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‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’: student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

Nine photojournalists from across the US tell the stories behind their most powerful shots, as pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns

A s protests in support of Palestine sweep university campuses across the US, student journalists from New York to Texas have documented the reality inside the encampments. They have risen to the occasion, capturing the quiet moments, the celebratory elements, the tense scenes and the violent police arrests.

We asked nine photographers – who have been covering the demonstrations at Columbia, Berkeley, the University of Texas and beyond – to tell the stories behind their most powerful photos.

Lily Speredelozzi | George Washington University When a portion of the encampment at George Washington University was closed off by barriers, protesters outside chalked quotes such as “GW is complicit in genocide”, “shame on you GW”, and “power to the people”. Later, protesters broke down the barriers. I was excited to take this photo. I wanted to include context: the Palestinian flag, the students, the chalk. I love the overhead shot and the shadows. The GWU encampment protest has been peaceful, with GW police and DC Metro police presence but no activity.

Christian Harsa | The Lantern, Ohio State University This photo was taken on the South Oval, across College Road from the Ohio Union. I wanted to get a shot of how police were making arrests so people could see what was happening on the ground. Adrenaline was running high because I was so close to where the police and the line of protesters met. The threat of being arrested myself was ever present. In this photo a student is being arrested after being brought to the ground and pulled from the line of protesters. I love the action this photo caught. I can’t help but put myself in her shoes and consider the anger and fear she must have felt.

Krish Dev | Washington Square News, New York University This was taken on the evening of 25 April, right before more than 100 students formed a picket line outside Gould Plaza to protest the 120 arrests of protesters, including students and faculty, at the site three days earlier. I saw police aggressively charge at protesters in riot gear and zip-tie them; they even pepper-sprayed one of our photographers. Following the arrests, police constructed a wall using metal boards and plastic barriers. Some wrote messages and attached flyers calling on students to go to Columbia University to support the encampment there. The person who is looking at the board in the image is a campus safety officer. Campus safety officers have been guarding the protests 24/7 over the past week and, in my experience, have been respectful of demonstrations and kept protesters safe from those outside. Originally, I was planning to take a photo of the wooden board and the words “WALL OF SHAME” written on it. As I was taking the photo, a campus safety officer started to look at the message. I thought the juxtaposition between him and the message was very powerful. I felt a little sad for the officer, who looked slightly upset in the shot. I’ve seen multiple campus safety officers who appear conflicted. I was also reminded of the violation of student trust taking place on campus.

Anita Liu | The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley This picture was taken from the balcony of the Martin Luther King Jr student union building, which is directly opposite the encampment. It’s a common location to take protest photos, to show a wider perspective. There were approximately 150 tents and no police activity at the time. The steps were named after a leader of the free speech movement, making the encampment grounds an important site in political activism.

When taking this photo, I knew I was documenting an important moment in campus history. I couldn’t help but think about the parallels between the Free Palestine encampment and the South African apartheid demonstrations on campus back in the 1980s.

Charlotte Keene | The Daily Texan, University of Texas, Austin After protest and police interactions got more hectic, many students started running away.

Another photographer and I ran into this building after police started using force to disperse the crowd. We knew we had to do more than hide, so we started looking for classrooms with windows. We heard the commotion coming from the bottom floor exits. And then we saw the scene.

I was scared. I almost did not take it. Those of us in the building were unsure whether the police would force their way in. But I stopped for a second and knew I needed to capture what I was seeing.

I love the symmetry. I think there is something pleasant to look at about the contrast in light and the repetitive squares from the window – almost as if there is a sense of calm before the storm. To me, the stillness reads as anticipation.

Marco Postigo Storel | Columbia University Different groups within the Gaza Solidarity encampment at Columbia University were having a dance presentation inside the encampment during a warm afternoon. I decided to lie down on the grassy ground in the center of the circle, and get their feet in the foreground while the rest of the people were moving in the background. It was a warm day with good lighting.

I like how everything in the frame is at the right spot at the right time, and the three-dimensionality that the photo has makes it better. Like a finished puzzle. I got a lot of dirt on my clothes by taking this photo, but it was worth it.

Manoo Sirivelu | The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin In this picture, University of Texas police (UTPD) officers are pinning a protester on the concrete sidewalk and zip-tying them. Law enforcement would push in at intervals and surround the protesters, 360 degrees. Nearby crowds and media often couldn’t see the full extent of the force used and how the protesters were being detained. I wanted to show the feelings of imprisonment and suffocation that the students were experiencing, so I tried to depict the officers’ legs as bars that were already surrounding the student.

I was beside the student in this picture when the arrest was made and a UTPD officer had pushed me down while trying to make space. I was lying on the ground with a wall of cops between me and the student when I sat up to take this picture, not more than five feet away from her.

I was shocked from being pushed to the ground when I met her gaze and realized we were close enough to make eye contact. I felt needed to take a picture that would encapsulate both her feelings and my own.

It shows how unnecessary the force used in these arrests was. Our cameras bear the responsibility of recording the events – to allow the viewers to see, and, most importantly, place themselves in our point of view with a space for empathy that a photo like this provides.

Jason Alpert-Wisnia | Washington Square News, New York University In this photograph, students were eating donated and purchased food. They had supplies gathered in the center of their space and students would sit around by their tents there to eat. I wanted to show the stillness, in between the moments of action that are everywhere. Shooting from above gives scale to the campus protests. I took this from the third floor of NYU’s Paulson Center looking down on the camp. As a student I can enter buildings and work from angles that non-students cannot, so I had the advantage of height.

