Trump’s Truth Social stock ends day more than 20% down: Live

Donald Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet on what is likely to be one of the biggest foreign policy issues of his second term, should he win in November. But in the few interviews and statements he has given on Israel and the war in Gaza, the former president has shown signs that he may be cooling in his support for the longtime US ally.

In a recent interview, the former president spoke about how he had been disturbed by images and videos showing civilians bearing the brunt of the onslaught and called for an end to the war.

Donald Trump’s lawyers announce they will seek leave to file a renewed motion to recuse Judge Juan Merchan from the Manhattan hush money criminal case due to “changed circumstances and newly discovered evidence”.

Since the final quarter of 2023, President Joe Biden has seen brutal poll after brutal poll showing his numbers tanking. The reasons for his decline have been manifold: people continue to worry about his age; young Democratic voters are dissatisfied about his support for Israel; people still blame him for high inflation.

But Biden’s polling numbers seem to be improving to some degree. A CNBC All-America Economic Survey showed Biden about even with Donald Trump. A Quinnipiac University poll released last week also showed the race virtually unchanged from February but still too close to call. My colleague Andrew Feinberg reported last week that the president has cut into Trump’s lead in multiple swing states.

Trump still has numerous advantages, given that his supporters seem more enthusiastic. At the same time, Biden has started to gain some structural advantages. Here are three reasons why Biden is improving – and one reason why he still trails Trump.

Abortion rights will be on the ballot in Florida this November, the state’s Supreme Court said in a highly anticipated ruling on Monday.

Just hours before the 1 April deadline, the panel of seven justices – all appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis – said that a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion should be put to voters this November.

At the same time, however, the judges overturned more than three decades of precedent to uphold ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which was signed into law by governor Ron DeSantis in 2022.

That will mean a more restrictive law signed last year, which bans nearly all abortions after six weeks, will now go into effect – until and unless voters choose to overturn it.

Ariana Baio and Io Dodds report:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a memo in support of his request from last week that Justice Juan Merchan clarify that the gag order imposed on Donald Trump ahead of his hush money trial includes family members of the Court, the DA, and all others mentioned in the order.

He also wants the judge to warn Mr Trump to cease and desist from attacks on those family members. The former president has been attacking the judge and his daughter on Truth Social over the past week.

Mr Bragg writes: “Family members of trial participants must be strictly off-limits. Defendant’s insistence to the contrary bespeaks a dangerous sense of entitlement to instigate fear and even physical harm to the loved ones of those he sees in the courtroom.”

Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has asked Judge Scott McAfee to hold a hearing in the sprawling Fulton County election interference case concerning immunity under the Supremacy Clause, a new filing shows.

Mr Meadows argues the Supremacy Clause makes him immune to the Fulton election interference charges and wants to move his case to a federal court.

Here’s the background on Mr Meadows’s attempts to move his case:

In years past, pictures have quickly been put out of former President Donald Trump attending church.