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Defence accuses Michael Cohen of lying on the stand at Trump’s hush-money trial
Michael Cohen is asked about taking an oath as he is cross-examined by defense lawyer Todd Blanche during former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 16, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
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Trump’s lawyers to attack Michael Cohen’s story of hush money scheme
Former President Donald Trump talks to the press with his attorney, Todd Blanche, right, outside the courtroom of his trial in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)
analysis
Biden-Trump debates are a gamble for both candidates
David Shribman
politics
Politics Briefing: Ottawa to look beyond White House to defend interests south of border in case of Trump re-election, Blair says
Minister of National Defence Bill Blair speaks at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute conference on NORAD Modernization, in Ottawa on May 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Jurors in Trump’s hush money trial get front row seat to history – most of the time
Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in court on the 17th day of the hush money trial filed against him by DA Bragg, in New York, U.S.. May 14 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING "15TH DAY" TO "17TH DAY\
u.s. politics
Biden and Trump agree to two presidential debates, in June and September
In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C., left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. President Joe Biden says he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan commission, instead challenging Republican Donald Trump to a pair of debates. Biden said Wednesday that Trump lost two debates to him in 2020 and since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Biden proposes debating Trump twice. (AP Photo)
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Morning Update: Fort McMurray residents ordered to evacuate as wildfire approaches community
Smoke and flames are seen from the fire in Fort McMurray on May 14, 2024 as residents from the area of Abasand Heights evacuate the area.
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In testimony, Michael Cohen recounts how reimbursements from Donald Trump were paid
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media next to his attorney Todd Blanche at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in New York, U.S. Craig Ruttle/Pool via REUTERS
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Michael Cohen resumes testimony at Trump’s New York hush money trial
Former US President Donald Trump, with lawyers Todd Blanche (L) and Emil Bove (R), attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 14, 2024. Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen returns to the witness stand on Tuesday for what is expected to be a tough grilling by the ex-president's lawyers at his historic hush money trial. (Photo by Mark Peterson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARK PETERSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Struggle of Chinese migrants in U.S. far cry from claims made by Trump
Chinese migrant Li Kai aka Khaled, an ethnic Hui Muslim, studies for a Commercial Driving License in his apartment in Flushing, New York, Friday, May 3, 2024. Li Kai came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons seeking religious freedom and a better life. The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint about them. Asian advocacy organizations say they're concerned the exaggerated rhetoric could fuel further harassment against Asians in the U.S. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz)
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Former Capitol Police officer and Jan. 6 rioter seek party nominations in Maryland and West Virginia primaries
ANNAPOLIS, MD - APRIL 3: Harry Dunn, former U.S. Capitol Police officer and Maryland Democratic House candidate, departs a news conference at the Lawyers Mall next to the Maryland State House on April 3, 2024 in Annapolis, Maryland. Dunn was joined by fellow congressional candidates John Morse and Juan Dominguez at the news conference to denounce the intrusion of a Republican-funded super-PAC into the Maryland Third Congressional District race, calling on every candidate in the race to condemn and reject the PAC spending. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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Morning Update: Ombudsman sounds alarm over rising violence at federal prisons
Patches are seen on the arm and shoulder of a corrections officer in the segregation unit at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women during a media tour, in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Correctional Service Canada says three inmates at Fraser Valley Institution recently tested positive for COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada ramps up diplomacy to prepare for possible Trump presidency
Washington State Park workers Casey Matheson, left, and Zac Carsten put up a new American flag in front of a Canadian flag they just replaced during scheduled maintenance atop the Peace Arch in Peace Arch Historical State Park Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, in Blaine, Wash. The U.S. reopened its land borders to nonessential travel Monday after almost 20 months of COVID-19 restrictions. Travel across land borders from Canada and Mexico has been largely restricted to workers whose jobs are deemed essential. New rules will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to enter the U.S. regardless of the reason. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Michael Cohen says Trump’s anger over porn star’s story was ‘all about the campaign’
Former US President Donald Trump (C) looks on during his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York City, on May 13, 2024. Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York was expected to hear his former lawyer turned tormentor Michael Cohen testify Monday about his role in what prosecutors say was a cover up of payments to hide an affair. (Photo by Spencer Platt / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SPENCER PLATT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Michael Cohen testifies Trump viewed Stormy Daniels story as ‘disaster’ for campaign
Former US President Donald Trump (C) looks on during his criminal trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York City, on May 13, 2024. Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York was expected to hear his former lawyer turned tormentor Michael Cohen testify Monday about his role in what prosecutors say was a cover up of payments to hide an affair. (Photo by Spencer Platt / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SPENCER PLATT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Donald Trump’s hush money trial to face challenging star witness in Michael Cohen
