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President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge, closing the case with no punishment. But unless the conviction for falsifying business records is someday overturned, Trump will have...

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

A judge can sentence a defendant to unconditional discharge. What does that mean and how often is it used?

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on all 34 counts in his hush money case.

NBC News has a Special Report on the Trump sentencing.

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 courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge...

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment.

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

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report on President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss but kept in place a judge’s order requiring a three-day delay to allow for further appeals.

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.

President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the so-called hush money case is still set for Friday morning, unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in. New York state’s highest court turned down Trump’s filing to try to stop the sentencing. Should the sentencing occur, Trump would become the first president in history to go to the White House as a convicted felon....

Donald Trump publicly interacted with his former vice president Mike Pence for the first time in four years on Thursday at Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

President-elect Donald Trump greeted his former Vice President Mike Pence upon his entry into Jimmy Carter’s national funeral service on Thursday in Washington, D.C. and sat next to former president Barack Obama.

New York’s highest court has declined to block Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the Supreme Court as his likely last option to prevent Friday’s hearing.

President-elect Donald Trump paid his respects on Wednesday as President Jimmy Carter lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda as part of state funeral rites.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded sarcastically to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

President-elect Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Capitol rotunda Wednesday to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded sarcastically to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business...

He did not provide details on when or how he would make a possible change.