Top Image: Lorianne Willett | The Daily Texan, University of Texas, Austin

I was looking to tell the stories of students being arrested. When I took this picture, I was standing just in front of state troopers who’d surrounded the van they were putting arrested people in. I was in the front of a large crowd of people protesting and spectating. After going through my take, I really felt so affected by seeing the faces of people my age being taken to jail. In this shot, I like the framing of arrested protesters in between the helmets of state troopers.

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To fend off tourists, a town in Japan is building a big screen blocking the view of Mount Fuji

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan — The town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists.

Known for a number of scenic photo spots that offer a near-perfect shot of Japan ’s iconic Mount Fuji , the town on Tuesday began constructing a large black screen on a stretch of a sidewalk to block the view of the mountain. The reason: misbehaving foreign tourists.

“Kawaguchiko is a town built on tourism, and I welcome many visitors, and the town welcomes them too, but there are many things about their manners that are worrying,” said Michie Motomochi, owner of a cafe serving the Japanese sweets “ohagi,” near the soon-to-be-blocked photo spot.

Motomochi mentioned littering, crossing the road with busy traffic, ignoring traffic lights and trespassing on private property. She isn’t unhappy though — 80% of her customers are foreign visitors whose numbers have surged after a pandemic hiatus that kept Japan closed for about two years.

Her neighborhood suddenly became a popular spot about two years ago, apparently after a photo taken at a particular angle showing Mount Fuji in the background, as if sitting atop a local convenience store, became a social media sensation known as “Mt. Fuji Lawson,” town officials say.

The mostly foreign tourists have since crowded the small area, setting off a wave of concerns and complaints from residents about visitors blocking the narrow sidewalk, taking photos on the busy road or walking into neighbors’ properties, officials said.

In Europe, concerns over tourists overcrowding historic cities led  Venice last week to launch a pilot program  to charge day-trippers a 5-euro ($5.35) entry fee. Authorities hope it will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents.

Fujikawaguchiko has tried other methods: signs urging visitors not to run into the road and to use the designated crosswalk in English, Chinese, Thai and Korean, and even hiring a security guard as crowd control. None worked.

The black mesh net, when completed in mid-May, will be more than 8 feet high and 65 feet long, and will almost completely block the view of Mount Fuji, officials said.

Dozens of tourists gathered Tuesday taking photos even though Mount Fuji was not in sight due to cloudy weather.

Anthony Hok, from France, thought the screen was an overreaction. “Too big solution for subject not as big, even if tourists are making trouble. Doesn’t look right to me,” he said. The 26-year-old suggested setting up road barriers for safety instead of blocking views for pictures.

But Helen Pull, a 34-year-old visitor from Britain, was sympathetic to the local concern. While traveling in Japan in the past few weeks, she has seen tourism “really ramped up here in Japan from what we’ve seen.”

“I can see why people who live and work here might want to do something about that,” she said, noting many were taking pictures even when the mountain was not in view. “That’s the power of the social media.”

Foreign visitors have flocked to Japan since the border restrictions were lifted, in part due to the weaker yen.

Last year, Japan had more than 25 million visitors, and the number this year is expected to surpass the 2019 record of almost 32 million, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization. And the government wants more tourists.

While booming tourism has helped the economy, it has brought complaints from residents in popular tourist destinations, such as Kyoto and Kamakura. In Kyoto, a famous geisha district recently decided to close some private-property alleys.

Locals are uncertain about what to do.

Motomochi said she cannot imagine how the black screen can help control the flow of people on the narrow pedestrian walk and the road next to it.

Yoshihiko Ogawa, who runs a more than half-century-old rice shop in the Fujikawaguchiko area, said the overcrowding worsened in the past few months, with tourists gathering from around 4-5 a.m. and talking loudly. He sometimes struggles to get his car in and out of the garage.

“We’ve never thought we’d face a situation like this,” Ogawa said, adding he is unsure what the solution might be. “I suppose we all just need to get used to it.”

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Videos show Lisa Fithian, whom the police called a “professional agitator,” working alongside protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall.

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Among the throng of Columbia University student protesters gathered outside Hamilton Hall on campus early Tuesday morning was a gray-haired woman in her 60s.

In a video captured by The New York Times, the protesters can be seen trying to push their way toward the building as the woman — decades older than the crowd — pleads with two young counterprotesters trying to block them from barricading the occupied building.

“This is ridiculous,” the woman says, as the men stand with their backs against the doors, apparently trying to keep protesters away from the building. “We’re trying to end a genocide in Gaza.”

The woman at the center of this encounter on the night protesters stormed and then occupied the building was Lisa Fithian, a longtime activist and trainer for left-wing protesters whom the Police Department would later publicly describe as a “confirmed professional agitator.”

Ms. Fithian, 63, was not at Columbia when the police arrived on Tuesday night and made dozens of arrests. She had returned to the home where she was staying in New York, she said in an interview Tuesday night.

As pro-Palestinian protests have spread to campuses across the country, the movement has been heralded by supporters as a student-driven campaign opposing the Israeli offensive in Gaza. But some law enforcement officials and university officials have suggested that the demonstrations have been taken over by people with no ties to the colleges where encampments have sprung up.

