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Here’s what every key witness said at Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Closing arguments are coming

NEW YORK (AP) — After 22 witnesses, including a porn actor, tabloid publisher and White House insiders, testimony is over at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York.

Prosecutors called 20 witnesses. The defense called just two. Trump decided not to testify on his own behalf.

The trial now shifts to closing arguments, scheduled for Tuesday.

After that, it will be up to 12 jurors to decide whether prosecutors have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump falsified his company’s business records as part of a broader effort to keep stories about marital infidelity from becoming public during his 2016 presidential campaign. He has pleaded not guilty and denies any wrongdoing. ... Full Story - AP























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Trump responds to special counsel's effort to limit his remarks about FBI

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Monday evening pushed back against special counsel Jack Smith's request Friday that a federal judge in Florida modify Trump's conditions of release in the probe into Trump's handling of classified documents.

Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the documents case, to modify the condition of Trump's release in order to bar him from making public statements that "pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents" who are...
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Nobody hurt after plane's engine catches fire at Chicago O'Hare airport

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Federal Aviation Administration says a commercial airliner’s engine caught fire at Chicago O’Hare International Airport
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Popular California beach closed for the holiday after shark bumped surfer off his board

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Authorities have closed a 2-mile stretch of a popular Southern California beach for the Memorial Day holiday after a shark bumped a surfer off his board the night before
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Heat-related monkey deaths climb in Mexico, as environmentalists report deaths of birds and bats

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The number of heat-related howler monkeys deaths in Mexico has risen to 157, with a tragically small number of the primates treated or recovering
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Biden honors late son Beau in somber Memorial Day message: ‘The hurt is still real’

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden on Monday invoked the memory of his late son, Beau Biden, while addressing an audience at Arlington National Cemetery for a Memorial Day ceremony.

Sharing the pain of those whose family members have died in service, Biden noted this week marks nine years since he lost his son Beau, who served in Iraq and later died from brain cancer that the president attributes to his time stationed near toxic burn pits.

Still, the president was careful to draw a distinction between the loss of his son and those who lost loved ones on the...
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Pope allegedly used derogatory term for gay people

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Pope was speaking at a meeting of bishops on whether gay men should be allowed to become priests.
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Papua New Guinea fears thousands buried after landslide

  • News source: BBC News - World
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More than 2,000 people are feared to be buried alive, though the exact toll has been hard to establish.
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Trump "hush money" trial coming to close as campaigns kick into gear

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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With closing arguments set for Tuesday, a verdict in the historic criminal trial of former President Trump could come as early as next week. And with the first debate just a month away, both Trump and President Biden are looking to kick their campaigns into high gear. Robert Costa reports.
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US agency identifies 3 soldiers who went missing during their service

  • News source: FOX News
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On Memorial Day, Americans honor those who sacrificed their lives for our country. Many of the families of those who went missing in action have not had the full opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones. The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency is working to change that.

"It really is a fulfillment of a promise made to
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2 inmates on the run after escaping Louisiana jail, police say

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Police in Louisiana said Monday they caught two of the four inmates who escaped from jail over the weekend, unbeknownst to guards.
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At least 16 dead as cyclone hits Bangladesh and India

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Nearly a million people have been evacuated as Cyclone Remal destroys thousands of homes.
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Man convicted of Chicago murder based on blind witness' testimony sues city, police

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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He spent 12 years in prison based on testimony from a legally blind witness.
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81-year-old arrested after police say he terrorized a California neighborhood with a slingshot

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Police say terrorized a California neighborhood for years with a slingshot.
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US company rejects Mexico's criticism, buy-out offer, says president's projects hurt the environment

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Trump makes endorsement in race to unseat top Democratic senator

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Donald Trump weighed in with his important endorsement in the crowded Virginia Republican Senate race, giving the nod to retired
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