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Highlights from recent episodes

Key twist in Trump's 'catch and kill' scheme will be hard for him to explain away

'He wrote all of it down?': Prosecutors claim to have handwritten notes of Trump hush money scheme

Prosecutors use National Enquirer witness to show Trump's in-plain-sight election influence scheme

Trump's defense stumbles out of the gate with interruptions to opening statement

'Like a child, give him a time out': Weissmann urges 'firm hand' as Trump flouts gag order

'Miserable' and 'Annoyed': What Rachel Maddow saw inside Trump's criminal trial

More than mere media bias: How New York prosecutors see Trump's scheme with the National Enquirer 

The real DOJ corruption scandal at the heart of Trump's criminal trial in New York

Bank with a checkered past and a deep history with Trump raises red flags

Why Republicans are hiding behind the politics of personality

Media whiffs on the news in Trump's abortion statement as Dobbs becomes weaponized on global scale

U.S. foes exploit Trump's divisiveness with fake MAGA accounts; China adopts Russian tactics

Judge has enough of Trump's attacks on family members; extends gag order on 'defendant's vitriol'

Combat training for election workers? Arizona braces for Trump-addled election deniers

Maddow joins colleagues in objecting to McDaniel for legitimizing Trump, attacking democracy

Panicking Trump coming up short for civil fraud penalty; no friends stepping up as deadline nears

Putin flexes expansionist muscles as GOP stalling starves Ukraine of military aid

How pro-Trump election officials could make sure your vote doesn't count

How Russia duped two Republicans with propaganda laundered through fake news sites

'Massive national security risk': Trump financial desperation makes access to U.S. secrets dangerous

Highlights from recent episodes

What you missed on Day 5 of Trump's hush money trial

'It's sleazy; it's tawdry': Donny Deutsch on exhaustion factor from Trump trial

'Shōgun' star: 'Lord Toranaga' is my favorite character; he's a hero in Japan

Salman Rushdie on taking control of his narrative in new memoir

Airlines must offer automatic refunds for canceled flights under new regulations

David Pecker described plan with Trump to help his 2016 presidential campaign

'Donald Trump is incapable of running anything': Union slams Trump in new ad

Lisa Rubin: Expect to see an opinion from judge that fines Trump on gag order violation

Mitt Romney: You don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you

Billionaire donors rethinking Columbia University support

How Amazon rose to the top of the tech world

John Heilemann joins Puck as chief political columnist

Young people have every reason to be enraged, says 'Algebra of Wealth' author

Senate will approve foreign aid package passed by House, says senator

Women using Ozempic report unexpected pregnancies

Crown Prince of Iran says regime has turned country into the North Korea of the Middle East

Trump calls on his supporters to protest in NYC, but he's not getting the circus he wants

Trump calls on his supporters to protest in NYC, but he's not getting the circus he wants

Biden to hit Trump as a threat to reproductive rights in Florida

Trump calls on his supporters to protest in NYC, but he's not getting the circus he wants

Highlights from recent episodes

Chris Hayes on the ongoing war in Gaza and protests in America

Hayes: Netanyahu has made Israel ‘demonstrably’ less safe for decades

‘Despicable:’ Hayes blasts Sen. Tom Cotton for ‘incitement of violence’

'Gentleman's Big Lie': Hayes rips MAGA attempt to sanitize stolen election lies

The 'unbelievable' story behind Arizona's 1864 abortion ban

Trump walking around with ‘Bribe Me’ sign on his neck, says Hayes

The Supreme Court just ‘tipped the scales’ for House Republicans

This case is ‘a ludicrous insult to the entire judicial system,’ says Hayes

‘Fear not facts:’ Target of right-wing ‘hate fest’ exonerated

Debunking the right-wing myth of the ‘migrant crime surge’

'Historic proof': If the Supreme Court wanted to move quickly it could

‘The fix is in’: Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court ‘in cahoots’ with Trump

Putin is cashing in on his ‘enormous’ investment in Trump, says Hayes

Hayes on the ‘looming threat’ of a widening Middle East conflict

Hayes: Paying attention to Trump ‘sucks.’ We must do it anyway.

Trump dares judge to kick him out of court: ‘I would love it’

Iowa voting in popcorn buckets exposes GOP ‘election integrity’ hypocrisy

‘Terror as a tactic’: Threat of MAGA mob looms over 2024 Republican primary

‘Are you better off now?’: What America was really like 4 years ago under Trump

The history of the insurrection clause—and why it ‘plainly’ applies to Trump

Highlights from recent episodes

'Top-down scheme': 'Fake elector' plot reached Trump White House, Weissmann says

Lawrence: Trump is 'Unindicted Coconspirator 1' in Arizona 'fake electors' indictment

Sen. Warren: Nowhere is safe for abortion rights if Trump wins

Lawrence: Stormy Daniels has humiliated Donald Trump again

Mary Trump: Sleeping Trump sketch makes him feel 'unbearable vulnerability'

Lawrence: Jeffrey Dahmer's parents were in court for him. Trump is alone.

'What have we done?': Lawrence examines shocking Trump evidence revealed in trial

Doing Russia’s bidding: Snyder calls out GOP ‘Putin wing’ to their faces in Hill hearing

‘Sleepy Don has a nightmare week’: Team Biden mocks defendant Trump

'What's fair game?': Court to rule what Trump can be asked about if he testifies

Lawrence: Gagged Trump's jury pool attacks are a big problem for his lawyers

Israel carries out operation inside Iran, says source familiar

Reports of explosions in Iran, no comment from U.S. or Israel

No comment from U.S., Israeli officials on reports of explosions in Iran

'A clear violation': Gagged Trump posts Fox lie about criminal case jury pool

Lawrence reacts to Trump post attacking NY criminal case jury pool

Lawrence: Criminal defendant Trump makes history in sleeping court room portrait

‘He blew it’: Trump defends hush money payments on Day 2 of trial

SCOTUS hears case that may impact Trump Jan. 6 charges

‘No more games’: Judge puts Trump lawyers on notice on criminal trial’s first day