On Tuesday evening, as the police raided the Columbia encampment, Ms. Fithian found herself at the center of that dispute.

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Ms. Fithian said videos and photos of her on campus were being misinterpreted by the police and “right-wing” critics.

“‘Oh, the terrorist, the professional agitator,’” Ms. Fithian said. “This has happened so many times in my life. They love to hate me.”

At a news conference on Tuesday before the arrests, Mayor Eric Adams said the pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia has been “co-opted by professional outside agitators” who have no affiliation with the institution.

“They are not here to promote peace or unity or allow a peaceful displaying of one’s voice,” Mr. Adams said. “They are here to create discord and divisiveness.”

It was a sentiment echoed by Nemat Shafik, the Columbia president, in a letter asking the Police Department to enter the campus and clear protesters from Hamilton Hall and the encampment occupied by demonstrators for about two weeks.

“We believe that while the group who broke into the building includes students, it is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university,” Ms. Shafik wrote to the police on Tuesday. “The individuals who have occupied Hamilton Hall have vandalized university property and are trespassing.”

City and university officials have not said how many of the protesters arrested were not affiliated with the school.

Ms. Fithian disputed the idea that she was in any way organizing the protests.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “It’s actually quite absurd. I know with these videos, it’s hard for some people to believe that. But it’s the truth.”

Ms. Fithian said she came to Columbia on Monday afternoon to conduct a training session with about 30 students activists focused on safety and the general logistics of a protest. She said she had been invited informally by someone — she said she did not catch their name — on Sunday during a visit to City College of New York. She said she was not paid.

Ms. Fithian has had a long public history of involvement with political protests.

She is the author of a 2019 book called “Shut it Down,” a guide to strategic civil disobedience and has worked as a political organizer for decades, supporting political demonstrations across the country, including Occupy Wall Street in 2011; the protests in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by the local police in 2014; and the antiracism movement after the death of George Floyd in 2020.

She has also run workshops for other activists. Unions and activist groups have paid her $300 a day to run demonstrations and teach their members tactics for taking over the streets, according to a 2012 profile in Mother Jones magazine.

“The power we have is really in the streets,” she said at a virtual book event in 2020 . “And that it’s the popular mandate that we force in the streets that’s going to force the politicians to do the right thing.”

She continued: “We have to be willing to create a crisis. We have to be willing to engage in social disruption and create crisis for the people in power who are creating harm.”

Ms Fithian said in an interview that she had remained around the campus as she felt tension rising Monday evening. By the time of the confrontation at the door, some protesters had already entered the building. As another group of protesters was trying to drag a picnic table to barricade one of Hamilton Hall’s doors, the two young men who opposed the demonstration tried to prevent their efforts.

The counterprotesters appeared on Fox News on Wednesday morning and identified themselves as Rory Wilson and Charles Beck, both Columbia students.

Mr. Wilson can be heard on the video captured by The New York Times describing his reason for showing up at the demonstration. “I think this is completely inappropriate, and I’m peacefully protesting this protest,” he says.

Ms. Fithian said she involved herself in an effort to “keep things as safe as possible.” She said she was encouraging the men to get out of the way because it was clear to her that they would not be able to stop the situation.

“Relax, relax, you’re not going to make them stop this,” she can be heard saying in the video.

She added in an interview, “It was along the lines of trying to be chill and talking to them in a rational way about, ‘Please, don’t be here.’”

Videos from the scene also show Ms. Fithian later using a profanity to describe the counterprotesters, and insisting to them that “this is a historic moment.”

“Sometimes historic moments aren’t great,” one of them replied.

Ms. Fithian acknowledged she grew impatient with the students blocking the door and wondered if they might be working in tandem with a woman standing nearby who was filming the scene with a phone.

Ms. Fithian’s website notes that she is available for trainings, consultations and organizing projects. She is often described as a “protest consultant,” a label she rejected.

“It’s my life’s work,” she said on Tuesday. “Of course, if I can get paid for it, I want to. If it’s an organization bringing me in to train staff, of course I want to get paid. But if you’re talking about young people in the street who are throwing down, I don’t even want to take donations.”

Andrew Keh covers New York City and the surrounding region for The Times. More about Andrew Keh

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The most recent  pro-Israel counter demonstration was at the University of California, Los Angeles, home to large Israeli and Jewish populations. More are planned in the coming days , stirring fears of clashes.

An officer whose gun went off inside a Columbia University building fired it accidentally  as the police were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus, the New York Police Department said.

A union representing academic workers said it would file unfair labor charges  against the U.C.L.A. and potentially walk out over the handling of protests this week.

Exploiting U.S. Divide:  America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify  the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.

A Year Full of Conflicts:  The tumult in Bloomington, Ind., at Indiana University where large protests have led to dozens of arrests and calls for university leaders to resign, shows the reach of the protest movement .

Seizing Hamilton Hall:  Some of those arrested during the pro-Palestinian demonstration at Columbia were outsiders  who appeared to be unaffiliated with the school, according to an analysis of Police Department data.

A Collision Course:  Desperate to stem protests that have convulsed campuses across the country , a small number of universities have agreed to reconsider their investments in companies that do business with Israel. But how?

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An AP photographer dazzles with a drone’s view of a colorful field in Germany

Cars drive on an alley between rape fields in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Michael Probst has been working as a photographer and editor in Germany for over 40 years.

