Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony in May 2024, when a New York court found him guilty of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment during the 2016 presidential election.
Sources
- Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity, dimming chance of a pre-election Trump trial (apnews.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/politics/donald-trump-hush-money-trial-verdict (cnn.com)
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/30/trump-trial-verdict-hush-money.html (cnbc.com)
- https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts (npr.org)
More in World Events
- Sen. Cory Booker's more-than-25-hour Senate speech surpassed the previous record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina during a 1957 filibuster against the advance of the Civil Rights Act.
- In April 2018, in a derivative suit on behalf of CBS, the Delaware Court of Chancery let a waste and bad-faith fiduciary claim against CBS's other directors proceed over salary paid to Sumner Redstone, and an unjust-enrichment claim against Redstone proceed over his Chairman Emeritus salary, while dismissing the challenge to his $9 million 2014 bonus.
- The European Commission published a report on pharmacovigilance activities related to medicines for human use in the EU covering the years 2012-2014.
- A group of dairy truck drivers sued their employer, Maine-based Oakhurst Dairy, for over $10 million in unpaid overtime.
- The Senate confirmed more appellate-level judges during President Donald Trump's first two years in office than during any president's first two years going back at least to Harry S. Truman.
- U.S. imports fell at a 29.3% annual pace in the second quarter of 2025, adding more than 5 percentage points to GDP growth for that period.