Former US President Donald Trump walks toward the press to speak before departing for the day at his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 6, 2024. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels just days ahead of the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower, report says
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Trump hush money trial turns to sex, bank accounts and power: Highlights from the third week of testimony
Former President Donald Trump talks to the media after a day of testimony in his trial at Manhattan Criminal court in New York, Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)
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Trump’s vice-presidential contest echoes the chaos of The Apprentice
FILE Ñ Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota introduces former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Rapid City, S.D., Sept. 8, 2023. Noem defends her story of killing her dog, but not everyone in her home state does. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
u.s. politics
Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon loses appeal of conviction for defying subpoena from Jan. 6 panel
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 24, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
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Trump is limited in what he can say about his court case but his GOP allies are showing up to help
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks outside Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in New York. Scott attended former President Donald Trump's criminal trial Thursday. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)
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Donald Trump asked oil executives for $1-billion, said he would roll back regulations, sources say
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during a tour of the Double Eagle Energy Oil Rig in Midland, Texas, U.S., July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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Financial executive convicted of insider trading in case over acquisition of Trump’s media company
FILE - Bruce Garelick leaves Federal Court, July 20, 2023, in New York. The financial executive was convicted Thursday, May 9, 2024 of enabling his boss and others to make over $22 million illegally by trading off his tips ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump’s media company public. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, file)
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Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron to represent Florida at Republican convention
(FILES) Former US President Donald Trump and his son Barron Trump attend the funeral of former first lady Melania Trump's mother Amalija Knavs, at Bethesda by the Sea Church, in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 18, 2023. The US Republican Party has named Donald Trump's 18 year-old son Barron as a Florida delegate to its national convention, propelling another member of the family into the spotlight. (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA / AFP) (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels’s account of sex with Trump
Former President Donald Trump talks reporters following the day's proceedings in his trial, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)
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U.S. Republicans unveil bill to ban non-citizen voting, which is already illegal
Stephen Miller, who shaped former President Trump's immigration policies, joins Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, left, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., as they talk to reporters about requiring American citizenship to vote in national elections, as they introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Trump documents trial start delayed indefinitely, judge orders
(FILES) Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives for a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, on March 9, 2024. Prosecutors preparing to put Donald Trump on trial in New York for allegedly covering up hush money payments offered a delay of up to 30 days on March 14, 2024 after both sides received a deluge of case documents, court filings showed. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
analysis
Biden condemns antisemitism as campus protests continue
David Shribman
charting retirement
What are the odds that Biden or Trump will stay healthy to 2028?
In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C., left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. Just six months before Election Day, Biden and Trump are locked into the first presidential rematch in 68 years that is at once deeply entrenched and highly in flux as many voters are only just beginning to embrace the reality of the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo)
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Here is what Stormy Daniels testified happened between her and Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump with his attorney Susan Necheles attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 7, 2024. Stormy Daniels, the porn actress at the heart of Trump's hush money trial, was due to testify against the ex-president May 7, US media said, in a blockbuster moment in the courtroom drama rocking the scandal-plagued Republican's attempt to recapture the White House. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARY ALTAFFER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Stormy Daniels takes witness stand at Donald Trump’s hush money trial
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 7, 2024. Stormy Daniels, the porn actress at the heart of Trump's hush money trial, was due to testify against the ex-president May 7, US media said, in a blockbuster moment in the courtroom drama rocking the scandal-plagued Republican's attempt to recapture the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump fined $1,000 for gag order violation in hush money case as judge warns of possible jail time
Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)
analysis
The radicals who have controlled the House are about to be cancelled, at least for now
David Shribman
world
Trump says Biden is running a ‘Gestapo’ administration in latest reference to Nazi Germany
Former President Donald Trump speaks to media as he returns to his trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)
opinion
The Trump-Biden rematch was a sequel no one asked for, and now no one can look away from it
Elan Mastai
world
SEC charges Trump Media’s newly hired auditing firm with ‘massive fraud’
FILE - The seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seen at SEC headquarters, June 19, 2015, in Washington. An auditing firm hired by Trump Media and Technology Group just 37 days ago was busted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for “massive fraud” — though not for any work it performed for former President Donald Trump’s media company. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)