He’s covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Olympics and soccer World Cups, but one of his favorite things to do is make feature photos, the off-the-news assignments that tell their own story.

Here’s what he had to say about creating this extraordinary feature image.

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Why this photo

I like to shoot features in nature. There aren’t many things that are nicer than watching the sun rise in the outskirts of Frankfurt with all sorts of animals that you don’t find later in the day.

When the rape fields - plants of the mustard family whose seeds yield an oil used in cooking (canola) and for industrial uses - near the city started to blossom, I drove around to find locations with good looking fields of the yellowing flowers. They are found every year in different places.

When I found two or three fields that could be nice, I returned the next day with my drone - once it was in the air, I saw that the fields were still too green. I tried again a few days later and the fields were the brilliant yellow I was looking for.

How I made this photo

I tried various altitudes with my drone between 30 and 120 meters (yards). The drone was up for about 25 minutes waiting for a red car to come by.

If things that you shoot with a drone work or not, you only find out once you are up in the air . A lot of my efforts fail.

Why this photo works

For me, green and yellow always work for some reason, and the red car adds a different color. But I actually don’t think too much about why a picture works or not. I like it or not. I try to discover things where it’s worth taking a picture.

I don’t often shoot people because in Frankfurt we don’t have assignments with important people, and shooting interesting people on the street is not allowed without asking. That makes it sometimes quite complicated because most people don’t want to be photographed in Germany - they don’t trust the media anymore.

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Donald Trump trial Friday recap: Former Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks emotional on stand

NEW YORK — Former top Trump aide Hope Hicks became emotional and teary-eyed upon the beginning of her cross-examination by  Donald Trump 's attorney Emil Bove on Friday afternoon. Judge Juan Merchan excused her for a brief break, after which she returned to the witness and cross-examination resumed.

Hicks was called by the prosecution to testify on the 11th day of Trump's New York hush money trial. The then-campaign spokesperson was in close contact with Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen in 2016 after the emergence of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump boasted of grabbing women by their genitals .

Her initial advice to the campaign when a reporter reached out about the tape: "Deny, deny, deny."

Trump is on trial for 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels . Cohen made the Daniels payment and, according to prosecutors, Trump falsely recorded his reimbursement of Cohen as legal expenses. Trump's lawyer denied that allegation in an opening trial statement.

On Friday, Hicks testified that Donald Trump was "concerned" about how a Nov. 4, 2016 Wall Street Journal story on a separate hush money deal involving former Playboy model Karen McDougal would be viewed by his wife, Melania Trump .

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Trump: 'They've been after us for years'

Trump capped his week in court by telling reporters he could not comment on the proceedings, including Hope Hicks' testimony, because of the gag order issued by Judge Juan Merchan , which prohibits him from attacking witnesses. Trump was found earlier this week to have repeatedly violated that order and he was fined $9,000 .

But Trump did claim that political opponents have tried for years to get him and the people around him.

"They've been after us for years," Trump said as he departed the courthouse.

Throughout the day, Trump − or his aides − also posted statements on social media criticizing the trial.

"THIS ISN’T A TRIAL, IT’S A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN," he said in one all-caps Truth Social post.

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Court adjourned for the weekend

Judge Merchan has called an end to the day's proceedings. The trial will start back up on Monday.

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Judge rules Trump can't be cross-examined on gag order violations if he testifies

Judge Juan Merchan ruled that, if Trump chooses to testify, the prosecution can't cross-examine Trump over Merchan's determination that Trump violated the gag order in the case. Merchan has already determined Trump violated the order nine times , and he is considering an additional four instances that the prosecution has argued constituted violations. Merchan held Trump in criminal contempt and fined him $9,000 for the violations.

Merchan said the jury hearing that the judge in this case has held Trump in contempt would be too prejudicial. He said the prosecution had made a request to ask Trump about it, and he was denying that request.

Trump to testify? His lawyer is arguing over what prosecutors may ask

The jury has been dismissed for the weekend, but the lawyers are still discussing issues with Judge Merchan. Trump lawyer Todd Blanche just argued that, if Trump testifies in the trial, the prosecution shouldn't be able to question Trump about being held in criminal contempt for re-posting language that Merchan determined violated his gag order.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo responded that Trump's violation is relevant evidence when it comes to Trump's credibility.

Hope Hicks testimony ends

Trump lawyer Emil Bove ended his cross-examination of former top Trump aide Hope Hicks. The cross-examination had a gentle tone throughout, even though – or perhaps, even slightly, because – Hicks seemed to start crying near the beginning of Bove's questions. The judge took a break for some minutes so Hicks could leave the courtroom and regroup, before she resumed her testimony.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo didn't have any more questions for Hicks after Bove's cross-examination. She has been dismissed from the courtroom.

Trump slouched back, eyes slightly opening and then closing periodically

Former President Donald Trump is slouched back in his chair currently, with his eyes often closed for extended periods but sometimes opening slightly. While earlier today he didn't seem to be watching Hope Hicks directly as she testified, he is now looking at her when he does open his eyes.

Hicks: Cohen was only "Mr. Fix-it" because he first broke it

Trump lawyer Emil Bove has continued the critical line of questioning he has developed across witnesses when it comes to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen .

Responding to Bove's questions, Hope Hicks confirmed Michael Cohen sometimes did things that were "frustrating" to the Trump 2016 campaign staff. She agreed Cohen "went rogue" sometimes. She said Cohen liked to call himself "a fixer" or "Mr. Fix-it," but she used to say it was only because he first broke it that he was able to fix it.

