Trump, a Republican, will have the dubious honour of being the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency

US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to an adult film actress, a judge has ruled, but the sentencing will place a judgment of guilt on his record.

The case was the only one of four criminal indictments that has gone to trial and possibly the only one that ever will.

Donald Trump will still take office as the first US president with a felony conviction.

The US Supreme Court is to hear TikTok's appeal on Friday of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the wildly popular online video-sharing platform or shut it down.

The outcome cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump received the first ever criminal sentencing for a former or incoming U.S. president on Friday. Trump was handed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump will get no prison time or probation as he prepares to enter the White House for a second time on Jan. 20, USA Today reported. "This has been a very terrible experience" and a "setback" for the New York court system, Trump told the judge overseeing his case minutes before his sentence was handed down. Trump was convicted May 30th on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The incoming president, who did not physically attend the sentencing, appeared via a remote video feed from South Florida. After a 30-minute hearing, Judge Juan Merchan released Trump without any ongoing conditions, wishing him "Godspeed" in his second presidential term. Trump suggests criminal case helped him win election President-elect…

The judge, Juan Merchan, delivered the sentence against Mr Trump on Friday.

The outcome cements Trump’s conviction but frees him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine

US President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced on Friday for his criminal conviction for hush money paid to a porn star but the judge declined to impose any punishment. Trump received the mildest…

President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday.

NEW YORK: Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to an adult star, a case that for a time overshadowed his bid to retake the...

Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined the liberals in the thinnest of majorities.

President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to an unconditional discharge Friday in his hush-money case, just 10 days before his inauguration for a second term.

The United States Supreme Court is set to sentence the President-Elect Donald Trump following the rejection of the former President's appeal in a major case.

NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday bu

Manhattan-based Judge Juan Merchan on Friday sentenced Donald Trump to an "unconditional discharge" on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his 2024 “hush money” trial at the New York Supreme Court.Merchan had previously signaled “Trump will face neither penalties nor prison ti...

The US Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments over the legality of a statute that would ban or force the sale of TikTok by 19 January in the US.

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush-money case.

Mr Trump’s unconditional discharge allows him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

TikTok is making its case to the Supreme Court in the hopes of saving the app from being banned on January 19. What we know about the ban so far and how to watch the hearing live.

The United States Supreme Court has rejected an emergency request by President-elect Donald Trump to halt his sentencing in a hush money case. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the court, which includes three Trump-appointed justices, ruled that the sentencing would proceed as scheduled on Friday. The brief unsigned order stated that the sentencing’s burden […]

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday in the business records case in which a Manhattan jury found him guilty of falsifying business records.

Trump said his criminal trial and conviction has "been a very terrible experience" and insisted he committed no crime

NEW YORK, the United States | Xinhua | Juan Merchan, a New York judge overseeing U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case, on Friday granted Trump unconditional discharge in delivering a sentence for the case, according to media reports. Trump would face no fine or probation supervision, according to the sentencing. Trump’s attempt to halt …

The state court's decision is a setback for the president-elect, who now must pin his hopes of freezing the case at the nation's top judicial body.

Two Republican appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett, joined the court’s three liberals in ordering the president-elect to face sentencing on Friday.

The court turned down Trump's last-minute bid to prevent his sentencing which is scheduled for Friday in New York state court in Manhattan.

Judge Juan Merchan isn't going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

A judge sentenced Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge Friday for covering up hush money payments to an adult star despite the US president-elect's last-ditch efforts to avoid becoming the...

It was, by many measures, a trial like New York had definitely seen before -- a panel of citizen jurors finding a real estate mogul guilty of business fraud. And yet, Steinglass agreed with Judge Juan Merchan's ultimate decision to deliver a sentence of unconditional discharge, a measure that upholds the guilty verdict but does not sanction the convicted defendant.

In a landmark decision, Judge Juan Merchan issued a no-penalty verdict for Donald Trump in the hush money case, absolving him of all 34 counts without jail time, probation, or financial penalties.

It was, by many measures, a trial like New York had definitely seen before -- a panel of citizen jurors finding a real estate mogul guilty of business fraud. And yet, Steinglass agreed with Judge Juan Merchan's ultimate decision to deliver a sentence of unconditional discharge, a measure that upholds the guilty verdict but does not sanction the convicted defendant.

NEW YORK: The US Supreme Court on Thursday (Jan 9) cleared the way for Donald Trump to be sentenced for the president-elect's conviction on criminal charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, with two conservative justices joining the three liberal members in a 5-4 decision. The court turned down Tr

President-elect Donald Trump, 78, told Judge Juan Merchan he is 'totally innocent' and did 'nothing wrong' as he was sentenced in New York in his hush money trial

Trump faces sentencing for hush money conviction in a historic moment, with potential no-penalty sentence before inauguration.

The outcome cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House.

WASHINGTON: Supreme Court justices indicated scepticism on Friday (Jan 10) toward a challenge by TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to a law that would force a sale or ban the wid

President-elect Trump was sentenced on Friday, with Judge Juan Merchan ordering an 'unconditional discharge' in the Stormy Daniels case.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan […]

The sentencing marks the culmination of the first-ever criminal case brought against a US president, past or present.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

To absolutely no one's surprise, the President-elect got off without even a slap on the wrist.

The US Supreme Court has rejected Trump’s last-minute attempt to delay his sentencing on Friday for his hush money case.

The court’s order clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to impose a sentence Friday on Trump, who was convicted in what prosecutors called an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money paym...

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Donald Trump was sentenced an "unconditional discharge" by Judge Juan Merchan on Friday in his hush money case, and will enter office as a felon.

Jan. 10 (UPI) -- President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to an unconditional discharge in New York Friday for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.