QUESTION OF THE DAY: Will Trump be found guilty in his hush-money trial?
The prosecution and defense wrapped up their cases in former president Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
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The prosecution and defense wrapped up their cases in former president Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Jenna Ellis, who assisted Donald Trump after the 2020 election then pleaded guilty last year in the Georgia election subversion case, has had her law license suspended in Colorado. The suspension begins July 2, according to a signed order from a state judge in Colorado. Ellis has been an
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CNN By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump listened to closing arguments on Tuesday surrounded by three of his adult children and some of their spouses – the largest family gathering in the Manhattan courthouse since the former president’s hush money trial began six weeks ago. However, the display of familial
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Navy veteran Jay Furman has won the Republican primary runoff in the Texas 28th Congressional District, setting up a clash with embattled Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in November. Cuellar and his wife have been charged with accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities, according to an indictment
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By Katelyn Polantz and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have reached a settlement with the Justice Department after they alleged their privacy rights were violated when their text messages were released and became political fodder for Donald Trump to oppose the Russia investigation during his presidency. The
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CNN, POOL, MAXMAR, DOD, PLANET LABS, IDF, USAF By Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The temporary pier constructed by the US military to transport aid into Gaza broke apart and sustained damage in heavy seas on Tuesday in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies into the
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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, who built a mystique as the brash epitome of power, has never been more powerless to dictate his own fate. His reputation, future, and even perhaps the White House’s destiny, will on Wednesday be placed in the hands of 12 citizens of his native New
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the
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By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election. Trump’s attorneys told the jury
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito called police in 2021 following an exchange with the jurist’s wife, claiming that someone needed to “make her stop,” according to a report Tuesday in the New York Times. “Somebody in a position of authority needs to talk to her and make her
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By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will attend a June fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that will be hosted by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a source familiar told CNN. Bill Clinton participated in March’s fundraiser with Biden and former President Barack Obama at
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By Gregory Krieg and Sabrina Souza, CNN New York (CNN) — The slow-burning corruption trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is poised to reach a combustible new phase this week as prosecutors and defense lawyers test the boundaries of the court, the law and the federal judge running the show. US District Court Judge
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By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump listened to closing arguments on Tuesday surrounded by three of his adult children and some of their spouses – the largest family gathering in the Manhattan courthouse since the former president’s hush money trial began six weeks ago. However, the display of familial support
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The Missouri Republican Party has joined a lawsuit that seeks to get one of its Mid-Missouri candidates kicked off the ballot.
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By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had a “visceral reaction against” the removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once the focal point of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kennedy said in an interview with podcast host Tim
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By Kevin Liptak and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is not altering his policy toward Israel following a deadly strike that resulted in the death of more than 45 people, the White House said Tuesday, suggesting the incident had not yet crossed a red line that would force changes in American
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By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — A Fulton County judge will allow a co-defendant of Donald Trump in the Georgia election subversion case to continue his effort to access thousands of 2020 ballots to argue debunked voter fraud theories. Harrison Floyd, who led the organization Black Voices for Trump in 2020, argued during a hearing
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court, including two Donald Trump appointees, ruled Tuesday that the Democratic-lean of Washington, DC’s, population does not make its jury pool too biased to try a January 6 Capitol rioter case. Thomas Webster, a former New York Police Department officer who was found guilty in 2022 of assaulting
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By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee is planning to hold a virtual roll call ahead of the party’s August convention to nominate President Joe Biden in order to meet an Ohio ballot access deadline. The move comes after the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature failed to pass legislation to move back the state’s
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