Trump lawyer resumes questioning of Hicks

Trump lawyer Emil Bove has resumed questioning Hope Hicks . His tone is kind and respectful – significantly less aggressive than multiple other cross-examinations we've seen him conduct in the trial. Hicks is discussing her professional time with Trump before he ever ran for president. She just confirmed she felt she had Trump's trust and respect when she worked for him.

Hicks returns to courtroom after becoming emotional on stand

Hope Hicks re-entered the courtroom and again took the witness stand at 3:07 p.m. EDT, after she got emotional as cross-examination began and confirmed to Judge Merchan she would like to take a break. The jury is getting seated as we wait to get started again.

Hicks gets emotional and court takes a break

Hope Hicks appeared to be starting to cry as Trump lawyer Emil Bove began asking her questions on cross-examination. The questions were introductory in nature, rather than aggressive. Bove had just asked her a question about the portfolio she once handled in a past role.

Judge Juan Merchan asked Hicks if she would like a break, and she said yes. Both Hicks and the jury have been excused from the courtroom.

Hicks asked about whether she called Pecker after former Playboy model McDougal sued

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo showed jurors a text message Hope Hicks received in March of 2018 from former Trump aide Madeleine Westerhout. Hicks confirmed she received the text the day Karen McDougal sued to get out of her non-disclosure agreement. Westerhout said in the text that Trump wanted to know if Hicks called Pecker again.

McDougal ultimately settled her lawsuit with American Media Inc., which had paid her $150,000 in a deal that required her to stay quiet about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. Trump denies the affair. The settlement allowed her to discuss the alleged affair .

Trump allegedly asked Hicks to keep McDougal news story from wife Melania

Hicks testified that Donald Trump was "concerned" about how the Nov. 4, 2016 Wall Street Journal story on the Karen McDougal hush money deal would be viewed by his wife, Melania Trump . He wanted to make sure that newspapers weren't delivered to his and Melania's residence the morning the article ran, Hicks said.

Asked by prosecutor Matthew Colangelo if Trump asked whether the news article was likely to affect the campaign, Hicks said "everything" discussed at that time was about whether there was an impact on the campaign.

'We have no knowledge of any of this': Hicks asked about 2016 statement

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo asked Hope Hicks about a statement she gave to The Wall Street Journal for its Nov. 4, 2016 article about the hush money deal involving Karen McDougal. Speaking as a Trump campaign spokesperson, she told the publication: "We have no knowledge of any of this."

Hicks said she doesn't remember whether Trump told her directly he had no knowledge about the McDougal deal. Prosecutors have already played an audio recording between Michael Cohen and Trump in which they seemed to be discussing the deal.

Colangelo asked Hicks to privately read testimony she previously gave to a grand jury, in case that would refresh her recollection. Jurors and the audience weren't shown that earlier testimony. After reading it, Hicks said that she sees what she said then, and she's not saying Trump didn't tell her he had no knowledge, but she doesn't "have a strong memory" that he said it.

Hicks asked about call between Trump and Cohen on Nov. 4, 2016

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo resumed questioning former Trump aide Hope Hicks about a Nov. 4, 2016 Wall Street Journal story on a hush money deal involving former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Hicks said she believes she observed a phone call between Cohen and Trump shortly after the story was published, although she doesn't remember what was said. Reince Priebus, who would eventually become White House chief of staff, was also in the car when she observed the phone call, Hicks said.

Trump team arrives for more questioning of former aide Hope Hicks

Donald Trump and his legal team entered the courtroom at 2:14 p.m. EDT. Judge Merchan has also returned and called in former Trump aide Hope Hicks. We are waiting for the jury.

Prosecution arrives for more questioning of Hope Hicks

The prosecution team entered the courtroom at 2:06 p.m. EDT, as we near the end of the court's lunch break. We are still waiting for the Trump team and Judge Merchan.

Hope Hicks' testimony may include conversations with Michael Cohen in NY trial

In the month before the 2016 presidential election, as Donald Trump's campaign scrambled to contain the  fallout from a recording of him  lewdly discussing grabbing women, Trump's  campaign press secretary Hope Hicks  was in frequent contact with his  lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen .

Now that she is on the witness stand, Hicks could testify about those conversations in the  former president's New York criminal business fraud trial  because  Cohen says he paid two women on Trump's behalf  to stop more salacious stories from emerging.

Experts believe her testimony could be intended to bolster  Cohen's credibility , as his reliability as a witness is questioned by Trump and his defense team.

- Bart Jansen

How is Trump Media stock performing?

At open on May 3, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp share price fell to $47.47, down 2.49% from previous close.

- Kinsey Crowley

Court breaks for lunch

Judge Juan Merchan announced a lunch break just before 1 p.m. EDT. The defense and prosecution teams have left the courtroom.

Hicks reached out to Michael Cohen, David Pecker after Wall Street Journal inquiry

Hicks said, in addition to reaching out to Jared Kushner, she contacted Michael Cohen and David Pecker about the Wall Street Journal's comment request on the Karen McDougal story. She said she called Cohen because she knew he had a relationship with Pecker. And she called Pecker's office to let them know about the inquiry.

Pecker told Hicks the contract with McDougal was for paying the former Playboy model for magazine covers and fitness columns, Hicks testified.

