As Judge Merchan delivered the sentence ... while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine. Trump’s sentence of an unconditional discharge ...

Accordingly, when the trial court imposes a sentence of unconditional discharge, the defendant is released without imprisonment, probation supervision or conditions. A sentence of unconditional ...

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’ ...

A right-wing attorney who has issued a bevy of threats in recent months to perceived foes of President-elect Donald Trump ...

NEW YORK, Jan 11, (AP): President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the ...

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

Despite being granted an unconditional discharge, president-elect Trump will still be the first US president to take office with a criminal conviction.

He reiterated that he would appeal his conviction. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan could have sentenced the 78-year-old to up to four years in prison. Instead, Merchan chose a sentence that ...

Judge Juan Merchan spoke to Trump for several minutes, telling the president-elect that it was the office of the presidency – and not the occupant – that was afforded extraordinary legal protections ...

the sentencing of President-elect Donald Trump saw one of the most impassioned defense arguments given at such a hearing in years … from the judge himself. Acting Justice Juan Merchan admitted ...

The sentencing cements the president-elect's status as a convicted felon 10 days before he returns to the White House.