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Donald Trump's hush money trial resumed inside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Friday, a day after adult film star Stormy Daniels concluded nearly seven hours of testimony about the alleged sexual affair she had with the former president and his efforts to conceal it.
Madeleine Westerhout, a former executive assistant to Trump at the White House, finished her testimony after just under two hours on the stand across two days.
Other witnesses included Daniel Dixon, an AT&T compliance analyst; Jennie Tomalin, a Verizon senior analyst; and Jaden Jarmel-Schneider, a paralegal from the Manhattan district attorney's office. Another DA's office paralegal, Georgia Longstreet, was recalled to the stand after she testified last week about Trump's social media posts.
On Thursday, Judge Juan Merchan denied motions to declare a mistrial and loosen Trump's gag order. Earlier this week, Merchan found Trump in contempt of court for the 10th time for violating a gag order that prevents the former president from attacking witnesses or commenting on the jury. Merchan warned him that any further violations could result in jail time.
Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to Daniels.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is resisting pressure from his own critics to nix a multi-billion dollar Malaysian airports privatisation deal involving BlackRock over its ties to Israel.
After Marine Le Pen’s National Rally walloped Emmanuel Macron in the first round of voting in the French elections, there is a real chance France could be governed by a hard-Right party for the first time since the Second World War.
The 2024 election is heating up and if former President Donald Trump manages to retake the White House, it's bound to shake things up big time for American workers and the larger economy. What kind of...
Ukraine has long coveted more of the $1 billion US-manufactured Patriot air defense systems.
A Chinese aircraft carrier reportedly patrolled the waters off the Philippines in an operation that observers say was a message to Manila and Washington. The aircraft carrier is widely believed to be the Shandong, China's most advanced aircraft carrier in service. It was detected sailing northwest from the Philippine island of Luzon in the South China Sea, according to a satellite image provided on Wednesday by MizarVision, a Shanghai-based technology and intelligence company. Do you have questi
Five Indian soldiers were killed when a military tank they were travelling in sank while crossing a river in the remote region of Ladakh that borders China, officials said Saturday. The tank sank early Saturday due to sudden increase in the water levels of Shyok River during a military training activity, according to an Indian army command center statement. It said the accident took place in Saser Brangsa near the Line of Actual Control that divides India and China in the Ladakh region.
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
Joe Biden’s family on Sunday encouraged the president to stay in the 2024 race and privately discussed whether top aides should be fired on the heels of Biden’s stunningly poor debate performance, which has thrown his campaign into turmoil.
The former GOP lawmaker called the former president's latest move proof he's "not a stable adult."
When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.
At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia. Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with acute battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Influential House Democrat Jamie Raskin breaks with members of his own party who say Biden’s nomination is set in stone and acknowledges party is in discussions about Biden’s future
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Sea drones have redefined naval warfare in recent years. Their use in the Russia-Ukraine war has gained them widespread media attention.
As a new recruitment drive looms, some are turning to online handlers and forgers to escape the horror of war
Joe Biden gets tired after 4pm, according to aides, which might explain his dismal performance on Thursday’s 9pm debate.
Beijing's changing behaviour towards Europe has compelled Berlin to re-evaluate its China policy, a top German diplomat said on Friday. Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, Thomas Bagger, state secretary at the German foreign ministry, declared that Germany's stance towards Beijing has moved to a heightened rivalry, a response to Beijing's actions rather than pressure from Washington. "It's quite clear that the emphasis has shifted from a focus on partnership and cooperation to more c
Presidents often tout the stock market’s performance when it does well on their watch -- and remain quiet when it doesn’t. President Joe Biden did so when the S&P 500 hit a record high earlier this year, and ex-President Donald Trump regularly praised the stock market’s performance when he was in the White House.
Former president Donald Trump recently suggested that he is considering instituting a policy of tariffs that would lead to the elimination of the federal income tax. Check Out: Trump-Era Tax Cuts Are...