Hicks asked Jared Kushner about asking Rupert Murdoch for more time on damaging Karen McDougal story

After Hicks was contacted for comment about The Wall Street Journal's planned story on a hush money deal involving former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Hicks reached out to Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner . She testified that she asked Kushner if it was worth reaching out to the Journal's publisher, media mogul Rupert Murdoch , to see if the campaign could buy some extra time.

Kusher said he wasn't going to be able to reach Murdoch, and the campaign should just work on responding and dealing with the story, Hicks testified.

Hicks says she first heard Karen McDougal 's name from a Wall Street Journal reporter

Hicks said she first heard Karen McDougal's name from a Nov. 4, 2016, email from a Wall Street Journal reporter, who indicated the Journal was planning to publish a story on McDougal's deal with the National Enquirer's parent company to keep quiet about her account of a months-long affair with Trump. Trump denies McDougal's story.

Prosecution continues to focus on Trump campaign concerns

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo is continuing to focus his questions on how stories about Trump's conduct with women were creating campaign concerns as the 2016 election day approached. Colangelo played a video for jurors of a rally in North Carolina, where Trump said that if only 5% or 10% of voters believed the stories, the campaign would lose.

Colangelo asked Hicks if it was fair to say Trump was concerned the reports could hurt his standing with voters. "Yes," was Hicks' quick reply.

Hope Hicks was one of the first Trump political aides

Hope Hicks isn't just any Trump political supporter − she is one of the originals.

Hicks was part of the very small campaign staff − less than a half-dozen people − that served the New York businessman when he announced his first presidential run in June of 2015.

The former Trump Organization employee worked mainly with the media, a duty she continued to perform in the Trump White House; she was known as someone who had a good relationship with Trump, who was known to refer to as "Hopey."

Hicks managed an often fractious relationship between the volatile president and an aggressive media.

Although she left the White House in 2018 to become a communications executive with the Fox Corporation, Hicks returned to the Trump administration in 2020 to help with that year's presidential campaign.

She won praise from Trump for exhibiting such loyalty.

−David Jackson

Female voter concern is a potentially key point in hush money trial

When they ultimately deliver closing arguments in this trial, the prosecution may return to Hicks' comments about the Trump campaign's concern about women voters after the Access Hollywood tape release. Here's why:

For Trump to be convicted of felonies, prosecutors must show not only that he falsified business records, but also that he did so in order to commit or conceal another crime.

One of the prosecution's ways to try to prove that is to show Trump was attempting to hide that campaign finance laws were broken through the $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, on the other hand, could argue the hush money wasn't about the campaign, but instead about sparing his family from embarrassing stories.

Hicks' testimony could be used to bolster the prosecution's argument that the hush money was about the campaign, and the alleged cover-up was about hiding a campaign finance violation.

Access Hollywood tape caused Trump campaign concern about female voters

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo asked Hicks if the release of the Access Hollywood tape caused concern about its effect on female voters. "Not in that moment, but certainly eventually that was something that was raised," Hicks said.

Trump felt the Access Hollywood comments were 'pretty standard stuff'

Hicks said she thinks Trump felt like his comments on the Access Hollywood tape were "pretty standard stuff" for two men having a private chat.

'Deny, deny, deny': Hicks message after learning of Access Hollywood tape

The prosecution showed jurors an email Hicks sent to trump adviser Steve Bannon and others after The Washington Post emailed her for comment about the Access Hollywood tape, which included a recording of Trump bragging about kissing and grabbing women without their consent. The email to her included a transcript of Trump's comments. 

Hicks wrote in her email: "FLAGGING" and suggested a two-step process for approaching the issue: 1. "Need to hear the tape to be sure." 2. "Deny, deny, deny."

Hicks is asked about Access Hollywood tape

Hicks is currently describing when a Washington Post reporter reached out to her about the Access Hollywood tape of Trump saying he kisses women without waiting and gropes their genitals. The Post broke the story on the tape on Oct. 7, 2016.

Hicks overheard Trump praising Pecker's hit piece on Ben Carson during 2016 presidential campaign

Hope Hicks said she overheard a conversation between Trump and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker about Ben Carson, who was a rival to Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Trump was congratulating Pecker on the "great reporting," Hicks said. The article accused Carson, a neurosurgeon, of medical malpractice. Hicks remembers Trump congratulating Pecker on a "great investigative piece." She said she "vaguely" recalls that Trump would sometimes say things like "this is Pulitzer worthy" during the call.

The Enquirer savaged Trump's political rivals , including Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz, with fabricated stories during the 2016 campaign.

Hicks asked: How did you know tabloid executive David Pecker?

Hicks' testimony may be moving into the hush money deals at issue in the case. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo just asked how she knew David Pecker, the former executive for the parent company of the National Enquirer.

Trump watching Hicks testimony on screen

Trump appears to be watching Hope Hicks' testimony on a screen attached to a wall in front of him. There are four large screens attached to walls in the front half of the courtroom, showing a live video stream of proceedings. That video feed also plays into an overflow room down the hallway, where more reporters and members of the public are seated.

Trump has often had his eyes closed during the trial, but when they are open, he has typically looked directly at the witness who is testifying.

Hicks says Trump may have 'been joking' the first time he suggested her as press secretary

Hope Hicks testified she thinks Trump might have "been joking" the first time he suggested she would be the 2016 Trump campaign's press secretary. "I didn't take it very seriously," she said.

