Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s lawyer and fixer, should wear a warning when he takes the witness chair in New York’s criminal hush money trial on Monday.
Election denialists are positioned to beat a small pro-democracy wing of Republicans in the battle over whether the 2024 elections will be legitimate.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite registered their third week of gains in a row for the first time since January, while the Dow posted its biggest weekly gain since mid-December. The indexes were also trading near their peaks, boosted by stronger-than-expected earnings reports and signs of a cooling U.S. labor market that fueled bets of one or two rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve this year. The keenly awaited inflation data on Wednesday is expected to show that core consumer prices rose 0.3% on a month-over-month basis in April, for an annual rise of 3.6%, according to economists forecasts in a Reuters poll.