Trump trial live updates: Hope Hicks testifies in hush money case

Former aide to ex-president answers questions concerning times as press secretary for 2016 campaign

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Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, Wife Indicted for Bribery

The DOJ announced the indictment of U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, Imelda, on charges of accepting bribes.

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Poll: Catholics Now Lean Toward Donald Trump over Joe Biden

U.S. Catholics now lean toward former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden, according to a Pew Research poll, released on Tuesday.

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Latino Advocacy Groups Call Trump’s Deportation Plans a Danger to Democracy

The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats, saying that defeating the former president is their top goal.

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Hostin: Tim Scott VP Pick Would Not Help Trump With Black Voters

Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Friday on ABC's "The View" that if Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) were chosen as the Republican vice-presidential running mate, it would not help former President Donald Trump with black voters. | Clips

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Henry Cuellar and wife indicted over allegations of $600,00 bribes from Azerbaijan

The charges were announced on Friday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), shortly after the congressman protested his innocence in a statement

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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.

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‘Can I call you JoeBi-Wan Kenobi?’: ‘Star Wars’ icon Mark Hamill meets the president

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Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar indicted on bribery charges

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CIA Director William Burns in Egypt for high-stakes Israeli hostage, cease-fire talks

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Top aide admits to $1 billion fraud conspiracy ahead of Chinese mogul's trial

Yvette Wang, the former chief of staff to Guo Wengui, pleaded guilty to fraud weeks before her former boss is set to stand trial.

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Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today's campus protest movement

Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970.

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US intercepts Russian aircraft

The Pentagon said these types of flights are not considered a threat

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Book excerpt: "You Never Know" by Tom Selleck

In his new memoir the star of such hit TV series as "Magnum, P.I." and "Blue Bloods" writes of the serendipity that launched his career.

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Biden's controversial DHS 'experts' panel shuttered after being slapped with lawsuit

The Department of Homeland Security is winding down a controversial experts group after a lawsuit from a conservative legal group who said it was in violation of federal law.

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Henry Cuellar Indicted Over Bribery Scheme

Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and from an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.

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John Leguizamo Recounts ’Difficult’ Time Working With Patrick Swayze

The actor did not have great things to say about his deceased co-star from the 1995 drag queen dramedy film “To Wong Foo.”

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Who is Hope Hicks, the longtime Trump advisor who’s seen it all

Former White House communications director takes witness stand in New York to address hush money case

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Jim Cramer says Alphabet is a buy and the most undervalued large tech stock

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

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Immigrants With DACA Protections Will Be Eligible for Obamacare

Thousands of immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could obtain federal health coverage later this year under a new Biden administration rule.

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Northwestern Hit with Lawsuit, Civil-Rights Complaints over Concessions to Encampment Organizers

Northwestern leaders ignored their policies, opting instead to ‘facilitate, encourage, and coddle a dystopia cesspool of hate’ on campus, the lawsuit says.

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Political Furor Over U.S. Steel Bid Puts Investment Panel in Spotlight

Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.

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Mick Jagger wades into politics, taking verbal jab at Louisiana state governor at performance

Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band's performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Trump Campaign, RNC File Lawsuit In Battleground State To Stop Counting Ballots Past Election Day

Donald Trump's campaign and the RNC filed a lawsuit against the Nevada Secretary of State for allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after election day.

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Trump Media's Accounting Firm Charged With Massive Fraud

The SEC charged BF Borgers, the accounting firm for former President Donald Trump’s social media company, with “massive fraud.”

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The Saga of the ‘Black Princeton’ Chat Purge

Accurately attributing a statement to a person’s name is not ‘doxing.’

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"Incredibly rare" ancient purple dye that was once worth more than gold found in U.K.

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Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar protests innocence ahead of potential indictment

Texas Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar says he and his wife are “innoncent” ahead of a potential indictment by federal prosecutors on unspecified charges.

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From Shania Twain to Wild Sex: ‘Man in Full’ Star Tells All

“A Man in Full” star Sarah Jones tells Obsessed about her juicy new role, surreal moments on set—that sex scene! Shania!—and the “Ceasefire Now” red carpet look that turned heads.

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Canadian police make arrests in Sikh assassination linked to Indian government

Last November, the U.S. alleged Indian officials were involved in a murder plot targeting a Sikh activist in New York.

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Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar Indicted Over Ties to Azerbaijan

Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges.

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Hear the tapes: DA's theory of Trump as the hush-money mastermind takes a hit in newly-released defense recordings

Tapes newly released by Trump's defense cast doubt on whether Trump was truly the mastermind of a hush-money scheme.

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More than 2,000 arrests reported as campus protest crackdowns continue

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Florida Bans Sale Of Lab-Grown Meat Citing ‘Global Elite’ Concerns

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said his statewide ban is "fighting back" against a plan "to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs."

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It's getting really hard to find a job that pays well

Job growth is booming in low-paying, traditionally female industries, but high-paying roles might be harder to find.

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Biden To Award Major Donor, Key Political Ally Presidential Medals Of Freedom

President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael Bloomberg and Jim Clyburn, both of whom played key roles in his 2020 campaign.

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Oil Companies Expand Offshore Drilling, Pointing to Energy Needs

Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land.

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8 Possible Trump VP Candidates Who Haven't Shot Their Dogs

That we know of!

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DOJ Indicts Longtime Dem Rep. Henry Cuellar

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday the indictment of longtime Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar.

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FACT CHECK: No, The World Health Organization Is Not Abandoning Its Pandemic Prevention Treaty

There is no evidence the WHO is abandoning the pandemic treaty.

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Missouri Abortion Activists Collect Enough Signatures for Ballot Measure

Activists in Missouri say their proposed amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution has enough signatures.

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Trump Media's accountant is charged with "massive fraud" by the SEC

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Bag of snakes found in passenger's pants at Miami International Airport

According to an X post on Tuesday, TSA agents made the surprising discovery on April 26.

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Houthi rebels are going to keep lobbing missiles at ships in the Red Sea 'for some time,' US intel chief says

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said her view is based, in part, on the Houthis' domestic production of weaponry and Iranian support.

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'The Guy Is a Monster': De Niro Calls Trump Rise Like Hitler

Actor Robert De Niro said Thursday on MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" that former President Donald Trump's rise was like that of Adolf Hitler's in 1930s Germany. | Clips

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Massachusetts detective searched "gunshot residue testing" online 11 days before his wife is shot dead

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Why the Israel-Hamas war isn’t Biden’s Vietnam

Joe Biden’s Democratic base has been divided over the Israel-Hamas war. The public, at large, gives the president some of his worst approval ratings over his handling of the conflict.

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Justice Department warns it plans to sue Iowa over new state immigration law

The U.S. Department of Justice says it plans to sue Iowa over the state's new immigration law. The statute makes it a crime for a person to be in the state if they've previously been denied admission to the U.S.

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US diplomat who quit over Biden administration’s Gaza policy speaks out

Hala Rharrit never expected that she would choose to leave her career as a US diplomat.

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Guo Wengui chief of staff Yvette Wang pleads guilty to $1 billion fraud conspiracy in New York

Guo Wengui, an associate of Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, is due to stand trial in the fraud case in New York federal court in several weeks.

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