But later, Hicks took on that role. She is continuing to discuss her background with Trump, including her role broadening out the communications staff for the 2016 Trump campaign.

Trump averts his eyes from former trusted aide Hope Hicks

Trump's eyes are open and he appears to be listening to Hicks' testimony, which right now is focusing on her work with different people at the Trump Organization. Trump is looking straight ahead, whereas Hicks is pretty far to Trump's right.

Who is Hope Hicks?

Hope Hicks was the Trump 2016 presidential campaign press secretary and later the  communications director in Trump's White House starting in September 2017. She was the fourth person in the Trump administration to hold the position before resigning in February 2018. She was 29 years old when she resigned.

Hicks may have been in touch with Cohen about preventing Stormy Daniels from going public. Court records show Hicks spoke with Trump and Cohen on the phone on Oct. 8, 2016 . That day and those conversations have become key in Cohen's federal conviction for campaign finance violations related to the hush money payments. Hicks has said she was not present for discussions about Daniels, and only learned about the upcoming scandal through reporters,  CNN reported.

"Again, I had no knowledge of Stormy Daniels other than to say she was going to be mentioned in the story amongst people that were shopping stories around,” Hicks previously testified before the House Judiciary Committee, according to CNN.

Hicks first came into Trump's orbit while working for Ivanka Trump's fashion line.

−Kinsey Crowley

Hope Hicks describes Trump as 'multitasker' and 'hard worker'

Hicks said Trump is a very good multitasker and hard worker. She said he's always doing multiple things at once and would sometimes come to meetings with information to advance his interests. If it's a political meeting, he might want to provide poll numbers, she said. If it's a real estate meeting, he might come with examples of positive press about the value of a property.

Hope Hicks last communicated with Trump in 2022

Hope Hicks has been describing her background, including working with Ivanka Trump and later with the Trump Organization, before assisting the 2016 Trump campaign.

The last time she was in communication with Donald Trump was "sometime" in the summer or fall of 2022, she said.

Hope Hicks called to witness stand

Former White House communications director and 2016 Trump campaign press secretary Hope Hicks has been called to the witness stand.

Jurors see Trump response to Access Hollywood tape release

The prosecution showed jurors an Oct. 8, 2016 Twitter post by Trump that included a video of him responding to the Oct. 7, 2016 release of the Access Hollywood tape. Trump said in the video that he has said and done things he regrets, but his words on the tape don't reflect who he is.

"I said it," "I was wrong," and "I apologize," Trump said in the video. "I pledge to be a better man tomorrow, and will never, ever, let you down."

Trump started talking about American jobs in the video and the safety of the country. He attacked Hillary and Bill Clinton, and drew a distinction between words and actions.

Judge will allow jury to see Trump social media posts

The jurors just returned from a short break. Before they returned, Judge Merchan ruled that multiple Twitter posts by Trump, as well as a Truth Social post, will be permitted to be shown to the jury. The posts haven't been displayed in court yet.

Paralegal from Manhattan District Attorney's office begins testifying

Paralegal Georgia Longstreet from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has begun testifying. She is discussing her familiarity with Trump's social media posts on Twitter, which is now referred to as "X," as well as on his Truth Social media platform.

More: Who is Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg? Prosecutor has battled Donald Trump in court before

Questioning of Daus ends with back-and-forth on Cohen's phone

On re-direct questioning, prosecutor Christopher Conroy got computer forensic analyst Douglas Daus to confirm he hadn't found any evidence of tampering when it came to evidence the prosecution admitted yesterday that was extracted from Michael Cohen's phone.

Re-direct questioning of a prosecution witness is a chance for the prosecution to rehabilitate the witness on any issues for which they think the defense might have struck blows during cross-examination.

Conroy passed Daus off to the Trump team again as a witness, and Trump lawyer Emil Bove then got Daus to confirm that Bove's earlier cross-examination wasn't about actually observing evidence tampering, but instead about gaps that created risks of such tampering.Questioning of Daus has now concluded.

More: Freezing temps and colorful characters: Trump's hush money trial from the inside

Cross-examination of Daus ends on Michael Cohen note

After asking forensic computer analyst Douglas Daus a series of questions about technical issues that could come up from Michael Cohen's handling of his phone − the source of secretly-recorded audio of Donald Trump discussing a payoff to former Playboy model Karen McDougal −Trump lawyer Emil Bove ended his cross-examination by targeting Cohen's trustworthiness.

"In many ways," Bove asked, we're just going to have to "take Michael Cohen's word for it?" Daus said that's true.

Prosecutor Chistopher Conroy is now asking Daus some additional questions.

More: Who is Karen McDougal? What to know about the potential witness in Trump's hush money trial

Trump eyes again closed for extended period

Trump again has his eyes closed for an extended period in this trial. I just counted to 40, with a "Mississippi" in between each number, before Trump opened his eyes.

Yesterday, the former president claimed on social media he doesn't fall asleep at his trial, but instead simply closes his "beautiful blue eyes" sometimes as he listens "intensely."

It's true Trump sometimes has his eyes closed when he doesn't appear to be asleep. But I also saw him on April 19, during jury selection , clearly appear to be falling asleep. He repeatedly dropped his head down before lifting it back up and, at one point, he had his mouth agape while his eyes were closed.

