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Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York called two new witnesses to the stand on Friday, rounding out the first week of testimony in the historic proceedings. Rhona Graff served as Trump’s executive assistant and a senior executive at the Trump Organization for decades. Stationed outside Trump’s office in Trump Tower,
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Washington — A group of senators is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for more information on border officers’ broad authority to search travelers’ phones and other electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion of a crime, renewing scrutiny of whether the U.S. government is infringing on Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and
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A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen early Friday, according to a U.S. military official, who updated earlier information that indicated that it had crashed off the coast. An investigation into the incident is underway. According to the official, there were no reported injuries. Iran-backed Houthi rebels took responsibility Friday for shooting down
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The State Department is evaluating “new information” provided by the Israeli government about the status of an Israeli military unit deemed to have committed gross violations of human rights in the West Bank before the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, according to a letter sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson by Secretary of State Antony
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Washington — President Biden signaled for the first time publicly that he is willing to debate former President Donald Trump, his presumptive Republican opponent, ahead of November’s general election. Asked during an hour-long interview on Howard Stern’s show on SiriusXM if he would debate his rival, Mr. Biden replied, “I am, somewhere. I don’t know
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David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, revealed new details about his efforts to bury negative stories to shield Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including a $150,000 deal with a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump. Appearing for his third day on the stand in Trump’s criminal trial
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Attorneys for Ryan Corbett, an American who has been imprisoned without charge by the Taliban in Afghanistan since August 2022, filed urgent petitions on Thursday with the United Nations in the latest push for his release. The petitions include testimonies from two recently released, non-American detainees who described Corbett’s deteriorating mental and physical condition as
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An Arizona grand jury indicted 18 people Wednesday in the ongoing investigation into an alleged attempt to use alternate electors after the 2020 presidential election as part of a wider alleged conspiracy to falsely declare then-President Donald Trump the winner, the state’s attorney general announced. The alleged fake electors and defendants named in the indictment were Kelli
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A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded an $83.3 million judgment by a jury that found Trump liable for defamation in January. The judge also denied a request to strike the damages in the
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Hamas says 40 hostages can’t be located Safety concerns for Gaza aid workers, Israel says Hamas can’t locate 40 hostages 03:02 Washington — President Biden on Wednesday met 4-year-old Abigail Mor Edan, an American girl who was taken hostage by Hamas after both her parents were killed in the group’s Oct. 7 attack. The president
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