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Trump’s Criminal Trials Haven’t Knocked Him Out Yet, As Rivals Hoped

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for Jan. 25. Donald Trump’s political rivals hoped his criminal trials would knock him out of the race by now. But, he is still standing—and time is running out. Senior writer Aruna Viswanatha has more. And U.S. economic growth accelerated last year. Plus, WSJ “Your Health” columnist Sumathi Reddy explains a debate among doctors over whether to rename low-grade prostate cancers. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Despite fears of a downturn, U.S. economic growth accelerated in 2023, and has

0:38.8

Trump been helped or harmed by his legal challenges. Many of his opponents did legitimately think that some of these criminal cases would tank his chances and would wipe him out as someone who voters wanted to get behind.

0:53.4

That clearly did not pan out at all,

0:55.8

as we saw with the results in Iowa and New Hampshire

0:58.8

over the past couple of weeks.

1:00.0

Plus, when is cancer, not cancer?

1:03.0

We'll explain why some doctors are advocating a seemingly unusual position.

1:07.5

It's Thursday, January 25th.

1:09.5

I'm Anne Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal.

1:12.0

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top

1:14.7

headlines and business stories that moved the world today. The US avoided recession last year as consumers powered economic growth.

1:30.2

The Commerce Department said the economy grew 3.1% over the past year,

1:34.6

thanks to a resilient labor market and strong consumer spending.

1:38.1

W.S.J. National Economics reporter Gabe Rubin says the GDP readings readings good news for the Fed.

1:43.4

What we saw in the GDP report today is basically as close as you're ever going to get to

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