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Trump trial turns to sex, bank accounts and power: Highlights from the third week of testimony

WASHINGTON (AP) — The alleged sexual encounter at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial got a graphic airing in court this past week as porn actor Stormy Daniels shared her account before a rapt jury.

Daniels’ testimony about her time with Trump was by far the most awaited moment of the trial, which now enters its fourth week of witnesses as prosecutors come close to wrapping up their historic case.


























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UK arms ban for Israel would help Hamas - Cameron

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Foreign Secretary David Cameron tells the BBC the UK should focus on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.
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Children killed as bomb falls near Sudan hospital - MSF

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The battle for control of the western city of El Fasher has intensified over the last few days.
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Israel orders more evacuations as Rafah fighting intensifies

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The Israeli military tells thousands of Palestinians to leave the city as it expands its military operation.
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Trump Veepstakes: The pros and cons of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem

  • News source: FOX News
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Editor's note: This is the first in a series of profiles of potential running mates for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the 2024 Republican Party ticket.

A full-on horse race is underway for those hoping to stand alongside former President Donald Trump as his running mate on the stage at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer.

Trump appears to be in no rush to select his potential future vice president as he remains stuck on trial in a New York City courtroom, but those widely considered to be on his shortlist are...
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Balance of power: Senate GOP's campaign chair cautiously optimistic about retaking majority in 2024 elections

  • News source: FOX News
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Senate Republican campaign chief Steve Daines is tempering any talk of a red wave this autumn leading to a large GOP majority in the chamber.

"I want 51. That’s the majority," the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) told Fox News Digital this week when asked what he's aiming for in November's elections.

Democrats control the U.S. Senate, 51-49, but Republicans are looking at a favorable Senate map this year, with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs.

Three of those seats are in red states that former...
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Schumer may let controversial Biden nominee with 'problematic' ties quietly expire: expert

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A controversial judicial nominee proposed by President Biden will expire at the end of the 118th Congress in just months, and some experts are speculating that this is just what the president and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are planning for.

"This nominee has lost all hope from the Biden White House of getting a floor vote, given we are months away from the election," explained Ron Bonjean, a former spokesman for former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former chief of staff of the Senate Republican Conference.

"They are more than...
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In Deep-Blue Maryland, a Democratic Primary Turns Uncommonly Competitive

  • News source: Luke Broadwater
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Wearing white Chuck Taylor sneakers with her gray pantsuit, Angela Alsobrooks was in the middle of a whirlwind day of campaigning in the vote-rich suburbs of Maryland last week when a voter confronted her with the question on everyone’s mind: Was she the candidate with the best chance of keeping the state’s up-for-grabs seat in the United States Senate in Democratic hands?

It’s an unfamiliar question for deep-blue Maryland, which hasn’t had a Republican senator in nearly four decades. But the state’s typically sleepy Senate race has heated up this...
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He’s Running for Senate With an Immigrant’s Origin Story. Here’s the Rest.

  • News source: Jonathan Weisman, Patricia Mazzei and Simón Posada
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He is running for the Senate as an immigrant who made good, reaching out to Ohio voters with a stirring, only-in-America bootstraps story: arriving as a child from Colombia, taking a risk on a struggling business, and then turning it into a smashing success and himself into a millionaire 100 times over.

Running under the banner of Donald J. Trump’s populist political movement, Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, humbly calls himself a “car guy from Cleveland” and recounts the modest circumstances of his childhood, when...
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Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements

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Local governments across the country are receiving money from opioid settlements, but not all of them know how to use it
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Sherpa guide Kami Rita scales Mount Everest for 29th time, extending his own record again

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One of greatest climbing guides on Mount Everest has scaled the world’s highest peak for the 29th time, again extending his record for most times to the summit
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Schools turn to artificial intelligence to spot guns as companies press lawmakers for state funds

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Schools across the U.S. are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and video cameras to spot guns
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Away From the Confines of a Courtroom, Trump Rallies Beachside at the Jersey Shore

  • News source: Michael Gold
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After a long and often tense week in his criminal trial in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday took part in a time-honored ritual enjoyed by countless New Yorkers in need of a break: He went to the shore.

Sandwiched between the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean, Mr. Trump stood in front of tens of thousands of people at a rally on the beach in Wildwood, N.J., where he largely repeated the same criticisms of President Biden that have characterized his stump speech in recent months.

Fresh from court, Mr. Trump insisted that his...
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North Dakota gov, former presidential candidate Doug Burgum front and center at Trump New Jersey rally

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North Dakota Gov. and former presidential candidate Doug Burgum was front and center at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, fueling speculation he remains a contender on the increasingly short list of potential running mates.

Burgum was a guest on Trump’s "Trump Force One" campaign plan. He briefly addressed the crowd before the former president took the stage.

Bergum said working with President Trump was "like having a beautiful breeze at your back."

"President Trump respects state’s rights. He cut regulation...
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Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he's being forced to endure ‘Biden show trial' in hush money case

  • News source: Steve Peoples, Mike Catalini and Meg Kinnard
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Sandwiched between his appearances in court, Donald Trump headed on Saturday to the Jersey Shore, where he repeatedly blamed President Joe Biden for the criminal charges he’s facing as the presumptive nominees prepare to face off in the November election and called his New York hush money case “a Biden show trial.”

Blasting the Democratic president “a total moron,” Trump before a crowd of tens of thousands repeatedly characterized the cases against him as politically motivated and timed to harm his ability to campaign.

“He’s a fool. He’s not a...
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State prosecutors probing death of Black man hit by police car

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The family of Samuel Sterling said it was in shock following the release of police body camera footage following a confrontation between him and officers.
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