Tabloid boss details Trump plan to bury McDougal story: ‘Boss will take care of it’

Michael Cohen assured David Pecker that Donald Trump would ‘take care’ of a $150,000 payment to kill a story from Karen McDougal, the former publisher testified

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USC Cancels Graduation Ceremony over Anti-Israel Protests

The graduation was expected to draw some 65,000 attendees.

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Police launch violent crackdowns and mass arrests at Gaza college protests across US

More than 500 students have been arrested in the last week at protests in solidarity with Gaza

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Trump trial live: David Pecker testifies about Stormy Daniels hush money payment

Day seven of the former president’s historic election interference trial is underway in New York City

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Justice Alito questions whether presidents will have to fear 'bitter political opponent' throwing them in jail

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday asked Justice Department attorneys whether presidents will have to fear prosecution by a "bitter political opponent" if they reject former President Trump's immunity arguments.

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The stark contrast between Meta and Tesla earnings reactions reveals the uncanny power of Musk's promises

Elon Musk managed to turn around Tesla's stock slide with a couple promises.

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Prosecutors want a reversal after a Texas woman's voter fraud conviction was overturned

Prosecutors in Texas asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court on Thursday to reverse a ruling that overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot.

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Ohio woman, 74, arrested in armed robbery of credit union was a victim of a scam, her family says

Ann Mayers, who had no previous run-ins with the law, faces counts of aggravated robbery with a firearm and tampering with evidence in Friday’s robbery in Fairfield Township, north of Cincinnati.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns of the Oval Office turning into a 'crime center' if Trump gets the sweeping immunity he wants

Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed fear of what sweeping immunity for former presidents would mean for the future of the presidency.

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Judge Upholds Trump’s $83 Million Defamation Verdict

A federal judge wrote that Trump’s efforts to get a new trial is “entirely without merit.”

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Biden Set for Hollywood Fundraiser Hosted by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas

Joe Biden is set to appear today at a fundraiser hosted by Hollywood A-listers Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas in New York.

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Supreme Court Justices’ Pro-Trump Immunity Arguments Make Zero Sense

Some justices seemed more concerned with what imagined future presidents might do to stay in office, rather than holding Trump accountable for how he attempted to do the same.

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Weinstein Can’t Wait to ‘Tell His Story‘ at Retrial, Lawyer Says

“He’s been dying to tell his story from Day 1,” his lawyer said Thursday, hours after Weinstein's 2020 New York conviction was overturned.

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Top Senate Dem calls for probe into Muslims prosecuted by DOJ for illegal border crossings

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., urged the Department of Justice to investigate high numbers of individuals from majority-Muslim countries being prosecuted upon illegally crossing the southern border.

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Snap shares soar 23% as company beats on earnings, shows strong revenue growth

Snap reported first-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates

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DOJ Investigating McKinsey Consulting Firm for Role in Opioid Epidemic

McKinsey & Company is reportedly being investigated by the Justice Department for allegedly helping fuel the nation's opioid epidemic.

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Supreme Court justices dance around question of whether Trump could pardon himself if he wins reelection

Justice Alito asked whether every president could just pardon themselves right before leaving office.

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Cost of buying a home in America reaches a new high, Redfin says

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Black and Latino workers die on the job at disproportionate rates, new report shows

The rate of homicides against Black and Latino workers have also reached an all-time high.

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David Pecker testifies on news arrangement with Trump, Cohen

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Ron DeSantis: Unruly Anti-Jewish, Pro-Hamas Protesters Will Be Expelled from Florida Universities

Unruly anti-Jewish, pro-Hamas protesters will be expelled from Florida universities, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made clear on Thursday.

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West Virginia Republican Moore Capito Pushed Bill Banning Doctor from Treating Gender Dysphoria in Children

Moore Capito sponsored a bill that would bar doctors from treating children with gender dysphoria if the treatments involves detransitioning the child.

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NYPD Chief Hits Back at AOC over Columbia Anti-Israel Protests: ‘Self-Entitlement’ Doesn’t ‘Supersede the Law’

NYPD officers arrested 108 anti-Israel protesters on Columbia University’s campus last week.

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NY Union Leader: My Members Back Trump 3:1 over Biden

A New York union leader says that Democrat policies are pushing voters to the right, and the vast majority of his 9,000 members back Trump.

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Trump denies the affairs at the heart of the hush-money case. Almost no one believes him.

This strategy could backfire.

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Netflix Whiffs Yet Another Live-Action Manga Adaptation

The Netflix film starring Ryohei Suzuki may be live action, but it can’t escape a cartoonishness that makes the whole thing a mess.

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Judge Rejects Trump's Effort To Toss Out $83 Million Payout To E. Jean Carroll

The decision means he'll still need to pay damages in the libel case Carroll won against him.

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Nvidia I Sunday on 60 Minutes

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Justice Department is investigating McKinsey consulting firm’s role in opioid epidemic

The Justice Department is investigating McKinsey & Company, one of the world’s largest consulting firms, over its role in advising drug companies on how to boost sales of opioids, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Authorities search for former Slack CEO's teenager who is considered a runaway

Mint Butterfield, 16, the child of ex-tech co-founder Stewart Butterfield, was last seen Sunday and reported missing Monday, according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office in California.

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Jim Cramer's favorite investment themes in this rough market and 3 stocks he likes now

Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks offered their thoughts on Wells Fargo, secular investment themes and more during the April Monthly Meeting.

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Early voting begins for North Carolina primary runoff races

Early in-person voting has started across North Carolina for next month’s runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests.

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Florida man charged in killing of his girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter

Stephan Sterns was charged with first-degree murder for the killing of Madeline Soto, according to court records filed in Osceola County.

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Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Who Criticized Trump Says Bureau Failed to Warn Her About Stalker

A man who pleaded guilty to stalking the lawyer, Lisa Page, had been discharged from the Marines after expressing an obsession with her as well as mass shootings, information that was shared with the F.B.I.

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Ukraine Could Use New Weapons to Hit Russian Targets in Crimea, Pentagon Says

The goal for a recent delivery of the coveted long-range missile system is to put more pressure on Russian forces in eastern parts of occupied Ukraine.

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Twilio founder Jeff Lawson appears to have just bought The Onion

The Onion has been sold to Global Tetrahedron, a company connected to Lawson — and a long-running Onion gag.

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Paramount and Skydance inch closer to a merger as key hurdle looms

Paramount Global and Skydance are getting closer to final terms on a merger agreement, but a renewal with Charter remains an obstacle.

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2 founders of a crypto mixer charged with laundering funds from the dark web

Prosecutors say Samourai Wallet, which anonymized crypto transactions, laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for criminals on the dark web.

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Nevada parents arrested after 11-year-old found in makeshift "jail cell" installed years ago

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Trump's lawyer says presidents could get away with crimes if they aren't discovered until after they leave office

As the saying goes: It's not the crime; it's the cover-up. If former President Donald Trump gets his way, a good cover-up will be enough.

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Gaetz urges House investigative hearing on 'failed foreign policy' that 'endangered' US troops

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is urging the House Armed Services Committee to summon Secretary of State Antony Blinken for congressional testimony on U.S. military relations in Niger.

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Samuel Alito has a very strange theory for how to protect democracy

The hard-right justice worries that if Trump is prosecuted, defeated presidents might refuse to leave office peacefully.

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Justice Department rebuffs Republican requests for audio of Biden interview with special counsel

The Department of Justice doubled down on its decision to not release the audio files of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur to House Republicans, stating that Republicans have not established a legitimate legislative purpose for demanding these recordings, in a new letter obtained by CNN.

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Supreme Court to Hear Trump’s Claim to ‘Absolute Immunity’

The justices will consider on Thursday whether the former president must face trial on charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election.

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The Onion Finally Finds Someone to Buy It From ‘Herb’ G/O Media CEO

The company that bought the iconic satirical website shares a name with one featured in a book written by former Onion editors.

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Agent Removed From Harris’s Detail After ‘Distressing’ Behavior

The Secret Service agent was removed during an incident on Monday morning shortly before Vice President Kamala Harris left for a campaign event in Wisconsin.

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Trump Claimed Trial Interferes With His Campaign, but on His Day Off He Went Golfing

At what point will the former president’s golfing obsession qualify as “election interference?”

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Here are four takeaways from the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s claim to immunity.

Several justices signaled interest in some protections for official acts, which could impede a swift trial in the federal election subversion case.

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Trump loses latest bid for new E Jean Carroll defamation trial

A federal court denied former president Donald Trump’s request to have a new trial related to the charges that he defamed writer E Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault.

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Supreme Court might not give Trump sweeping immunity — but it's likely to give him the one victory he wants

A majority of justices appear to want to create a standard of presidential immunity that will take time to craft and even more time to implement.

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