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Trump’s lawyers to request trial to be delayed until 2026

A start date of January 2 2024 has been proposed by special counsel Jack Sith

Marion McKeone: Fractious succession wannabes confirm GOP as a party adrift and out of touch

Trumpless first Republican debate provided a spectacle of disunity in a party driven by angry populism over guiding principles

US Catch-up: Trump to dodge GOP debate - but will he show at Fulton County jail?

What you need to know for the week ahead in the US

US Catch-up: Trump at the fair and Bitcoin in limbo

Some things you need to know for the week ahead in the US

Donald Trump has spent $40m in political donations on legal fees in 2023

Political group backing the former US president is set to disclose the figure in a filing on Monday.

Trump hardens position on abortion, rails against indictment

Trump has declined to say whether he would sign the 15-week federal ban sought by anti-abortion activist in recent weeks

Analysis: Ex-New Jersey governor Chris Christie launches 2024 Republican presidential bid

Christie, who also ran for president in 2016, was set to announce his campaign later at a town hall in the early voting state of New Hampshire

Trump leads a crowded if underwhelming field as GOP primary wars kick off in earnest

Florida governor Ron DeSantis won some friends in crucial Iowa, but influential Republicans are hoping fresher faces like Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin and New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu enter the fray

Elon Musk’s Twitter splutters on Ron DeSantis’s big moment

The launch of the Florida governor’s presidential campaign was a buggy affair and shone a light on how well equipped Twitter is to grow under Musk

DeSantis makes 2024 presidential bid leaning on culture wars

Florida governor’s Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk that was delayed when the thousands of listeners caused platform to crash

Musk to host DeSantis’ presidential announcement, signalling starker partisanship on Twitter

Twitter announcement may affect platform’s relationship with advertiser Disney, which is currently in a row with DeSantis

Marion McKeone: Disney row threatens to turn DeSantis’s tilt at White House into Mickey Mouse affair

The spat between Disney and Florida has become a war and Disney’s abandoned plans to open a $1 billion Apple-style campus in Florida seems calculated to scuttle DeSantis’s Republican candidacy campaign launch

Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Ron DeSantis’ Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die, and crazy goes to live

Florida has always been a strange place and the butt of jokes but under its current governor it has become so strange that it’s hard to even satirise

Disney steering a straight line between financial woes and Republican attacks

Governor Ron DeSantis is gunning for the centenarian entertainment and theme park giant after it rejected his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. But returned chief executive Bob Iger is shedding ballast and boosting share prices, making it watertight once more

Lucinda Creighton: Biden confounds his critics while Trump’s comeback plan suffers a blow

With a number of Donald Trump’s picks coming unstuck in the US midterm elections, there are many in the Republican Party who will be hoping that the second coming of Trump has been irreparably damaged

Stormy relations: DeSantis and Biden put mutual loathing aside to deal with hurricane response

Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis, who likes to be known as ‘Trump with a brain’, and the US president know that competence in dealing with natural disasters can win swing voters in the contest to be next US president

Marion McKeone: DeSantis emerges as the new GOP pretender as Trump’s grip loosens

Described by party strategists as ‘Trump with a brain’, Ron DeSantis has emerged for Republicans as a creditable contender to the former US president, but he is also widely perceived as lacking in personality or charisma