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US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump charges: hush money paid to porn star, model and doorman

Under New York law, a defendant convicted of falsifying business records can receive between one and four years in prison

United States president Donald Trump.  (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump due in court to face historic criminal charges

The former president claims he is the victim of ‘political persecution’ but is using the case to boost support for his bid to reclaim the White House

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Trump’s one-time aide who turned on him goes to jail

Michael Cohen who once said he was ready to "take a bullet" for Trump is awaited at the federal prison in Otisville, New York

At the core of Trump’s message to his raucous, adoring supporters is the now near daily warning that America is literally under attack from an “invasion” of illegal immigrants. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)

BuzzFeed story, video prompt media soul-searching, Trump attacks

Two events have been latched upon by US president Donald Trump to bolster his long-standing grievance that the press is biased against him

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, exits the United States Courthouse after sentencing at the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 12 2018. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Ex-lawyer blames Trump ‘dirty deeds’ as he gets 3 years

Michael Cohen says he had been led astray by misplaced admiration for Trump

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

The man who pledged to ‘take a bullet’ for Trump

On Tuesday that once-deep loyalty melted away when Cohen stunningly implicated the US president in two felony crimes

The scrupulously tight-lipped Mueller will appear at back-to-back hearings on July 17 of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Manafort conviction and Cohen plea boost Mueller probe

The cases of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen won’t end Trump’s crusade to tar Mueller’s probe as a "witch hunt"

In the tape, Trump and Cohen talk about buying the rights to McDougal’s story, which she had sold a month earlier to the National Enquirer for $150 000. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

CNN obtains Trump-Cohen affair hush money tape

The tape was secretly recorded by Trump’s former longtime attorney Michael Cohen two months before the 2016 election

Daniels sued after Trump tweeted in April about her release of a sketch of a man she said warned her in a Las Vegas parking lot not to talk about their tryst. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Stormy Daniels arrested at strip club, lawyer slams ‘setup’

Daniels was arrested after officers accused her of knowingly touching club patrons "in a specified anatomical area."

Mitt Romney has hastened to assure Hispanic voters that he’s ‘not going to round up people around the country and deport them’.

Two conventions, two Americas. Seldom has the divide been greater

Witnessing both conferences is to see anger from the Republicans and abiding hope from the Democrats.