Editor’s note: This story includes a description of sexual assault. A federal judge in New York on Friday rejected an effort by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to keep sealed a portion of the transcript of his deposition in a lawsuit by a writer who accuses him of raping …
Read More »A columnist can proceed with lawsuits alleging she was raped by former President Donald Trump in a department store a quarter century ago, a federal judge ruled Friday, upholding a temporary New York state law letting adult victims of sexual abuse sue their abusers. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said lawsuits …
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NEW YORK: Virtually everything was going right for President Joe Biden as he opened the year. His approval ratings were ticking up. Inflation was slowing. And as Democrats united behind his likely reelection campaign, Republicans were at war with themselves after a disappointing midterm season. But on Thursday, Biden’s political …
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ANCHORAGE (ALASKA): After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska’s western coast in September, the United States government stepped in to help residents – largely Alaska Natives – repair property damage. Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency …
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A New York judge has ordered former US President Donald Trump’s namesake real estate company to pay a $1.6m criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15 years. Justice Juan Merchan of the Manhattan criminal court imposed the sentence on Friday after jurors last …
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The entrance to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, May 19, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The Trump Organization, former President Donald Trump‘s business empire, was hit with a $1.6 million fine Friday for tax fraud and other crimes committed as …
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A new CNN report detailed how then-Vice President Joe Biden’s last days in office were such a “whirlwind” that his aides’ efforts to properly pack up his office, including securing classified documents, were “muddled and hurried,” leading to the classified papers being misplaced. The CNN report attempted to shed more …
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CNN — The Justice Department is seeking to question two people who searched Donald Trump’s properties in November, as federal investigators have asked whether the former president returned all classified documents to the federal government, sources familiar with the probe tell CNN. The development is the latest sign that the …
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NEW YORK (AP) — The stiffest penalty Donald Trump’s company could receive when it is sentenced Friday by a New York judge for helping its executives dodge taxes is a $1.6 million fine — not even enough to buy a Trump Tower apartment. Neither the former president nor his children, …
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WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden‘s own administration named a special counsel to probe the improper storage of classified documents at his home and a former office on Thursday, an echo of a wider-ranging inquiry directed at his main political rival, Donald Trump.The inquiry is a distraction for a Democratic president who …
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President Biden’s condemnation of President Trump’s purported mishandling of classified documents in a “60 Minutes” interview last year will live on as his version of Hillary Clinton’s “What difference, at this point, does it make” statement regarding the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks, critics said Thursday. On “The Five” Thursday, host …
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The documents were found at a Washington think tank where Biden had an office. (File) Washington: The White House faced aggressive questioning Wednesday over the discovery of classified documents apparently mislaid by President Joe Biden, a case complicating the authorities’ probe into a far bigger scandal involving Donald Trump. NBC …
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