Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York criminal case on Friday closes out a series of prosecutions that he largely beat by retaking the U.S. presidency, though he is still fighting to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars for losses in civil lawsuits.

President-elect Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case, the Supreme Court said in a 5-4 ruling.

Though the president-elect is expected to avoid jail time, his sentencing on 34 counts will formalize his status as a felon and make him the first to carry that distinction into the White House.

The defeat at the Supreme Court was a rare reversal for Trump’s strategy of seeking to delay his criminal cases with multiple appeals – which he used in his federal cases to buy time until he could use his executive authority to thwart them. Of course, for this to work he had to live up to his end of the bargain and win the election.

Mr. Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges stem from a $130,000 hush-money payment that Mr. Trump’s fixer, Michael D. Cohen, made to the porn star Stormy Daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election, suppressing a story of a sexual liaison that she said she had with Mr. Trump.

He recently shared two maps of the United States that also include Canada on Truth Social, and they are going viral. He posted this one and captioned it "Oh Canada!" Both maps are all over my timeline with two very distinct points of view. BREAKING: Trump shares map with Canada as part of the United States pic.twitter.com/ZYNs3OVUUy

Donald Trump, Jr., son of President-elect Donald Trump, emphasized that his visit to Greenland on Tuesday was just a personal one.

President-elect Donald Trump has told residents of Greenland that “we’re going to treat you well” as his oldest son visited the mineral-rich Danish territory that’s home to a large U.S. military base.

Trump will take office on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. The inauguration ceremony takes place on a platform built on the U.S. Capitol's West Front in Washington, D.C.

Whether Donald Trump is entitled to an automatic stay of criminal proceedings against him in state court while his claims of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution are addressed on interlocutory appeal to New York’s appellate courts and,