Nicholas Riccardi

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Newsmax avoids trial with $67 million settlement over false 2020 election claims

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Esther Salas

Judges who rule against Trump are getting ‘pizza doxings,’ an ominous gesture that often comes with death threats

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump

Trump dismayed by MAGA’s obsession with ‘a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein’

By Ali Swenson, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

Demonstrators rally against President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in San Jose, Calif., as part of a national day of action on Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Emily Steinberger)

Even as tech bosses swing to the right, almost 7-in-10 people in Silicon Valley vote against Trump

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Elon Musk speaks at a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Elon Musk defeated in Wisconsin Supreme Court race after spending almost $25 million to back losing candidate

By Nicholas Riccardi, Thomas Beaumont, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

‘Radical rogue judges’ targeted by Trump administration as legal setbacks pile up: ‘Judges have no authority to administer the executive branch’

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Trump administration deports hundreds as judge orders their removals be stopped with planes already in the air

By Nicholas Riccardi, Regina Garcia Cano, and others

FILE – The Voice of America building, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump guts staff at Voice of America and other pro-democracy, US-funded media organizations

By Nicholas Riccardi, David Bauder, and others

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

By Nicholas Riccardi, Will Weissert, and others

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump keeps joking about a third term. Here’s what the constitution says

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Joe Biden and Donald Trump

Since the pandemic, incumbents have been ousted in 40 of 54 elections in Western democracies — ‘A kind of electoral long COVID’

By David Rising, Jill Lawless, and others

Elon Musk is seen cheering in the background of a Trump rally.

Republicans shatter early voting records in battleground states after Trump push

By Nicholas Riccardi and The Associated Press

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, participates in an interview with Charlamagne Tha God, co-host of iHeartMedia’s morning show The Breakfast Club, in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris and Trump release new policy details in interview blitz as campaign comes to the end

By Steve Peoples, Colleen Long, and others

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks with members of the U.S. Border Patrol before speaking at a campaign rally, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump proposes 10,000 more Border Patrol agents after derailing bipartisan border bill

By Meg Kinnard, Nicholas Riccardi, and others

FILE – Dawn Stephens, right, and Duane Taylor prepare ballots to be mailed at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

Republican lawsuits challenge overseas voters as group swings Democratic

By Christina A. Cassidy, Nicholas Riccardi, and others