US President-elect Donald Trump has been sentenced to an "unconditional discharge" in his hush-money criminal trial. That means he will face no penalty in the form of prison time, probation or a fine. He will take office as the first US president with a felony conviction.

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he is now a convicted felon in the eyes of New York state law but will face no further penalties.

Donald Trump’s request to halt his sentencing in his New York hush money case has been denied by the Supreme Court, meaning that Trump will face sentencing on Friday, and will likely be sworn in as the first president of the United States to be a convicted felon.

The Trump Organization on Friday announced that President-elect Donald Trump will not have any involvement in managing his real-estate and branding empire during his second term and appointed an outside ethics adviser to monitor major company actions – part of several measures the organization said it was taking to avoid conflicts of interest as Trump prepares to return to the White House later this month.

The Trump Organization on Friday announced that President-elect Donald Trump will be walled off from the day-to-day management of his privately held company. Unlike in 2017, Trump's company is not agreeing to a blanket stop on new foreign business transactions.

The Trump Organization submitted an ethics plan for Donald J. Trump’s second presidential term that doesn’t rule out striking new deals with foreign companies — a break with its approach to managing conflicts of interest when he first took office.

The California governor invited Trump to the fire-ravaged state in a post on Friday afternoon amid intense backlash.