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This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.

After more than four weeks of often sordid testimony, accusations of lying and even a warning from Judge Juan M. Merchan to a witness to stop giving him the side-eye, lawyers in the hush-money case involving former President Donald Trump are expected to make their closing arguments on May 28,…

The Independent has been covering the former president’s criminal trial every day from the Manhattan courthouse. We answered your questions about the case during a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum

A former federal prosecutor offers one nuts-and-bolts approach to the Manhattan DA’s closing argument

Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass

Did Trump falsify business records? And did he do it to conceal or commit another crime? And which ones?

With the first criminal trial of a current or former president nearing its end, here’s what to expect

From an adult film actress and a Playboy model to a supermarket tabloid publisher – by way of a lawyer-turned-felon – the cast of characters in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president could not have been more colorful. Ariana Baio reports

Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his favorite television analysts

To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.

In an attempt to avoid testifying, Trump pushed an underling onto the stand who just undermined his whole case