Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends. Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has ...

Once, tabloids like the National Enquirer ruled the newsstands. But even when I was riveted to its O.J. Simpson coverage, I didn't see its dark side.

The newspaper has gained a reputation for outlandish celebrity coverage US gossip magazine the National Enquirer has found itself, again, at the centre of a huge news story of its own. Its owners ...