Trump awaits fate of business empire in New York civil fraud trial: Live updates

After the E Jean Carroll defamation trial jury ordered Donald Trump pay her $83.3m in damages, things could be about to get a whole lot worse for Mr Trump as another potentially devastating lawsuit draws to a close in New York this week, this one posing a significant threat to his vast real estate empire and meaning he could be prevented from ever doing business in his hometown again.

Mr Biden, briefly speaking to reporters shouting questions outside the White House as he prepared to board a helicopter, was asked whether Mr Trump should be “allowed” to stay on presidential election ballots.

“As far as I’m concerned, that’s fine,” Mr Biden replied.

“I was terrified,” Ms Carroll told Rachel Maddow on Monday night. “Four days before trial, I had an actual breakdown. I lost my ability to speak, I lost my words, I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t go on. That’s how frightened I was.”

But the former Elle columnist said her fears suddenly dissipated the moment she took her seat on the stand.

Donald Trump will remain on the 2024 presidential primary ballot in Illinois following a unanimous vote by the state’s Board of Elections to dismiss an attempt to remove the former president under the 14th Amendment.

However, the Illinois Board of Election said that they did not believe they had the authority to determine Mr Trump’s eligibility because it raises a constitutional question and would require them to look outside their scope.

Ariana Baio watched the meeting and filed this report:

Days before an expected final judgment in a fraud case that could imperil Donald Trump’s sprawling business empire, a court-appointed monitor overseeing his businesses reported financial disclosures that are “either incomplete, present results inconsistently,” or “contain errors.”

One of those findings, according to her report, appears to suggest that the former president evaded taxes on millions of dollars in income by hiding money in fake loan transactions.

Alex Woodward investigates:

Three service members were killed and another 25 injured by the attack on the Tower 22 facility near Jordan’s border with Syria over the weekend, marking a further escalation of the simmering tensions in the Middle East.

Gustaf Kilander has the story:

New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.

The state’s current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation case against former President Donald Trump. The jury in the federal civil trial rejected the writer’s claim last May that Trump had raped her in the 1990s, instead finding the former president responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse.

The current law defines rape as vaginal penetration by a penis. The new law broadens the definition to include nonconsensual anal, oral, and vaginal sexual contact. Highlighting Carroll’s case at a bill signing ceremony in Albany, the Democratic governor said the new definition will make it easier for rape victims to bring cases forward to prosecute perpetrators. The law will apply to sexual assaults committed on or after Sept. 1.

Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade has settled his divorce case, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, negating the need for a public hearing on Wednesday in which Mr Wade was expected to testify.

The settlement closes off an avenue for potentially embarrassing information to come out about Mr Wade and his alleged relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — who is leading the prosecution of Donald Trump in his Georgia election subversion case.

Here’s our earlier reporting on the alleged scandal and its potential impact on the case against the former president: