NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump‘s lawyers on Thursday tried to put distance between the presumptive GOP nominee and confidential payments to women who alleged affairs with Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election, hoping to convince a New York jury that Trump lawyer-turned-accuser Michael Cohen was the central player in a scheme that […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left government said Thursday that it wants to add 7 billion kroner ($630 million) to the Scandinavian country’s armed forces over the next 12 years amid increased tensions in the region. The announcement came on top of plans announced last month of a “historic increase” of 600 billion kroner […]
Defense lawyers are deploying an interesting strategy to win over jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. They’re humanizing the bombastic former president as a concerned family man and boss who, like anyone, just wanted to ward off bad press to protect his reputation and brand. The idea is to undercut New York […]
Humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip will “significantly increase” over the coming days as Israel opens the port of Ashdod, about 25 miles north of the Palestinian enclave, and a new crossing into northern Gaza. Israeli officials over the weekend also said they would facilitate an increase in aid from Jordan through the Kerem Shalom […]
NEW YORK — The former leader of the National Enquirer testified Friday he would have published a Trump Tower doorman’s story about Donald Trump having a child out of wedlock if it were true as defense attorneys cast a payoff to the man as an attempt to protect the tabloid’s reputation for scoops and not […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan‘s president-elect has appointed new foreign and defense ministers to join his incoming administration as the island faces continuing military threats and diplomatic isolation from China. Lai Ching-te, who assumes the presidency on May 20, announced Thursday that current Presidential Secretary-General Lin Chia-lung will take over as foreign minister. He said […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes more than $60 billion for Ukraine. Zelensky said in a posting on X that Biden also assured him that a coming package […]
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors are concocting a crime out of “34 pieces of paper” that former President Donald Trump signed to pay his personal lawyer many years ago, a defense attorney told jurors Monday. Prosecutors allege Mr. Trump funneled payments to his lawyer, Michael Cohen, throughout 2017 to conceal hush money that had been […]
Attorney Michael Avenatti, whose misdeeds landed him in prison after his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels made him a headline name, says he is ready and willing to in former President Donald Trump’s New York trial if he is called. Payments to Daniels made in 2016 are at the center of Trump’s criminal trial […]
Israel carried out a missile strike targeting an air defense unit in southern Syria, causing material damage, state-run SANA news agency quoted a military statement as saying Friday. The warplanes were seen around the time loud noises and drones were reported near a major Iranian air base and nuclear site early Friday. That area of […]
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