported paying the money to Lewandowski’s firm on April 24 for “management consulting.” It appears to be the first disbursement reported to Lewandowski’s firm from the committee this election cycle, taking place the month after Trump’s hand-picked choice and his daughter-in-law took over leadership positions there.

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Donald Trump’s campaign deleted a video shared on his Truth Social account that included the phrase “unified reich” amid blowback from the Biden administration and a handful of Republicans.

On Monday afternoon, Trump’s Truth Social account posted a 30-second video that described a vision of America if he wins in 2024, and included fake newspaper headlines that said “Trump Wins!” and “What’s next for America?” At first glance, the video seemed like typical campaign media — except that the background included text about “the creation of a unified reich,” and “German industrial strength.”

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Four months after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate, Donald Trump’s attorneys discovered four documents marked “classified” in his personal bedroom.

That revelation was among several cited by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in a newly unsealed 2023 opinion that found prosecutors had presented compelling evidence that Trump knowingly stashed national security documents in his home and then tried to conceal them when the Justice Department tried to retrieve them.

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Donald Trump insisted in a social media post Tuesday that he has "never, and will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control or other contraceptives," after an interview released hours earlier included Trump saying he’s “looking at” restrictions on contraception.

The post came after Trump said in an interview with a local TV station in Pittsburgh that he plans to share a policy on contraception “very shortly,” without providing details.

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