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Michael Cohen pressed on his crimes and lies as defense attacks key Trump hush money trial witness

May. 16, 2024 20:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's lawyers accused the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial of lying to jurors, portraying Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen on Thursday as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars. ...

Donor and consultant convicted again of trying to bribe North Carolina's insurance commissioner

May. 16, 2024 20:01 PM EDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the state’s insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his insurance business. A federal jury convicted insurance...

Lawyers discuss role classified documents may play in bribery case against US Rep Cuellar of Texas

May. 16, 2024 19:37 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday discussed whether classified documents might play a role in the planned trial of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who is facing federal bribery and conspiracy charges over accusations he accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an...

Google wants judge, not jury, decide upcoming antitrust case in Virginia

May. 16, 2024 18:52 PM EDT

Google on Thursday asked that a judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by building a monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising. To bolster its case, the tech giant wrote a multimillion-dollar check to the U.S. government that it...

Murder charge against Chad Daybell will stand despite wrong date of child's death, judge says

May. 16, 2024 18:38 PM EDT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A typo in the triple murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend's two children doesn't mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Prosecutors had been carefully detailing the case against...

Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife

May. 15, 2024 20:56 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez blamed the politician’s wife Wednesday for his legal problems, telling a jury at the start of a corruption trial that the Democrat wasn’t aware his spouse had taken gifts from a trio of businessmen and didn't know about cash and gold bars...

Donald Trump asks New York’s high court to intervene in fight over gag order in hush money trial

May. 15, 2024 19:51 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. ...

Judge quickly denies request to discard $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case

May. 15, 2024 16:15 PM EDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The judge who oversaw a landmark trial about New Hampshire’s youth detention center has refused to discard the $38 million verdict, saying the facility’s leadership “either knew and didn’t care or didn’t care to learn the truth” about endemic physical and sexual...

The jurors in Trump's hush money trial are getting a front row seat to history -- most of the time

May. 15, 2024 12:38 PM EDT

A gag order. The House Speaker turning up outside court. Angry denouncements of the judge overseeing the case. Some of the most explosive moments in Donald Trump's hush money trial have played out for most of the world to see — except for the people who are actually deciding his...

Canadian historian Michael Ignatieff wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

May. 15, 2024 07:14 AM EDT

MADRID (AP) — Canadian historian and writer Michael Ignatieff has won Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for his “critical reflections on the major conflicts of our time,” prize organizers said Wednesday. With more than 20 books that range from human...