CNN Poll: Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge  —  Donald Trump continues to hold an advantage over President Joe Biden as the campaign - and the former president's criminal trial - move forward, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

Trump and DeSantis meet privately in Florida  —  Former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately Sunday morning in Miami, according to people familiar with the matter, breaking a years-long chill between the presumptive Republican nominee and his onetime chief primary rival.

Kristi Noem defends dog slaying as ‘responsible’  —  The story of Noem shooting and killing her 14-month-old puppy named has taken a toll on the potential VP pick's public image.  —  Amid waves of backlash from both sides of the aisle, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Sunday defended …

Green Party presidential candidate among those arrested as campus protests multiply  —  “Physical altercations” occurred Sunday on the UCLA campus when demonstrators breached a security barrier set up to keep people protesting the Israeli war in Gaza separate from counterprotesters, the school said in a statement.

Trump allies face criminal trials in majority of key 2024 swing states … - Even a dragged-out process on presidential immunity after Thursday's Supreme Court hearing — which has frozen his federal Jan. 6 case — could avoid a verdict before the election.

Scoop: Gov. Doug Burgum moves up Trump's VP ladder … - In recent weeks, the sources said, Trump frequently has brought up Burgum's name in discussions with allies.  — Spokespeople for Trump and Burgum declined to comment. … - Those are similar to the traits Trump cited in 2016 …

Trump's Economic Confidants Battle for Sway on Tax, Fed Policy  — Policy advisers in Trump's orbit clash over economic ideas  — Trump's team seeking to quell unauthorized policy proposals  —  Economic advisers in Donald Trump's orbit are clashing over their favored policy ideas …

Fund manager indicates Jim Biden was in business with Qatari officials  —  The alleged arrangements would be some of the closest known links between a Biden relative and a foreign government.  —  New details about Jim Biden's foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out in a Kentucky bankruptcy court …

Trump's Trial Could Bring a Rarity: Consequences for His Words  —  The former president has spent decades spewing thousands and thousands of words, sometimes contradicting himself.  That tendency is now working against him in his Manhattan criminal case.  —  “So that's not true?  That's not true?”

Biden roasts Trump (in a serious way) at annual press dinner  —  At the White House correspondents' dinner, the president chuckled at his opponent's expense but made it clear Donald Trump is no joke  —  There were some 2,600 people at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

Sanders says there's not ‘any doubt’ what Netanyahu is doing now is ‘ethnic cleansing’  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again on Sunday, saying that Israel's actions in Gaza are “ethnic cleansing.”  —  Sanders reiterated his familiar call on CNN's …

Eric Trump on father's alertness: ‘The whole world knows his toughness’  —  Eric Trump defended his father's stamina, in a Sunday interview, even as the former president remains stuck in a New York courtroom instead of on the campaign trail.  —  In an interview on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures …

Dan Rather, at 92, on a life in news  —  It's been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” at the network where he spent 44 years covering wars, politics, and the assassination of JFK - and where he mentored a young correspondent named Lee Cowan.