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Byline: Joey Garrison, Josh Meyer, Aysha Bagchi, Sarah D. Wire and Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Thursday was a pivotal day for President Donald Trump's chosen chiefs as three [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, Savannah Kuchar,, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, and Sudiksha Kochi WASHINGTON - The Donald Trump confirmation train continued rolling Thursday as senators questioned the president-elect's picks to run the [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY As the first confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's new administration are set to start this week, the president-elect announced several new nominees Saturday who share [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi and Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY New York's highest court refused to halt President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing - scheduled for Friday - in his hush money criminal [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY A New York federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury's verdict that President-elect Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed columnist E. [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Four FBI confidential sources entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, although none were authorized to do so, according to a Justice Department inspector [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption Terrorism charge for UnitedHealthcare CEO murder suspectLuigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, is charged with murder as an [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Prosecutors advised a New York judge on Tuesday to delay President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing in his hush money case following the November election, but [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY A New York court suspended all the current deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump's New York hush money case, including a scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing on [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY President-elect Donald Trump already has a lot to be happy about when it comes to his election victory, but here's another reason he can celebrate: [...]

Byline: Lauren Villagran, Bart Jansen, and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY If he returns to the White House, Donald Trump has vowed to launch a 'mass deportation' of at least 11 [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY The Georgia Supreme Court rejected a Republican request for a speedy appeal to get seven rules, including a requirement for thousands of poll workers to [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY When Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act in the wake of former President Donald Trump's post-2020 election effort to reverse his loss, leaders in [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY A Georgia judge blocked a controversial ballot hand-count rule from going into effect before the November election, writing that the last-minute requirement for thousands of [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY A flurry of election lawsuits will help determine not just who votes in the presidential election but possibly who wins the contest [...]

Byline: John Bacon, Michael Collins,, Josh Meyer, Aysha Bagchi,, Rick Jervis and David Jackson An apparently thwarted assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY The FBI revealed new details from the investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in a Wednesday call with media, including that [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY In the final months before the 2024 presidential election, three Republicans on the Georgia State Election Board are making new election rules that elected officials [...]

Byline: Kinsey Crowley and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY The jury has found Donald Trump guilty on all counts in the first criminal trial of a former president in U.S. history. [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, Bart Jansen,, Kinsey Crowley and David Jackson, USA TODAY Jurors returned to a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday to hear potentially pivotal closing arguments about whether to convict former [...]

Byline: Kinsey Crowley and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Donald Trump's hush money trial is nearing its end. The prosecution and defense have rested their cases and closing arguments are scheduled [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY On the final day of testimony, the defense answered one of the big questions hanging over the first criminal trial of a [...]

Byline: Sudiksha Kochi, Bart Jansen and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY A bevy of former President Donald Trump's high-profile allies have flocked to the Manhattan courthouse where he is on trial [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, Kinsey Crowley, and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY NEW YORK - On the 13th day of the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president, after all the dreary [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY When Donald Trump is in New York City for his criminal hush money trial, he stays in Trump Tower, where his penthouse features glittering chandeliers, [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, Bart Jansen, Kinsey Crowley and Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY NEW YORK - After four days of jury selection, former President Donald Trump's New York hush money trial [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Jury selection may seem like the boring precursor to a trial's juicier parts, but it can be crucial to the outcome. On Monday, the teams [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump was hit with a wider gag order in his New York criminal hush money case after repeatedly targeting the judge's daughter [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump and several co-defendants in a New York civil fraud case posted a $175 million bond Monday after an appeals court ruled [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Given the ongoing challenges she is likely to face, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis may best help her prosecution against former President Donald Trump by [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY Now that former President Donald Trump has been socked with a combined $536.8 million in losses from two courtroom defeats, the question is: Will his [...]

Byline: Bart Jansen and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The Justice Department notified President Joe Biden it wouldn't pursue criminal charges for his handling of classified documents, which were [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY NEW YORK - Donald Trump erupted in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday as a judge sought to restrict his testimony in a case over the costly [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY NEW YORK - After a day of fireworks that saw Donald Trump threatened with expulsion from the courtroom, an expert for advice columnist E. Jean [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY NEW YORK - Former President Donald Trump's lawyers took their final shot Thursday to safeguard $370million and the former president's business empire [...]

Byline: Aysha Bagchi and Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Scandal-scarred New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was hit with a second superseding federal indictment Tuesday alleging that he took bribes in exchange [...]

Byline: David Jackson and Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Officials in Colorado and Maine have declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency - but there's a long [...]

Byline: David Heath USA TODAY, Mark Greenblatt and Aysha Bagchi, Newsy Johannah Lancaster took her 3-year-old son to Dental Express for his first checkup, expecting a routine cleaning. She never [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiThe point of education is deep learning, learning that is integrated into how we think and understand, that is multiplied outside the classroom and placed in moral and [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiIt seems strange to juxtapose those two ideas, altruism and virtue. But that's what I'm about to do. I want to suggest Stanford students are, by and large, [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiWhenever I reflect on the greatest teachers in my life, the idea of discussing why we should value teaching seems silly. It feels like devoting energy to discussing [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiAn article from The Chronicle of High Education, 'What Are You Going to Do With That?' by William Deresiewicz has been circling around among many of my friends [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiWhen it comes to believing, there are two dangerous pitfalls. Dogmatism is the traditional one, where people know what they know so wholeheartedly that they never appreciate complexity [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiAbout a month ago, a professor asked me: why is it important that students develop and cultivate internal realms? He meant to get me to reflect on my [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiRichard Kalenberg wrote an op-ed in the New York Times last week condemning affirmative action at universities for the children of alumni and arguing that legacy preferencing has [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiThe world is an unnerving place. Here we are, these Homo sapiens in 2010, who came into our biological selves through evolutionary processes over the span of millions [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiIn his Friendship in an Age of Economics blog post in the New York Times's philosophy series, The Stone, Todd May discusses the non-economic character of friendship, which [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiOn a beautiful, sunny day this past summer (one that seemed made for an outdoor adventure), I visited the beach in San Francisco. As I was looking out [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiAs the daughter of an immigrant, immigration and questions of citizenship have always been a part of how I understand the world. But it was not until last [...]

Byline: Aysha BagchiMost of us tend to assume we have a special claim on the truth. Call it our dogmatic instinct. Particularly in a university setting, it seems almost commonplace [...]