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Inside the head-spinning week of Donald Trump’s legal drama

Donald Trump’s criminal trial began in earnest with opening statements and testimony. But the unprecedented moment of a former president standing trial unfolded this past week amid a crescendo of developments in other legal cases.




























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A top Qatari official urges Israel and Hamas to do more to reach a cease-fire deal

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A senior Qatari official has urged both Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire negotiations
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Australians urge stricter laws on violence against women after spate of killings

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Hundreds more arrests at US student protests over Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was reportedly among those detained by police.
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Irish government wants to return asylum seekers to UK

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Taoiseach asks justice minister to bring forward legislation so asylum seekers can be returned to the UK.
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Musk in China to discuss full self driving - reports

  • News source: BBC News - World
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China is Tesla's second-biggest market but the company has not enabled autonomous driving in the country.
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'I thought just kill me quickly': Gaza hostage's 54 days in captivity

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Moran Yanai was threatened with death and moved from place to place during her ordeal.
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Thousands rally for Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez

  • News source: BBC News - World
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More than 12,000 people rally to urge the prime minister to stay in office as he decides whether to resign.
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Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Those flouting the sweeping new morality rules could be jailed for up to 15 years.
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Germany grapples with wave of spying threats

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Six arrests in quick succession show Germany is being targeted by spies but also that it is fighting back.
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Campus anti-war protesters dig in from New York to California

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters
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Trump’s Trial Could Bring a Rarity: Consequences for His Words

  • News source: Maggie Haberman and Jonah E. Bromwich
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“So that’s not true? That’s not true?”

The judge in control of Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial had just cut off the former president’s lawyer, Todd Blanche. Mr. Blanche had been in the midst of defending a social media post in which his client wrote that a statement that had been public for years “WAS JUST FOUND!”

Mr. Blanche had already acknowledged during the Tuesday hearing that Mr. Trump’s post was false. But the judge, Juan M. Merchan, wasn’t satisfied.

“I need to understand,” Justice Merchan said, glaring down at the lawyer from...
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As He Exits Congress, Blumenauer Wants His Party to Embrace Pot Legalization

  • News source: Kayla Guo
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As a 23-year-old serving his first term in the Oregon state legislature, Representative Earl Blumenauer cosponsored the first bill in the country to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

More than 50 years later, the congressman from Portland is preparing to retire after nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, and mounting a lonely campaign to persuade his fellow Democrats, including President Biden, to press for legalization of marijuana at the federal level as a central plank of their political platforms.

“I have been doing this longer than any...
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An Explosion in Afghanistan Nearly Killed Him. Now, It’s Inspiring His Senate Bid.

  • News source: Kellen Browning
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Lying in an Afghan desert, engulfed in flames and soaked in diesel fuel, Sam Brown realized he was about to die.

It was September 2008, and Mr. Brown, a U.S. Army captain, had been leading his platoon to the aid of fellow soldiers who had been ambushed by the Taliban. Then, his Humvee struck a roadside bomb. In an explosion of fire and concussive sound, Mr. Brown’s life was forever changed.

“I remember laying there, facedown in the dirt in the Kandahar desert, trying to scoop dirt over myself to smother the flames and having no success, and...
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Dems disagree on whether party has antisemitism problem

  • News source: FOX News
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Democrats are not seeing eye to eye on whether the party has a problem with antisemitism ahead of the November general election.

"It’s easy to call out people with Tiki torches saying ‘Jews will not replace us’ or the former president saying ‘very fine people on both sides,' Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., said in a statement to Fox News Digital, referencing a rally with White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

"However, when Democrats look inward and see ‘go back to Poland’ or ‘kill the Zionists,’ they pretend the antisemitic...
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California crime reform gets 'unheard of' support from DAs, small businesses, progressive mayors

  • News source: FOX News
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A measure to reform California’s crime referendum that downgrades penalties for petty theft and drug possession will be on the ballot in November after garnering an "unheard of" number of signatures.

The 2014 law in question, Proposition 47, reclassified several felonies, including retail and property theft, as misdemeanors.

Under Prop 47, petty theft of goods valued under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor, even for multiple offenses. It also took a broad swath of narcotics possession offenses that were previously felonies and converted them to...
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