Trump lawyer asking about handling of Cohen-Trump audio recording

Trump lawyer Emil Bove is questioning computer forensic analyst Douglas Daus about the handling of the audio recording we heard yesterday in which Michael Cohen and Trump appeared to be discussing a hush money deal. Daus confirmed to Bove that news media reported on the contents of the recording in 2018. Daus also confirmed that, because Cohen and his legal team sent it to the media, they must have handled the audio file.

Computer forensic analyst re-takes witness stand

Computer forensic analyst Douglas Daus re-took the witness stand at 9:47 a.m. EDT, and the jury has been called in.

Weinstein decision doesn't impact rulings in Trump case, judge says

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that a New York appeals court's decision to toss out the New York rape conviction against Oscar-winning movie producer Harvey Weinstein should cause Judge Merchan to re-think some of his pre-trial rulings about the evidence that can be introduced in Trump's current trial. Merchan, for example, has allowed in testimony of Trump's infamous comments on the Hollywood Access tape about kissing women without waiting and groping their genitals, although Merchan isn't allowing the tape to actually be played in court.

However, Merchan said the New York court of appeals didn't announce new legal standards – it simply applied existing legal standards to the facts in Weinstein's case. Merchan used the existing legal standards when ruling on evidence in Trump's case, so there's no cause for changing his rulings, he said.

Judge tells Trump gag order does not restrict his testimony

Judge Juan Merchan opened proceedings this morning by addressing the Trump team to clear up any "misunderstanding" about whether the gag order impacts Trump's right to testify. This was likely a response to Trump's comments in the courthouse hallway after proceedings yesterday, when he said : "I'm not allowed to testify; I'm under a gag order ... I guess, right?"

"I want to stress, Mr. Trump, that you have an absolute right to testify," Merchan said this morning. "That is a constitutional right" and a "fundamental right that cannot be infringed upon."Merchan told Trump he also has the right not to testify, but if he chooses to testify, the gag order doesn't limit or minimize what he can say from the witness stand. As the order indicates, it only applies to "extrajudicial statements" – meaning statements made outside of court, Merchan noted.Merchan advised Trump to tell his lawyer if had has any lingering questions.

Trump talks jobs report before attacking the trial

Trial? What trial?

Trump devoted the start of his pre-trial address to Friday's disappointing jobs report , claiming "our economy is bad" and blaming President Joe Biden .

Trump then turned to his daily diatribe against the legal proceeding, saying "there is no crime" and again blaming Biden, as well as the judge and New York prosecutors.

The angry former president also expressed a bit of optimism, saying "we are winning this trial."

Trump defense team arrives in courtroom

Former President Donald Trump and his defense team entered the courtroom at 9:25 a.m. EDT. Trump is wearing a blue tie today. Photographers have just entered for their typical small window of time to take photographs inside the courtroom. We are still waiting on Judge Merchan.

Prosecution team arrives in courtroom

The prosecution team entered the courtroom at 9:13 a.m. EDT. We are still waiting for the defense and the judge.

Trump arrives at the courthouse

Former President Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan criminal courthouse at about 9:00 a.m. EDT. We are still waiting for his team and the prosecution to arrive in the courtroom.

Famous faces in the courtroom

The main courtroom isn't large, but we've still seen some famous media faces during this trial. Anderson Cooper is here for CNN today. I also saw CNN anchor Erin Burnett earlier in the trial.

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell was here yesterday and is here again today. MSNBC has been using its spot in the main courtroom for a handful of hosts. Rachel Maddow was here during opening statements, and Joy Reid attended the following day.

About 65 seats are reserved in the main courtroom for reporters, with American news outlets each getting one seat and foreign news outlets sharing a handful of additional reserved seats. Other reporters are able to watch the proceedings live through a video stream in an overflow room down the hallway. 

A small handful of members of the public are in the main courtroom each day, and more get spots in the overflow room.

Who are Donald Trump's lawyers?

Trump's defense team is led by Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles.

Blanche was a federal prosecutor for nine years in the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan. As a prominent white-collar defense lawyer he has defended Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn and Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.

Necheles is ranked among the top criminal defense lawyers in New York by the legal rating and head-hunting firm Chambers and Partners. She was also a  former counsel to Venero Mangano , the former Genovese crime family underboss known as Benny Eggs.

- Josh Meyer

What did we learn Thursday on Day 10 of hush money trial?

The testimony of Keith Davidson, the lawyer for Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in each of their hush money deals tied to Trump, wrapped up yesterday. Jurors saw a text from Davidson to the National Enquirer's editor on 2016 Election Night: "What have we done?"

Davidson characterized the message as humorous, but also said it reflected his belief that his activities when it came to the hush money deals – one of which was made directly with the National Enquirer's parent company – assisted the Trump campaign.

We also heard an audio recording that prosecutors say shows Trump himself was involved in the McDougal hush money deal. "So, what do we got to pay for this? 150?" Trump asked Michael Cohen. That, according to the prosecution, was a reference to the $150,000 hush money that ultimately was paid in McDougal's deal.

Could Trump go to prison?

Trump could theoretically face a couple decades in prison if convicted on all 34 felony counts. However, several legal experts told USA TODAY  a more realistic sentence, assuming that worst-outcome for Trump on the 34 counts, ranges from merely probation to up to four years in prison.

What is Donald Trump on trial for?

Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors say he falsified records to cover up unlawfully interfering in the 2016 election through a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels has alleged she had sex with Trump in 2006, a claim he denies.