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With Melania missing, her role in the post-conviction Trump campaign is more uncertain
How much is she willing to put up for a man who betrayed and humiliated her? And now that Trump is officially a felon, will she appear by his side as he campaigns?
- by Farrah Tomazin
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The grey zone of misinformation: Iran, Russia’s payments to US media outlet revealed
Legal experts say US journalists who were paid by sanctioned Iranian media entities could be in legal jeopardy.
- by Joseph Menn
Opinion
AI
The girlfriend AI experience could spur, or destroy, real relationships
AI has the potential to make the market for fake intimacy much larger. People can subscribe for a fraction of the cost of a human sex worker, and with no stigma or legal consequences.
- by Allison Schrager
China lands probe on moon, NASA space launch fails on second attempt
China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon, elevates China’s space power the same weekend that a US test flight failed to launch.
- by Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman
Analysis
US Votes 2024
New York, the city that made Trump rich and famous, has turned on him
Trump’s conviction was the third and heaviest blow he has been dealt in New York – a series of challenges to his ego, his bottom line, and now, perhaps, his freedom.
- by Jesse McKinley and Maggie Haberman
Trump lawyer: ‘I believe in the justice system’
A jury convicted Trump on all counts of falsifying business records, a felony punishable by incarceration, probation or a fine. Trump said the trial was rigged.
- by Michael Sisak and Jill Covin
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World in pictures
World of photos, June 2, 2024
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors
‘My rock’: Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother, dies at 86
A black woman who grew up in the 50s in segregated Chicago, Mrs R moved into the White House to watch her daughter become first lady of the United States.
- by Krissah Thompson
Biden labels Trump’s rigged trial claim ‘reckless and dangerous’
In his first remarks since a New York jury found him guilty of a hush-money conspiracy, Donald Trump said he was “honoured” to run for president as a convicted felon.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
Donald Trump
The bad thing about the Trump verdict? That people celebrated it
Trump’s business model is tribalism, and the guilty verdict will further entrench it. So, for his political opponents, there is little cause for celebration.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Why a guilty verdict won’t dethrone King Donald
If the American people elect Donald Trump president for a second term, they will be doing so very deliberately, in full knowledge of the man, his character and his record.
- by Peter Hartcher