President-elect Trump received a no-penalty sentence in his New York hush money case Friday after the Supreme Court refused to intervene. Why it matters: Trump is the first former (and returning) president convicted of a felony.

Donald Trump has been spared punishment over his “hush money” conviction, escaping any sanction over his historic criminal case days before he re-enters the White House. In a hearing in Manhattan on Friday,

Appearing via video call from Florida and flanked by his attorney and two prominent American flags, Trump declared he was "totally innocent". It was the first time in this year-and-half long legal saga that Trump had uttered more than a "not guilty" or given a brief affirmative answer.

Robert Menendez, the disgraced former U.S. senator from New Jersey, should spend at least 15 years in prison following his corruption conviction, after he betrayed voters by putting his office "up for sale" in exchange for bribes,

Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years after the Democrat became the first to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first publ